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1) Affinity
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Language
English
Description
Margaret Prior, assigned to visit the women's ward of Victorian London's Millbank prison as part of her rehabilitative charity work for a suicide attempt, is drawn into a dark romance with spiritualist Selina Dawes who has been jailed after a seance she was conducting went horribly wrong.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"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;...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
How much would you sacrifice to save someone you love? When Olivia, wild-haired and headstrong, makes a terrible mistake, she must turn to the person least likely to help--her mother, Elaine. Motherhood was a role that Elaine never embraced and her best never amounted to much. But now Olivia faces prosecution for a naïve connection to a drug deal and she needs Elaine more than ever. As the days count down and Olivia's future hangs in the balance,...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Language
English
Description
Visited by a high-powered attorney who has initiated a clemency petition on her behalf and who is also the mother of her victim, death-row inmate Noa is slowly persuaded to share the events surrounding the murder in spite of her reluctance to reveal the whole story or have her life extended.
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
'For a very long time, the days went by, each just like the day before, then I began to think, and everything changed' Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The story of Helen, an inmate at Sloatsburg, and the horrible crime that led to her life sentence at the prison, is told through the voices of Helen herself; Dr. Louise Forrest, head of mental services at the prison; and Ike Bradshaw, a young correctionsofficer.
9) Fellside
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Georgette George has never forgotten her college roommate, Ann Drayton, or the violent argument that ended their friendship, so when Ann is convicted of murder, Georgette begins to delve into her former friend's past in the hopes of discovering what led the young woman to kill.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"As a teenager, for a moment, Ella Fitchburg found love--yearning, breathless love--that consumed both her and her boyfriend, Jude, as they wandered the streets of New York City together. But her life was unexpectedly upended when she was accused of trying to murder Jude's father, an imperious superior court judge, and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. When she learns she's pregnant shortly after sentencing, she reluctantly decides to give...
12) After the party
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Moving into her sister's country house in 1938 England after years abroad, Phyllis becomes entangled in a circle of idealistic new friends and their views about a charismatic new leader before a lapse in judgment changes the course of her life.
Author
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
Libertad Gonzales, imprisoned in the Mexicali Penal Institute for Women for a crime she refuses to reveal, decides to pass the time by reading aloud to an ever-growing circle of inmates, but no matter which book she chooses to read, the words that emerge from her mouth tell the story of her life on the road with her trucker father and the truth about why she is in jail.
15) Dear daughter
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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 mothers killer. The only problem? Janie doesnt know if shes the killer shes...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Ladydi Garcia Martinez is fierce, funny and smart, but she was born into world where being a girls is a dangerous thing. In the mountains of Guerrero, Mexico, she and her mother live in the shadow of the drug war, where gangsters are kings and girls are stolen in broad daylight. Mothers must disguise their daughters to protect them from roving cartels. When she is offered work in the home of a wealthy family in Aculpulco, Ladydi finds her first taste...
18) Hush
Author
Series
Detective Harriet Blue volume 4
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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
Series
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Budapest, 1956. In this darkest year in the modern history of Hungary, a national uprising against Soviet occupiers and their reign of terror is underway. Eleven-year-old Evike and her firebrand mother steal deep into battle zones in support of civilian freedom fighters armed only with primitive weapons and desperate courage against the heavy artillery of trained Russian troops. Taken in for interrogation by the secret police, little Evike spins a...
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