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2023.
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"After discovering seven men murdered aboard their yacht--including two Senate rivals--Israel Pike is regarded as a prime suspect. A troubled man infamous on Salvation Point Island for killing his own father a decade before, Israel has few options, no friends, and a life-threatening secret. Elsewhere on the island, 12-year-old Lyman Rankin seeks shelter from his alcoholic father in an abandoned house only to discover that he is not alone. A mysterious...
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"Jodi McCarty is seventeen when she's sentenced to life in prison for manslaughter. She's released eighteen years later and finds herself reeling from the shock of unexpected freedom. Not yet able to return to her lost home in the Appalachian mountains, she heads south in search of someone she left behind, as a way of finally making amends. There, she will meet and fall in love with Miranda, a troubled young mother living in a motel room with her...
3) Stick
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When an ex-con hears about a profitable scam, he reverts back to his old ways, but in this case, he ends up on the wrong side of a psycho killer who has his own definition of justice.
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Aloysius Archer novels volume 1
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In this fast-paced historical thriller, the #1 New York Times bestselling author introduces Archer, a WWII veteran forced to investigate a small-town murder — or risk returning to prison.
It's 1949. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison, he is sent to Poca City on parole with a short list of do's and a much longer list of don'ts: do report regularly to his parole officer,...
It's 1949. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison, he is sent to Poca City on parole with a short list of do's and a much longer list of don'ts: do report regularly to his parole officer,...
5) The good son
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When her son is released from prison after serving time for the negligent homicide of his girlfriend, Thea is committed to helping him make amends until attempts on their lives are made, leading her to believe that those who are threatening them have something to hide.
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Silver Springs (Brenda Novak) volume 6
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When Harper Devlin's rock star husband leaves her, she takes her two daughters to Silver Springs hoping that her family can heal their broken heart. She finds unexpected comfort after meeting ex-con Tobias Richardson and learning about his own tragic past.
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A hustler from a family of hustlers, Javi Perez, after college graduation, writes a viral essay embellishing his life story, which lands him a gig at a legendary magazine, but when his childhood best friend is released from prison, Javi offers to cut him in on the deal in exchange for his silence.
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2022.
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"From the revered, Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multi-layered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated characters-Freddie Montgomery from The Book of Evidence-as he is released from prison. A man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red sportscar-also borrowed-onto the estate of his youth. But all is not as it seems. There is a new family living in the drafty...
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Every Secret Thing is a riveting story of love and murder, guilt and innocence, adult sins and childhood darkness.
Two little girls banished from a neighborhood birthday party take a wrong turn down an unfamiliar Baltimore street—and encounter an abandoned stroller with an infant inside. What happens next is shocking and terrible, and three families are irreparably destroyed.
Seven years later, Alice Manning
...12) Rough Creek
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2020.
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Looking for a fresh start after serving 18 months in prison for a crime he didn't commit, Dalton Cardwell takes a job at Whitcomb Four Star Ranch, where he butts heads with the owner's daughter who is outraged that her family hired an ex-con.
13) Drowned hopes
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Dortmunder novels volume 7
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This rollicking tale of an aging robber who wants to blow up a reservoir “will keep readers laughing” (Publishers Weekly).
In his day, Tom was a hard man. He came up with Dillinger in the 1930s, and pulled a lot of high-profile jobs before the state put him away. They meant it to be for good, but after twenty-three years the prisons are too crowded for seventy-year-old bank robbers, and so they let the old man go. Finally...
In his day, Tom was a hard man. He came up with Dillinger in the 1930s, and pulled a lot of high-profile jobs before the state put him away. They meant it to be for good, but after twenty-three years the prisons are too crowded for seventy-year-old bank robbers, and so they let the old man go. Finally...
14) Time siege
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Time salvager volume 2
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2016.
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"Having been haunted by the past and enslaved by the present, James Griffin-Mars is taking control of the future, one in which Earth is a toxic, sparsley inhabited wasteland- the perfect place for a fugitive ex-chronman to hide from authorities. James has enemies. They include the full military might of a benighted solar system ruled by corporate greed and a desperate fear of what James will do next. At the forefront of their efforts to stop him is...
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During a village wedding in Pakistan, a boy risks speaking to the beautiful daughter of a powerful local politician. As night falls, the two meet in his father's orchard, inadvertently falling asleep as they wait for the light of dawn to reveal the orchard's beauty, naive to the dangers posed by their innocent mistake.
As first light approaches, and the girl's father realizes the young couple's mutual attraction, he has the boy sent to prison without...
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Her sweetest revenge (Saundra) volume 3
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Mya Bedford's hopes for a normal life, free from the hustle, seem more distant than ever when her best friend's fiancé is shot, Mya's husband is thrown back into the game, and a ruthless new crew hits the streets of Detroit. But there's one bright spot: Mya's father, Lester, has suddenly been released from prison. It seems like love is even blossoming again between Mya's parents...
Mya can't undo the past, but she can do her best to help...
Mya can't undo the past, but she can do her best to help...
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Nick Mason novels volume 2
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"In the stunning follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Second Life of Nick Mason, the remarkable hero fights to take back control from the crime lord who owns his life, as he races to complete a daring and dangerous new mission. Nick Mason has been given a true mission impossible: Infiltrate WITSEC, the top-secret federal witness-protection program that has never been compromised, locate the three men who put his boss Darius Cole behind bars...
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"Welcome to Bell Cove, North Carolina. Independence Day may have just passed in this small Outer Banks town known for its famous bells, but one ex-Navy SEAL has a declaration of his own to make Merrill Good knows there are many different kinds of exciting. There's the adrenaline rush he experienced during his years in the military. There's the thrill of starting up his own treasure hunting company. But topping them all is the surge of exhilaration...
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Nick Mason novels volume 1
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English
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"Nick Mason walked out of prison after serving five years of a twenty-five to life sentence when he accepted a deal from criminal mastermind Darius Cole. Now he leads a double life--desperate to go straight and rebuild a relationship with his wife and daughter, but forced to carryout Cole's orders delivered by cell phone"-- Provided by publisher.
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