Glory is a troubled teenage inmate who, in her solitary prison cell, is tormented by hallucinations. While she battles the creature in her mind, her adoptive mother Rosellen struggles to remain connected to her daughter, believing that...
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Author:Thompson, JudithSummary: -
Author:Schraff, AnneSummary:Written for young adults, the Urban Underground series confronts issues that are of great importance to teens, such as friendship, loyalty, drugs, gangs, abuse, urban blight, bullies and self-esteem to name a few. More than...
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Author:Poor, NigelSummary:An illuminating view of prison life, as told by currently and formerly incarcerated people, from the co-creators and co-hosts of the Peabody- and Pulitzer-nominated podcast Ear Hustle "A must-read for fans of the legendary podcast...
- Author:Johnson, SadeqaSummary:
Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life. Shielded by her mother's position as the estate's medicine woman and cherished by the Master's sister, she is set...
- Author:Noni, LynetteSummary:
Seventeen-year-old Kiva Meridan has spent the last ten years fighting for survival in the notorious death prison, Zalindov, working as the prison healer. When the Rebel Queen is captured, Kiva is charged with keeping the terminally ill...
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Author:COURTENAY, BryceSummary:A novel of a small boy's triumph over cruelty and loneliness. Set in the turbulent 1940's in Southern Africa. An epic of survival in the best of dramatic traditions.
- Author:Johnstone, William W.Summary:
Frank Morgan, legendary gunslinger turned town marshal, has disguised himself as an inmate at Yuma Prison--hoping to root out a bank-robbing plot. But even the straightest arrow can bend when shot into a corrupt hellhole like Yuma.
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Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as The Handmaid's Tale and as richly imagined as The Blind Assassin. Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to...
- Author:Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I.Summary:
"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY"--TimeVolume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police...
- Author:May, James L.Summary:
A political prisoner incarcerated on the island of Solovetsky, the most notorious Russian prison camp of the 1920s, is mysteriously conscripted to solve the murder of a fellow inmate.
- Author:Foucault, MichelSummary:
Peut-être avons-nous honte aujourd'hui de nos prisons. Le XIXe siècle, lui, était fier des forteresses qu'il construisait aux limites et parfois au coeur des villes. Ces murs, ces verrous, ces cellules figuraient toute une entreprise d'...
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Author:Rubenfeld, MichaelSummary:Venturing into dark and explosive territory, My Fellow Creatures is a raw, honest, and thoughtful portrayal of these men and their virtues, confronting the reader with difficult questions about love, consent, vengeance, and acceptance...
- Author:Myers, Walter DeanSummary:
Accused as an accomplice in a Harlem, Steve Harmon, an amateur filmmaker, transcribes his trial into a movie script.
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Author:Ellis, DeborahSummary:Winner of the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award For twelve-year-old Diego and his family, home is a prison in Cochabamba, Bolivia. His parents farmed coca, a traditional Bolivian medicinal plant, until they got caught in...
- Author:Corbeil-Coleman, CharlotteSummary:
The stories and experiences of three imprisoned women intertwine in dramatic and dangerous ways, as the psychological destruction that is solitary confinement taunts each of their lives.
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Author:Crofton, IanSummary: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...
- Author:Krout, DakotaSummary:
Expansion. Uneasy alliances. Looming Madness. Both Cal and Dale have become stronger, each in spite of the other. The dungeon-Cal-knows exactly how much their power has increased and is working daily to become exponentially more...
- Author:Krout, DakotaSummary:
Unlikely allies uniting across the world. Blood feuds that span centuries. A single chance at life. The world watches the sky with trepidation. The insanity of Xenocide knew no bounds, and all will soon suffer the effects he had planned...
- Author:Krout, DakotaSummary:
Auras empowering the body to superhuman status. Invocations tearing the land asunder. The war has arrived. The necromantic armies are on the warpath and nowhere is safe-even the sanctuary of the flying dungeon has been threatened. The...
- Author:Krout, DakotaSummary:
The dead walk the land. The dungeon rises. War will move the Heavens and the Earth. Powerful necromancers are on the move, and the dungeon has become a battleground. Without his faithful Wisp, Cal's mind slips-he begins creating...
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