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1) Taken
Author
Language
English
Description
"Years after being abducted as a teenager and being forced to assist a crime family, Shannon contacts private investigator Matthew Dane for help, desperate for resolution to the mysteries and pain of her past and hoping for the freedom to begin a new life"--
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 14
Publisher
W. Morrow and Co
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Matt Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life. The crime rate's down and the stock market's up. Gentrification's prettying-up the old neighborhood. The New York streets don't look so mean anymore.
Then all hell breaks loose.
Scudder quickly discovers the spruced-up sidewalks are as mean as ever, dark and gritty and stained with blood. He's living in a world where the past is a minefield, the present is a war zone, and the future's an open question....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dive into the dark and pulsating streets of Victorian England with Charles Dickens' timeless masterpiece, "Oliver Twist." Follow the captivating destiny of Oliver Twist, a brave young orphan, as he confronts the injustice, poverty, and cruelty of the world around him.
Oliver, mistreated in an orphanage, escapes to London where he becomes entangled with a gang of thieves led by the infamous Fagin. But Oliver is different. His innocence and purity...
5) Deadlock
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Author
Series
Godfather series (Mark Winegardner) volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Author
Series
Daniel X volume 1
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Daniel has followed in his parents' footsteps as the Alien Hunter, exterminating beings on The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma, but when he faces his first of the top ten outlaws, the very existence Earth and another planet are at stake.
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lucy Baker walks away from her high-flying legal career when she successfully defends yet another heinous criminal. Almost a year after her life-changing decision, Lucy has never been happier. Leaving New York City for the suburbs, tending her garden and her dog, Lucy is making future plans with her fiancé, Jonathan St. Clair - and getting acquainted with her neighbors, including the handsome, exasperating one next door, Wylie Wilson. But when FBI...
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-dealing WWII veteran named Frankie Machine, caught in the act of slowly cutting his own heart into wafer-thin slices. For Frankie, a murder committed may be the least of his problems.
A literary tour de force, here is a novel unlike any other, one in which drug addiction, poverty, and human failure somehow suggest a defense of human dignity and a reason for hope....
14) The drop
Author
Publisher
William Morrow Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Based on the screenplay he developed for Twentieth Century Fox from his short story "Animal Rescue," New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane's The Drop follows a former criminal whose efforts to build a new life with his girlfriend and pit bull rescue puppy fall apart when he becomes mixed up in a robbery gone wrong; scheduled for release in Fall 2014, Fox's film of the same title stars James Gandolfini (in his final on-screen performance),...
15) Better off dead
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 26
Language
English
Description
"Jack Reacher is back in the brand-new, page-turning thriller from acclaimed #1 bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child. Reacher isn't one to back down from a fight. And when a shadowy crew raises the stakes, he won't hesitate to teach them a lesson: When you pick a fight with Reacher, you're better off dead."--
Author
Series
World War II liberators series volume 4
Publisher
Moody Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Author
Series
Tracy Whitney novels volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Forced to confront her greatest nightmare in the face of a tragedy, Tracy Whitney returns to the world of her past to confront a terror threat from a group of global hackers intent on the collapse of capitalism.
18) Only child
Author
Series
Burke novels volume 14
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
19) Bad guys
Author
Series
Zach Walker novels volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Author
Series
Terrier Rand series volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Terry Rand, cut free from his family after his older brother, Collie, went on a senseless killing spree, returns home to piece together the day his brother turned rabid, delving into a blood history that reveals the Rand family tree is rotten to the roots, and the secrets his ancestors buried are now coming furious and vengeful to the surface.
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