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Author
Publisher
Printed for the Vermont Statehood Bicentennial Commission by Vermont Heritage Press
Pub. Date
1988
Physical Desc
axxiii, 134 p., 4 leaves of plates: facsim. (1 fold) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Best known as a patriot and hero of the American War of Independence, Ethan Allen led the famed Green Mountain Boys in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga. Later that year, he spearheaded a failed assault on Montreal that resulted in his arrest by British authorities. Imprisoned aboard Royal Navy ships, paroled in New York City, and finally released in a prisoner exchange, Ethan Allen recorded his experiences in this stirring firsthand account of the...
2) Prisoner 88
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1885, ten-year-old Jake is sent to prison for killing a man who threatened his father, and struggles to survive the harsh realities of prison life in the Idaho Territory.
3) Sapphique
Author
Series
Incarceron volume Book 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his escape from the sentient prison, Incarceron, Finn finds that the Realm is not at all what he expected, and he does not know whether he is to be its king, how to free his imprisoned friends, or how to stop Incarceron's quest to be free of its own nature.
Author
Publisher
Heritage Books
Pub. Date
1987
Edition
4th ed. /
Physical Desc
122 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The performance by Jim Hogue tells a compelling military history from the point of view of the man who became the commanding officer in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga; an imprisoned rebel bound for the gallows; a witness to the starvation and murder of American prisoners; a philosopher who saw the opportunities for liberty and public good on the one hand, and for servitude on the other; the leader of The Green Mountain Boys who, with them, carved...
5) Incarceron
Author
Series
Incarceron volume Book 1
Language
English
Formats
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
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1999, c1997
Physical Desc
xiv, 536 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Contains all six installments of the serialized horror novel about death row prisoner John Coffey and his fellow inmates and guards in the Green Mile wing of Cold Mountain Penitentiary.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Moving deftly from a Japanese POW camp to present-day Australia, from the experiences of Dorrigo Evans and his fellow prisoners to that of the Japanese guards, this savagely beautiful novel tells a story of the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost." --Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Kommandant's girl volume Bk 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
1945. Surviving the brutality of a Nazi prison camp, Marta Nederman is lucky to have escaped with her life. She meets Paul, an American soldier who gives her hope of a happier future. But their plans to meet in London are dashed when Paul's plane crashes. Devastated and pregnant, Marta marries Simon, a caring British diplomat, and glimpses the joy that home and family can bring. Her happiness is threatened when she learns of a Communist spy in British...
Author
Publisher
Avery/Penguin
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
At the age of sixteen, R. Dwayne Betts--a good student from a lower-middle-class family--carjacked a man with a friend. He had never held a gun before, but within a matter of minutes he had committed six felonies. In Virginia, carjacking is an offense requiring treatment as an adult. A bright young kid, weighing only 126 pounds, he served his eight-year sentence as part of the adult population in some of the worst prisons in the state. This is his...
11) Maximum security
Author
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...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 1249 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of documents and reports in which U.S. government officials wrote to prepare the way for the interrogation and torture in Afghanistan, Guantanamo, and Abu Ghraib prison.
13) Stone
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jack Mabry, a parole officer days away from retirement, is asked to review the case of Gerald 'Stone' Creeson, in prison for arson. Now eligible for early release, Stone needs to convince Jack he has reformed, but his attempts to influence the older man's decision with his wife Lucetta have profound and unexpected effects on them both.
14) Cell 8
Author
Series
Ewert Grens thrillers volume 3
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
496 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An Ohio death row inmate, convicted of killing his 16-year-old girlfriend when he was 17 years old, dies of heart disease. Six years later, the police arrest a Canadian expatriate living in Sweden for repeatedly kicking a drunken man in the head. A cantankerous Det. Supt. Ewert Grens of the Stockholm police discovers that the foreigner in their jail cell is a convicted murderer, the same death row inmate who supposedly died in America six years earlier....
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
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"--
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
302 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1776, after witnessing the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, newly occupied by the British army, young Sophia Calderwood resolves to do all she can to help the American cause, including becoming a spy.
17) Tower of London
Author
Series
Publisher
Newsweek
Pub. Date
[1978]
Physical Desc
172 p. illus. (part col.), facsims., plan, ports. 30 cm.
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 370 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A thrilling narrative of Winston Churchill's extraordinary and little-known exploits during the Boer War. Churchill arrived in South Africa in 1899, valet and crates of vintage wine in tow, there to cover the brutal colonial war the British were fighting with Boer rebels. But just two weeks after his arrival Churchill was taken prisoner ... The story of his escape is incredible enough, but then Churchill enlisted, returned to South Africa, fought...
20) Unbroken
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) sound, color 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Olympian and war hero Louis Zamperini survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
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