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1) Barker House
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Follows the story of nine ... 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'"--Publisher marketing.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"From the acclaimed author of Cantoras comes a mystical and heartening tale about seeking justice and the power of memory In his modest home at the edge of town, the former President of a Latin American country receives a journalist in his iconic gardens to discuss his legacy and the dire circumstances that threaten democracy around the globe. Once known as the Poorest President in the World, his reputation is the stuff of myth: a former guerilla...
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"From the brilliant mind behind the Shannara saga comes an electrifying new fantasy series about a human girl struggling to find her place in a magical world she's never known. At nineteen, Auris Afton Grieg has led an . . . unusual life. Since the age of fifteen, she has been trapped in a sinister prison. Why? She does not know. She has no memories of her past beyond the vaguest of impressions. All she knows is that she is about to age out of the...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Someone is dead who shouldn't be, and the wrong man is in prison." Nearly twenty years ago, college freshman April Goss was found dead in her bathtub, an apparent suicide, but suspicion soon fell on her boyfriend. Dan Corbeil was convicted of her murder and sent to prison. Case closed. Or is it?"--
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Publisher
Outskirts Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"General Nelson Viall, a veteran of two wars, is appointed as Warden of the Rhode Island State Prison by his Civil War commander, now Governor, in 1868. Nelson, a Brevet General, returned home from the Civil War. He served one term in the Rhode Island House and also was the first full time Police Chief of the City of Providence, prior to becoming Warden. Dr. Henry Jones, a young doctor who emigrates from England, a reformer, looking to improve the...
6) Under-Earth
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Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Under-Earth takes place in a subterranean landfill, hollowed out to serve as a massive improvised prison. Sunken into the trash and debris of the past - gameboys, iphones, coffee cups, old cars -- we follow two parallel stories. In the first, a new arrival struggles to adapt to the everyday violence, physical labour, and poverty of the prison city. Overwhelmed and alone, he finds a connection with a fellow inmate through an old, beat-up novel. While...
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