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1) The innocent
Author
Series
Will Robie novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Will Robie, a freelance hitman working for the government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents' disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up.
2) Standoff
Author
Language
English
Description
A television reporter becomes trapped with two runaway teenagers turned fugitives when a convience store holdup turns into a siege
3) Runaway
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Language
English
Formats
Description
Glasgow, 2015. Jack Mackay dares not look back on a life of failure and mediocrity. The heavy-hearted sixty-seven-year-old is still haunted by what might have been. His recollections of the terrible events that befell him and his friends some fifty years earlier, and how he did not act when it mattered most is a memory he has tried to escape his entire adult life. London, 2015. A man lies dead in a one-room flat. His killer looks on, remorseless....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A bad-boy runaway from a tiny Texas border town and the studious daughter of one of Mexico's wealthiest lawyers become star-crossed lovers whose attraction is matched only by their incompatibility, a challenge that is complicated by explosive dynamics
Author
Language
English
Description
It was 1970 when thirteen-year-old runaway Kit Walker was abducted by Manny Romero, a smooth-talking, low-level criminal, who first coddled her and then groomed her into his partner-in-crime. Before long, Kit and Manny were infamous for their string of gas station robberies throughout Texas, making a name for themselves as the Texaco Twosome. Fourteen years later, Kit has scraped together a life for herself and her daughter amongst the pecan trees...
10) High on a hill
Author
Series
Jazz age series (Dorothy Garlock) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tired of the loneliness entailed by her bootlegger father's nomadic business, a young woman is delighted when a young man arrives and is recruited for the operation, until his older sister sends a law officer to find him
11) Wicked temper
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sequel: The kestrel waters.
"Hitch a wild-ass ride with two runaway teens -- the runty but tough preacher's girl Tizzy Polk and her punk boyfriend Matthew. They might think they are Bonnie and Clyde, but they might also race headlong into an evil far greater than their own. They may come to see things darkly different and seldom seen on that bewitched mountain known below as Riddle Top. Take care, folks say in story and song. Watch your step. And...
Author
Series
Steadfast series volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
After giving up her life of wealth and success in search of her purpose in life, a famous mosaic artist befriends a runaway teenager before discovering the special plans God has in store for her
13) Runaways
Author
Series
Publisher
Marvel Comics
Pub. Date
[2004-]
Language
English
Description
Still on the run from their super-villain parents, these teens welcome a powerful stranger only to discover his evil intentions. Then the group runs into Cloak and Dagger, who've been sent to bring them in
14) Dark places
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At the tail end of 1967, the Parker family once again finds it impossible to hide from a world spinning out of control. Fourteen-year-old Top still can't fit in with their Center Springs, Texas, community or forget recent, vicious crimes. His near-twin cousin Pepper, desperate to escape her own demons, rashly joins the Flower Children flocking to California--just as two businessmen are kidnapped and murdered in the Red River bottoms on the same night...
15) Mama Ruby
Author
Series
Mama Ruby novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
After Othella--the daughter of the town tramp in Shreveport, Louisiana--convinces her to give her baby away, 15-year-old Ruby Jean Upshaw runs away to New Orleans where nothing can erase the memories of the child she lost or quell her simmering rage at Othella for persuading her to let her baby go
17) River's end
Author
Series
Inn at Shining Waters volume 3
Language
English
Description
Anna Larson's daughter, Lauren, became pregnant while she was at college and decided to keep the baby, Sarah, but life had not been easy for them. When Sarah was only sixteen years old, she ran away from home. It is now Sarah's eighteenth birthday and neither Anna nor Lauren have heard from her in all this time. Anna is certain that her granddaughter is dead. But suddenly, Sarah shows up at the Inn at Shining Waters, a mere shell of her old self....
Author
Series
CRS report volume RL34483
Publisher
Congressional Research Service
Pub. Date
2019-
Language
English
Author
Series
CRS report volume RL33785
Publisher
Congressional Research Service
Pub. Date
2018-
Language
English
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