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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
It was the time of the French Revolution - a time of great change and great danger. It was a time when injustice was met by a lust for vengeance, and rarely was a distinction made between the innocent and the guilty. Against this tumultuous historical backdrop, Dickens' great story of unsurpassed adventure and courage unfolds.Unjustly imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille, Dr. Alexandre Manette is reunited with his daughter, Lucie, and safely transported...
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Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Jack Swyteck, a brilliant Miami defense attorney, has spent years rebelling against his overpowering father, Harry, now Florida's governor. When, on the eve of an execution, the governor denies Jack's request for a stay and allows the death sentence against Jack's client to be carried out, all hopes for a reconciliation seem dashed."--BOOK JACKET. "But events will soon place father and son in extreme jeopardy. Jack will be tried for a murder he didn't...
Author
Series
World War II liberators series volume 4
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In 1650, while Robert, a young medical student, steels himself to assist with her dissection, twenty-two-year-old housemaid Anne Green recalls her life as she lies in her coffin, presumed dead after being hanged for murdering her child that was, in fact, stillborn.
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Series
Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author Charles Todd has earned a special place among mystery’s elite writers with his acclaimed series featuring Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge, a former soldier seeking to lay to rest the demons of his past in the aftermath of World War I. But that past bleeds into the present in a complex murder case that calls into question his own honor...and the crimes committed in the name of God, country, and righteous vengeance. A Fearsome...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
Lieutenant Cam Richter searches for vigilantes who have executed a killer in a homemade electric chair. The search leads to a remote mountain area in western North Carolina where the suspects, who call themselves "cat dancers," have tracked the last wild mountain lions in the region.
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Author
Series
MurderTrending volume 1
Publisher
Freeform Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Falsely accused of murdering her stepsister, seventeen-year-old Dee fights to survive paid assassins on Alcatraz 2.0, the most popular prison on social media.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after helping to convict a man for the heinous murder of her sister, an adult Tessa DeGraff learns that DNA evidence may have exonerated the original suspect, a possibility that forces Tessa to return to the New Hampshire town where her sister died to reconstruct key evidence.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
The inhabitants of two cities--including a doctor, his devoted daughter, the young French aristocrat she loves, and their English friend--are swept into the tide of the French Revolution
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011, c1994
Language
English
Description
In Florida, a man plans a series of murders to frame the son of the state governor. The purpose of his diabolical scheme is to put the governor, a law and order man, in a position where he will be forced to sign his son's death warrant. The motive is revenge, pay back the governor for sending a man to death, despite evidence that the man was innocent. A first novel.
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Series
Sin Eater's daughter volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
For four years sixteen-year-old Twylla has lived in the castle of Lormere, the goddess-embodied, whose touch can poison and kill, and hence the Queen's executioner--but when Prince Merek, her betrothed, who is immune to her touch returns to the kingdom she finds herself caught up in palace intrigues, unsure if she can trust him or the bodyguard who claims to love her.
Author
Series
Maggie O'Dell volume 5
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Maggie O'Dell, the beautiful FBI profiler and recovering alcoholic suspects that more than one killer is involved in a spate of nationwide murders of Catholic priests. When Father Michael Keller, himself a serial killer, becomes a target, he tries to strike a bargain with Maggie in order to save his life.