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Author
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....
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...
Publisher
Distributed by Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A racist, bitter U.S. Border Patrol Agent, moonlighting with a vigilante group, goes undercover posing as a Mexican migrant worker in an effort to expose an illegal alien smuggling operation. When the plan blows up, he is trapped with the aliens, in a web of desperation and tyranny that forces him to confront his secret past.
5) The Hunt
Author
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...
Author
Series
Atlanta Burns volume 1
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
You don't mess with Atlanta Burns. Everyone knows that. And that's kinda how she likes it -- until the day Atlanta is drawn into a battle against two groups of bullies and saves a pair of new, unexpected friends. But actions have consequences, and when another teen turns up dead -- by an apparent suicide -- Atlanta knows foul play is involved. And worse: she knows it's her fault. You go poking rattlesnakes, maybe you get bit. Afraid of stirring up...
7) 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.
Author
Series
Jack Taylor volume 10
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
After becoming the target of a street thug and finding no help from legal authorities, a working-class man decides to take matters into his own hands to protect his family.
Author
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.
11) Orphan X: bk. 1
Author
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...
Author
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...
Author
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...
14) 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,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Forced into retirement, Evan Smoak gets an urgent request for help from someone he didn't even suspect existed ... As a boy, Evan Smoak was pulled out of a foster home and trained in an off-the-books operation known as the Orphan Program. He was a government assassin, perhaps the best, known to a few insiders as Orphan X. He eventually broke with the Program and adopted a new name--The Nowhere Man--and a new mission, helping the most desperate in...
Author
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...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
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
Language
English
Description
"'My job is to go to places where people die. I pack my bags, talk to the survivors, write my stories, then go home to wait for the next catastrophe. I don't wait very long.' Journalist Patricia Evangelista came of age in the aftermath of a street revolution that forged a new future for the Philippines. Three decades later, in the face of mounting inequality, the nation discovered the fragility of its democratic institutions under the regime of strongman...
19) Watchmen
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (527 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows a detective in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in an alternate history where police must use masks to conceal their identities.
20) Saints astray
Author
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...
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