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Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Tobey Marshall, a mechanic who moonlights as an underground race-car driver, strives to take the top prize in America's most prominent street race in order to have his revenge against the ambitious ex-NASCAR champ who had him framed and sent to prison.
2) One summer
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Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America/Sound Library
Pub. Date
p2000
Description
When Johnny Harris gets out of prison on parole, his life seems to be looking up when he finds the love of a good woman. But then the killer strikes again and Johnny is the prime suspect.
4) Saving Emma
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Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little Brown, and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Investigating the wrongful conviction of Elijah Matthews for the Innocence Project, attorney Boady Sanden discovers a link between Elijah's case and the death of his best friend, Ben, and when Ben's 14-year-old daughter makes a fateful choice, he will doanything to bring her home and free an innocent man.
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"New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Lisa Scottoline revolutionized crime fiction when she introduced her all-female law firm of Rosato & Associates, thrilling readers with her twisty, fast-paced plots and capturing their hearts with her cast of strong yet totally relatable female characters. Fans have been clamoring for more stories with the characters they've come to know and love, so Bennie Rosato, Mary DiNunzio, Judy Carrier,...
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Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Newlyweds Celestial and Roy, the living embodiment of the New South, are settling into the routine of their life together when Roy is sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. An insightful look into the lives of people who are bound and separated by forces beyond their control"--
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Series
Nic Blake and the Remarkables volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"It's not easy being a Remarkable in the Unremarkable world. Some things are cool--like getting a pet hellhound for your twelfth birthday. Others, not so much--like not being trusted to learn magic because you might use it to take revenge on an annoying neighbor. All Nic Blake wants is to be a powerful Manifestor like her dad. But before she has a chance to convince him to teach her the gift, a series of shocking revelations and terrifying events...
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"After serving time for a crime she didn't commit, Evangeline returns home to discover her father left her solely responsible for the family's failing ranch, her mother blames her for her father's death, and her brothers want her out of their way. With her family's future squarely on her shoulders, she desperately searches for ways to save their home--before they lose everything. Her only ally, Chris Chambers. The cop who sent her away is positive...
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Elizabeth Webster volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Middle schooler Elizabeth Webster has a new case for the Court of Uncommon Pleas: a fourth grader who says her sister's ghosts were stolen; the case leads her to the Ramsberger Institute of the Paranormal, run by Frederick Ramsberger and his grandmother (deceased), who are imprisoning and controlling ghosts, and who have a connection to Elizabeth's enemy, the fearsome demon Redwing.
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Series
Treasure hunters volume 7
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books/Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2020.
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.
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"When headstrong West Indian heiress Patience Jordan questioned her English husband's mysterious suicide, she lost everything: her newborn son, Lionel, her fortune--and her freedom. Falsely imprisoned, she risks her life to be near her child--until The Widow's Grace gets her hired as her own son's nanny. But working for his unsuspecting new guardian, Busick Strathmore, Duke of Repington, has perils of its own. Especially when Patience discovers his...
12) Guilty Wives
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No husbands allowed What happened last night? In the morning's harsh light, Abbie awakens on a yacht, surrounded by police. Something awful has happened--something impossible, unthinkable. Abbie, Winnie, Serena, and Bryah are arrested and accused of the foulest crime imaginable. And now the vacation of a lifetime becomes the fight of a lifetime--for survival. GUILTY WIVES is the ultimate indulgence, the kind of nonstop joy-ride of excess, friendship,...
13) The Guardians
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"In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues. There were no witnesses, no one with a motive. But the police soon came to suspect Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russo's. Quincy was tried, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For twenty-two years he languished in prison, maintaining his innocence ... In desperation,...
15) Punching the air
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Publisher
Balzer+Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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,...
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"This inspirational memoir serves as a call to action from prison reform activist Yusef Salaam, of the Exonerated Five, that will inspire ... to turn our stories into tools for change in the pursuit of racial justice ... No one's life is the sum of the worst things that happened to them, and during Yusef Salaam's seven years of wrongful incarceration as one of the Central Park Five, he grew from child to man, and gained a spiritual perspective on...
17) Redeeming justice: from defendant to defender, my fight for equity on both sides of a broken system
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Publisher
Convergent Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"He was seventeen when an all-white jury sentenced him to prison for a crime he didn't commit. Now, in this unforgettable memoir, a pioneering lawyer recalls the journey that led to his exoneration--and inspired him to devote his life to fighting the many injustices in our legal system. Seventeen years old and facing nearly thirty years behind bars, Jarrett Adams sought to figure out the why behind his fate. Sustained by his mother and aunts who...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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Life for Easy Rawlins is surprisingly... easy. He's living off the proceeds of his last case, trying to keep out of trouble. Of course it's not going to last. Because Easy's old friend Mouse knocks on his door. Mouse is one of the deadliest men in America. And Mouse wants a small favor. He wants Easy to help a man he says is wrongly imprisoned, a friend of Charcoal Joe. Charcoal Joe is a mythical figure in the LA underworld - he pulls all the strings...
19) The viper
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Pub. Date
2022
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Horribly injured after saving one of his fellow inmates, Kane can't help but fall in love with the nurse overseeing his convalescence. But with both of them trapped in the notorious prison camp and his health hanging in the balance, Kane knows he's not going to survive much longer. When a chance for liberation comes from an unexpected source, however, he vows to free his love no matter the cost, even if he can't make it out alive.
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