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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down. Flyboys, a story of war and horror but also of friendship and honor, tells the story of those men.
Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down. One of those nine was...
Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down. One of those nine was...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this gripping narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most famous prison stories in history and makes it utterly his own. During World War II, the German army used the towering Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant Allied prisoners. For four years, these prisoners of the castle tested its walls and its guards with ingenious escape attempts that would become legend. But as Macintyre shows, the story of Colditz was about much more than escape....
64) Good time
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Constantine Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld in an increasingly desperate, and dangerous attempt to get his brother out of jail. Over the course of one adrenalized night Constantine finds himself on a mad descent into violence and mayhem as he races against the clock to save his brother and himself, knowing their lives hang in the balance.
65) Lockdown
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
It's kill or be killed in the space penitentiary that houses the galaxy's worst criminals, where convicts face off in gladiatorial combat while an underworld gambling empire reaps the profits of the illicit blood sport.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history. IIn 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at aprivate prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An award-winning investigative journalist, he used his real name; there was no meaningful background check. Four months later, his employment came to an abrupt...
68) Oz: Season 6
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In this final season of Oz, Schillinger has revenge on his mind, Cyril is facing execution, Beecher is hoping for parole, and McManus is finding solace in a meditative maze. The Oz players rehearse for their presentation of Macbeth and the final act.
Author
Publisher
Puffin, an imprint of Penguin Random Canada Young Readers, a division of Penguin Random House of Canada Limited
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"As a child, Allen is saved from a nautical disaster by Benjamin Postlethwaite, a solitary lighthouse keeper. Years later, Allen returns to the lighthouse, and the two nurse an injured young puffin back to health. When Allen is called up to fight in WorldWar Two...his fond memories of his time at the lighthouse keep him going, even through prison camp"--
70) The match
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1944, the Nazis organized a football match to commemorate Adolf Hitler2s birthday. An elite Nazi team would play a group of prisoners to defeat them. Forcing former Hungarian football captain Laszlo Horvath to form and train a team of prisoners, would inspire hope and a chance of survival against the odds of starving or execution.
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
After having her cover blown and risking everything to stop a nuclear Armageddon, Chandler figured she might have been shown some appreciation. Instead, the organization that trained her locks up Chandler's sister on treason charges, intent on extracting every last scrap of information out of her broken body and mind. Despite the impossible odds, Chandler launches a rescue mission, breaking into an ultra-secret military prison on U.S. soil that no...
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A captivating young adult edition of the award-winning #1 New York Times best-seller documents the inspirational true story of how Louis Zamperini, a juvenile delinquent-turned-Olympic athlete and World War II pilot, crashed into the ocean and survived for weeks on a life raft only to become a prisoner of war. Includes more than 100 photographs and an exclusive interview with Louis Zamperini."
73) Caged
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In the psychological horror/thriller Caged, Harlow Reid, an affluent African American psychiatrist, is sent to federal prison after being found guilty of murdering his wife. He is then sent to solitary confinement, a victim of systemic racism. Isolated and fighting for an appeal, he slowly descends into madness, pushed to his breaking point by an abusive female guard hell-bent on her own form of justice. Haunted by internal demons and his dead wife,...
76) Shot caller
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After a DUI sent him down the rabbit hole of the American prison system, Jacob Harlon was transformed into Money, a stoic and ruthless prison gangster. Upon his release from prison, he learns that the grip of his new family, the prison gang, goes beyond bars. Chased by law enforcement and threatened by his incarcerated 'protectors', he must orchestrate one last dangerous crime.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"From the co-creators and co-hosts of the Peabody- and Pulitzer-nominated podcast comes this illuminating view of prison life, as told by presently and formerly incarcerated people. The United States locks up more people per capita than any other nation in the world--600,000 each year and 2.3 million in total. The acclaimed podcast Ear Hustle, named after the prison term for eavesdropping, gives voice to that ever-growing prison population. Co-created...
79) The last castle
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
General Irwin, a respected three-star tactician whose career ends in disgrace when he's court martialed and sent to a maximum security military prison, The Castle. Irwin quickly butts heads with the facility's autocratic warden, Colonel Winter, who runs his command with an iron fist, even killing prisoners when he deems it necessary. Irwin rallies his fellow convicts into a rag-tag army and leads them in a revolt against Winter, an action that the...
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