It's 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California's Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San...
Women prisoners
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Author:Kushner, RachelSummary: - Author:Hardin, Lara LoveSummary:
"Once you start reading, be prepared, because you won't want to stop." - Oprah Winfrey OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK New York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to...
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Author:Lagercrantz, DavidSummary:Lisbeth Salander has been forged by a brutal childhood and horrific abuse. And repeated attempts on her life. The ink embedded in her skin is a constant reminder of her pledge to fight against the injustice she finds on every side....
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Author:Erickson, CarollySummary:Historian Carolly Erickson has brought Mary's story to life, illuminating the horrors of transportation and the hardships of the early penal settlement, and describing in the extraordinary story of her escape in an open boat from...
- Author:Adlington, LucySummary:
A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps. At the height of the...
- Author:Moore, SusannaSummary:
A crime of unfathomable horror has a ripple-like effect on four profoundly different souls. Helen, a troubled inmate at Sloatsburg women's prison, is serving a life sentence for the murder of her children. Dr. Louise Forrest, the...
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Author:Hansen, AnnSummary:"Ann Hansen's memoir combines a riveting story with a brilliant exposé of the inner workings of the prison industrial complex. Charged with empathy, courage, and an anarchist passion for justice, Taking the Rap, is a must-...
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Author:Johansen, Ilse, Marshall, Heather, Gahler, Hans Rudolf, Seadle, MichaelSummary:“The terrified yell of my comrades makes me stop. I drop the potatoes into the grass and turn around. He has pulled out the pistol and is taking aim. Slowly I come back.” Surviving the Gulag is the first-person account of a resourceful...
- Author:Chiaverini, JenniferSummary:
Set in Creek's Crossing, Pennsylvania, in the years leading up to the Civil War, the novel follows Dorothea Granger's passage from innocence to wisdom against the harrowing backdrop of the American struggle over slavery. She...
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Author:Wolters, ClearySummary:The real-life Alex Vause from the show Orange Is the New Black tells her story for the first time in this memoir about crime and punishment, friendship and marriage, and a life caught in the ruinous drug trade and beyond.
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Author:Kerman, PiperSummary:With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years ago. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen...
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Author:Demerson, VelmaSummary:On a May morning in 1939, eighteen-year-old Velma Demerson and her lover were having breakfast when two police officers arrived to take her away. Her crime was loving a Chinese man, a "crime" that was compounded by her...
- 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.
- Author:McCoy, TedSummary:
Bridget Donnelly. Charlotte Reveille. Kate Slattery. Emily Boyle. Until now, these were nothing but names marked down in the admittance registers and punishment reports of Kingston Penitentiary, Canada's most notorious prison. In...
- Author:Keneally, MegSummary:
Jenny Gwyn has proven herself a survivor. Faced with destitution after the death of her father, she toughens her skin to become a highwaywoman in order to support her impoverished family. But one fatal mistake leads to her arrest, and...
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Author:Silverthorne, JudithSummary:It’s 1842. 14-year-old Jennie Lawrence has been found guilty of stealing, and finds herself aboard one of the few women-only convict ships destined for Australia.
Jennie had been desperate – and, as she gets to know the other...
- Author:Comack, ElizabethSummary:
Published some two decades ago, Elizabeth Comack's Women in Trouble explored the connections between the women's abuse histories and their law violations as well as their experience of imprisonment in an aged facility. What...
- Author:Adjei-Brenyah, Nana KwameSummary:
Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own in this explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Friday Black"...
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Author:Osborne, TomSummary:From the author of Dead Man in the Orchestra Pit and Foozlers comes another tale of madcap human folly. Louella Debra Poule is doing an eighteen-month stint on a weapons charge at a minimum-security institution up the Fraser Valley. Her...
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ARRESTING HOPE reminds us that prisons are not only places of punishment, marginalization, and trauma, but that they can also be places of hope, blessing even, where people with difficult lived experiences can begin to compose stories...
