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Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Provides an account of the World War II mission undertaken by 121 select troops from the U.S. Army 6th Ranger Battalion in January 1945 to rescue 513 American and British prisoners, including survivors of the Bataan Death March, being held in a camp in the Philippines.
82) Born survivors: three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
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English
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Among the millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each pass through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to one another, they are newly pregnant, and facing an uncertain fate without their husbands. Alone, scared, and with so many loved ones already lost to the Nazis, these young women are privately determined to hold on to all they have left: their lives and those of their unborn babies....
83) Public enemies
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Series
On the run volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
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Aiden and Meg Falconer have been chased from state to state by the FBI . . . and by a killer they know only as Hairless Joe. Now Hairless Joe is getting closer than ever -- and the Falconers are getting even closer than that to the truth.
84) Behind the Iron
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English
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"Hank Fallon knows what its like to rot behind bars. To wallow in the filth of a rat-infested cell. To smell the pent-up rage of cutthroat killers and thieves. Fallon earned his freedom the hard way. He saved the lives of four guards, got released early, and became a detective. Then he went undercover, infiltrated a prison gang plotting to bust outand barely made it out alive. Now theyre sending him back. Behind the iron. Straight to hell. This time,...
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"Hank Fallon used to be one of the best deputy marshals in the country. Then, he got framed for a crime he didn't commit. Got sentenced to 10 years in a federal penitentiary. And got out early for saving the life of the captain of the guards during a riot. When Fallon is released, a private detective is waiting for him. He wants to put Hank behind bars again - but this time, as an undercover agent.... The last thing Fallon wants is to return to jail....
86) Derailed
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Language
English
Description
For Charles Schine, it began as a quiet, ordinary day with a simple commute to work . . . until he meets the seductive, mysterious Lucinda Harris — an encounter that will irrevocably wreck his life. From multi-talented writer James Siegel comes a highly charged, suspenseful tale of murder, betrayal, and revenge. Warner Books is proud to present Siegel's newest thriller, featuring rich characterizations and a scintillating plot that builds to an...
88) Carandiru
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Murderers, rapists, stool pigeons, drug addicts. They were the feared ones, the criminals who really ran Carandiru, Brazil's largest correctional facitility. This is the true story of that infamous day in October 1992, a day that shocked the world. The day of the Carandiru Massacre.
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English
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"In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter, Sally, on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh-Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend to Allied troops. But as Singapore falls to the Japanese,...
90) The green mile
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English
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A death row inmate in a Southern prison possesses the unusual gift of healing. A guard discovers the inmate's miraculous power and begins to question the man's guilt.
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English
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The war has taken a toll on the Christiansen family. With food rationed and money scarce, Charlotte struggles to keep her family well fed. Her teenage daughter, Kate, raises rabbits to earn money for college and dreams of becoming a writer. Her husband, Thomas, struggles to keep the farm going while their son, and most of the other local men, are fighting in Europe. When their upcoming cherry harvest is threatened, strong-willed Charlotte helps persuade...
93) A common man
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Ben Kingsley stars as a seemingly average citizen who plants five powerful bombs in different locations around a major city and threatens to detonate them unless his demand is met: The release of four of the most deadly international terrorists from government prisons. But in an urban jungle already torn apart by fear, what could be the real motive behind a cunning madman's ultimate plan? Ben Cross co-stars in this explosive action-thriller about...
94) Rose under fire
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Series
Code name Verity volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
When young American pilot Rose Justice is captured by Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious women's concentration camp, she finds hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery, and friendship of her fellow prisoners.
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English
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An unnamed Sri Lankan inmate has barricaded himself inside a prison computer lab in Dutchess County, New York. A riot rages outside, incited by a poem published in The Holding Pen, the house literary journal. This, our narrator's final Editor's Letter, is his confession. An official accounting of events, as they happened. As he awaits imminent and violent interruption, he takes us on a roller-caster ride of plot and language, determined to share his...
96) The Green Mile
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Lexile measure
910L
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English
Description
Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping a date with "Old Sparky," Cold Mountain's electric chair. Prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working the Mile. But he's never seen anyone like John Coffey, a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned for a crime terrifying in its violence...
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English
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Between 1775 and 1783, some 200,000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown, and just over 6,800 died in battle. About 25,000 became prisoners of war, most of them confined in New York City under conditions so atrocious that they perished by the thousands. Evidence suggests that at least 17,500 Americans may have died in these prisons--more than twice the number to die on the battlefield. New York City was the principal base of the Crown's...
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English
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Who was Bill Sands? By his nineteenth birthday he was doing three consecutive life terms in San Quentin. He admitted that he was on his way to committing murder if he hadn't been stopped. Thirty years later he was a successful businessman, a famous speaker and the author of a bestselling book. Along the way he had been a pilot, a boxer, a comedian and a diamond miner. Bill Sands died in 1969, but he left behind as his legacy this exciting story of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 540L
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English
Description
"When someone you love goes to jail, you might feel lost, scared, and even mad. What do you do? No matter who your loved one is, this story can help you through the tough times--Cover, p. [4].
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