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Author
Series
Earl Swagger novels volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
491 p. ; 25 cm.
3) Eileen
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Dreaming of life in the city while caring for her alcoholic father and working in a 1960s boys' prison, a disturbed young woman is manipulated into committing a psychologically charged crime during the holiday season.
4) Visiting day
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Description
A young girl and her grandmother visit the girl's father in prison.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
237 pages ; 22 cm
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Description
Arriving at an ancient stone prison, the Lady, an investigator who searches for information from prisoners's pasts that can save those awaiting execution, digs into the past of a killer named York, who can sense what others cannot, and unearths shocking secrets of her own.
7) Incarceron
Author
Formats
Description
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.
9) Breakout
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
441 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
From multiple perspectives, tells of a time capsule project and the middle schoolers who contribute, including future journalist Nora Tucker and newcomer Elidee Jones, whose brother is in the local prison.
11) Fellside
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
486 pages ; 25 cm
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
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
302 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
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.
13) Zom-B family
Author
Series
Zom-B volume 9
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
174 pages
Description
"Now a prisoner of the most heinous survivors of the human race, B finds herself at the mercy of her enemies and discovers the fate of her parents and friend Vinyl, calling into question how much she is willing to sacrifice in the name of justice"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Living with her warden father in an apartment above a 1950s prison, Cammie O'Reilly struggles to come to terms with the loss of her mother, who died saving her from harm when she was a baby, and interacts with some of the reformed inmates.
15) Lifers
Author
Formats
Description
"Fear haunts the streets of Preston's city: a girl has disappeared. Preston is drawn to investigate, exploring the city in the hunt for his missing friend. And deep in the bowels of a secret scientific institute, he discovers a sinister machine used to banish teenage criminals for their offenses. Captured and condemned to a cavernous dimension, Preston is determined to escape. But this is no ordinary jail. Friendships will be forged and lives will...
16) Barker House
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
272 pages
Description
Barker House follows the story of nine unforgettable New Hampshire correctional officers over the course of one year on the job. While veteran guards get by on what they consider survival strategies--including sadistic power-mongering and obsessive voyeurism--two rookies, including the only female officer on her shift, develop their own tactics for facing “the system.” Tracking their subtly intertwined lives, Barker House reveals the precarious...
17) Death rattle
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"When Carmen Vega's boyfriend tries to kill her, she hands over all her savings to a smuggler and sets out from Tijuana in a small, leaky boat. Within sight of the California coast, the boat starts to sink, and its passengers have to be rescued by borderpatrol. Soon, Carmen turns up dead in a privately-operated Migrant Detention Center. Neither Nick Finn, the officer who saved Carmen from drowning, or his wife, human-rights lawyer Mona Jimenez, are...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
April 2017.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm
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"--
19) The yard dog
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
viii, 292 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Description
Set in Oklahoma during World War II. When Spark Dugan, a "coal picker," is found dead in the rail yards that are close to a Nazi POW camp, local detective Hook Runyon decides Dugan's death is murder. He begins an investigation that quickly becomes dangerous, and little is as it first seems.
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 21 cm
Description
In a world uncomfortably like our own, a young woman called Amalantis is arrested for asking a question. Her question is this: Who is the Prisoner? When Amalantis disappears, her lover Karnak goes looking for her. He searches desperately at first, then with a growing realization. To find Amalantis, he must first understand the meaning of her question. Karnak's search leads him into a terrifying world of lies, oppression and fear at the heart of which...
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