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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
Presents Dickens' classic novel of love, courage, and sacrifice set against the cataclysmic events of the French Revolution. During the French Revolution a sissolute English lawyer goes to th eguillotine to save a French aristocrat, husband of the woman he loves
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Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Description
Patricia MacDonald delivers the chilling story of a woman who discovers that her own eyewitness testimony about her sister’s abduction led to the conviction and execution of the wrong man–and that the real killer is still at large.
When Tess DeGraff was nine years old and on a camping trip in New Hampshire with her family, a stranger kidnapped and killed her sister Phoebe. Thanks to Tess’s eyewitness testimony, a man named...
When Tess DeGraff was nine years old and on a camping trip in New Hampshire with her family, a stranger kidnapped and killed her sister Phoebe. Thanks to Tess’s eyewitness testimony, a man named...
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English
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Sleep Toward Heaven is a luminous story of murder and desire, solitude and grace, set in Manhattan and small-town Texas. In Gatestown, twenty-nine-year old Karen awaits her execution on Death Row. In New York, Franny, a doctor the same age, plans her wedding and tries to resist her urge to run. In Austin, Celia, a brassy young librarian, mourns her lost husband. Over the course of one summer, the three women's disparate lives intertwine.
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Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
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“[Charles] Todd’s mysteries are among the most intelligent and affecting being written these days.”—The Washington Post Book World
In 1912 Ian Rutledge helped gather the evidence that sent Ben Shaw to the gallows. Now, seven years later, Ben Shaw’s widow brings Rutledge evidence she’s convinced proves her husband’s innocence. Ben Shaw’s past is a tangle of unsettling secrets that...
In 1912 Ian Rutledge helped gather the evidence that sent Ben Shaw to the gallows. Now, seven years later, Ben Shaw’s widow brings Rutledge evidence she’s convinced proves her husband’s innocence. Ben Shaw’s past is a tangle of unsettling secrets that...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
Jennet Stearne's father hangs witches for a living in Restoration England. But when she witnesses the unjust and horrifying execution of her beloved aunt Isobel, the precocious child decides to make it her life's mission to bring down the Parliamentary Witchcraft Act. Armed with little save the power of reason, and determined to see justice prevail, Jennet hurls herself into a series of picaresque adventures-traveling from King William's Britain to...
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Series
Cam Richter novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
A horrific crime is committed in Manceford County, N.C., but the perpetrators are set free because they were not read their rights, leaving Sheriff Bobby Lee Baggett and Lt. Cam Richter to face the wrath of the victims' families. An email arrives with a link to a video showing one of the murderers being executed in a home-made electric chair. Bobby and Cam must find the vigilante before he claims his second victim. Their search leads them to group...
Author
Series
Sin Eater's daughter volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A story based on actual events from 1806 traces the arrests and executions of two innocent Irish immigrants, one a simple family man and the other a heartbroken man with a checkered past, who are falsely accused of murder and who face their deaths with the help of a tormented French Catholic priest. By the author of A Brother's Blood.
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Series
World War II liberators series volume 4
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Author
Series
Hangman's daughter tales volume 7
Language
English
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Description
"The seventh installment of Oliver Potzsch's bestselling Hangman's Daughter series"--
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Series
#MurderTrending volume 1
Publisher
Freeform Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In the near future, citizens can enjoy watching the executions of society's most infamous convicted felons, streaming live on The Postman app from the prison island Alcatraz 2.0. Dee Guerrera wakes up in a haze, lying on the ground of a dimly lit warehouse, about to be the next victim of the app, found guilty of murdering her stepsister. But Dee refuses to roll over and die for a heinous crime she didn't commit. Her newly formed posse, the Death Row...
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English
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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...
Author
Series
Death notice volume 1
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"An elite police squad hunts a manipulative mastermind out to publicly execute criminals the law cannot reach."--
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In 1650, while Robert, a young medical student, steels himself to assist with her dissection, twenty-two-year-old housemaid Anne Green recalls her life as she lies in her coffin, presumed dead after being hanged for murdering her child that was, in fact, stillborn
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