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An action-packed historical western for fans of William Johnstone and Louis L'Amour.
Condemned to die, he's about to find a reason to live.
Jake Paynter is a doomed man. Haunted by an abusive childhood and his participation in atrocities of the Civil War, he seeks the isolation of the Plains Cavalry as a white officer for an all-Black buffalo soldier troop. Now, he is in irons and certain to be hanged
...2) Caught
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English
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The acclaimed author of February “combin{es} the complexity of the best literary fiction with the page-turning compulsive readability of a thriller” (National Post).
Lisa Moore, a “Canada Reads” winner and a New Yorker Best Book of the Year author, introduces a dangerously appealing new protagonist unlike any she’s imagined before: a modern Billy the Kid . . .
Caught begins with a prison break. Twenty-five-year-old David Slaney, locked...
4) The chase
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"The Chase is a modern The Fugitive with characters only #1 New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author Candice Fox can write. "Are you listening, Warden?" "What do you want?" "I want you to let them out." "Which inmates are we talking about?" "All of them." When 650 of the world's most violent human beings pour out of the Pronghorn Correctional Facility into the Nevada Desert, the biggest manhunt in US history begins. For John Kradle, this...
5) Battle lines
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Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 31
Physical Desc
590 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Rehabilitating Frankenstein while training a new squad to help recover from an attack by evil vampire Valeri Rusmanov, operator Jamie Carpenter races to recapture escaped prisoners who have been transformed into vampires.
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English
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Greenhorn Valley Book Club 2022
Kirkus Reviews: The Best Fiction Books of 2021
New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: October 4, 2021
Kirkus Reviews: The Best Fiction Books of 2021
New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: October 4, 2021
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"The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon...
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"Some say bad luck comes in threes. And if you're a bandit, bank robber, or bloodthirsty killer, that bad luck comes in the form of three hard justice-seekers known as the Jackals. Each of the Jackals has his own path to follow--Former Texas Ranger Matt McCulloch is trying to protect a young Commanche from scalphunters. Retired cavalry sergeant Sean Keegan is dodging bullets in a prison breakout planned by the notorious Benteen brothers. And bounty...
8) Dillinger
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English
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A novel of the last, desperate days of John Dillinger, America's most notorious bank robber.
In 1934, after his spectacular jailbreak from a cell in Indiana, John Dillinger was like a ghost—some claimed to spot him in New York, others in London, New Orleans, or California. Though the FBI would eventually find and kill Dillinger in Chicago, speculation about his whereabouts in those mysterious final months never waned.
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In 1934, after his spectacular jailbreak from a cell in Indiana, John Dillinger was like a ghost—some claimed to spot him in New York, others in London, New Orleans, or California. Though the FBI would eventually find and kill Dillinger in Chicago, speculation about his whereabouts in those mysterious final months never waned.
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Newspaper club volume 2
Publisher
RP Kids
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
188 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A sequel to The Newspaper Club finds The Cub Report receiving unexpected national attention when Gordon s fast-thinking photo helps capture an escaped prisoner, a boon that is compromised by parental concerns about their kid reporters safety.
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Thorndike Press A Part of Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
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433 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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Like a murderous plague, a band of cut-throats and criminals, led by prison escapees from New Mexico, rages through West Texas slaughtering everyone in their path. They struck at Saragosa. Now they've taken over the town of Boracho. The Dallas newspapers call them the Kingdom Come Gang. In Chugwater, Wyoming, Duff MacCallister calls them his enemy. Because one of their victims was family. Riding to Texas, Duff gathers every man he can find to...
13) Trackdown
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Series
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Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 18 cm.
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English
14) Damon's revenge
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VMI Releasing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Adriana is haunted by memories of a massacre that occurred months earlier. Terrified that the killer is still out there, she decides to put her mind at ease by spending a night partying at a lake house with her new friend, Tina. As the night goes on, they are attacked by an escaped convict, a copycat killer, and the return of the terrifying masked killer, Damon.
15) I will find you
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"An innocent father serving life for the murder of his own son receives evidence that his child may still be alive, and must break out of prison to find out the truth"--
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
London, 1890. Four vicious murderers have escaped from prison, part of a plan gone terribly wrong, and now it is up to Walter Day, Nevil Hammersmith, and the rest of Scotland Yard's Murder Squad to hunt down the convicts before the men can resume their bloody spree. But they might already be too late. The killers have retribution in mind, and one of them is heading straight toward a member of the Murder Squad, and his family--
Scotland Yard's Murder...
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Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrated (some color) ; 20 cm
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English
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"After a pack of infected dogs attacks a group of miners, soldier-turned-slave Van awakens to find himself blessed with preternatural strength. As he effortlessly breaks free of his chains, he notices a young girl--the only other survivor--standing before him. The two escape the mine, but with Van's captors in pursuit and a deadly disease ravaging the area, how will they survive on the lam?"--Cover.
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English
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As World War II rages and Hitler begins implementing his final solution to systematically and ruthlessly exterminate the Jewish people, Jacob Weisz must rely on his wits and a God he's not sure he believes in to somehow escape from Auschwitz and alert the world to the Nazi's atrocities before Fascism overtakes all of Europe.
19) Fujita 4
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English
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"What would you be prepared to risk to follow your conscience? How do the members of a family cope with their own personal grief when one of them dies in tragic circumstances? Should the will of the state always supersede personal morality and religious belief? It is 2004. Andrew Burke, an idiosyncratic but brilliant Irish academic, has a chance encounter with an escaped death row inmate in America's deep south after a devastating [tornado]. He makes...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 100 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Quintessential post-war British Noir. Ex-RAF pilot Trevor Howard is double-crossed by his black-marketeer boss. Once he breaks out of Dartmoor Prison, he seeks revenge. No holds barred in terms of brutality.
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