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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
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Description
It was the time of the French Revolution — a time of great change and great danger. It was a time when injustice was met by a lust for vengeance, and rarely was a distinction made between the innocent and the guilty. Against this tumultuous historical backdrop, Dickens' great story of unsurpassed adventure and courage unfolds. Unjustly imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille, Dr. Alexandre Manette is reunited with his daughter, Lucie, and safely...
3) Clemency
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Bernadine is a stoic prison warden, but two back-to-back executions put a strain on her marriage, career and convictions.
Author
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. 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 shockwaves through Chengdu, a modern metropolis in the heart of China's stunning Sichuan Province. He had been obsessed...
9) Boxed
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A young Catholic priest is taken to an isolated house where an IRA group is holding a suspected informer awaiting execution. He locks himself in a room with the victim and the terrorists are now faced with the possibility of having to kill a priest.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When her Uncle Frank is executed for treason against England's King George in 1746 and his severed head is mounted on a pike for public viewing, daring Alice tries to reclaim the head for a proper burial, finding an unlikely ally in the soft-hearted executioner, while incurring the wrath of the royal guard.
11) The pardon
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novel volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011, c1994
Language
English
Description
After getting a confessed killer off on a technicality, brilliant young defense attorney Jack Swyteck, estranged son of Governor Harry Swyteck, a proponent of the death penalty, finds himself framed for murder.
12) Daniel
Publisher
Legend Films
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
After his parents work with the Communist Party and execution for selling secrets to the Soviets, a young man involves himself in the protests of the 60's, and lives with his belief that his parents were wrongly murdered.
Author
Series
Sin Eater's daughter volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
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
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began holding secret meetings with a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin. When the first shots of the Second World War were fired she became a spy, couriering top-secret intelligence to the Allies. On the eve of her escape to Sweden,...
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