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Hush / by Patterson, James,1947-author.; Fox, Candice,author.; Patterson, James,1947-Hush hush.;
"Top cop. Devoted sister. Now Inmate 3329. But prison bars won't stop Harriet Blue from seeking justice for the murder of her brother. Prison is a dangerous place for a former cop--as Harriet Blue is learning on a daily basis. So, following a fight for her life and a prison-wide lockdown, the last person she wants to see is Deputy Police Commissioner Joe Woods. The man who put her inside. But Woods is not there to gloat. His daughter Tonya and her two-year-old child have gone missing. He's ready to offer Harriet a deal: find his family to buy her freedom"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Blue, Harriet (Fictitious character); Missing persons; Women detectives; Women prisoners;
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The starlight claim / by Wynne-Jones, Tim.;
Four months after his best friend, Dodge, disappeared in a boat accident on Ghost Lake, Nate decides to make a treacherous journey to his family's remote camp at Ghost Lake. It's half pilgrimage, half desperate hope he will find his missing friend. However, when he arrives, he finds the camp has been occupied by strangers--men who have escaped from a maximum-security prison.LSC
Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Suspense fiction.; Teenage boys; Escaped prisoners; Best friends; Missing persons; Wilderness survival;
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Hush [sound recording] / by Patterson, James,1947-author.; Hartman, Kathryn,narrator.; Fox, Candice,author.; Patterson, James,1947-Hush, hush.[sound recording].; Hachette Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Kathryn Hartman."Top cop. Devoted sister. Now Inmate 3329. But prison bars won't stop Harriet Blue from seeking justice for the murder of her brother. Prison is a dangerous place for a former cop-- as Harriet Blue is learning on a daily basis. So, following a fight for her life and a prison-wide lockdown, the last person she wants to see is Deputy Police Commissioner Joe Woods. The man who put her inside. But Woods is not there to gloat. His daughter Tonya and her two-year-old child have gone missing. He's ready to offer Harriet a deal: find his family to buy her freedom."--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Blue, Harriet (Fictitious character); Missing persons; Women detectives; Women prisoners;
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A knife in the heart / by Johnstone, William W.; Johnstone, J. A.;
As both a prisoner and an undercover operative, U.S. Marshal Hank Fallon has faced down some of the most vicious, terrifying, cold-blooded thieves and murderers in the West. Now, Hank is finally free and he's got no intention of setting foot inside a jail ever again. But the new federal prison being constructed in Leavenworth, Kansas, needs a warden and Hank is the right man for the job. He's got the scars to prove it--and the sheer muscle to keep the peace. But keeping these lawless hornets in their nest is no easy feat. And when several escape before Leavenworth is at maximum security, they take Hank's family hostage.
Subjects: Western fiction.; Historical fiction.; United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas; Prison wardens; Escaped prisoners;
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The dime / by Kent, Kathleen,1953-author.;
Dallas, Texas is not for the faint of heart. Good thing for Betty Rhyzyk she's from a family of take-no-prisoners Brooklyn police detectives. But her Big Apple wisdom will only get her so far when she relocates to The Big D, where Mexican drug cartels and cult leaders, deadbeat skells and society wives all battle for sunbaked turf. Betty is as tough as the best of them, but she's deeply shaken when her first investigation goes sideways. Battling a group of unruly subordinates, a persistent stalker, a formidable criminal organization, and an unsupportive girlfriend, the unbreakable Detective Betty Rhyzyk may be reaching her limit.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Noir fiction.; Crime; Women detectives;
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The words of my father : love and pain in Palestine / by Bashir, Yousef Khalil,1989-author.;
In the Gaza Strip, growing up on land owned by his family for centuries, fourteen-year-old Yousef is preoccupied by video games, school pranks, and meeting his father's impossible high standards. Everything changes when the second Intifada erupts and soldiers occupy the family home, turning it into a virtual prison. Over time, Yosef learns the rules of his new life in captivity - but he can't anticipate that an Israeli bullet is about too transform his future in an instant.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Bashir, Yousef Khalil, 1989-; Al-Aqsa Intifada, 2000-; Palestinian Arabs; Fathers and sons;
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With the devil's help : a true story of poverty, mental illness, and murder / by Wooten, Neal,author.;
Neal Wooten traces five decades of his dirt-poor, Alabama mountain family as the years and secrets coalesce.
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Wooten, Neal; Poor families;
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Ghost town : a novel in 45 chapters / by Chen, Kevin,author.; Sterk, Darryl,translator.;
"Keith Chen, the second son of a traditional Taiwanese family of seven, runs away from the oppression of his village to Berlin in the hope of finding acceptance as a young gay man. The novel begins a decade later, when Chen has just been released from prison for killing his boyfriend. He is about to return to his family's village, a poor and desolate place. With his parents gone, his sisters married, mad, or dead, there is nothing left for him there. As the story unfurls, we learn what tore this family apart and, more importantly, the truth behind the murder of Chen's boyfriend."--
Subjects: Gay fiction.; Novels.; Estranged families; Ex-convicts; Family secrets; Murder; Young gay men;
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Criminal minds. [videorecording] / by Brewster, Paget,1969-actor.; Gubler, Matthew Gray,1980-actor.; Mantegna, Joe,actor.; Cook, A. J.,1978-actor.; Vangsness, Kirsten,1972-actor.; Tyler, Aisha,actor.; Rodriguez, Adam,1975-actor.; CBS Television Studios,production company.; ABC Studios,production company.; Paramount Pictures Corporation,publisher.;
Joe Mantegna, Matthew Gray Gubler, Kirsten Vangsness, Paget Brewster, A. J. Cook, Aisha Tyler, Adam Rodriguez.Unforeseen threats lead to sudden changes on the team, beginning with the addition of Luke Alvez, whose fugitive tracking skills are put to the test on day one. Emily Prentiss returns from London to take over as the new Unit Chief, joined by Stephen Walker, a seasoned profiler in his own right. This new team must learn to work together to stop the killers, psychopaths, masterminds, hackers, abductors and other dangerous perpetrators that await them in these 22 mind-blowing episodes.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Detective and mystery television programs.; Television programs.; Television mini-series.; Made-for-TV movies.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Television crime shows.; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Criminal behavior, Prediction of; Criminal investigation; Criminal profilers;
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Soft as bones : a memoir / by Sage, Chyana Marie,author.;
Chyana Marie Sage shares the pain of growing up with her father, a crack dealer who went to prison for molesting her older sister. In revisiting her family's history, Chyana examines the legacy of generational abuse, which began with her father's father, who was forcibly removed from his family by the residential schools and Sixties Scoop programs. Yet hers is also a story of hope, as it was the traditions of her people that saved her life, healing one small piece in the mosaic that makes up the dark past of colonialism shared by Indigenous people throughout Turtle Island.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Sage, Chyana Marie; Sage, Chyana Marie.; Cree women; Generational trauma.; Métis women;
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