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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A classic legal thriller—with a twist. • "A suspenseful thriller mixed with powerful themes such as false incarceration, the death penalty and how the legal system shows prejudice.” —Associated Press
In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no...
In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Newlyweds Celestial and Roy, the living embodiment of the New South, are settling into the routine of their life together when Roy is sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. An insightful look into the lives of people who are bound and separated by forces beyond their control.
4) Trespasser
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Series
Language
English
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Stumbling on a case that suggests that a man convicted of murder seven years earlier may have been framed, game warden Mike Bowditch ignores warnings by local authorities and risks his relationship with his girlfriend to conduct a secret investigation.
5) Texas heat
Author
Series
Lone star intrigue volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
7) The son
Author
Language
English
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Description
Serving time for crimes he did not commit in exchange for heroin payouts, Sonny Lofthus uses his spiritual charisma to navigate corrupt and violent elements in his life before learning disturbing truths about his police officer father's suicide.
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Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 19
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When Paul Riley, who served 11 years for the rape and murder of his girlfriend, is released, he soon turns up murdered and master attorney Dismas Hardy hires PI Abe Glitsky to find the truth, which causes him to question his own moral compass.
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English
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From one of the most important writers of the twentieth century comes a stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart when her lover is wrongly accused of a crime—"a moving, painful story, so vividly human and so obviously based on reality that it strikes us as timeless" (The New York Times Book Review)."One of the best books Baldwin has ever written—perhaps the best of all." —The Philadelphia Inquirer
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...11) Bum Rap
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Linebacker-turned-lawyer Jake Lassiter must track down a witness--who is also being sought by the Russian mob--in order to help Victoria Lord exonerate her husband, who has been falsely arrested for murder.
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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When Drix, who was convicted of a crime he did not commit, meets Elle, the daughter of the governor backing a project designed to rehabilitate juvenile delinquents, they have to fight family expectations and their past behaviors to be together.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Exonerated by DNA evidence twelve years after being convicted of murdering a neighbor, librarian Betsy Treading returns to her suburban community determined to salvage her life and find the true killer, an effort complicated by dangerous town secrets.
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English
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When an Austin billionaire is murdered, her husband, Rafael Zhettah, the son of poor Mexican immigrants, is sent to death row, only to have DNA evidence vindicate him six years later, spurring him to take revenge on the people that ruined his life.
15) Different days
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Rosie and her brother face homelessness in Honolulu when their parents, Americans of German descent, are interrogated and imprisoned as suspected spies after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Includes historical notes.
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Even though sixteen-year-old Erin Blake and her best friends Spam and Lysa are ordered not to become involved in any investigations, they look into Spam's boyfriend's past and conduct research to help Erin's uncle Victor and her boyfriend Journey re-examine evidence from the murder trial that sent Journey's father to prison.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In fifteenth-century England, commoner Nell and her best friend since infancy, Prince Ned, the future king, try to escape after being wrongfully imprisoned in the Tower of London. Includes historical notes and timeline.
Author
Series
Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 7
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books/Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Bick, Beck, Storm, and Tommy have one week to traverse the Australian Outback, locate Charlotte Badger and her pirate cronies, and find evidence to prove their parents innocent of stealing rare opals.
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