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Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Rafael Zhettah relishes the simplicity and freedom of his life. He is the owner and head chef of a promising Houston restaurant, a pilot with open access to the boundless Texas horizo and a bachelor, content with having few personal or material attachments. When he finds Tieresse-billionaire, philanthropist, sophisticate, bombshell-sitting at one of his tables he also finds his soul mate, and his life starts again. And just as fast, she is brutally...
4) Death row
Author
Series
Ben Kincaid novels volume 12
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Author
Series
Kindle County novels volume 6
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
8) Gone again
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 12
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
9) Breath
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Korean
Description
While waiting on death row, Jang Jin (Chen Chang) tries to commit suicide in the most bizarre way, using a sharpened toothbrush handle as his main tool. The details of his desperate attempt reach Yeon, a young female sculptor who doesn't know the inmate personally, but feels compelled to seek him out after discovering her husband's betrayal with another woman. A peculiar connection begins to grow between Jang Jin, who has become unable to speak, and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Told through the women in his life--his mother, his sister-in-law, and the detective who brought him to justice--this gripping and atmospheric work of literary suspense deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row as he awaits his execution in twelve hours.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
As relevant today as when it was first released, Faces of the enemy follows social psychologist Sam Keen as he unmasks how individuals and nations dehumanize their enemies to justify the inhumanity of war. Using archival news footage, public service announcements, and editorial cartoons, Keen unveils the same frightening pattern in conflict after conflict - World War II, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, Islamic and Christian Fundamentalism - and prefigures...
13) Blow fly
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 12
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Author
Series
Christopher Paget novels volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
16) The loop
Author
Series
Loop (Ben Oliver) volume 1
Publisher
Chicken House, Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Luka Kane has spent 736 days wrongfully imprisoned inside the Loop awaiting his execution. Each day is the same. Each day is torturous. But things are starting to change. Whispers of war are circulating. Strange things are happening to the prisoners. And the warden delivers a message: Luka, you have to get out ... Now Luka must decide whether breaking out of the Loop is his only way to survive, especially if there's any chance of saving the ones...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Boy explores the transformation of Jarvis Jay Masters who became one of America's most respected Buddhist practitioners during his two decades in solitary confinement in San Quentin"--
18) Native son
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
-- Native Son.Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native SonNative Son includes an essay by Wright titled, How "Bigger" was Born, along with notes on the text.
20) The green mile
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
On the death-row cellblock at Cold Mountain Penitentiary miracles have come to life through a gentle giant with supernatural powers that brings a senses of spirit and humanity to the guards and other inmates.
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