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1) Fellside
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Confronting the possibility that she might be forced to spend the rest of her life in a maximum security prison on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors, Jess Moulson discovers that the prison is haunted by the ghost of a little boy who imparts a chilling message.
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"Former "It Girl" Janie Jenkins is sly, stunning, and fresh out of prison. Ten years ago, at the height of her fame, she was incarcerated for the murder of her mother, a high-society beauty known for her good works and rich husbands. Now, released on a technicality, Janie makes herself over and goes undercover, determined to chase down the one lead she has on her mother's killer. The only problem? Janie doesn't know if she's the killer she's looking...
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Noa P. Singleton sits on death row in a maximum security penitentiary, just six months away from her execution date. She is visited by a high-powered Philadelphia attorney who is a heartbroken mother of the victim and now wants to see the death penalty delayed--if only Noa reveals her motive.
4) Malice
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The tale of a woman who attracts sexual abuse. She is Grace Adams and the story begins as she kills her abusive father. In jail she undergoes abuse, out of jail she undergoes abuse, only when she finds a man and love does it end.
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This novel describes a horrific crime and its effect on four lives; four voices alternately narrate: Helen, an inmate at Sloatsburg prison for the murder of her children; Dr. Louise Forrest, Sloatsburg's chief of psychiatry; Angie, a Hollywood starlet; and Ike Bradshaw, a corrections officer.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
870L
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English
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"A woman begins serving two life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in 2003 California's Central Valley, reflecting on the San Francisco of her youth and her relationship with her young son while navigating the harsh realities of a bare-essentials life of casual violence at the hands of the guards and her fellow inmates"--
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2020.
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When an earthquake hits Mustang Valley, first responder Grayson Colton finds an abandoned truck- and a fugitive in need of help. Savannah Oliver claims she's been falsely accused of her husband's murder. Grayson's protective instincts come out in full force as he helps Savannah prove her innocence. But as Savannah's past comes back to haunt her, Grayson must use every survival tactic he knows to keep them both alive.
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KGI novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Guy Hancock, who has been both an opponent and ally to the KGI team, finds his commitment to his mission challenged by the female prisoner he has been hired to guard, who is the only woman who has managed to touch his heart.
10) The Light of Day
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A single, dazzling day in the life of George Webb- ex-policeman turned private investigator-illuminates his checkered past, his now all-consuming relationship with a former client and the catastrophic events which involved them both two years ago.
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When Olivia, wild-haired and headstrong, makes a terrible mistake, she must turn to the person least likely to help--her mother, Elaine. Motherhood was a role that Elaine never embraced and her best never amounted to much. But now Olivia faces prosecution for a naïve connection to a drug deal and she needs Elaine more than ever. As the days count down and Olivia's future hangs in the balance, Elaine must decide just how much she is willing to give...
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"The explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black, about two top women gladiators fighting for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly-popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising...
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Black market (Kiki Swinson) volume 3
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English
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"Kiki Swinson's novels crackle with breakneck triple-twists, no-limits characters, and an unforgettably brutal portrayal of Southern life. Now she shatters all expectations as a young woman serving time must survive a prisoner-abuse conspiracy... She killed her abusive boyfriend in self-defense. Now all she wants is to work her appeals, do her time, and earn her freedom. But when she tells her state-appointed attorney that prison guards are raping...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 14
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Kate Shugak agrees to help a young woman clear her mother's name, and sets out to prove that Victoria Pilz Bannister Muravieff did not kill her seventeen-year-old son more than thirty years ago, but her investigation is complicated by Victoria's refusal to help Kate uncover the truth.
15) Undercurrents
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Fans of Laura Lippman and A. S. A. Harrison will love this haunting psychological thriller. For twenty years, Henry Evans has been haunted by the memory of Francesca, the one that got away. When he travels to England to reconnect with his long-lost love, what he finds is a horrific shock: Francesca has been imprisoned for murdering her five-year-old son. But Henry refuses to believe Francesca is guilty, even if she did confess-in chilling detail-to...
16) After the party
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2019.
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English
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Moving into her sister's country house in 1938 England after years abroad, Phyllis becomes entangled in a circle of idealistic new friends and their views about a charismatic new leader before a lapse in judgment changes the course of her life.
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Budapest, 1956. In this darkest year in the modern history of Hungary, a national uprising against Soviet occupiers and their reign of terror is underway. Eleven-year-old Evike and her firebrand mother steal deep into battle zones in support of civilian freedom fighters armed only with primitive weapons and desperate courage against the heavy artillery of trained Russian troops. Taken in for interrogation by the secret police, little Evike spins a...
18) The speed queen
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Marjorie Standiford has quite a story to tell. And on the eve of her execution for a sensational murder spree, she's giving every detail, just as she remembers them, to the famous novelist who has come to record it all. Of course, Marjorie contends that she didn't do any killing. That was all Lamont, her boyfriend, and Natalie, their girlfriend, while Marjorie got high and took care of the baby. But she was in it just the same, careening across the...
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Returning home from the war only to find his village changed and in the dark shadow of an SS rest hut, German soldier Paul Brandt must find a way to infiltrate the hut and save the female prisoners within, including a woman to whom his fate has been tied to for years.
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