ex-convicts

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ex-convicts

Blood and basketball

2012
Dale Curtis, the rookie on the Jackson Eagles basketball team, struggles between his commitment to the team and his loyalty to his ex-con brother.

Tight end

1986
A high school football player believes the harassment he is experiencing on and off the field is due to his father's prison record.

The innocent

2006
Matt Hunter, released from prison for accidentally killing someone when breaking up a fight, has his life back on track--a beautiful, pregnant wife, and a pending deal on the house of his dreams--until he receives bizarre photographs that send him running from the law.

Les mis?rables

2013
Retelling of the novel about Jean Valjean, a French peasant who has been released from prison where he spent nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread for his starving family.

The second life of Nick Mason

2016
"Nick Mason is out of prison. After five years inside, he has just been given the one thing a man facing 25-to-life never gets, a second chance. But it comes at a terrible price. Nick Mason is out of prison, but he's not free. Whenever his cell phone rings, day or night, he must answer it and follow whatever order he is given. It's the deal he made with Darius Cole, a criminal kingpin serving a double-life term who still runs an empire from his prison cell.Forced to commit increasingly more dangerous crimes, hunted by the relentless detective who put him behind bars, and desperate to go straight and rebuild his life with his daughter and ex-wife, Nick will ultimately have to risk everything--his family, his sanity, and even his life--to finally break free"--.

The animals

a novel
"Bill Reed manages a wildlife sanctuary in rural Idaho, caring for injured animals--raptors, a wolf, and his beloved bear, Majer, among them--that are unable to survive in the wild. Seemingly rid of his troubled past, Bill hopes to marry the local veterinarian and live a quiet life together, the promise of which is threatened when a childhood friend is released from prison. Suddenly forced to confront the secrets of his criminal youth, Bill battles fiercely to preserve the shelter that protects these wounded animals and to keep hidden his turbulent, even dangerous, history"--Amazon.com.

Les mis?rables

2014
A graphic novel adaptation of the nineteenth-century French novel about Jean Valjean, a peasant who is released from prison, where he spent nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread for his starving family, only to find himself threatened by people and events from his past.

Les mis?erables

2015
Presents an illustrated retelling of Victor Hugo's novel Les Mis?erables, in which French ex-convict Jean Valjean struggles to free himself from Inspector Javert's ruthless surveillance while helping Fantine's orphaned daughter Cosette escape from poverty.

Homecoming

2014
When Fiona's father returns home from prison, Fiona must come to terms with her relationship with him, her family's instability due to his incarceration, and her resolve over whether or not he committed the crime.

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