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Author
Series
Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 7
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Bick, Beck, Storm, and Tommy have one week to traverse the Australian Outback, locate Charlotte Badger and her pirate cronies, and find evidence to prove their parents innocent of stealing rare opals.
63) Fog Island
Pub. Date
[2005?]
Description
"Leo Granger is wrongfully imprisoned for embezzlement. He suspects his colleagues framed him and upon his release he invites them to a secluded island where he has set up an elaborate treasure hunt in order to expose and destroy the betrayers. In their pursuit of the treasure they uncover perilous traps and countless dangers"--Container.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Clay West is back in town with amends to make and minds to change. The cowboy has spent four years in jail for a crime he did not commit, and he's determined to restore his good name. The former bad boy's first priority is convincing childhood friend Allie Nelson of his innocence. But she--more than anyone--has suffered in his absence. Allie can't admit how much she's missed Clay--and she can't betray her family by putting her trust in him. She vows...
66) Masks
Author
Series
Masks (E.C. Blake) volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Masks, the first novel in a mesmerizing new fantasy series, draws readers into a world in which cataclysmic events have left the Autarchy of Aygrima-the one land blessed with magical resources-cut off from its former trading partners across the waters, not knowing if any of those distant peoples still live. Yet under the rule of the Autarch, Aygrima survives. And thanks to the creation of the Masks and the vigilance of the Autarchs Watchers, no one...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Finn Gramaraye was framed for the crime of dark necromancy at the age of 15, and exiled to the Other Realm for twenty five years. But now that he's free, someone-probably the same someone-is trying to get him sent back. Finn has only a few days to discover who is so desperate to keep him out of the mortal world, and find evidence to prove it to the Arcane Enforcers. They are going to be very hard to convince, since he's already been convicted of...
68) Mother of Exiles
Author
Description
A prison chaplain, a crooked warden, a wrongfully convicted inmate and a town full of odd-ball characters clash in this action-packed story of love and betrayal; suspense and redemption; and a woman s transformation from rookie to legend. This fast-paced charmer will keep you turning the pages. An ideal choice for educated people who want stories that are realistic and entertaining, not sappy or predictable.
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 1
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
When fourteen-year-old Alex is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign, boys who disappear in the middle of the night sometimes return weirdly altered, and escape might just be possible.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Drix and Elle come from different backgrounds and different worlds. They try to find what connects them and break past the odds to, maybe, be together while finding their own independence from their pasts and their families' expectations.
Author
Series
Nic Blake and the Remarkables volume 1
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
When her dad, a great Manifestor, is imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, twelve-year-old Nic Blake, along with her hellhound and two friends, hunts for a powerful magical tool that could save him.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Kelly Jacks had a lover's bond with evidence. The driest, most anti-septic crime scene would spread open for her, yielding its secrets. And then it all went bad. Framed for an ugly murder, Kelly knew the evidence would clear her and then it didn't. After years in prison, Kelly now works cleaning up the crime scenes she used to investigate. And once again, she wakes up next to a dead body and clutching a weapon. Remembering nothing. And certain of...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Escape plan. Ray Breslin, one of the world's foremost authorities on structural security, agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called The Tomb. Deceived and wrongly imprisoned, Ray must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built.
Escape plan 2 : Hades. Years after he fought his way out of prison,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"They didn't know who they had. So begins Yusef Salaam telling his story. No one's life is the sum of the worst things that happened to them, and during Yusef Salaam's seven years of wrongful incarceration as one of the Central Park Five, he grew from child to man, and gained a spiritual perspective on life. Yusef learned that we're all "born on purpose, with a purpose." Despite having confronted the racist heart of America while being "run over by...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
When the man convicted of killing her parents has his sentence pardoned, Jody, a Midwestern twenty-something, begins to question the facts behind her parents' deaths and gradually faces the possibility that the wrong man was convicted of the crime. The further Jody delves into the past, she is forced to revisit old wounds.
78) The wronged man
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Paralegal Janet Gregory takes on a pro bono case to help an African-American husband and father who she believes has been wrongly accused of raping a girl in his neighborhood. Her 22-year battle with the justice system will eventually bring him the freedom he deserves and bond the two of them in a life-long friendship.
79) Payback
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Mike Markovich, a young stockbroker at a Mob-controlled Wall Street firm, is betrayed and imprisoned for six years. When he is released, his deadly quest for vengeance begins.
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
"Beverly Monroe spent seven years in prison for murdering her companion of thirteen years; in fact, he had killed himself. Christopher Ochoa was persuaded to confess to a rape and murder he did not commit, and served twelve years of his life sentence before he was freed by DNA evidence. Michael Evans and Paul Terry each spent twenty-seven years in prison for a brutal rape and murder they did not commit. They were teenagers when they entered prison;...