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Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From twice National Book Award-nominated Rachel Kushner, whose Flamethrowers was called "the best, most brazen, most interesting book of the year" (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine), comes a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. 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....
Author
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nearly two hundred condemned women on board a sailing ship bound for Australia. One of them is a murderer. London, 1841. One hundred eighty Englishwomen file aboard the Rajah, embarking on a three-month voyage to the other side of the world. They're daughters, sisters, mothers-and convicts. Transported for petty crimes. Except one of them has a deadly secret, and will do anything to flee justice. As the Rajah sails farther from land, the women forge...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black, about two top women gladiators fighting for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly-popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising...
Author
Series
Auschwitz volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
From the author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz comes a new novel based on a riveting true story of love and resilience. Her beauty saved her and condemned her. Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly...
Author
Series
Black market volume 3
Publisher
Dafina Books; Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"She killed her abusive boyfriend in self-defense. But in jail, violent female gangs paid off by her enemies keep her fearing for her life--and land her in the hospital. From there, a medical testing facility is her one dubious hope for some kind of safety. But from the moment she hits the yard, she and other prisoners are victimized by illegal medical experiments. Injected with lethal diseases and made a test subject for experimental vaccines, she's...
6) Hush
Author
Series
Detective Harriet Blue volume 04
Language
English
Description
"Top cop. Devoted sister. Now Inmate 3329. But prison bars won't stop Harriet Blue from seeking justice for the murder of her brother. Prison is a dangerous place for a former cop--as Harriet Blue is learning on a daily basis. So, following a fight for her life and a prison-wide lockdown, the last person she wants to see is Deputy Police Commissioner Joe Woods. The man who put her inside. But Woods is not there to gloat. His daughter Tonya and her...
7) Affinity
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
352p. 24cm.
Language
English
Description
Once inside the concrete walls of Millbank Prison, Margaret Prior, hired to speak with the female inmates, becomes all too aware that what she perceives to be reality may not be so. Bringing new ideas to her mind is the beautiful, but dangerous criminal Selina Dawes.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Was a monstrous killer brought to justice or an innocent mother condemned? On an April night in 1989, three small children perished in a Los Angeles apartment fire. Their young mother, Jo Ann Parks, escaped unharmed, the sole survivor and only eyewitness. Though they at first believed the fire had been a tragic accident, forensic fire investigators soon uncovered evidence that Parks had sabotaged wiring, set several fires herself, and even barricaded...
9) Stillwater
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (139 min.) : digital sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A father travels from Oklahoma to France to help his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she didn't commit.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (730 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brooklynite Piper Chapman, whose wild past comes back to haunt her and results in her arrest and detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper trades her comfortable New York life for an orange prison jumpsuit and finds unexpected conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric group of inmates.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot-caller and her unlikely comeback as a highly successful ghostwriter in this harrowing, hilarious, no-holds-barred memoir"--
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 774 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brooklynite Piper Chapman, whose wild past comes back to haunt her and results in her arrest and detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper trades her comfortable New York life for an orange prison jumpsuit and finds unexpected conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric group of inmates.
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 743 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the sobering history of World War II's largest female concentration camp, revealing the torturous experiences and deaths of thousands of women prisoners of more than twenty nationalities.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp&;mainly Jewish women and girls&;were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas chambers.
This fashion workshop&;called the Upper Tailoring Studio&;was established by Hedwig Höss, the camp commandant&;s wife, and patronized by...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"At the end of the nineteenth century, three revolutionary women fight for freedom in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton's captivating new novel inspired by real-life events and the true story of a legendary Cuban woman--Evangelina Cisneros--who changed the course of history. A feud rages in Gilded Age New York City between newspaper tycoons William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer. When Grace Harrington lands a job at Hearst's newspaper...
16) A train in winter: an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France
Author
Language
English
Description
In January 1943, the Gestapo hunted down 230 women of the French Resistance and sent them to Auschwitz. This is their story, told in full for the first time--a searing and unforgettable chronicle of terror, courage, defiance, survival, and the power of friendship to transcend evil that is an essential addition to the history of World War II.
17) Coming home
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 293 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the nine-time women's basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist--a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home. On February 17, 2022, Brittney Griner arrived in Moscow ready to spend the WNBA offseason playing for the Russian women's basketball team where she had been the centerpiece of previous championship seasons. Instead, a security checkpoint became her gateway to hell when she was arrested...