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1) Head count
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A gun is pointed at Kat's head. It's his gun. Or at least it was after he escaped a chain gang and stole it. Luckily for him though, it's not fully loaded. But how many bullets are left? He can't quite remember. And now, with an unknown assailant pulling the trigger, Kat is forced to recall exactly what happened to each bullet.
2) Eileen
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In 1960s Boston, Eileen shuffles between her emotionally haunted home and the prison where she works. When an intoxicating woman joins the prison staff, Eileen is taken but her newfound confidant entangles her in a shocking crime.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
With the fight at Dress Rosa behind them, the Straw Hats are enjoying a leisurely day at sea, that is, until the mysterious Olga boards their ship demanding a hot meal. She may seem cute on the outside, but this sharp-tongued firecracker of a girl just happens to hold the secret to an ancient lost city and a treasure rumored to be the most valuable metal in the world.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This riveting blend of on-the-ground reporting and sweeping social and architectural history discusses the decision to close Rikers Island and what it will really mean for reformists, justice architects, abolitionists, city government officials, prison guards and the incarcerated themselves.
5) Cadence
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A rebellious army private finds himself in the stockade, with a bunch of room-mates that probably won't accept him into their club-- he is white and they are black. Gradually, he earns their respect and they are united in a struggle against the tough, bigoted stockade commander.
7) Stone
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winner Robert De Niro and Oscar nominee Edward Norton deliver powerful performances as a seasoned corrections officer and a volatile inmate whose lives become dangerously intertwined in this gritty and engrossing thriller. Jack Mabry (Robert De Niro), a parole officer days away from retirement, is asked to review the case of Gerald "Stone" Creeson (Norton), in prison for arson. Now eligible for early release, Stone needs to convince...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Delta Force: When a US passenger place is seized by vicious hijackers and taken to Beirut, the President calls in the Delta Force - a crack team of commando's - who rescue the hostages. Invasion USA: A ragtime army of terrorist mercenaries led by Soviet agent Rostov catches America unprepared and makes her a war zone from sea to shining sea. Only one man can stem the rising tide of violence and free the American people from the tyranny of the streets...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend to Allied troops. But as Singapore falls to the Japanese...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Set in Poland during World War II. Innocent and naive 8-year-old Bruno is bored and restless in his new home. Ignoring his mother, he sets off on an adventure in the woods. He comes across a high fence which separates him from the people he can see through it. Soon he meets a young boy in striped pajamas, and a surprising friendship develops.
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