Mistaken for the outlaw Bloody Ben Bledsoe, wealthy Conrad Browning--aka "The Kid"--is captured and thrown into prison. Determined to clear his name, he teams up with a fellow inmate and escapes. But even out of prison, The Kid knows he...
Prisoners
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Auteur:Johnstone, J. A.Sommaire: - Auteur:Hafiza, RadiyaSommaire:
For as long as she can remember Rumaysa has been locked away in her tall, tall tower, forced to use her magic to spin straw into gold for the evil Witch and unable to leave. Until one day, after dropping a hijab out of her small tower-...
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Auteur:Fountain, EleSommaire:Shif has a happy life, unfamiliar with the horrors of his country's regime. He is one of the smartest boys in school, and feels safe and loved in the home he shares with his mother and little sister, right next door to his best friend....
- Auteur:Gilbert, FrançoiseSommaire:
Un père qui cherche son fils. Un fils qui fuit son père. Un suspense inspirant, une exploration captivante de la relation entre un père déchu et un fils piégé dans un réseau criminel de trafic d’œuvres d’art. Au milieu de cette toile,...
- Auteur:Preston, DianaSommaire:
Celebrated historian Diana Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the flight of convicts from the Australian penal colony. The story of the mutiny of the Bounty and...
- Auteur:CHARRIERE, HenriSommaire:
Henri Charrie?re, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed...
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Auteur:Fielding, KimSommaire:Aside from a sympathetic parole officer, Aiden Finn is alone in the world. He knows this is his last chance—after a lifetime in and out of prison, one more mistake will land him there to stay. Unfortunately, his job as a night custodian...
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Auteur:Young, RustySommaire:Rusty Young was backpacking in South America when he heard about Thomas McFadden, a convicted English drug trafficker who ran tours inside Bolivia's notorious San Pedro prison. Intrigued, the young Australian journalisted went to...
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Auteur:Goldstyn, JacquesSommaire:Inspired by Amnesty International's letter-writing campaigns to help free people who have been jailed for expressing their opinion, the book tells the story of a man who is arrested during a peaceful protest. In solitary confinement, he...
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Auteur:Zimmer, MichaelSommaire:J. T. Latham is rotting in prison in the Yuma Territory penitentiary. But then Sheriff Del Buchman offers to commute his sentence if Latham helps execute a prisoner exchange with some dangerous banditos. The only catch is that he must...
- Auteur:NAYLOR, DougSommaire:
Somewhere along the line he'd made a major mistake Why else would he find himself on a prison ship bound for Cyberia, the most inhospitable penal colony in Deep Space - sentenced to eighteen years Hard Thought?
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Auteur:Borzutzky, DanielSommaire:Lake Michigan, a series of 19 lyric poems, imagines a prison camp located on the beaches of Chicago that is privatized, racially segregated, and overrun by a brutal police force. Thinking about the ways in which economic policy, racism...
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Auteur:Carrier, RochSommaire:In nineteenth-century Quebec a woman plots the murder of her husband after the death of their child. After brewing a poison, she is arrested, denounced as a witch, and in a devastating conclusion, released from her terrifying obsessions...
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Auteur:LeBlanc, Perrine, Hamilton, David ScottSommaire:Set against the backdrop of Stalinism and then the collapse of the USSR, Kolia is a luminous and unforgettable story about a boy born in a Siberian Gulag and his eventual freedom and life as a clown in the Moscow circus in the 1960s....
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Auteur:Richler, MordecaiSommaire:Poor Jacob Two-Two, only two plus two plus two years old and already a prisoner of The Hooded Fang. What had he done to deserve such terrible punishment? Why, the worst crime of all – insulting a grown-up.
- Auteur:Miller, Reuben JonathanSommaire:
Reuben Miller, a chaplain at the Cook County Jail in Chicago and later a sociologist studying mass incarceration, spent years alongside prisoners to understand the lifelong burden that a single arrest can entail. His work revealed that...
- Auteur:Grant, K. M.Sommaire:
Having returned to a politically unstable England after the Crusades, brothers Will and Gavin--with the help of the red horse Hosanna--attempt to rescue their friend Ellie who is being held prisoner by an enemy of King Richard I.
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Auteur:Crofton, IanSommaire:Bringing together extraordinary stories of daring escapes from prison, POW camps, and other places of incarceration and confinement, this collection draws from every period of history and from every corner of the world. In addition to...
- Auteur:Lewis, SusanSommaire:
Linked by one irrevocable act of violence, Archie Colbrook and Claudia Winters' lives intertwine. Claudia can't overlook what Archie did to her family, but is forgiveness the only way to truly move on?
- Auteur:Pozzulo, JoannaSommaire:
The text covers topics that might otherwise be discussed in social and cognitive psychology courses--including eyewitness testimony, jury decision making, and police procedures--as well as topics that are clinical in nature and might...
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