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Deception / by Pearse, Lesley,author.;
"What happens when the person closest to you has led a life of deception? After the funeral of her mother, Sally, Alice Kent is approached by a man named Angus Tweedy. He claims to be her father and tells her that he served time in prison for marrying Sally bigamously. What does he hope to gain by telling her this now, thirty years on? How can her adored dad Ralph not be her true father? And why did her mother betray her so badly? She had accepted Sally's many faults, and her reluctance to ever speak of the past. But faced with this staggering deception, Alice knows she must uncover the whole truth about her mother. Whatever the cost. As Alice journeys into the past she discovers her mother may never have been the woman she claimed to be."--Publisher.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Betrayal; Bigamy; Deception; Ex-convicts; Family secrets; Fathers; Life change events; Mothers; Trials (Bigamy); Truthfulness and falsehood;

Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban / by Rowling, J. K.;
Harry Potter is a wizard in his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The atmosphere at Hogwarts is tense. The sinister prison guards of Azkaban have been called in to guard the school and Harry, Ron and Hermione soon discover why wizards live in fear of Azkaban.
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Potter, Harry (Fictitious character); Wizards; Witches; Magic; Boarding schools;

Jamie MacGillivray : the renegade's journey / by Sayles, John,1950-author.;
After cheating the hangman twice--once after the Battle of Culloden in Scotland and again at Marshalsea Prison--Jamie MacGillivray is sentenced to indentured servitude in colonial America where he teams up with a poor village girl similarly sentenced through serfdom, revolt, escape, and romantic entanglements.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Culloden, Battle of, Scotland, 1746; Indentured servants; Man-woman relationships; Scots; Lenape;

Clean kill / by Leather, Stephen,author.;
Terrorists have shot down a British helicopter in West Africa and taken the crew hostage. Their lives are on the line and the British government is refusing to negotiate. The pilot is Liam Shepherd, and only his father - Dan 'Spider' Shepherd of MI5 - can help. Shepherd and an SAS team fly out to the badlands of Mali to rescue the kidnapped Brits. But the mission takes Shepherd away from an investigation in a high security prison that is about to explode into violence. Hundreds of lives are at risk, and Shepherd is running out of time.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Great Britain. MI5; Kidnapping; Rescue work; Shepherd, Dan (Fictitious character); Terrorists; Undercover operations;

Swordheart / by Kingfisher, T.,author.;
"Halla is a housekeeper who has suddenly inherited her great-uncle's estate ... and, unfortunately, his relatives. Sarkis is an immortal swordsman trapped in a prison of enchanted steel. When Halla draws the sword that imprisons him, Sarkis finds himself attempting to defend his new wielder against everything from bandits and roving inquisitors to her own in-laws ... and the sword itself may prove to be the greatest threat of all"--
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Novels.; Heiresses; Housekeepers; Swords; Swordsmen;

The hitchhikers / by Stevens, Chevy,author.;
"On the remote Canadian highways in 1976, Tom and Alice set out to heal their fractured marriage. An RV, a new beginning, and the hope of recovery after a devastating tragedy. Then they meet two young hitchhikers, Ocean and Blue-a seemingly innocent couple who aren't who they seem ... They are Jenny and Simon. And they have left a trail of blood, destruction, and madness behind them. Now Tom and Alice are trapped-prisoners in a deadly game, with nowhere to turn. But as the tension builds and the lines blur, the question becomes: in whose heart does evil truly lie? A chilling, twist-laden ride to the final page."--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Good and evil; Hitchhiking; Married people; Recreational vehicles; Secrecy; Voyages and travels;

Overkill / by Brown, Sandra,1948-author.;
When Eban, the scion of a wealthy North Carolina family who brutally attacked Rebecca Pratt, leaving her on life support, gets an early release from prison, brilliant state prosecutor Kate Lennon asks former Super Bowl MVP quarterback--and Rebecca's ex-husband--to make an impossible decision for justice.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Ex-convicts; Man-woman relationships; Public prosecutors;

Queen of shadows / by Maas, Sarah J.;
Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. But she's at last returned to the empire-- for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past. She has embraced her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen. But before she can reclaim her throne, she must fight. She will fight for her cousin, a warrior prepared to die just to see her again. She will fight for her friend, a young man trapped in an unspeakable prison. And she will fight for her people, enslaved to a brutal king and awaiting their lost queen's triumphant return.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Queens; Homecoming; Insurgency; Demoniac possession; Assassins; Identity (Philosophical concept);

The silent wife : a novel / by Slaughter, Karin,1971-author.;
Investigating a brutal murder that eerily resembles another from years earlier, Will Trent reopens the case of a possibly wrongly convicted prisoner before teaming up with medical examiner Sara Linton to hunt down the true killer.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Trent, Will (Fictitious character); Government investigators; Linton, Sara (Fictitious character); Medical examiners (Law); Murder;

Overkill [text (large print)] / by Brown, Sandra,1948-author.;
When Eban, the scion of a wealthy North Carolina family who brutally attacked Rebecca Pratt, leaving her on life support, gets an early release from prison, brilliant state prosecutor Kate Lennon asks former Super Bowl MVP quarterback--and Rebecca's ex-husband--to make an impossible decision for justice.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Large type books.; Novels.; Ex-convicts; Man-woman relationships; Public prosecutors;

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