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Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs Jean Genet Our Lady of the Flowers (Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs) is the debut novel of French writer Jean Genet, first published in 1943. The free-flowing, poetic novel is a largely autobiographical account of a man'… OL1281903W
Daddy's little girl Daddy's little girl Mary Higgins Clark From Mary Higgins Clark, America's bestselling "Queen of Suspense," comes a chilling story of murder that reaches the heights of suspense while exploring the depths of the criminal mind. Ellie Cavana… OL13060W
The Crying Tree The Crying Tree Naseem Rakha Irene and Nate Stanley are living a quiet and contented life with their two children, Bliss and Shep, on their family farm in southern Illinois when Nate suddenly announces he's been offered a job as… OL13614503W
The new Jim Crow The new Jim Crow Karen Chilton,Michelle Alexander This work argues that the War on Drugs and policies that deny convicted felons equal access to employment, housing, education, and public benefits create a permanent under caste based largely on race… OL13826369W
The ballad of Reading Gaol and other poems The ballad of Reading Gaol and other poems Oscar Wilde This poem - originally published anonymously, written after Wilde's two year's hard labour in Reading prison - is the tale of a man who has been sentenced to hang for the murder of the woman he loved… OL14877694W
The Lord of Death The Lord of Death Eliot Pattison Shan Tao Yun is an exiled Chinese national and a former Beijing investigator on parole from the Tibetan gulag to which he had been consigned as punishment. He is ferrying a corpse on muleback over th… OL14924899W
The Other Wes Moore The Other Wes Moore Wes Moore Two kids with the same name lived in the same decaying city. One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentenc… OL15165120W
Half of paradise Half of paradise James Lee Burke Author correction. OL15409491W
Guardian of the dawn Guardian of the dawn Richard Zimler In late-sixteenth-century Goa, young Tiago Zarco confronts the long reach of the Inquisition as he fights to save his family and preserve his relationship with the Hindu girl he loves. OL15836763W
The intruder The intruder Melinda Metz Michael is being held in a secret compound. He's got to get out, before he's forced to betray the Roswell residents that Sheriff Valenti's dying to capture. Can his friends help him? OL16069061W
And you call yourself a Christian And you call yourself a Christian E. N. Joy Lorain, scandalous leader of the New Day Singles Ministry, wages war on her daughter Unique's birth mother when Unique ends up in jail for murder, while Unique, fighting for her life behind bars, won… OL16643996W
Half Bad Half Bad Sally Green Now a major new Netflix series entitled The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself. In a world divided between good and evil, what happens when you're both? Nathan Byrn is the illegitimate son of the … OL17478478W
Recueil des lois et arre te s relatifs aux de tenus et condamne s. Recueil des lois et arre te s relatifs aux de tenus et condamne s. France Consists of documents dated 10 mars 1793 - 4 frimaire an VI (24 novembre 1797), passed by the Convention nationale and the Corps le gislatif. OL17617960W
Alphabet Alphabet Kathy Page In Thatcher's Britain, barely out of his teens, highly intelligent but illiterate, Simon Austen is sent down for life. Charming, damaged, brutal, manipulative, Simon is a riddle no one can crack. He … OL17879881W
A Prison Diary A Prison Diary Jeffrey Archer,FF 8282 Please see https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1807104W OL1807104W
The value of kindness The value of kindness Spencer Johnson Discusses the work of the English woman whose pioneering efforts in improving the lot of prisoners were based on the premise that prisoners' behaviour would improve if they were treated more kindly. OL1864124W
Grendon and the emergence of forensic therapeutic communities Grendon and the emergence of forensic therapeutic communities Elizabeth Sullivan,Richard Shuker "Grendon opened in 1962 as an experimental psychiatric prison to provide treatment for prisoners with antisocial personality disorder. Today it is run by a prison service governor but continues to op… OL18647205W
Life After Death Life After Death Damien Echols The New York Times bestselling memoir by Damien Echols of the West Memphis Three, who was falsely convicted of three murders and spent nearly eighteen years on Death Row. In 1993, teenagers Damien… OL18823109W
Prisons Prisons Marilyn Tower Oliver Discusses problems relating to prisons, examines the controversy of whether prisons should rehabilitate or punish, and looks at possible alternatives to the current prison system. OL1890482W
Reading with Patrick Reading with Patrick Michelle Kuo Michelle Kuo arrived in the rural town of Helena, Arkansas, as a Teach for America volunteer in 2004, bursting with optimism and drive. But she soon encountered the jarring realities of life in one o… OL19714254W
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