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141) Les misérables
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Suggestive and sexual material, violence and thematic elements.
In early 19th century France the paroled prisoner Jean Valjean seeks redemption, regains his social standing, and rises to the rank of mayor. He encounters a beautiful but desperately ill woman named Fantine and cares for her daughter, Cosette, after her death. All the while he is obsessively pursued by the policeman Javert, who vows to make him pay for the crimes of his past.
142) A wish in the dark
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
A boy on the run. A girl determined to find him. A compelling fantasy looks at issues of privilege, protest, and justice. All light in Chattana is created by one man -- the Governor, who appeared after the Great Fire to bring peace and order to the city. For Pong, who was born in Namwon Prison, the magical lights represent freedom, and he dreams of the day he will be able to walk among them. But when Pong escapes from prison, he realizes that the...
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
1987
Edition
1st Owl book ed.
Language
English
Description
In this enthralling departure, Burke weaves the tale of Iry Paret. Released from prison after two years for manslaughter, Iry heads to Montana for a fresh start on a ranch owned by a prison buddy's father. He also hopes to nail down a song he's been working on, unable to get quite right. But soon new troubles bring tragic consequences, and it will take a lot more than a soulful tune to ease the pain.
144) Road dogs
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Cuban con man Cundo Rey and gentleman bank robber Jack Foley are united in a scheme that involves the women in their lives and a beautiful psychic.
145) Dog eat dog
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A trio of ex-cons, deep in the underbelly of Los Angeles, are hired for a kidnapping. When the abduction goes awry and gets completely out of control, the cons find themselves on the run, vowing to stay out of prison at all costs.
146) My friend Leonard
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
This father-son story pulls you into a relationship as unusual as it is inspiring. The "father" is Leonard, the high-living, recovering coke addict mobster who helped to keep Frey clean in his previous book, A Million Little Pieces. The "son" is James, damaged perhaps beyond repair by years of addiction and by cruel tricks of fate. James embarks on his post-rehab existence emotionally devastated and afraid to get close to other people. But then Leonard...
147) Reminders of him
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Released from prison, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter, but with everyone against her, she turns to local bar owner Ledger Ward who, risking everything, secretly helps her make amends.
148) Vehicle 19
Publisher
Ketchup Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Recently paroled Michael Woods just wants to get his life in order. But when he discovers a gun, a cell phone, and an unconscious woman in the trunk of a rental car, he fears he's in for the ride of his life. Michael has some serious decisions to make: keep his head down and hope to escape with his life, or risk it all to do the right thing.
149) The two minute rule
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Devastated by the murder of his estranged police officer son on the day of his own release from prison, former bank robber Max Holman launches a renegade investigation and discovers that the chief suspect is being wrongfully targeted by the LAPD.
150) Three fugitives
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Language
English
Description
"Funnyman Martin Short plays an inept, klutzy bank robber who, on his first heist, grabs Nick Nolte as a hostage. Nolte plays a notorious ex-con who is trying to go straight, so naturally no one believes he's innocent nor Short guilty, forcing the mismatched pair to become reluctant partners in crime"--Container.
151) Great expectations
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A vivid adaptation of Charles Dickens' powerful story of a young orphan boy who is released from his apprenticeship by a mysterious benefactor to be educated in London.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
When a twenty-year-old murder case comes back to life, a detective must race against his failing sight to unravel the mystery When Allison Wallis was beaten to death, Detective Francis X. Loughlin found the killer-Julian Vega, a teenager with a crush on the murdered girl. Using his natural sense of empathy, he cozied up to young Julian, convincing him to give a confession that would put him away until he was thirty-six. Twenty years later, Julian...
153) Give-a-Damn Jones
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
Give-a-Damn Jones, an itinerant typographer, arrives in the small Montana town of Box Elder. The town is rife with tensions related to a convict's efforts to prove his innocence, a cattleman's demand for respect, a snooping editor, and a feud between a dentist and a blacksmith. Jones keeps finding himself in the wrong place at the wrong time-- but this time, he may be the hero that this town needs.
154) Eliza's lighthouse
Author
Series
Love's journey on Manitoulin Island volume 4
Publisher
L. J. Emory Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First L. J. Emory Publishing trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1875, a series of blizzards shuts down Manitoulin Island, keeping Liam Robertson from returning to Tempest Bay Lighthouse. A stranger, lost and dying of exposure, finds his way to the lighthouse and the keeper's wife, Eliza, takes him in only to find she's trapped herself and her fragile son alone with a man who spent years in prison.
155) Raising Arizona
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1987, 2009
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
An ex-con and a police officer decide to get married and start a family. To their dismay, they discover that they can neither have, nor adopt children. Desperate, they resort to kidnapping one of the newborn quintuplets of the wealthy Arizona family. However, their attempt at living a normal life is complicated by neurotic co-workers, two fugitives, and a mysterious bounty hunter.
156) Spring rain
Author
Series
Seaside seasons volume 1
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Leigh Spenser's life takes an unexpected twist when Clay Wharton, her son's estranged father, returns home to Seaside, New Jersey to await the death of his twin brother, Ted.
Publisher
Montréal, Québec
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Collector's ed.
Language
English
Description
Season 1: After 18 months in jail, Trailer Park Boys Julian and Ricky head back to Sunnyvale Trailer Park. They're aiming to get their lives together but wherever they go, trouble is not far behind. Season 2: In an effort to improve their lot, Julian comes up with a plan: he and Ricky will grow awesome dope and sell it to prison guards. This way they can retire rich and stay out of crime. They soon find out that "Freedom 35" is easier said than done....
158) Trying Patience
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Trying Patience: New York City was the last place nature writer Patience Madrid wanted to be. She preferred the quiet and solitude of her Adirondacks cabin to the noise and bustle of the city. But her sister, Tilly, is being mysterious, and begs Patience to come and stay at her apartment while she and her husband, Terrence, are out of town. Except, when Patience gets to the apartment, she finds it isn't empty.... Jake Farr was only looking for a place...
Author
Series
Sharpshooter volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Brimstone: "The story of Andersonville prison camp was written in blood, with few left alive to tell it. Union Army sharpshooter Jed Wells was one of them, a man of conscience sworn to share the tales of those who suffered and died beside him. It is a promise that has brought Jed to Kansas and to small-town sheriff Amos Broughton, a friend and fellow survivor of hell on earth. But the ghosts that haunt Broughton are demanding and hungry. And his dangerous...
160) Joe
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A hard-living ex-con who is the unlikeliest of role models, but when he meets a troubled fifteen-year-old homeless boy in need of help from a violent and destitute father, Joe is faced with the heartbreaking choice of redemption or ruin.
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