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1) Eileen
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English
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The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father's caregiver in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys' prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime,...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"When thirteen-year-old Valor is arrested, she could not be happier. Demidova's prison for criminal children is exactly where she wants to be. Valor's sister Sasha is already serving a life sentence for stealing from the royal family, and Valor is going to help her escape . . . from the inside"--
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Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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A jaunty excursion about three convicts who are plotting their escape from Devil's Island. Fate intervenes when they hide out with kindly but inept Felix and his family. Based on a play by Albert Husson.
Three convicts, Joseph, Albert and Jules, are plotting their escape from Devil's Island. Fate intervenes when they hide out with kindly but inept Felix and his family. Felix manages a store for his arrogant cousin Andre, who makes the fatal mistake...
Author
Series
Ewert Grens thrillers volume 4
Language
English
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Ex-convict Piet Hoffman--a family man, a rising member of Stockholm's Polish mafia, and an undercover police informant--is sent to a maximum security prison to make himself the boss of the amphetamine trade so the police can shut it down.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"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....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared--Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.
Author
Series
Prison healer novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Tasked with keeping a captured and terminally ill Rebel Queen alive long enough to survive the formidable elemental Trial by Ordeal, death prison healer Kiva Meridan receives a coded message from her family before risking her life to take the queen’s place.
Author
Publisher
Puffin, an imprint of Penguin Random Canada Young Readers, a division of Penguin Random House of Canada Limited
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"As a child, Allen is saved from a nautical disaster by Benjamin Postlethwaite, a solitary lighthouse keeper. Years later, Allen returns to the lighthouse, and the two nurse an injured young puffin back to health. When Allen is called up to fight in World War Two...his fond memories of his time at the lighthouse keep him going, even through prison camp"--
11) Monster's ball
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Hank Grotowski is an embittered prison guard. He works with his son, Sonny. They both live at home with his racist father, Buck. Death Row inmate, Lawrence Musgrove, has just been executed and a horrible tragedy has happened at home. Hank mets Leticia, a young black woman, struggling to make ends meet. If only he knew that she is Musgrove's widow. Hank and Leticia quickly fall in love to ease each other's pains.
Publisher
Distributed PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"Escape from Auschwitz tells the incredible story of two young Slovak Jews, Rudol[f] Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, who managed to escape by hiding in a woodpile for three days, then fleeing across enemy territory, determined to tell the world about the atrocities being committed by the Nazis at the camp"--Container.
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English
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A rebel ship is being boarded by the tyrannical Darth Vader. Luke Skywalker, with his new allies, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Ben Kenobi, C-3PO, R2-D2, attempt to rescue rebel leader, Princess Leia, from the clutches of the Empire. The conclusion is culminated as the Rebels, including Skywalker and flying ace Wedge Antilles make an attack on the Empire's most powerful and ominous weapon, the Death Star.
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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) Cool hand Luke
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A defiant chain-gang prisoner suffers a 'failure to communicate' in this searing drama. Includes new commentary and all new featurettes: The Making of Cool Hand Luke and a profile of novelist, co-screenwriter and the real 'Cool Hand Luke' Donn Pearce.
Lucas Jackson is a man who refuses to be nailed down, conform to rules and regulations, or fit into society, and now, he's on a chain gang. He's a likable enough guy, always smiling, always ready for...
18) Cell 8
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English
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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....
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