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- The ascent / by Plantinga, Adam,author.;
"Kurt Argento, an ex-Detroit street cop who can't let injustice go--and who has the fighting skills to back up his idealism. If he sees a young girl being dragged into an alley, he's going to rescue her and cause some damage. When he does just that in a small corrupt Missouri town, he's brutally beaten and thrown into a maximum-security prison. Julie Wakefield, a grad student who happens to be the governor's daughter, is about to take a tour of the prison. But when a malfunction in the security system releases a horde of prisoners, a fierce struggle for survival ensues. Argento must help a small band of staff and civilians, including Julie and her two state trooper handlers, make their way from the bottom floor to the roof to safety. All that stands in their way are six floors of the most dangerous convicts in Missouri"--
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Ex-police officers; Prison riots; Prisoners; Survival;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- No good deed [videorecording] / by Bibb, Leslie,actor.; Castillo, Kate del,1972-; Elba, Idris,actor.; Henson, Taraji P,actor.; Miller, Sam,1962 September 28-; Simmons, Henry,1970-; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm);
Idris Elba, Taraji P. Henson, Leslie Bibb, Kate del Castillo, Henry Simmons.A charming escaped convict gains entry to a mother's home by claiming car trouble, and proceeds to terrorize her and her children, shattering her idyllic suburban life.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen 2.40:1 ; Dolby digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Escaped prisoners; Feature films.; Home invasion; Mother and child; Murder; Thrillers (Motion pictures);
- © c2015., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Traitors among us : a novel / by Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk.;
Includes bibliographical references.After the end of World War II, Ukrainian sisters Krystia and Maria reunite in a displaced persons camp, where they are unjustly accused of collaboration with the Nazis and face interrogation by the Soviets for crimes they never committed.LSC
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Sisters; Refugees; World War, 1939-1945;
- Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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- Anatomy of innocence : testimonies of the wrongfully convicted / by Caldwell, Laura,editor.; Klinger, Leslie S,editor.; Turow, Scott,writer of introduction.; Scheck, Barry,writer of introduction.;
Includes bibliographical references.
- Subjects: Criminal justice, Administration of; Judicial error; Prisoners;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Rose in chains / by Soto, Julie,1988-author.;
"The war is over, the dark forces have won, and the hero who was supposed to save them is dead. Captured as her castle is overrun by the enemy, Briony Rosewood knows that the world as she knows it is changed forever. The dark forces have won and her people face imminent servitude, imprisonment or death. Stripped of her Magic and her freedom, Briony and the other survivors are quickly sold off to the highest bidders in an auction -- and as Evermore's princess, she fetches the highest price. After a fierce bidding war, she's sold to none other than Toven. Scion of a family known for their cruelty. Yet despite the horrors of her new world and the role she must learn to play within it, all is not lost. Help -- and hope -- may yet arise in the most unlikely of places ... "--
- Subjects: Romance fiction.; Novels.; Enemies; Imaginary wars and battles; Magic; Man-woman relationships; Princesses; Women prisoners;
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- The murder rule : a novel / by McTiernan, Dervla,author.;
"Hannah has abandoned everything-her trajectory as a law student, her childhood home and caring for her ill mother-for the chance to work with the Innocence Project, a prestigious coalition of investigators who fight to free wrongly convicted prisoners. Hannah's ambitions are set on the program's highest-stakes case in years: a convicted rapist and murderer on death row. She'll do anything--whatever it takes-to work on this case. Because Hannah has a secret. Nearly three decades ago her mother Laura abandoned everything, too. A teenage runaway who fled her abusive family, she escaped to Maine for a fresh start. Desperate for work and a place to sleep, Laura is forced to resort to favors from friends and strangers, until she meets a young man named, Tom, who becomes her guardian angel. As Hannah becomes more deeply involved with the Innocence Project she is forced to reckon with the thin lines between justice and revenge, privilege and complicity, love and abuse. And the more she learns about this complicated case, the more she learns about herself. Because secrets and lies come with a price. Told in alternating timelines, the mother and daughter's stories twist and turn into an explosive conclusion"--
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Legal fiction (Literature); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Innocence Project; Family secrets; Mothers and daughters; Prisoners;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Shoes for Anthony / by Kennedy, Emma,1967-author.;
"This 1944 World War Two drama tells the story of Anthony, a boy living in a deprived Welsh village, anticipating the arrival of American troops. Suddenly, a German plane crashes into the village mountain. A Polish prisoner-of-war survives and is brought into the community where he builds a close relationship with Anthony. Later, the villagers discover one of the Germans on the plane has survived and is still on the mountain."--
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; War fiction.; World War, 1939-1945; Interpersonal relations; Prisoners of war;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- When we were young & brave : a novel / by Gaynor, Hazel,author.;
Enduring privation when Japan declares war on England, a teacher at a British missionary school in China is sent to a distant internment camp, where she provides support and instruction to incarcerated children taken from their parents.
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; War fiction.; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; British; Teacher-student relationships;
- Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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- Made in China : a prisoner, an SOS letter, and the hidden cost of America's cheap goods / by Pang, Amelia,1991-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."After an Oregon mother finds an SOS letter in a box of Halloween decorations, a story unfolds about the man who wrote it: a Chinese political prisoner, sentenced without trial to work grueling hours at a "reeducation" camp--manufacturing the products sold in our own big-box stores"--
- Subjects: Costs, Industrial; Political prisoners; Work environment; Manufacturing industries;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Monopoly X : how a top-secret World War II operations used the game of Monopoly to help Allied POWs escape, conceal spies, and send secret codes / by Orbanes, Philip,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The incredible true story of how Monopoly games were used to smuggle escape aids to Allied servicemen in German P.O.W. camps ... and more"--
- Subjects: Monopoly (Game); Prisoner-of-war escapes; Prisoners of war; Prisoners of war; Prisoners of war; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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