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1. House arrest
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House Arrest volume 1
Lexile measure:
610L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
While under house arrest for one year for stealing a wallet, young Timothy keeps free-verse notes on his life in a court-ordered journal as he deals with having a sick brother and tries to stay out of trouble.
2. House arrest
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Publisher:
Atlantic Monthly Press :
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
As the fixer for Congressman John Mahoney in Washington, D.C., Joe DeMarco has had to bend and break the law more than a few times. But when Representative Lyle Canton, House Majority Whip, is found shot dead in his office in the U.S. Capitol and DeMarco is arrested for the murder, DeMarco knows he’s been framed. Locked up in the Alexandria Jail awaiting trial, he calls on his enigmatic friend Emma, an ex-DIA agent, to search for the true killer....
3. House Arrest
Author:
Series:
Joe DeMarco volume 13
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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As the fixer for Congressman John Mahoney in Washington, DC, Joe DeMarco has had to bend and break the law more than a few times. But when Representative Lyle Canton, House Majority Whip, is found shot dead in his office in the US Capitol and DeMarco is arrested for the murder, DeMarco knows he's been framed. Locked up in Alexandria awaiting trial, he calls on his enigmatic friend Emma, an ex-DIA agent, to search for the true killer. Emma's investigation...
4. House arrest
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Series:
Hardy boys undercover brothers volume 23
Publisher:
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date:
2008
Language:
English
Description:
Frank and Joe must stay undercover on the Deprivation house reality show to discover who's behind the continuing "accidents."
5. House Arrest
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Publisher:
Red Hen Press
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
Description:
A visiting nurse forms a bond with a young female cult member in this "fascinating" novel (Rosellen Brown, New York Times-bestselling author of The Lake on Fire). Home-care nurse Emily Klein has been assigned to make prenatal visits to an unusual client: Pippa Glenning, a cult member whose daughter died during a Solstice ceremony-an event for which she is under arrest, spared imprisonment for now and allowed home confinement only because of her pregnancy....
6. House Arrest
Publisher:
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date:
1996
Language:
English
Description:
After announcing their intention to get a divorce, a suburban couple suddenly finds themselves locked in the basement together under orders from their kids to reconcile their differences.
7. House Arrest
Author:
Publisher:
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
Critically-acclaimed author of The Lifeguard, Mary Morris has created this novel with the same sensitivity and literary craftsmanship that won her the Rome Prize for Literature. Like her short stories, this novel explores the boundaries of friendship and love, and of freedom and confinement. Travel writer Maggie Conover is under house arrest at her hotel on la isla in the Caribbean. Because of her friendship with the revolutionary leader's missing...
Author:
Publisher:
How To Sell The Plague, LLC
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
Covid-19: House Arrest is Richard Plinke's fourth book, and like its forerunners, is an amusing romp through the prism of his unique perspective. The book is a compilation of 48 Facebook essays written, during the stay-at-home confinement ordered by governors around the country to ostensibly help combat the coronavirus pandemic. That's not exactly the way Plinke saw it. His sometimes hysterical, sometimes poignant, sometimes acerbic take on the curious...
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
"A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades...
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"Sarah Morgan is a successful and powerful defense attorney in Washington D.C. As a named partner at her firm, life is going exactly how she planned. The same cannot be said for her husband, Adam. He's a struggling writer who has had little success in his career and he tires of his and Sarah's relationship as she is constantly working. Out in the secluded woods, at the couple's lake house, Adam engages in a passionate affair with Kelly Summers. But...
14. Rogue lawyer
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"On the right side of the law. Sort of. Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He works out of a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, fine leather chairs, a hidden gun compartment, and a heavily armed driver. He has no firm, no partners, no associates, and only one employee, his driver, who's also his bodyguard, law clerk, confidant, and golf caddy. He lives alone in a small but extremely safe penthouse...
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
"Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in sixty-five years--a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II--an experience Eva remembers well--and the search to reunite people...
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
"Something big is brewing in Trenton, N.J., and it could blow at any minute. Stephanie Plum might not be the world's greatest bounty hunter, but she knows when she's being played. Ken Globovic (aka Gobbles), hailed as the Supreme Exalted Zookeeper of the animal house known as Zeta fraternity, has been arrested for beating up the dean of students at Kiltman College. Gobbles has missed his court date and gone into hiding. People have seen him on campus,...
17. The trial
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Lexile measure:
1150L
Language:
English
Description:
Narrates the experiences and reactions of a respectable bank functionary after his abrupt arrest on an undisclosed charge.
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the passionate and talented Edward Radcliffe descends upon Birchwood Manor on the banks of the Upper Thames. Their plan: to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of inspiration and creativity. But by the time their stay is over, one woman has been shot dead while another has disappeared; a priceless heirloom is missing; and Edward Radcliffe's life is in ruins. Over one hundred and fifty years...
19. The Conspirator
Publisher:
Lionsgate
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
Description:
Against the ominous backdrop of post-Civil War Washington, war hero Frederick Aiken reluctantly agrees to defend the lone woman charged in the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, boarding house owner Mary Surratt, before a military tribunal. As the nation turns against her, Surratt is forced to rely on Aiken to uncover the truth and save her life.
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
"Jane Morgan is a valued member of her law firm--or was, until a prudish neighbor, binoculars poised, observes her having sex on the roof of her NYC apartment building. Police are summoned, and a punishing judge sentences her to six months of home confinement. With Jane now jobless and rootless, trapped at home, life looks bleak. Yes, her twin sister provides support and advice, but mostly of the unwelcome kind. When a doorman lets slip that Jane...