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The prison healer

2022
Tasked with keeping a captured and terminally ill Rebel Queen alive long enough to survive the formidable elemental Trial by Ordeal, death prison healer Kiva Meridan receives a coded message from her family before risking her life to take the queen's place.

My brother is away

2022
"With her older brother in prison, a young girl copes with the confusing feelings his absence creates"--Provided by publisher.

The Texas Seven

2023
The Texas Seven were an infamous group of convicted prisoners who escaped from the John B. Connally Unit, a maximum-security prison near Kenedy, Texas, on December 13, 2000. Over a month later, six of the seven were apprehended between January 21 and 23, 2001. Their capture was as a result of an appeal to the public during the television show America's Most Wanted. However, one of them committed suicide before he could be arrested. The other six escapees were all convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of police officer Aubrey Wright Hawkins, who had been murdered when responding to a robbery perpetrated by the Texas Seven.

The green mile

the complete serial novel
2018
Contains all six installments of the serialized horror novel about death row prisoner John Coffey and his fellow inmates and guards in the Green Mile wing of Cold Mountain Penitentiary.
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My life with murderers

behind bars with the world's most violent men
2020
"David Wilson has spent his professional life working with violent men--especially men who have committed murder. Aged twenty-nine he became, at that time, the UK's youngest ever prison Governor in charge of a jail and his career since then has seen him sat across a table with all sorts of killers: sometimes in a tense interview; sometimes sharing a cup of tea (or something a little stronger); sometimes looking them in the eye to tell them that they are a psychopath. Some of these men became David's friends; others would still love to kill him. This book tells the story of David's journey from idealistic prison governor to expert criminologist and professor"--Provided by publisher.

Delicious in dungeon

2018
"The adventurously eating adventurers have finally reached the abandoned orc village where the red dragon was last spotted--and, from the chard and crumbling evidence, where it is still active and on the prowl! No matter the risks, Laios is determined to recover what's left of Falin and resurrect her, but taking down the massive red dragon will be no easy task, even on a full stomach! Someone's going to wind up on the menu, but will it be red dragon steak or flame-grilled adventurer?!"--Back cover.
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Delicious in dungeon

2017
"When young adventurer Laios and his company are attacked and soundly thrashed by a dragon deep in a dungeon, the party loses all its money and provisions...and a member! They're eager to go back and save her, but there is just one problem: If they set out with no food or coin to speak of, they're sure to strave on the way! But Laios comes up with a brilliant idea: "Let's eat the monsters!" Slimes, basilisks, and even dragons...none are safe from the appetites of these dungeon-crawling gourmands!"--Back cover.
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For-profit prisons

2020
"Takes a close look at the side of the US prison system that relies on for-profit companies . . . Explores the history behind for-profit prisons in the United States as well as varying opinions about the ethics of for-profit prisons"--Provided by publisher.

Punching the air

(Realistic Fiction) ((Verse Novel))
2021
". . . YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated"--Provided by publisher.

More than just a game

soccer vs. apartheid : the most important soccer story ever told
2011
Chronicles the successes as well as the infighting that occurred within the soccer league that formed inside the brutal prison on Robben Island, off the coast of South Africa, during apartheid.

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