Brute leads a lonely life in a world where magic is commonplace. He is seven and a half feet of ugly, and of disreputable descent. No one, including Brute, expects him to be more than a laborer. But heroes come in all shapes and sizes,...
Prisoners
- Author:Fielding, KimSummary:
- Author:Fletcher, CrystalSummary:
Three women, three countries, three stories—the destinies of a Thai in prison for murdering her husband, a Cambodian longing for a child, and a Laotian Hmong refugee are threaded together by the tears leftover from the Vietnam War. Each...
- Author:Morgan, CarolynSummary:
A novel of crime and passion in nineteenth-century Newfoundland
Alexander Pindikowsky, a Polish artist working in Heart’s Content, is arrested in 1880 for the crime of forgery. He is sentenced to fifteen months at Her Majesty’s...
- Author:Shofner, CorabelSummary:
Twelve-year-old Ruby Clyde Henderson's life turns upside down the day her mother's boyfriend holds up a convenience store and her mother is wrongly jailed for assisting with the crime.
- Author:McCarthy, CormacSummary:
Presents a cowboy odyssey for modern times, and features the travels and toils of a 16 year old East Texan boy. The first volume of the author's Border trilogy.
- Author:Colfer, EoinSummary:
A new adventure novel filled with high-action and aerial invention from the bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl series. Conor Boekhart is blamed for murdering the king and thrown into prison. While in prison, Conor passes time by...
- Author:Hillis, RickSummary:
Six Days. Five Inmates. One Guard.
Traversing the vast, serene wilderness in Northern Saskatchewan, a group of prisoners sets out on a six day canoe trip. Quinn, an inmate trustee, has been recruited for the pilot project meant...