prisoners

Cammie lives with her father, the warden, in an apartment above the entrance to the county jail - so most of the mother figures she's got her eye on are inmates. There's a flamboyant shoplifter named Boo Boo, who dreams of hot fudge sundaes. And a sullen reformed arsonist named Eloda, who works as their housekeeper. Not ideal candidates maybe, but Cammie's nickname isn't Cannonball for nothing. She's a girl who decides what she wants and launches herself at it.

Newly paroled ex-con and former U.S. Ranger Cameron Poe finds himself trapped in a prisoner transport plane when the passengers seize control.

In a fantastical illustrated novella, three people imprisoned in a nightmarish library plot their escape.

An anecdotal portrayal of life for the youngest convicts who populated the Australian colonies more than two centuries ago describes how English children were once tried as adults for petty crimes and banished to isolated and dangerous colonies.

"Kira has discovered that she's not human, but merrow--a mermaid--and that her biological parents are prisoners on an island run by hateful finfolk. At thirteen years old, she's not old enough to leave her sleepy seaside town to go on a solo underwater rescue mission, so when a group of selkies offers to lead her to Hildaland, she can't refuse"--Back cover.

Serafina, taken prisoner along with a group of Pueblo Indians for conspiring against the colonial government of New Mexico in 1680, intrigues the Governor with her intelligence and ability to speak Spanish, leading him to strike a bargain with the young woman that she will tell him a story each night, and if he is pleased by the tale, he will release one of the captives.

When an economic and social collapse finds Stan and Charmaine, a married couple, living in their car and exposed to the dangers on the streets, they see the Positron Project as an answer to their prayers. Everyone who participates is allowed to live in the comfortable town of Consilience with reliable employment, a roof over their head, and no worry for where their next meal will come from. The only trade off is, after living comfortably for six months, they must spend time as inmates at the local prison, after which time they can return to their home in Consilience. But when Charmaine becomes entangled in a romance with another man, the Positron Project begins to look less like an answer to prayers and more like a doomed prophecy coming to fruition.

Michael Finkel recalls how, shortly after he was fired from New York Times Magazine, he found out that a suspected murderer on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List had fled to Mexico and taken on his identity. After the man, Christian Longo, was taken into custody, Michael Finkel was the only reporter that he agreed to talk to. Finkel describes his attempts to uncover the truth about really happened to the family Longo was accused of killing.

"A former prison guard and talented fiddler returns to his Montana hometown to bury his wife and confront the inmate who, twenty years ago, held him hostage during a prison riot."--Provided by OCLC.

In this collection of stories set in the world of the Darkest Minds trilogy, a desperate young man is forced to make a terrible choice; a spark of light brightens a brutal world when a girl named Sam encounters her childhood best friend at the government-run "rehabilitation" camp; and, even though Sam is thrown into a terrifying and uncertain new life, her survival at stake, the time has come to fulfill a promise she made.