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2010
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
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For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on the outside. He doesn't understand how the police and prosecutors got the wrong man, and he certainly doesn't care. He just can't believe his good luck. Time passes and he realizes that the mistake will not be corrected: the authorities believe in their case and are determined to get a conviction. He may even watch the trial of the person wrongly accused of his crime. He is relieved...
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As the anniversary of the Great War's armistice approaches, Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge is shaken by two ghosts from his past--a murder case for which he may have helped convict an innocent man, and the war itself, which holds disturbing memories with which Rutledge has not yet dealt.
6) Clemency
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[2020]
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Bernadine is a stoic prison warden, but two back-to-back executions put a strain on her marriage, career and convictions.
10) Plague birds
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After the collapse of civilization, plague birds--humans merged with artificial intelligences--patrol society, acting as judges and executioners. As a child, Crista watched a plague bird kill her mother, but now she has decided to become one herself in the hope of saving her father and her village from terrible destruction. What she discovers in her new role, though, is a conspiracy that threatens the lives of millions.
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"A new, definitive edition of Herman Melville's virtuosic short stories--American classics wrought with scorching fury, grim humor, and profound beauty Though best-known for his epic masterpiece Moby-Dick, Herman Melville also left a body of short stories arguably unmatched in American fiction. In the sorrowful tragedy of Billy Budd, Sailor; the controlled rage of Benito Cereno; and the tantalizing enigma of Bartleby, the Scrivener; Melville reveals...
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Death notice volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
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"An elite police squad hunts a manipulative mastermind out to publically execute criminals the law cannot reach"--
"An elite police squad hunts a manipulative mastermind out to publically execute criminals the law cannot reach. A wild thriller and deadly game of cat-and-mouse from one of China's most popular authors. For fans of Jo Nesbo, Se7en, and Hong Kong police cinema. The brutal murder of respected police officer Sergeant Zheng Haoming sends...
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Hangman's daughter tales volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
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1662. Alpine village hangman Jakob Kuisl receives a letter from his sister calling him to the imperial city of Regensburg, where a gruesome sight awaits him: her throat has been slit. Arrested and framed for the murder, Kuisl faces first-hand the torture he's administered himself for years. Jakob's daughter, Magdalena, and a young medicus named Simon hasten to his aid. With the help of an underground network of beggars, a beer-brewing monk, and an...
14) Titan of Tehran: from Jewish ghetto to corporate colossus to firing squad : my grandfather's life
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The titan is Habib Elghanian-a self-made industrialist and the foremost Jew of his time in Iran, whom the Islamic theocracy targeted as the first civilian executed during the 1979 revolution. With Iran continuing to generate front-page news, his previously untold story is painfully relevant, shedding light on that country's persistent economic, political and social problems.
The odyssey of Elghanian's life and death is told by his granddaughter in...
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IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness ..." The most famous and possibly the most popular of Dickens's novels, A Tale of Two Cities shows a master of dramatic narrative extracting gold from the ore of history. If the bloody tableau of the French Revolution were...
18) The cat dancers
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Cam Richter novels volume 1
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After a judge frees two alleged robber/killers, someone in the North Carolina community takes justice into his/her own hands by executing one of the men in a homemade electric chair and sending a videotape of the execution to police with a message: 'That's one.' Now it's up to Lt. Cam Richter to find the vigilante. His search leads him to a group who call themselves the cat dancers. If he's not careful, he could become their next target.
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Sin Eater's daughter volume 1
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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For four years sixteen-year-old Twylla has lived in the castle of Lormere, the goddess-embodied, whose touch can poison and kill, and hence the Queen's executioner--but when Prince Merek, her betrothed, who is immune to her touch returns to the kingdom she finds herself caught up in palace intrigues, unsure if she can trust him or the bodyguard who claims to love her.