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1) Eileen
Author
Language
English
Description
Dreaming of life in the city while caring for her alcoholic father and working in a 1960s boys' prison, a disturbed young woman is manipulated into committing a psychologically charged crime during the holiday season.
3) Dead time
Author
Series
Hank Fallon series volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Johnstone Country. Try Not to Get Killed.
In this explosive Hank Fallon thriller, the justice-seeking ex-con goes undercover and behind bars to expose a plot as big, as bold, and as deadly as the American Civil War ...
GET OUT OF JAIL FREE-OR DIE.
Doing time in Texas is no picnic. But getting sent to The Walls in Huntsville is a fate worse than hanging. If the guards don't kill you, the prisoners will. And if it weren't for the fact that the man...
Author
Series
Hank Fallon series volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Johnstone Country. The Good Die Young. The Bad Die Younger.
In this gripping thriller, America's greatest Western storytellers take you inside the dangerous world of an undercover agent-and the deadliest jail in America...
PRISON RIOT
Hank Fallon knows what it's like to rot behind bars. To wallow in the filth of a rat-infested cell. To smell the pent-up rage of cutthroat killers and thieves. Fallon earned his freedom the hard way. He saved the...
Author
Language
English
Description
Arriving at an ancient stone prison, the Lady, an investigator who searches for information from prisoners's pasts that can save those awaiting execution, digs into the past of a killer named York, who can sense what others cannot, and unearths shocking secrets of her own.
Author
Series
Delicious in dungeon volume 10
Publisher
Yen Press
Language
English
Description
"Led to Sissel's threshold by the winged lion imprisoned within it, Laios and friends steel themselves for...some heavy-duty cleaning?! Sissel's seemingly innocuous cottage is piled with clutter, hindering both their search for the lion and their meal prep! Once satiated, the party hastily lays plans for Falin's rescue. However, here in the depths of the dungeon, even the cutest residents have a vicious streak a mile wide!"--
Author
Publisher
Infamous
Language
English
Description
"Commissary Kitchen provides a deeper perspective of what it's like to consume meals in prison. While recipes are provided, Prodigy and co-writer Kathy Iandoli also tell various anecdotes about situations in prison involving food. Meal prep in prison is very limited, so while this work appeals to anyone who has served time or is curious about prison life, it also speaks to those who prepare food with limited access to various cooking luxuries (such...
Author
Series
Hank Fallon series volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Johnstone Country. Frontier Spirit Lives Here.
America's greatest Western storytellers take you inside the dangerous world of undercover agents-and one man's mission to hell and back . . .
BREAKOUT OF THE CENTURY
Hank Fallon used to be one of the best deputy marshals in the country. Then he got framed for a crime he didn't commit. Got sentenced to ten years in a federal penitentiary. And got out early for saving the life of the captain of the...
Author
Series
Ravenspire volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
A dark epic fantasy inspired by The Prince and the Pauper and the fairy tale The False Prince, from bestselling author C. J. Redwine. Perfect for fans of the Court of Thorns and Roses series and the Wrath and the Dawn duology, The Traitor Prince is a thrilling new standalone novel in the Ravenspire series.
Javan Najafai, crown prince of Akram, has spent the last ten years at an elite boarding school, far away from his kingdom. But his eagerly awaited...
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
When fourteen-year-old Alex is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign, boys who disappear in the middle of the night sometimes return weirdly altered, and escape might just be possible.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
A look inside the La Modelo prison in Bogota. Colombia. Called a "model" prison by Colombia officials the prison in reality is controlled more by the prisoners than the guards. With 5000 prisoners for 2400 spots, and not more than 150 security guards assigned to the prison. The prison is awash in violence, and drugs. Last year, 162 prisoners were killed there. The prison is controlled by three criminal groups: members of the guerrilla movement, paramilitary...
15) Fellside
Author
Language
English
Description
Confronting the possibility that she might be forced to spend the rest of her life in a maximum security prison on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors, Jess Moulson discovers that the prison is haunted by the ghost of a little boy who imparts a chilling message.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Description
"Tori, Marvin, and Noah would rather be anywhere else than on the seventh grade class field trip to Raven Island prison ... But when the three of them stumble upon a dead body in the woods, miss the last ferry back home, and then have to spend the night on Raven Island, they find that they need each other now more than ever"--
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
Français
Description
Old home movies, newsreels and a prison diary are interwoven to link personal and public history in this assessment of human rights abuses in Guinea-Conakry. Allah Tantou is the first African film to confront the immense personal and political costs of the widespread human rights abuses on the continent. It follows filmmaker David Achkar's search for his father, his father's search for himself inside a Guinean prison and Africa's search for a new...
Author
Language
English
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Description
There is a grisly murder in your neighborhood. You stand outside with your neighbors and watch, or maybe you peek out your curtains. Hours pass, then days, maybe years. Then one day there is a knock at your door and the police take you in for questioning. Do you remember what happened? Do you have an alibi? Can you take countless hours of interrogation without breaking? This can happen to you. And it happens to more people than you think. Stories...
19) Solitary
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, fourteen-year-old Alex Sawyer thinks that he has escaped the hellish Furnace Penitentiary, but instead he winds up in solitary confinement, where new horrors await him.
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