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Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
ix, 313 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Inside Knowledge incarcerated people step forth as the primary witnesses and documentarians of the American prison's historical and ongoing defeat of the four cardinal rationales for the legal caging of human beings: rehabilitations, deterrence, containment, and retribution"--
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A young boy passes a painting of a hand on a wall in his neighborhood and watches others placing their own hands against it. The act means something different for each of them: Ms. Iris tells him it is a link to her home country; for Devin, it connects him to his older sister, who just left for college; for Savannah, it reminds her of her grandmother who passed away. The boy thinks of those who are on the other side of the mural, of loved ones lost...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
8 audio discs (9 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Riley Diaz was born to fight back. When she is sent to an American Renewal Center for reeducation, Riley declares a one-woman war against the ARC program's bag of dirty tricks designed to break down dissidents.
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xvi, 280 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
For over fifty years, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective movements for abolition and feminism and the fight against state violence and oppression. Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, the first of two important new volumes, brings together an essential collection of Davis's writing over the years, showing how her thinking has sharpened and evolved even as she has remained uncompromising in her commitment to collective liberation....
Publisher
Freebird Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
397 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Inmate Shopper was created to assist those within the prison system by monitoring businesses that service them. Inmate Shopper is an in-print, softcover book, published annually with split year dates that offers inmates a safer way to shop and access business information all in one place. The editors have researched and continue to monitor over 300 businesses listed in Inmate Shopper for more than the past six years. Inmate Shopper informs its readers...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An electric, locked-room suspense thriller set in the remote Scottish Highlands, where icy temperatures and a terrible blizzard prevent any ideas of escape--from a brilliant new voice in crime fiction. One bitterly cold February night at the remote MacKinnon Hotel, Remie Yorke begins her last shift at the front desk as the snow begins to fall. She has booked a one-way flight for the next day--and she's never coming back to Scotland. Or so she thinks....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The first English language edition of a lost memoir by an Auschwitz survivor, offering a shocking and deeply moving perspective on life within the camps. When József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944, his life expectancy was forty-five minutes. This was how long it took for the half-dead prisoners to be sorted into groups, stripped, and sent to the gas chambers. He beat the odds and survived...
8) The ascent
Author
Publisher
GCP, Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kurt Argento, an ex-Detroit street cop who can't let injustice go-and who has the fighting skills to back up his idealism. If he sees a young girl being dragged into an alley, he's going to rescue her and cause some damage. When he does just that in a small corrupt Missouri town, he's brutally beaten and thrown into a maximum-security prison. Julie Wakefield, a grad student who happens to be the governor's daughter, is about to take a tour of the...
9) Unbroken
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hr., 18 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Olympian and war hero Louis Zamperini survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
10) The road dance
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a small, remote village in the Outer Scottish Hebrides, Kirsty yearns for adventure and another life across the ocean. Though she finds comfort in time spent with her mother and younger sister, she sees hope and a future with Murdo, an intelligent, curious poet. The two fall in love as World War I looms, and Murdo is soon conscripted to join the other men of the village to fight. As a gesture of farewell, the village hosts a road dance, a celebration...
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