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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
790L
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After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.
3) Enemy women
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
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For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley, the War Between the States is a nightmare, seen at its most terrible on the day the Union Militia arrives to set her family's house on fire, driving her brother into hiding and dragging her widowed father away. Left to care for her two young sisters, Adair flees with them into the mountains in search of a safe haven, but her hopes are dashed when the treachery of a fellow traveler brings about Adair's arrest on...
5) Dimiter
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As state security in 1970s Albania tortures a prisoner named Dimiter, known as the American "agent from hell," the staff at Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital becomes enmeshed in a series of unexplainable deaths--until events explode in a surprising climax.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xv, 269 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
This "anthology of poetry and personal stories [centers on] the voices of those directly impacted by the incarceration of young people in the United States. Compiled by Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop, [the] collection includes first-hand accounts from both the young people charged and incarcerated in the adult criminal legal system and from the community at large: the mothers, the loved ones, the correctional staff, public defenders, prosecutors,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Description
When a federal judge and his secretary fail to appear for a scheduled trial and panicked clerks call for an FBI investigation, a harrowing murder case ensues and culminates in the imprisonment of a lawyer who imparts the story of who killed the judge and why. Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this country only...
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"Sacrificing his freedom by confessing to his desperate brother's crime, John Bannack, while on work detail outside the prison, saves the judge who sentenced him from a bloody prison break, in return the judge releases him and employs him as his bodyguard and avenger"--
10) The great alone
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
Description
Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beliefs, but never was a family less prepared for the reality of Alaska, the long, cold winters and isolation. Locals...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 20 cm
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A boy on the run. A girl determined to find him. A compelling fantasy looks at issues of privilege, protest, and justice. All light in Chattana is created by one man -- the Governor, who appeared after the Great Fire to bring peace and order to the city. For Pong, who was born in Namwon Prison, the magical lights represent freedom, and he dreams of the day he will be able to walk among them. But when Pong escapes from prison, he realizes that the...
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US Marshals novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm.
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"A desperate murderer and a downed plane turn a routine prison transfer into a hunt through the rugged Pacific Northwest for US Marshals Madison James and Jonas Quinn"--
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The guardian cycle volume 2
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 20 cm.
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In Halcyon, meet a man who has been abused in a prison camp for so long that he has forgotten his own name - but not the desire to survive. Follow the adult orphans Warlock Ruthers produced in his campaign for power as they protect two children whom he seeks to murder to defeat a prophecy of his downfall in American Mage. Meanwhile, Allan Kearney and Michio Oshika work on removing the demon tattoos from the former's back at the same time they seek...
16) Life or death
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Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
418 pages ; 25 cm
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"Why would a man serving a long prison sentence escape the day before he's due to be released? Audie was sentenced to ten years for a Texas robbery in which four people died, including two members of his own gang. Seven million dollars have never been recovered from the robbery, and everybody believes Audie knows where the money is. For a decade Audie has been beaten, stabbed, and threatened by inmates and guards, all desperate to know the secret....
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"Based on true events, this beautifully rendered novel from the author of Schindler's List and The Daughters of Mars brilliantly explores a World War II prison camp, where Japanese prisoners resolve to take drastic action to wipe away their shame. Alice is a young woman living on her father-in-law's farm on the edge of an Australian country town, while her husband is held prisoner in Europe. When Giancarlo, an Italian anarchist at the prisoner-of-war...
20) The keep
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Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
239 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank whose devastating consequences changed both their lives, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe, a castle steeped in blood lore and family pride. Built over a secret system of caves and tunnels, the castle and its violent history invoke and subvert all the elements of a gothic past: twins, a pool, an old baroness, a fearsome tower. In an environment of extreme...
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