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Author
Series
Shake Bouchon novels volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 24 cm.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Jodi McCarty is seventeen when she's sentenced to life in prison for manslaughter. She's released eighteen years later and finds herself reeling from the shock of unexpected freedom. Not yet able to return to her lost home in the Appalachian mountains, she heads south in search of someone she left behind, as a way of finally making amends. There, she will meet and fall in love with Miranda, a troubled young mother living in a motel room with her...
Author
Series
Nick Mason novels volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Nick Mason is out of prison. After five years inside, he has just been given the one thing a man facing 25-to-life never gets, a second chance. But it comes at a terrible price. Nick Mason is out of prison, but he's not free. Whenever his cell phone rings, day or night, he must answer it and follow whatever order he is given. It's the deal he made with Darius Cole, a criminal kingpin serving a double-life term who still runs an empire from his prison...
4) Levity
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Manuel Jordan has done time in prison for accidentally killing a kid during an attempted robbery. After being released, he returns to the town where he committed the crime in hopes of seeking salvation. He ends up in a community center where he meets a pastor, who helps him out. Trying to find redemption for his sins, he befriends Adele, who just happens to be the sister of the boy he shot in the robbery. He also meets teenaged Sofia, a rich girl...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Formats
Description
"Former US Marine Jess Winslow reenters civilian life a new widow, with little more to her name than a falling down house, a medical discharge for PTSD, and a loyal dog named Lucy. The only thing she actually cares about is that dog, a black-and-white pit bull mix who helps her cope with the devastating memories of her time in Afghanistan. After fifteen years -- nearly half his life -- in state prison, Mason Burke owns one set of clothes, a wallet,...
7) The woodsman
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After twelve years in prison, a convicted sex offender struggles to regain the life he lost, while grappling with the terrible prospect of his own reawakened demons.
8) The upside
Formats
Description
A recently paroled ex-convict, Dell, strikes up an unusual and unlikely friendship with a quadriplegic billionaire, Philip Lacasse, in this 'funny and warm-hearted buddy comedy.' From worlds apart, Dell and Philip form an unlikely bond, bridging their differences and gaining invaluable wisdom in the process, giving each man a renewed sense of passion for all of life's possibilities.
9) The broker
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Formats
Description
With fourteen years left on a twenty-year sentence, notorious Washington power broker, Joel Blackman, receives a surprise pardon from a lame-duck president. He is smuggled out of the country on a military cargo plane, given a new identity, and tucked away in a small town in Italy. But Blackman has serious enemies from his past. As the CIA watches him closely, the question is not whether he will be killed, but rather who will kill him first.
10) Identical
Author
Series
Kindle County novels volume 9
Description
A mayoral candidate's brother is released from prison 25 years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend, a situation that leads to the re-opening of the case.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"For eleven years the clock has been ticking for Russell Gaines as he sits in Parchman Penitentiary in the Mississippi Delta. His sentence is now up, and he believes his debt has been paid. But when he returns home, he soon discovers that revenge lives and breathes all around him. On the same day that Russell is released from prison, a woman named Maben and her young daughter trudge along the side of the interstate under the punishing summer sun....
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Description
Polly McClusky is eleven years old - too old for the teddy bear she carries with her everywhere - when she is unexpectedly reunited with her father, Nate, fresh out of jail. He takes her from the front of her school into a world of robbery, violence, and the constant threat of death. And he does it to save her life. Nate made dangerous enemies in prison: a gang called Aryan Steel has put out a bounty on his head, counting on its members on the outside...
13) End of sentence
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
After Sean is released from prison, he reluctantly embarks on a journey with his alienated father to spread his mother's ashes in her native Ireland.
15) Les misérables
Author
Description
Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, LES MISERABLES is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggled to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, became the gospel of the poor and the oppressed.
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (ca. 112 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A heist is being set up to be pulled off by Doc, who has recruited a small gang to help him carry it out. Everything he could possibly think of was taken care of, down to the very last detail. It's the night of the heist and suddenly Doc's luck turns sour when betrayal strikes and the gangsters need to flee from the police.
17) Wild Rose
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rose-Lynn Harlan is bursting with raw talent, charisma, and cheek. Fresh out of jail and with two young kids, all she wants is to get out of Glasgow and make it as a country singer in Nashville. Her mom Marion has had a bellyful of Rose-Lynn's Nashville nonsense. Forced to take responsibility, Rose-Lynn gets a cleaning job, only to find an unlikely champion in the middle-class lady of the house
18) The Ardennes
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After being released from prison, a man tries to head straight back into a life of crime and drugs while his brother and girlfriend choose to live clean lives.
19) Powder blue
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On the gritty streets of L.A., the destinies of four people desperate for connection and redemption are about to collide on Christmas Eve, including an erotic dancer, a grieving husband, a terminally ill ex-con, and a mortician all desperate for redemption.
20) Under her skin
Author
Series
Blank canvas series volume 1
Formats
Description
"A darkly possessive relationship has left Uma alone and on the run. Beneath her drab clothing, she hides a terrible secret--proof of her abuse, tattooed on her skin in a lurid reminder of everything she's survived. Caught between a brutal past and an uncertain future, Uma is reluctant to bare herself to anyone, much less a rough ex-con whose rage drives him in ways she will never understand. But beneath his frightening exterior, Ivan is gentle. Warm....
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