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Author
Series
Darkest minds novels volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
488 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"Sixteen-year-old Ruby breaks out of a government-run 'rehabilitation camp' for teens who acquired dangerous powers after surviving a virus that wiped out most American children"--
2) The escape
Author
Series
John Puller novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When John Puller's older brother Robert inexplicably escapes from the military's most secure prison, where he's being held for national security crimes, Puller finds himself part of an investigation to hunt down his own brother. As he digs more deeply into the case, Puller discovers troubling details about his brother's conviction and that someone is out there who doesn't want the truth to ever come out." --
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Language
English
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"Little Dorrit", originally serialized between 1855 and 1857, satirizes the shortcomings of the government and society of the period. This popular novel introduces a rich and memorable array of characters trying to navigate an often hostile capital symbolised by the Marshalsea gaol, where Dickens' own father had been imprisoned. This is a scathing social and political satire within a heart-warming story of love and devotion...Based on the world-famous...
Author
Series
Bride trilogy (Mary Jo Putney) volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having made his fortune in the China seas, Gavin Elliott is on his way to London to establish himself in society, but his plans take a detour when he risks his life to save an English widow, Alexandra Warren, who is being sold as a slave by pirates.
5) The brethren
Author
Language
English
Description
In a federal prison, three former judges who call themselves "the brethren" meet in the law library to run a rougher form of justice inside their community and make some money, but when one of their scams derails, they are forced to confront the world of their own creation
6) Escape
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling detective Billy Harney of The Black Book is chasing down a billionaire crime boss and a prison escape artist while a young girl's life hangs in the balance. As Chicago PD's special-ops leader, Detective Billy Harney knows well that money is not the only valuable currency. The filthy rich man he's investigating is down to his last twenty million. He's also being held in jail. For now. Billy's unit is called in when an escape...
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Language
English
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"In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett...
8) Incarceron
Author
Series
Incarceron volume Book 1
Language
English
Description
In Incarceron, a vast intelligent city-prison sealed off from the outside world and hidden from everybody except the Warden, two young people, Cynthia, the Warden's daughter who is trying to esacape an arranged marriage, and Finn, a young prisoner who cannot remember his childhood, join forces to attempt to escape.
Author
Publisher
Hogarth Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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.
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Language
English
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Description
"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 program in America's increasingly dominant private prison industry. It's the return of the gladiators and prisoners are competing for the ultimate prize: their freedom. In CAPE, prisoners travel as Links in Chain-Gangs, competing in death-matches...
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Language
English
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There are three rules Brooke Sullivan must follow as a new nurse practitioner at a men's maximum-security prison: 1) Treat all prisoners with respect. 2) Never reveal any personal information. 3) Never EVER become too friendly with the inmates. But none of the staff at the prison knows Brooke has already broken the rules. Nobody knows about her intimate connection to Shane Nelson, one of the penitentiary's most notorious and dangerous inmates. And...
Author
Series
Earl Swagger novels volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
491 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Earl Swagger enlists help from his friends as he attempts to reclaim a small Mississippi town from a group of brutal, gun-toting, Klan-type thugs. A searing follow-up to the best-selling thriller Hot Springs.
13) The skull mantra
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
403 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a headless corpse is discovered on a Tibetan mountainside, former police inspector Shan Tao Yun is released from prison with an ultimatum; solve the case or other prisoners will be punished, but when Shan Tao Yun discovers the political ramifications of the case, he encounters resistance from the police and government.
Author
Series
Inspector Pekkala volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
278 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A decade after the execution of Tsar Nicholas Romanov and his family, the Soviet state offers Pekkala, the Tsar's former right-hand man who is now a prisoner living a harsh existence, a chance to win his freedom in exchange for catching the Romanovs' killers and locating the royal child that is rumored to have survived the execution.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"One of our most gifted writers of fiction returns with a bold and piercing novel about a young single mother living in Harlem, her eccentric aunt, and the decisions they make that have unexpected implications for the world around them. Reyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn't perfect, yet she sees him through a three-month stint at Riker's Island, their bond growing tighter. Kiki, now settled in the East Village after a youth that took her to...
Author
Series
Terra Ignota volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
448 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer--a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished away. The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours...
17) Maximum security
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Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2011, c2005
Physical Desc
302 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In order to contact his parent, an illegal weapons dealer, CHERUB comes up with a plan to break the son out of his maximum security prison, but the plan is complicated and will require all their collective skills. Cherub agents are all seventeen and under. They wear skate tees and hemp, and look like regular kids. But they're not. They are trained professionals who are sent out on mission to spy on terrorists nd international drug dealers. Cherub...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
" 'Homecoming' takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham's unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he's not in the courtroom. He's called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton, who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again--until...
19) The Mars room
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Language
English
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"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 Francisco of her youth and her young son, Jackson. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike;...
20) Wrong alibi
Author
Series
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Evelyn Jones lands a job in small-town Alaska, working for a man in his isolated mountain home. But her bright hopes for the future are shattered when Donald White disappears, leaving her to face charges of theft, embezzlement--and a brutal double murder. Her protestations of innocence count for nothing. Convicted, she faces life in prison...until fate sends her on the run. Evie's escape leaves her scarred and in hiding, isolated...
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