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England London Executions and executioners Executions and executioners Drama Executions and executioners Fiction Fathers and daughters Fiction France History 1789-1799, Revolution Drama France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Fiction Historical fiction London (England) History 18th century Fiction Lookalikes FictionHaohui, Zhou
Summary: "An elite police squad hunts a manipulative mastermind out to publically execute criminals the law cannot reach. A wild thriller and deadly game of cat-and-mouse from one of China's most popular authors. For fans of Jo Nesbo, Se7en, and Hong Kong police cinema. The brutal murder of respected police officer Sergeant Zheng Haoming sends shockwaves through Chengdu, a modern metropolis in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Haohui 2018Humphreys, C. C. (Chris C.)
Summary: It is 1536 and the expert swordsman Jean Rombaud has been brought over from France by Henry VIII to behead his wife, Anne Boleyn. But on the eve of her execution Rombaud swears a vow to the ill-fated queen - to bury her six-fingered hand, symbol of her rumoured witchery, at a sacred crossroads. Yet in a Europe ravaged by religious war, the hand of this infamous Protestant icon is so powerful a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUMAhdieh, Renée
Summary: With a new bride being executed each night by Khalid, the Caliph of Khorasan, Shahrzad offers herself for marriage to him, determined to make him pay for killing her best friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AHDKava, Alex.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KAVTodd, Charles.
Summary: Seven years after sending Ben Shaw to the gallows for the brutal murders of elderly women, Inspector Ian Rutledge is approached by Shaw's widow, who claims that her husband had been innocent, and sets out to uncover the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TODDickens, Charles
Summary: After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Easton Press 1981
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Summary: Hangman Oscar Stone is a master executioner, who prides himself on his careful and exacting work, until a sudden moment of realization and devastating truth forces him to come to terms with himself and his profession.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult- Western, Call number: Western Estleman 2001Dickens, Charles
Summary: The classic novel about the French Revolution and its effect upon the lives of several individuals, both French and English.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit 130 FIC DICDeutermann, Peter T.
Summary: Managing the wrath of victim families when the murderers responsible for several deaths are released on a technicality, Lieutenant Cam Richter faces the difficult task of stopping a vigilante after the first of the released murderers is killed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEUCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS DEUMelville, Herman
Summary: Billy Budd, a handsome and innocent sailor, is admired by all except for the jealous master-at-arms who plots to frame the young man for treason with tragic results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos AudioBooks 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MELRaybourn, Deanna
Summary: London, 1887. Victorian adventuress and butterfly hunter Veronica Speedwell receives an invitation to visit the Curiosity Club, a ladies-only establishment for daring and intrepid women. There she meets the mysterious Lady Sundridge, who begs her to take on an impossible task saving society art patron Miles Ramsforth from execution. Accused of the brutal murder of his artist mistress Artemisia,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RAYEstleman, Loren D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP W ESTDickens, Charles
Summary: After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M LOVGrisham, John.
Summary: Nine years ago, Travis Boyette raped and murdered a popular high school student in Sloan Texas. To his amazement, Donte Drumm, the school's football star, was wrongly convicted of his heinous crimes and sent to death row. Now, Travis, who has an inoperable brain tumor and is stricken with guilt, decides to confess in a bid to save Donte, who has just four days before his execution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRIDehe, Astrid
Summary: "A gripping and beautifully imagined work of literary fiction that explores history, memory, and the traumatic legacy of the Holocaust, in the English-language debut of a highly acclaimed German writing duo In May 1962, twenty-two men gathered in Jerusalem to decide by lot who would be Eichmann's executioner. These men had guarded the former Nazi SS lieutenant colonel during his imprisonment...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEHSummary: "An elaborate adaptation of Dickens' classic tale of the French Revolution. Dissipated lawyer Sydney Carton defends emigre Charles Darnay from charges of spying against England. He becomes enamored of Darnay's fiancée, Lucie Manette, and agrees to help her save Darnay from the guillotine when he is captured by Revolutionaries in Paris"--Marg Baskin in the IMDB, viewed Dec. 12, 2006.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TALSummary: On the day of his scheduled execution, a convicted serial killer gets a psychiatric evaluation during which he claims he is a demon, and further claims that before their time is over, the psychiatrist will commit three murders of his own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR NEFLevy, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prentice-Hall 1973