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1) The do-right
Author
Series
Delpha Wade and Tom Phelan novels volume 1
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Delpha Wade killed a man who was raping her. Now, after fourteen years in prison nobody's rushing to hire a parolee. But persistence and smarts land her a secretarial job with with an ex-roughneck turned private eye.
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 25 cm
Description
When Tara Connelly is released from prison after serving eighteen months on a drug charge, she knows rebuilding her life at thirty years old won’t be easy. With no money and no prospects, she returns home to live with her siblings, who are both busy with their own problems. Her brother, a single dad, struggles with the ongoing effects of a brain injury he sustained years ago, and her sister’s fragile facade of calm and order is cracking under...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
[xv, 271] pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A former parole officer shines a bright light on a huge yet hidden part of our justice system through the intertwining stories of seven parolees striving to survive the chaos that awaits them after prison in this illuminating and dramatic book"--
4) Dream town
Author
Series
Aloysius Archer novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
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Description
It's the eve of 1953, and Aloysius Archer is in Los Angeles to ring in the New Year with an old friend, aspiring actress Liberty Callahan, when their evening is interrupted by an acquaintance of Callahan's: Eleanor Lamb, a screenwriter in dire straits. After a series of increasingly chilling events, mysterious phone calls, the same blue car loitering outside her house, and a bloody knife left in her sink. Eleanor fears that her life is in danger,...
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
Convicted felon Jimmy gets early parole after serving twelve years for armed robbery. Upon his release he vows to give his girlfriend Annie, who is dying of cancer, the best last year of her life. But when Jimmy gets into a freak accident that puts him in the crosshairs of local crime boss Whit Price, he must stop at nothing to save Annie and fight for whatever time they have left.
Author
Series
John Puller novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Appears on list
Description
"John Puller may be the US Army's most tenacious investigator, but he is not equipped to face the truth about his mother's disappearance thirty years ago. New evidence has come to light suggesting that Puller's father -- a highly decorated army veteran -- may have murdered his wife. When Puller's friend, intelligence operative Veronica Knox, arrived on the scene, he realized that there is far more to this case than he first though. He knows that nothing...
Author
Series
Description
After spending twenty years behind bars, Frank Muñoz, a disgraced former cop, is out on parole and focused on just one thing: revenge. The wife who abandoned him after his arrest, the mistress who ratted him out for abetting a money-laundering scheme, the detectives who presided over his case all those years ago—they all have targets on their backs. For Ali Reynolds, the first Christmas without her father is riddled with grief and uncertainty....
8) Amok
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
1991. A restless young man called Dox is back home in Texas. His friends have missed him, and his mother and sisters need him. But after four years as a Marine and another two as a CIA contractor fighting the Soviet Union alongside the Afghan mujahideen, small-town life in Abilene is a suffocating dead end. Another secret war, this one in Southeast Asia, offers a big payday and the solution to his family’s troubles. But secret wars are never what...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (504 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Baby, Take a Bow (1934): When a young girl's dad is accused of stealing, the youngster becomes a most effective detective! -- Bright Eyes (1934): As the adored mascot for a group of aviators, little Shirley overcomes a custody battle! -- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938): Over the objections of her grumpy old aunt, a talented tyke seeks - and finds - stardom on the stage! -- Young People (1940): Shunned newcomers Wendy and her "show folk" parents...
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