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[2016], Pre-adolescent, Katherine Tegen Books Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Eleven-year-old Perry Cook lives with his mother in the Blue River Co-Ed Correctional Facility due to the kindness of the warden. When a new district attorney finds out, Perry is forcibly placed in a foster home. Desperate to reunite with his mother, Perry tries to find out exactly why his mom was jailed in the first place, and in the process he learns what it means to truly be home.
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2016., HarperCollins Publishers Call No: F CON Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Perry moves to the outside world, he feels trapped. Desperate to be reunited with his mom, Perry goes on a quest for answers about her past crime. As he gets closer to the truth, he will discover that love makes people resilient no matter where they come from . . . but can he find a way to tell everyone what home truly means?
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[2023]., Adolescent, Pantheon Books Call No: DYSTOPIA F ADJ Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "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 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 for packed arenas with righteous protestors at the gates. Thurwar and Staxxx, both teammates and lovers, are the fan favorites. And if all goes well, Thurwar will be free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. As she prepares to leave her fellow Links, she considers how she might help preserve their humanity, in defiance of these so-called games, but CAPE's corporate owners will stop at nothing to protect their status quo and the obstacles they lay in Thurwar's path have devastating consequences. Moving from the Links in the field to the protestors to the CAPE employees and beyond, Chain-Gang All-Stars is a kaleidoscopic, excoriating look at the American prison system's unholy alliance of systemic racism, unchecked capitalism, and mass incarceration, and a clear-eyed reckoning with what freedom in this country really means from a "new and necessary American voice" (Tommy Orange, New York Times Book Review)."
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2020., St. Martin's Griffin Call No: Historical Fic Morris Edition: First St. Martin's Griffin edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Sent to Auschwitz when she was sixteen, Cilka's beauty attracts the attention of the guards and she becomes a mistress in order to survive. After the war ends, she is charged with sleeping with the enemy and sent to another prison camp in Siberia. There, a kind female doctor takes her on as an assistant where new relationships form as she tends to the sick and dying.
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c2002., Simon & Schuster Call No: 813 .54 Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Ellie Cavanaugh's long-held beliefs are picked apart when she reinvestigates her sister's murder in an attempt to prove the guilt of the man, recently released, who spent twenty-two years in prison for the killing.
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2017., Orbit Call No: SUPERNATURAL F CAR Edition: First U.S. trade paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Confronting the possibility that she might be forced to spend the rest of her life in a maximum security prison on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors, Jess Moulson discovers that the prison is haunted by the ghost of a little boy who imparts a chilling message.
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2018., St. Martin's Press Call No: Realistic FIC Hannah Edition: First U.S. edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Ernt Allbright, a former POW, returns from the Vietnam War and moves his family, which includes his wife Cora and thirteen-year-old daughter Leni, to Alaska to live off the grid in the harsh wilderness. Things go well at first, but as the darkening winter approaches and their resources dwindle, Ernt's mental state deteriorates. Cora and Leni face the truth that they are on their own if they want to survive.
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[2017]., Adolescent, HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "It's 1945, and Lorna Anderson's life on her father's farm in Scotland consists of endless chores and rationing, knitting Red Cross scarves, and praying for an Allied victory. So when Paul Vogel, a German prisoner of war, is assigned as the new farmhand, Lorna is appalled. How can she possibly work alongside the enemy when her own brothers are risking their lives for their country? But as Lorna reluctantly spends time with Paul, she feels herself changing. The more she learns about him-from his time in the war to his life back home in Germany-the more she sees the boy behind the soldier. Soon Lorna is battling her own warring heart. Loving Paul could mean losing her family and the life she's always known. With tensions rising all around them, Lorna must decide how much she's willing to sacrifice before the end of the war determines their fate"--Amazon.
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Ã2017., Adolescent, HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: Historical Fiction FIC LEE Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:4 of 4 At Location(s) Summary Note: "It's 1945, and Lorna Anderson's life on her father's farm in Scotland consists of endless chores and rationing, knitting Red Cross scarves, and praying for an Allied victory. So when Paul Vogel, a German prisoner of war, is assigned as the new farmhand, Lorna is appalled. How can she possibly work alongside the enemy when her own brothers are risking their lives for their country? But as Lorna reluctantly spends time with Paul, she feels herself changing. The more she learns about him--from his time in the war to his life back home in Germany--the more she sees the boy behind the soldier. Soon Lorna is battling her own warring heart. Loving Paul could mean losing her family and the life she's always known. With tensions rising all around them, Lorna must decide how much she's willing to sacrifice before the end of the war determines their fate"--Amazon.
