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Author
Series
Treasure hunters volume 7
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books/Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
321 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bick, Beck, Storm, and Tommy have one week to traverse the Australian Outback, locate Charlotte Badger and her pirate cronies, and find evidence to prove their parents innocent of stealing rare opals.
22) The Quest
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
While the Ethiopian Civil War rages, a Catholic priest languishes in prison. Forty years have passed since he last saw daylight. His crime? Claiming to know the true location of Christ's cup from the Last Supper. Then the miraculous happens -- a mortar strikes the prison and he is free! Old, frail, and injured, he escapes to the jungle, where he encounters two Western journalists and a beautiful freelance photographer taking refuge from the carnage....
23) Trespasser
Author
Series
Mike Bowditch novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
While on patrol one foggy evening, Game Warden Mike Bowditch receives a call for help. A woman has reportedly struck a deer on a lonely road. When he arrives on the scene, he finds blood -- but the driver and the deer have vanished. The state trooper assigned to the accident appears unconcerned. Details of the disappearance are eerily familiar. Seven years earlier, Erland Jefferts was convicted of the rape and murder of a college student and sentenced...
24) Just mercy
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson goes to Alabama to fight for the release of death row inmate Walter McMillian.
Author
Language
English
Description
In a picture-perfect town, why is the jail so crowded? And why are so few prisoners released? There's only one place to learn the truth behind these incriminating secrets. A young lawyer takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown, and ends up in jail herself.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
451 pages ;. 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mickey Dupree is one of the most successful criminal attorneys in upstate New York. The upside of being Mickey: he has never lost a capital murder case. The downside: Mickey has a lot of enemies, and one of them has just driven the shaft of a golf club through his heart, leaving him dead in a sand trap at his exclusive country club. The cops, led by a gung ho but dim-witted detective named Joe Brady, focus their attentions on Virgil Cain. Just two...
27) Killer view
Author
Series
Kendra Michaels volume 9
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kendra Michaels, blind before gaining her sight via a revolutionary surgical procedure, offers her razor-sharp senses to assist her friend Jessie Mercado in a baffling case. An army vet and former bodyguard for the rich and famous, Jessie has faced all kinds of danger but one thing the motorcycle-riding private investigator has never encountered before is an incarceration consultant. Preparing wealthy people to go to prison is big business. When Owen...
Author
Series
Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1995 and 35 years old, fresh off the bus from New York City and nursing a broken heart, Anna Pigeon takes a decidedly unglamorous job as a seasonal employee of the Glen Canyon National Recreational Area. On her day off, Anna goes hiking into the park never to return. Her co-workers think she's simply moved on--her cabin is cleaned out and her things gone. But Anna herself wakes up, trapped at the bottom of a dry natural well, naked, without supplies...
Author
Series
Lost Lords volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Grey Sommers, Lord Wyndham, never met a predicament he couldn't charm his way out of. Then a tryst with a government official's wife during a bit of casual espionage in France condemns him to a decade in a dungeon, leaving him a shadow of his former self. Yet his greatest challenge may be the enigmatic spy sent to free his body -- the only woman who might heal his soul. Cassie Fox lost everything in the chaos of revolution, leaving only a determination...
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 7
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
454 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the New York Museum of Natural History prepares for the gala opening of an ancient Egyptian tomb, FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast sits in prison for a murder he did not commit and his psychotic brother lays the groundwork for his crowning criminal achievement.
Author
Series
Dog Man volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Is Dog Man bad to the bone? The heroic hound is sent to the pound for a crime he didn't commit. While his pals work to prove his innocence, Dog Man struggles to find his place among dogs and people. Being a part of both worlds, will he ever fully fit in with one?"--Publisher marketing.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A renowned investigative journalist exposes the unchecked power of the prosecutor as a driving force in America's mass incarceration crisis, and also offers a way out. The American criminal justice system is supposed to be a contest between two equal adversaries, the prosecution and the defense, with judges ensuring a fair fight. But in fact, it is prosecutors who have the upper hand, in a contest that is far from equal. More than anyone else, prosecutors...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
3 audio discs (2 hr., 39 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Es la historia de Edmond Dantès, joven marinero, quien el dia de ser nombrado capitan del buque El Pharaon y de planear casarse con su amada Mercedes, es injustamente puesto prisionero por traicion, por una conspiracion tramada por personas quienes le tenian celos y envidia. Despues de varios anos de prision en el Château d'If conoce a un sacerdote, el Abbé Faria, quien le impartio conocimientos y sabiduria, y le mostro el camino para un gran tesoro....
34) Punching the air
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy ... Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal's bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn't commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words,...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"The moving, eye-opening memoir of an innocent man detained at Gaunt�anamo Bay for 15 years: a story of humanity in the unlikeliest of places and an unprecedented look at life at Gaunt�anamo on the eve of its 20th anniversary"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xiv, 245 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Feminist organizing by marginalized populations such as queer, anticapitalist, and non-white women, has pushed for abolition as a response to forms of state and interpersonal gender and sexual violence, but have largely been erased from this political moment. Leading scholar-activists trace historical genealogies, internationalist learnings, and everyday practices to grow our collective present and future that don't include police or new jails.
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