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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
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
Language
English
Description
Overview: 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 before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, the well-heeled Smith College alumna is now inmate #11187-424-one of the millions of people who disappear "down the rabbit hole"...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Noa P. Singleton sits on death row in a maximum security penitentiary, just six months away from her execution date. She is visited by a high-powered Philadelphia attorney who is a heartbroken mother of the victim and now wants to see the death penalty delayed--if only Noa reveals her motive.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Zeba's life is shattered when her husband is found brutally murdered. Zeba is arrested and jailed. With the fate of Zeba's life in his hands, Afghan-born, American-raised Yusuf discovers that, like Afghanistan itself, his client may not be at all what he imagines. A moving look at the lives of modern Afghan women, this is astonishing, frightening, and triumphant. From the author of the bestselling "The Pearl That Broke Its Shell."
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Former 'It Girl' Janie Jenkins is sly, stunning--and fresh out of prison. Ten years ago, at the height of her fame, she was incarcerated for the murder of her mother, a high-society beauty known for her good works and rich husbands. Now, released on a technicality, Janie makes herself over and goes undercover, determined to chase down the one lead she has on her mother's killer. The only problem? Janie doesn't know if she's the killer she's looking...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Inside a federal women's prison a German born theater artist encourages a racially mixed circle of women to find their own voices through poetry and creative expression, and meets their children on the outside. The prisoners share their life stories and experiences of prison life. Voices from Inside shatters stereotypes about crime, criminals and race. An inspiring experiment in breaking the walls with love! "I found it beautifully made and very moving....
8) Hush
Author
Series
Detective Harriet Blue volume 4
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Born in a rural Mexico region where girls are disguised as boys to avoid the attentions of traffickers, Ladydi dreams of a better life before moving to Mexico City, where she falls in love and ends up in a prison with other women who share her experiences.
11) Lady vengeance
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Korean
Description
After being wrongfully convicted of kidnapping and murdering a young child, a beautiful young woman (Lee Young-ae) is imprisoned for 13 years and forced to give up her own daughter. While in prison she gains the respect and loyalty of her fellow cellmates, all the while plotting her vendetta on the man responsible (Oldboy's Choi Min-Shik). Upon her release she sets in motion an elaborate plan of retribution, but what she discovers is a truth so horrifying,...
14) Liu shi n�u
Author
Series
Qing zui xi lie volume 1
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Zuo zhe zai jian yu dun le shi nian,he n�u qiu men ri chu er zuo,ri luo er xi,cong er shi liu sui dao san shi liu sui--bi mou xie fu qi de hun ling zhang,bi hen duo xiao liang kou hai qin.na li,wai biao ping jing ru jing,qi shi,zhong ri fan jiang dao hai.mei ge fan ren dou you jing li,er jing li jiu shi gu shi.bu shao n�u qiu jin le jian yu,you you le xin de gu shi. "Liu shi n�u " shi qi zhong zhi yi ze.--
15) The light of day
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Traces a day in the life of divorced private investigator George Webb as he evaluates his past as a police officer, unpromising prospects, and all-consuming relationship with a former client.
16) Cilka's journey
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Her beauty saved her life and condemned her. Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, in 1942. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from the other women prisoners. Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly given, equals survival. After liberation, Cilka is charged as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy and sent to Siberia....
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"More than a gripping detective story, Burned is a shocking tale that upends the almost universal confidence we have in flawed forensics -- the "CSI" so long celebrated in fiction and film-- that has put thousands in prison as our justice system chose to embrace junk science over protecting the innocent. 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...
18) It's criminal
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Two worlds collide when Dartmouth College students meet with incarcerated women at a local jail in this transformational documentary about privilege, poverty, and injustice. IT'S CRIMINAL highlights the wide economic and social inequality that divides the United States and offers a unique window into how two groups of women break down barriers and learn to speak to each other.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"At once disturbing and empowering, the memoir of a courageous woman, who, between the ages of thirteen and sixteen, was manipulated, exploited, and abused as a sex worker; who killed her pimp/father figure-and was unjustly sentenced to life in prison without parole. "I was 11 when I met GG. I realized later that he had to have been aware of the chaos that was my life... because he played me perfectly. I was walking home after school... I heard his...
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