Electricity is a new power in the early 1900s, and it becomes Roscoe Martin's life work. When his family inherits a failing farm, he uses his electrical skills to siphon energy. But everything changes after a man is electrocuted by his...
Prisoners
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Author:Johnson, Dawn KimberlySummary:Judson Heart, like all of us, has some regrets. Not his job: he writes for a daily newspaper. Maybe his introspection: he eats lunch alone. Definitely his timing: he hasn’t had much luck in the love department. With his ten-year reunion...
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Author:Bliss, BryanSummary:"A compelling and raw story."-Publishers Weekly (starred review) "[Bliss dares] his readers not only to see the depths of human complexity, but to care."-Booklist (starred review) Luke and Toby have always had each other's backs. But...
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Author:Bowen, GailSummary:When a judge's body is found in Wascana Park, Joanne and friend Hilda Mc Court must determine if the judge had come to regret the harsh sentences she had handed down, or was she getting senile? She had left two wills and the murder...
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Author:Butler, Octavia E.Summary:This exciting collection presents two previously unpublished stories by SF legend Butler. "A Necessary Being" precedes the events of Survivor, Butler's third (famously disowned) installment in her Patternist series, and...
- Author:Farland, DavidSummary:
On a world brimming with dark magic and ruled by a creature of unrelenting evil, one who is gathering monstrous armies in a bid to conquer the universe, Fallion Orden lies in shackles. His allies must risk everything in an attempt to...
- Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:
From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami'a fantastical illustrated short novel about a boy imprisoned in a nightmarish library. A lonely boy, a mysterious girl, and a tormented sheep man plot their escape from the...
- Author:Sofer, DaliaSummary:
Wrongly accused of spying after the Iranian Revolution, Isaac Amin is tossed into prison, forcing his wife to desperately search for him.
- Author:L'Amour, LouisSummary:
Ross Harney had fought Comanches and rustlers, hunted buffalo and horse thieves. His life had been rich in hard-fisted experience, poor in the goods of the world. But now he was going to ride for himself, fight for himself.
- Author:Walmsley, Ann.Summary:
For eighteen months, Ann accompanied Carol to a remote building at Collins Bay, meeting with heavily tattooed book club members without the presence of guards or security cameras. Unlike the book clubs she participated in outside of...
- Author:Poe, Edgar AllanSummary:
First published in a 1842 literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843, The Pit and the Pendulum takes place during the Spanish Inquisition and follows the plight of a prisoner in a cell that has a pit and a...
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Author:Moore, WesSummary:In this memoir, Moore tells the story of his life as a child of Baltimore and the Bronx, an army officer in Afghanistan, a Rhodes Scholar, and a former White House Fellow. In detailing his journey from troubled adolescence to successful...
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Author:Dumas, AlexandreSummary:The dramatic conclusion to the saga of d'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers — and the revelation of the mysterious man in the iron mask.
- Author:LONDON, JackSummary:
This book by Jack London was published under the name of "The Jacket" in the UK and "The Star Rover" in the US. A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life...
- Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:
Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as The Handmaid's Tale and as richly imagined as The Blind Assassin. Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to...
- Author:Hollon, Frank TurnerSummary:
Gabriel has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for a murder he did not commit. While jailed, he reads about a man who has been cured of cancer, supposedly proving God's existence. Gabriel is unimpressed. If God...
- Author:Bowen, Leah SimoneSummary:
"I bore him fourteen children and he had me down here faster than lightning." In 1887, women were property and could be imprisoned for any reason. Jail was considered a place for the criminal, the disabled, the mentally ill,...
- Author:AviSummary:
In this sequel The Unexpected Life of Oliver Cromwell Pitts by Newbery Medalist Avi, Oliver's adventures take him to the 18th century American colonies, where he is forced to fend for himself in the harsh wilderness, live as an...
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Author:Lawrence, IainSummary:His efforts to avenge his father's unjust imprisonment force thirteen-year-old Tom Tin into the streets of nineteenth-century London, but after he is convicted of murder, Tom is eventually sent to Australia where he has a surprise...
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Author:Lawrence, IainSummary:Tom Tin and his friend Midgely--with assorted juvenile criminals--escape the ship taking them to serve their terms in Australia and head for a Pacific island, forgetting Tom's father's warnings about headhunters and cannibals.
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