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Papillon
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Henri Charrière |
Papillon is an autobiographical novel written by Henri Charrière, first published in France on 30 April 1969. Papillon is Charrière's nickname, deriving from a butterfly tattoo inscribed on his chest… |
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The Other Wes Moore
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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… |
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The ship thieves
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Siân Rees |
The cunningly resourceful Porter and nine other convicts escaped, hijacked a ship and crossed the perilous South Pacific to Chile, passing themselves off as shipwrecked mariners, until betrayal led t… |
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Life After Death
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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… |
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Bandits & Bibles
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Larry E. Sullivan |
"Bandits & Bibles presents a lively array of selections from convict autobiographies that cover every facet of the prisoners' lives - crimes, arrests and convictions, punishments inflicted, and, in s… |
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Love and struggle
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Boots Riley,David Gilbert |
"Written from the maximum-security prison where he has lived for almost 30 years, this enlightening memoir chronicles the militant career of David Gilbert, a radical activist whose incarceration is d… |
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Kingpin
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Richard Stratton |
Captured in the lobby of the Sheraton Senator Hotel at LAX following a fifteen-year run smuggling marijuana and hashish as part of the hippie mafia, Richard Stratton began a new journey. Kingpin tell… |
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Killer fiction
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G. J. Schaefer |
The perverse, violent stories, poetry, and fantastic scribblings of a man convicted in 1972 of murdering two women chart the killer's extreme pathology. Includes a foreword by a woman who once dated … |
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The Prison Book Club
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Ann Walmsley |
When Ann Walmsley was asked to take part in a book club in a men's prison, she was initially anxious: after a violent mugging a few years before, could she really cope being surrounded by violent cri… |
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Bloodlust
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Nick Bleszynski |
"Set in Van Diemen's Land during the early convict era, Bloodlust tells the story of Alexander Pearce who killed and ate six fellow bolters while on the run from the draconian convict regime at Tasma… |
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Breakout
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Ron LeFlore |
Autobiography of Ron LeFlore, who played on a prison baseball team while serving a sentence for armed robbery and later became a star player for the Detroit Tigers. |
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