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Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
They busted out of McAlester State Penitentiary—three escaped convicts going to ground in a world unprepared for anything like them....
Lamar Pye is prince of the Dirty White Boys. With a lion in his soul, he roars—for he is the meanest, deadliest animal on the loose....
Odell is Lamar's cousin, a hulking manchild with unfeeling eyes. He lives for daddy Lamar. Surely he will die for him....
Richard's survival...
Lamar Pye is prince of the Dirty White Boys. With a lion in his soul, he roars—for he is the meanest, deadliest animal on the loose....
Odell is Lamar's cousin, a hulking manchild with unfeeling eyes. He lives for daddy Lamar. Surely he will die for him....
Richard's survival...
2) Dead time
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
Johnstone Country. Try Not to Get Killed.
In this explosive Hank Fallon thriller, the justice-seeking ex-con goes undercover and behind bars to expose a plot as big, as bold, and as deadly as the American Civil War . . .
GET OUT OF JAIL FREE—OR DIE
Doing time in Texas is no picnic. But getting sent to The Walls in Huntsville is a fate worse than hanging. If the guards don't kill you,...
In this explosive Hank Fallon thriller, the justice-seeking ex-con goes undercover and behind bars to expose a plot as big, as bold, and as deadly as the American Civil War . . .
GET OUT OF JAIL FREE—OR DIE
Doing time in Texas is no picnic. But getting sent to The Walls in Huntsville is a fate worse than hanging. If the guards don't kill you,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A promising attorney and political candidate, Raymond White was on the fast track when his life was suddenly derailed. Framed and convicted of murder, he is sentenced to solitary confinement in a maximum-security prison where Raymond methodically plots his revenge . After spending 18 years behind bars, Raymond makes his escape--and is ready to finally put his plan into action.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
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.
5) Incarceron
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
“For sheer adventure L’Amour is in top form.”—Kirkus Reviews
Here is the kind of authentically detailed epic novel that has become Louis L’Amour’s hallmark. It is the compelling story of U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack, a man born out of time. When his experimental aircraft is forced down in Russia and he escapes a Soviet prison camp, he must call upon the ancient skills of his Indian...
Here is the kind of authentically detailed epic novel that has become Louis L’Amour’s hallmark. It is the compelling story of U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack, a man born out of time. When his experimental aircraft is forced down in Russia and he escapes a Soviet prison camp, he must call upon the ancient skills of his Indian...
7) Airman
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In the late nineteenth century, when Conor Broekhart discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king, he is branded a traitor, imprisoned, and forced to mine for diamonds under brutal conditions while he plans a daring escape from Little Saltee prison by way of a flying machine that he must design, build, and, hardest of all, trust to carry him to safety.
8) Sapphique
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After his escape from the sentient prison, Incarceron, Finn finds that the Realm is not at all what he expected, and he does not know whether he is to be its king, how to free his imprisoned friends, or how to stop Incarceron's quest to be free of its own nature.
9) Nightshade
Author
Series
Alex Rider volume 12
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Teen spy Alex Rider is sent to a maximum security facility in Gibraltar to impersonate Julius Grief while seeking information about a new criminal organization called Nightshade.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
In North Carolina, during World War II, two girls-Lucy Brown and Allie Bert Tucker-decide to solve crimes just like Nancy Drew. Their chance comes when a man goes missing from town. Before they can solve the case, a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp opens, and more men go missing. Together the girls embark on a journey to discover if we ever really know who the enemy is.
11) Monster
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
Author
Publisher
Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Enter a historic Nebraskan prison where three women find betrayal, love, and ultimate truth. Jane Prescott is serving a ten-year sentence for murder. Can a broken spirit be healed behind bars? Matron Mamie Dawson feels called to help the wounded women in her charge. Will a guard's attentions keep her from her mission? Warden's wife Ellen McKenna has changed her preconceptions about these female prisoners. Will it be enough to save her from a life-or-death...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Description
On an otherwise ordinary morning in 1943, Helene Hannemann is preparing her five children for the day when the German police arrive at her home. Helene's worst fears come true when the police, under strict orders from the SS, demand that her children and husband, all of Romani heritage, be taken into custody. Though Helene is German and safe from the forces invading her home, she refuses to leave her family--sealing her fate in a way she never could...
14) The brethren
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a maximum security federal prison, three former judges who call themselves "the brethren" meet daily in the law library to run a rougher form of justice inside their new community, and make a little money, but when one of their scams derails, they are forced to confront the world of their own creation.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Bolivia in 1999, when their father is unjustly arrested and their mother leaves, Francisco, seventeen, and his sister Pilar, eight, must move to the dirty, dehumanizing, and corrupt prison.
1999, Bolivia. Francisco's father is arrested on false charges and sent to prison by a corrupt system. Now Francisco and his young sister must move into prison with their father. There, they find a world unlike anything they've ever known. Prison life is dirty,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Enduring privation when Japan declares war on England, a teacher at a British missionary school in China is sent to a distant internment camp, where she provides support and instruction to incarcerated children taken from their parents.
China, December 1941. Elspeth Kent left England for a teaching post at a missionary school in northern China. Ten-year-old Nancy Plummer has always felt safe at Chefoo School, protected by her British status. When...
17) The green mile
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Masterfully told and as suspenseful as it is haunting, The Green Mile is Stephen King's classic #1 New York Times bestselling dramatic serial novel and inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film starring Tom Hanks.
Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk "the Green Mile," the lime-colored linoleum corridor leading to a final...
Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk "the Green Mile," the lime-colored linoleum corridor leading to a final...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Perry was born and raised by his mom at the Blue River Co-ed Correctional Facility in tiny Surprise, Nebraska. His mom is a resident on Cell Block C, and so far Warden Daugherty has made it possible for them to be together. That is, until a new district attorney discovers the truth--and Perry is removed from the facility and forced into a foster home. When Perry moves to the "outside" world, he feels trapped. Desperate to be reunited...
19) Child of light
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Kommandant's girl volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
After surviving the brutality of a Nazi prison camp, Marta Nedermann, starting a new life in London with her husband, a British diplomat, once again becomes trapped in a web of intrigue and betrayal when Communists infiltrate British Intelligence and the traitor is linked to her past.
1945. Surviving the brutality of a Nazi prison camp, Marta Nederman is lucky to have escaped with her life. She meets Paul, an American soldier who gives her hope of...
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