ex-convicts

Nord Lafferty hires Kinsey Millhone to watch his daughter, thirty-two-year old Reba, who has just gotten out of jail, and make sure that she stays away from drinking, drugs, and gambling, but Reba is soon re-united with the ex-boss who got her into jail, land developer Alan Beckwith.

Television journalist Gracie Logan, having filmed a spectacular sphere of light in the Antarctic which brought on a global debate over what it was, teams up with ex-convict Matt Sherwood, who is trying to uncover the truth about the death of his brother, in an effort to determine if the light was a sign from God, a hoax, or something else.

After Tony Santangelo is released from prison after serving a sentence for participating in the gang murder of an African-American teenager, he returns home, hoping to repair his broken relationship with his parents and start a new life.

The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer.

A mayoral candidate's brother is released from prison 25 years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend, a situation that leads to the re-opening of the case.

Shadow sets out on a journey across America fighting old myths and the gods of modern technology and material obsession when he takes employment with a man named Wednesday--otherwise known as the god Odin--after his release from prison and his wife's sudden death.

An unknown person has provided money for the education of Pip, a poor English boy, in nineteenth-century England.

Presents the continuing autobiography of James Frey in which he tells about his friendship with Leonard, a man he met while in rehabilitation for alcohol and drug abuse, and discusses how Leonard, a genial mobster, took on the role of father, comforting him after the suicide of his girlfriend, and providing him with jobs, encouragement, money, and advice on how to live boldly.

Twelve-year-old Sebastien Ranes is sent by his mother on a Greyhound bus to live with his grandmother, and, as he travels across the country, he learns about life and himself while having a series of misadventures with an ex-convict.