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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
Memory, the narrator of Petina Gappah's The Book of Memory, is an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, after being sentenced for murder. As part of her appeal, her lawyer insists that she write down what happened as she remembers it. The death penalty is a mandatory sentence for murder, and Memory is, both literally and metaphorically, writing for her life. As her story unfolds, Memory reveals that she...
Author
Series
Black market (Kiki Swinson) volume 3
Publisher
Dafina Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"She killed her abusive boyfriend in self-defense. But in jail, violent female gangs paid off by her enemies keep her fearing for her life--and land her in the hospital. From there, a medical testing facility is her one dubious hope for some kind of safety. But from the moment she hits the yard, she and other prisoners are victimized by illegal medical experiments. Injected with lethal diseases and made a test subject for experimental vaccines, she's...
Author
Publisher
Strebor Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Meet inmate 22345-C, Heaven Lewis, serving a ten-year sentence without parole for shooting her wealthy, drug-dealing boyfriend. But what's a beautiful woman who is used to living a lavish lifestyle and has a voracious sex drive to do within the confines of her concrete and barbed-wire dwelling? Simple. Seduce correctional officers. Blackmail the warden. And unleash the dark desires of those who are responsible for overseeing her safety and security."--Back...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Dorothea Truelove is young, wealthy, and beautiful. Ruth Butterham is young, poor, and awaiting trial for murder. When Dorothea's charitable work brings her to Oakgate Prison, she is delighted by the chance to explore her fascination with phrenology and test her hypothesis that the shape of a person's skull can cast a light on their darkest crimes. But when she meets one of the prisoners, the teenaged seamstress Ruth, she is faced with another strange...
Author
Series
Winner's trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
"The East is pitted against the West, and Kestrel and Arin are caught between. In a game like this, can anybody really win?"--
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Leonora Gelb came to Peru to make a difference. A passionate and idealistic Stanford grad, she left a life of privilege to fight poverty and oppression, but her beliefs are tested when she falls in with violent revolutionaries. While death squads and informants roam the streets and suspicion festers among the comrades, Leonora plans a decisive act of protest--until her capture in a bloody government raid, and a sham trial that sends her to prison...