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Series
Jack Taylor volume 10
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Juggling a precarious balance between his physical and addiction recovery efforts, former cop Jack Taylor investigates the work of a vigilante killer who has been sending him cryptic invitations to join him, an effort that jeopardizes Taylor's livelihood, friends and mental health.
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English
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It is 1885, and a crippling drought threatens to ruin the McBride family. Their land is parched, their cattle starving. When the rain finally comes, it is a miracle that renews their hope for survival. But returning home from an afternoon swimming at a remote waterhole filled by the downpour, fourteen-year-old Tommy and sixteen-year-old Billy meet with a shocking tragedy.
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Series
Death and Texas volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The great state of Texas is a land of opportunity. For outlaws. And horse thieves. And cattle rustlers. Not to mention bank robbers, train robbers, and anything-that-ain't-nailed-down robbers. The state's governor, Richard B. Hubbard, is at the end of his rope. He wants to clean up Texas once and for all - and he's desperate enough to try something crazy: hire a man who can do what the Texas Rangers can't. A man not tied down by a wife or children....
5) Bad monkeys
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Physical Desc
230, 6 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jane Charlotte is arrested for murder and tells police that she is part of a secret organization that is devoted to fighting evil. The division she belongs to is called the Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons--"Bad Monkeys" for short. A doctor in the jail's psychiatric wing tries to determine if Jane is lying, crazy, or playing a different game altogether.
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English
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"Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that's hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way into the reservation and finds Virgil's nephew, his vigilantism suddenly becomes personal. He enlists the help of his ex-girlfriend and sets out to learn where the drugs are...
7) Outlaw pass
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
393 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Adam Blaine was always content to stay on his family's cattle ranch on the Yellowstone. Unlike his brother, Jake, who could never resist the open road -- or the prospect of gold. When Jake doesn't return Adam sets off to look for him, never expecting to find hell waiting. Because where there's gold, there are thieves. And they don't think twice about putting a bullet in a man. Then a case of mistaken identity turns Adam into a "vigilante" on the run,...
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English
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Flora Dane is a victim. Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora was kidnapped while on spring break. For 472 days, Flora learned just how much one person can endure. Flora Dane is a survivor. Miraculously alive after her ordeal, Flora has spent the past five years reacquainting herself with the rhythms of normal life, working with her FBI victim advocate, Samuel Keynes. She has a mother who’s never stopped loving her, a brother who is scared...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
305 pages (large print)
Language
English
Description
"Hugh Hampton and his neighbors went to the law but the law looked the other way. Sheriff Johns had no interest in examining the evidence. But someone had blown up the Gillyard place and killed two men. that man was Lemuel Blunt, once owner of the land at Pecan Creek, and had t it fair and square. Now meaner then a junkyard dog he threatened anyone with a rightful claim. As drought burned out Brown county, Texas Blunt takes out his revenge. With the...
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Series
Dexter volume 6
Publisher
Doubleday Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
337 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dexter Morgan is not your average serial killer. He enjoys his day job as a blood spatter analyst for the Miami Police Department . . . but he lives for his nighttime hobby of hunting other killers. Dexter is therefore not pleased to discover that someone is shadowing him, observing him, and copying his methods. Dexter is not one to tolerate displeasure . . . in fact, he has a knack for extricating himself from trouble in his own pleasurable way.
11) Devil's gulch
Author
Series
Devil's Gulch Western volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"John Holt is a traveling gunslinger. He's been liberating dirty towns west of the Mississippi of murdering outlaw trash ever since the Civil War ended. No questions asked. Payment on demand. The only way out of this town is in a pinewood box. Holt's latest job is in Devil's Gulch in Colorado Territory. But wiping out bands of bank robbers is just the beginning. More disorder is brewing, and the skittish mayor has handpicked Holt as the new sheriff....
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Series
Arc of a Scythe volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Rowan and Citra take opposite stances on the morality of the Scythedom, putting them at odds, and the Thunderhead is not pleased.
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
470 pages
Language
English
Description
Since the age of twelve, Evan Smoak was Orphan X: raised and trained as part of off-the-books operation designed to create deniable intelligence assets-- i.e. assassins. Now his past is catching up to him-- someone at the very highest level of government has been trying to eliminate every trace of the Orphan Program. Striking back, his target is the man who started the Program and who is now the most heavily guarded person in the world: the President...
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Series
Vigilante quartet volume 1
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
633 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
December 1863. Daniel Stark, New York lawyer and radical abolitionist, has come to Alder Gulch to get enough gold to redeem his family from disgrace after his father's suicide revealed that he had gambled away his clients' assets. But as travelers are robbed and murdered, Dan realizes that he will likely not survive to take his gold home unless he joins with others, Union and Confederate sympathizers alike, who form a Vigilante group to establish...
15) The Hunt
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Series
Atlanta Burns volume 2
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's Atlanta's senior year of high school, and she is officially infamous. Not only has she saved herself from a predator, brought down an untouchable dogfighting ring, and battled a pack of high school bullies, but she's also proclaimed to the Internet her willingness to fight for anyone who needs help. And Atlanta can't believe what's coming out of the woodwork. From an old friend to a troop of troubled girls with connections to a local fracking...
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Series
Paul McGrath novels volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Paul McGrath rebelled against his pacifist father by becoming a stand-out Army recruit, the star of his military intelligence unit. When he returns home, it's to find his father dead, seemingly murdered-- and the trial ending in a hung jury. So McGrath put his arsenal of skills to work to find out just how corrupt the legal system was. A job at the courthouse-- as a janitor-- is the perfect cover, giving him security clearance and access to the entire...
17) Saints astray
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Series
Santa Olivia volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Fellow orphans, amateur vigilantes, and members of the Santitos, Loup Garron -- the fugitive daughter of a genetically engineered "wolf man" -- and Pilar Ecchevarria grew up in the military zone of Outpost 12, formerly known as Santa Olivia. But now they're free, and they want to help the rest of the Santitos escape. During a series of escapades, they discover that Miguel, Loup's former sparring partner and reprobate surrogate brother, has escaped...
18) Orphan X: bk. 1
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Nowhere Man is a legendary figure spoken about only in whispers. It's said that when he's reached by the truly desperate and deserving, the Nowhere Man can and will do anything to protect and save them. But he's no legend. Evan Smoak is a man with skills, resources, and a personal mission to help those with nowhere else to turn. He's also a man with a dangerous past. Chosen as a child, he was raised and trained as part of the off-the-books black...
19) Widowmaker
Author
Series
Mike Bowditch novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
When a mysterious woman in distress appears outside his home, Mike Bowditch has no clue she is about to blow his world apart. Amber Langstrom is beautiful, damaged, and hiding a secret with a link to his past. She claims her son Adam is a wrongfully convicted sex offender who has vanished from a brutal work camp in the high timber around the Widowmaker Ski Resort. She also claims that Adam is the illegitimate son of Jack Bowditch, Mike's dead and...
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Taken from a group home at age twelve, Evan Smoak was raised and trained as an off-the-books government assassin: Orphan X. After he broke with the Orphan Program, Evan disappeared and reinvented himself as the Nowhere Man, a man spoken about only in whispers and dedicated to helping the truly desperate. But this time, the voice on the other end is Jack Johns, the man who raised and trained him, the only father Evan has ever known. Secret government...
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