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Affinityby Sarah WatersISBN 1573228737 (1-57322-873-7)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Affinity'Book summary:Affinity is a tale of power and possession that Henry James himself might admire. In her first novel, Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters explored secrets and longing--capping off this lesbian romp with a utopian-socialist vision. Her intricate follow-up is just as sensual but infinitely darker, its moral more difficult to descry. Its stylistic and psychological rewards, however, are visible at every turn, the author's persuasive imagination matched by her gift for storytelling.
In late September 1874, Margaret Prior makes her way through the pentagons of London's Millbank Prison, a place of fearful symmetry and endless corridors. This plain woman on the verge of 30 has come to comfort those behind bars, several of whom Waters brings to instant, sad life. And our Lady Visitor plans to take her role dead seriously, having recovered from two years of nervous indolence in her family's Chelsea house. One person, however, makes her job a passion. Opening an inspection slit (or "eye" as these devices are known), Margaret hears "a perfect sigh, like a sigh in a story." Peering inward, she's confronted by the most erotic of visions--a woman turned toward the sun, caressing her cheek with a forbidden violet: "As I watched, she put the flower to her lips, and breathed upon it, and the purple of the petals gave a quiver and seemed to glow..."
Selina Dawes may indeed have the face of a Crivelli angel, but this medium is in for fraud and assault, her last session having gone very badly indeed. Suffice it to say that the first full encounter between these two very different women is enthralling. "You think spiritualism a kind of fancy," Selina riddles. "Doesn't it seem to you, now you are here, that anything might be real, since Millbank is?" And soon enough Margaret receives several viable signs of the supernatural: a locket disappears from her room, flowers mysteriously appear, and her dazzling friend knows everything about her. Strangest of all, Selina seems to love her.
As Margaret records her weekly prison forays, her own past comes into focus, notably her plans to travel to Italy with her first love (who is now her sister-in-law). But her current journal, she convinces herself, is to be very different from her last one, which "took as long to burn as human hearts, they say, do take." Meanwhile, Waters offers a narrative two-for-one, placing Margaret's diary cheek by jowl with Selina's chronicle of her pre-Millbank existence. This dispassionate, staccato record initially suggests that we can separate truth from desire. Or can we? What Waters's haunting creation leaves us with is a more painful reality--that knowledge and belief are entirely different things. --Kerry Fried [via]
Al Capone Does My Shirtsby Gennifer CholdenkoISBN 0142403709 (0-14-240370-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Al Capone Does My Shirts'Book summary:[via]Moose Flannagan moves with his family to Alcatraz so his dad can work as a prison guard and his sister, Natalie, can attend a special school. But Natalie has autism, and when she's denied admittance to the school, the stark setting of Alcatraz begins to unravel the tenuous coping mechanisms Moose's family has used for dealing with her disorder.
When Moose meets Piper, the cute daughter of the Warden, he knows right off she's trouble. But she's also strangely irresistible. All Moose wants to do is protect Natalie, live up to his parents' expectations, and stay out of trouble. But on Alcatraz, trouble is never very far away.
Set in 1935, when guards actually lived on Alcatraz Island with their families. Choldenko's second novel brings humor to the complexities of family dynamics and illuminates the real struggle of a kid trying to free himself from the "good boy" stance he's taken his whole life.
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Are Prisons Obsolete?by Angela DavisISBN 1583225811 (1-58322-581-1)
Softcover, Seven Stories Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Are Prisons Obsolete?'Book summary:With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the abolition of slavery was sheerest illusion. Similarly,the entrenched system of racial segregation seemed to last forever, and generations lived in the midst of the practice, with few predicting its passage from custom. The brutal, exploitative (dare one say lucrative?) convict-lease system that succeeded formal slavery reaped millions to southern jurisdictions (and untold miseries for tens of thousands of men, and women). Few predicted its passing from the American penal landscape. Davis expertly argues how social movements transformed these social, political and cultural institutions, and made such practices untenable.
In Are Prisons Obsolete?, Professor Davis seeks to illustrate that the time for the prison is approaching an end. She argues forthrightly for "decarceration", and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole. [via]More editions of Are Prisons Obsolete?:
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Borstal Boyby Brendan Behan, Benedict KielyISBN 1567921051 (1-56792-105-1)
Softcover, Roundhouse Publishing Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Borstal Boy'Book summary:This miracle of autobiography and prison literature begins: "Friday, in the evening, the landlady shouted up the stairs: 'Oh God, oh Jesus, oh Sacred Heart, Boy, there's two gentlemen here to see you.' I knew by the screeches of her that the gentlemen were not calling to inquire after my health . . . I grabbed my suitcase, containing Pot. Chlor., Sulph Ac, gelignite, detonators, electrical and ignition, and the rest of my Sinn Fein conjurer's outfit, and carried it to the window..." The men were, of course, the police, who knew seventeen-year-old Behan for the anti-imperialist terrorist he was and arrested him. He spent three years as a prisoner in England, primarily in Borstal (reform school), and was then expelled to his homeland, a changed but hardly defeated rebel. Once banned in the Irish Republic, Borstal Boy is both a riveting self-portrait and a clear look into the problems, passions, and heartbreak of Ireland. [via]
The Celling of America: An Inside Look at the U. S. Prison Industryby Daniel Burton-Rose, Dan Pens, Paul WrightISBN 1567511406 (1-56751-140-6)
Softcover, Common Courage Press
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Courtroom 302: A Year Behind The Scenes In An American Criminal Courthouseby Steve BogiraISBN 0679752064 (0-679-75206-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Courtroom 302: A Year Behind The Scenes In An American Criminal Courthouse'Book summary:Steve Bogiras riveting book takes us into the heart of Americas criminal justice system. Courtroom 302 is the story of one year in one courtroom in Chicagos Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country.
We see the system through the eyes of the men and women who experience it, not only in the courtroom but in the lockup, the jury room, the judges chambers, the spectators gallery. When the judge and his staff go to the scene of the crime during a burglary trial, we go with them on the sheriffs bus. We witness from behind the scenes the highest-profile case of the year: three young white men, one of them the son of a reputed mobster, charged with the racially motivated beating of a thirteen-year-old black boy. And we follow the cases that are the daily grind of the court, like that of the middle-aged man whose crack addiction brings him repeatedly back before the judge.
Bogira shows us how the war on drugs is choking the system, and how in most instances justice is dispensedas, under the circumstances, it must berapidly and mindlessly. The stories that unfold in the courtroom are often tragic, but they no longer seem so to the people who work there. Says a deputy in 302: You hear this stuff every day, and youre like, Lets go, lets go, lets get this over with and move on to the next thing.
Steve Bogira is, as Robert Caro says, a masterful reporter. His special gift is his understanding of peopleand his ability to make us see and understand them. Fast-paced, gripping, and bursting with character and incident, Courtroom 302 is a unique illumination of our criminal court system that raises fundamental issues of race, civil rights, and justice. [via]More editions of Courtroom 302: A Year Behind The Scenes In An American Criminal Courthouse:
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prisonby Michel Foucault, Alan SheridanISBN 0679752552 (0-679-75255-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison'Book summary:In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul. [via]
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- Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison: ISBN 0394499425 (0-394-49942-5)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books - Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison: ISBN 0394727673 (0-394-72767-3)
Hardcover, Vintage Books - Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison: ISBN 0679752552 (0-679-75255-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison: ISBN 0394499425 (0-394-49942-5)
Finding Freedom: Writings from Death Rowby Jarvis Jay MastersISBN 188184708X (1-881847-08-X)
Softcover, Padma Pub
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigationby Aleksandr I. SolzhenitsynISBN 0060007761 (0-06-000776-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation'Book summary:The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyns attempt to compile a literary-historical record of the vast system of prisons and labor camps that came into being shortly after the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia in 1917 and that underwent an enormous expansion during the rule of Stalin from 1924 to 1953. Various sections of the three volumes describe the arrest, interrogation, conviction, transportation, and imprisonment of the Gulags victims by Soviet authorities over four decades. The work mingles historical exposition and Solzhenitsyns own autobiographical accounts with the voluminous personal testimony of other inmates that he collected and committed to memory during his imprisonment.Upon publication of the first volume of The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn was immediately attacked in the Soviet press. Despite the intense interest in his fate that was shown in the West, he was arrested and charged with treason on February 12, 1974, and was exiled from the Soviet Union the following day.[via]More editions of The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation:
- The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation: ISBN 0060921021 (0-06-092102-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins - The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation: ISBN 0813332893 (0-8133-3289-3)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group - The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation: ISBN 0060139145 (0-06-013914-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation: ISBN 0060007761 (0-06-000776-1)
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- The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation: ISBN 0060921021 (0-06-092102-1)
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The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, I-IIby Aleksandr Isaevich SolzhenitsynISBN 000262253X (0-00-262253-X)
Hardcover, Collins : Harvill Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, I-II'Book summary:[This is the MP3CD audiobook format of VOLUME 2 in vinyl case.]
**Time Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of the 20th Century**
In this masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn has orchestrated thousands of incidents and individual histories into one narrative of unflagging power and momentum. Written in a tone that encompasses Olympian wrath, bitter calm, savage irony, and sheer comedy, it combines history, autobiography, documentary, and political analysis as it examines in its totality the Soviet apparatus of repression from its inception following the October Revolution of 1917.
This second volume in Solzhenitsyn's narrative chronicles the appalling inhumanity of the Soviets' ''destructive-labor camps'' and the fate of prisoners in them--felling timber, building canals and railroads, and mining gold without equipment or adequate food and clothing, and subject always to the caprices of the camp authorities. Most tragic of all is the life of the women prisoners and the luckless children they bear.
Once again, this chronicle of appalling inhumanity is made endurable by the vitality and emotional range of the writing. In one truly remarkable chapter, a parody of an anthropological treatise, Solzhenitsyn achieves new heights of sardonic wit. In the final section the music changes, and he provides a magnificent coda on the possibilities of redemption and purification through suffering. [via]More editions of The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, I-II:
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The Gulag Archipelago, Part 1 & 2, Book 1by Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 0060803320 (0-06-080332-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gulag Archipelago, Part 1 & 2, Book 1'Book summary:The Soviet Union had the largest secret political prison system of its time, scattered into the most remote corners of Eastern Europe and Asia. When Solzhenitsyn came out, he told the stories of shattered lives in a shattered nation. [via]
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secretsby J. K. Rowling, Mary GrandpreISBN 0439064864 (0-439-06486-4)
Hardcover, Arthur a Levine
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'Book summary:What makes the Harry Potter series so successful? Maybe it's the fact that J.K. Rowling doesn't write children's books, she writes children's stories, more in the tradition of the Brothers Grimm than Dr. Seuss. The exploits of Harry and his friends captivate even the shortest attention spans by engaging the imagination with vivid characters and fast-moving action, instead of trying to merely catch the eye with colorful pictures or pop-up effects. Not surprisingly, the Potter tales sound wonderful read aloud, and adapt to the audiobook format extremely well. Broadway actor Jim Dale's impressive vocal range gives each character in the book its own distinctive voice--a considerable task, given the pantheon of witches, warlocks, ghosts, ghouls, dwarves, and elves that Harry encounters in his second outing. And thankfully, since the book is read unabridged, no one's favorite character is omitted. Engaging for children without being childish, the audio version of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is worthy addition to the deservedly popular series. (Running time: 9 hours, 7 CDs) --Andrew Nieland [via]
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabanby J. K. RowlingISBN 1581306571 (1-58130-657-1)
Softcover, Novel Units
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'Book summary:For most children, summer vacation is something to look forward to. But not for our 13-year-old hero, who's forced to spend his summers with an aunt, uncle, and cousin who detest him. The third book in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series catapults into action when the young wizard "accidentally" causes the Dursleys' dreadful visitor Aunt Marge to inflate like a monstrous balloon and drift up to the ceiling. Fearing punishment from Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon (and from officials at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry who strictly forbid students to cast spells in the nonmagic world of Muggles), Harry lunges out into the darkness with his heavy trunk and his owl Hedwig.
As it turns out, Harry isn't punished at all for his errant wizardry. Instead he is mysteriously rescued from his Muggle neighborhood and whisked off in a triple-decker, violently purple bus to spend the remaining weeks of summer in a friendly inn called the Leaky Cauldron. What Harry has to face as he begins his third year at Hogwarts explains why the officials let him off easily. It seems that Sirius Black--an escaped convict from the prison of Azkaban--is on the loose. Not only that, but he's after Harry Potter. But why? And why do the Dementors, the guards hired to protect him, chill Harry's very heart when others are unaffected? Once again, Rowling has created a mystery that will have children and adults cheering, not to mention standing in line for her next book. Fortunately, there are four more in the works. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: ISBN 1594130027 (1-59413-002-7)
Softcover, Large Print Pr - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: ISBN 1551922460 (1-55192-246-0)
Hardcover, Raincoast Book Dist Ltd - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: ISBN 0439136369 (0-439-13636-9)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: ISBN 043965548X (0-439-65548-X)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: ISBN 0747546347 (0-7475-4634-7)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: ISBN 0439554926 (0-439-55492-6)
Hardcover, Scholastic - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: ISBN 0613371062 (0-613-37106-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: ISBN 0747545111 (0-7475-4511-1)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: ISBN 0786222743 (0-7862-2274-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: ISBN 0439136350 (0-439-13635-0)
Hardcover, Arthur a Levine - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: ISBN 1581306571 (1-58130-657-1)
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Harry Potter Y El Prisionero De Azkaban / Harry Potter And the Prisoner of Azkabanby J. K. RowlingISBN 847888615X (84-7888-615-X)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter Y El Prisionero De Azkaban / Harry Potter And the Prisoner of Azkaban'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths. [via]
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The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prisonby Pete EarleyISBN 0553560239 (0-553-56023-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison'Book summary:An account of life in Leavenworth Prison, based on interviews with inmates and others, describes the lives of a sexual predator, a gang member in for forty-two years, a sociopath in ""no human contact"" status, and others. [via]
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In the Belly of the Beastby Chuan-Tau Edward LanISBN 0394518586 (0-394-51858-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prisonby Jack Henry AbbottISBN 0679732373 (0-679-73237-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison Businessby Jessica MitfordISBN 0394476026 (0-394-47602-6)
Hardcover
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison Business'Book summary:Kind &Kind & Usual Punishment: The Prison Business, by Mitford, Jessica [via]
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Kind and Unusual Punishment: The Prison Businessby Jessica MitfordISBN 0394710932 (0-394-71093-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kind and Unusual Punishment: The Prison Business'Book summary:A candid examination of American prison practices is based on the author's extensive research and workshop experiences as an inmate. [via]
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Live from Death Rowby Mumia Abu-JamalISBN 1559406917 (1-55940-691-7)
Hardcover, Voyager Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Live from Death Row'Book summary:Here for the first time are the prison writings of Abu-Jamal--including the censored commentaries from NPR--an unflinching account of the brutalities, humiliations and actrocities of prison life. Articulate and compelling, the work is certain to fuel the controversy surrounding capital punishment and freedom of speech. [via]
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Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisisby Christian ParentiISBN 1859843034 (1-85984-303-4)
Softcover, Verso Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis'Book summary:Lockdown America documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing, prisons, a fortified border, and the war on drugs. Its accessible and vivid prose makes clear the links between crime and politics in a period of gathering economic crisis. [via]
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Monster: The Autobiography of an L.a. Gang Memberby Sanyika ShakurISBN 0802141447 (0-8021-4144-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monster: The Autobiography of an L.a. Gang Member'Book summary:One of L.A.'s most notorious gang leader takes readers inside the world of gang wars, recounting his ascension through the gang hierarchy, surviving attacks by rival gangs, and life in prison. 65,000 first printing. [via]
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Monsterby Walter Dean Myers, Christopher MyersISBN 0064407314 (0-06-440731-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monster'Book summary:"Monster" is what the prosecutor called 16-year-old Steve Harmon for his supposed role in the fatal shooting of a convenience-store owner. But was Steve really the lookout who gave the "all clear" to the murderer, or was he just in the wrong place at the wrong time? In this innovative novel by Walter Dean Myers, the reader becomes both juror and witness during the trial of Steve's life. To calm his nerves as he sits in the courtroom, aspiring filmmaker Steve chronicles the proceedings in movie script format. Interspersed throughout his screenplay are journal writings that provide insight into Steve's life before the murder and his feelings about being held in prison during the trial. "They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can't kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment."
Myers, known for the inner-city classic Motown and Didi (first published in 1984), proves with Monster that he has kept up with both the struggles and the lingo of today's teens. Steve is an adolescent caught up in the violent circumstances of an adult world--a situation most teens can relate to on some level. Readers will no doubt be attracted to the novel's handwriting-style typeface, emphasis on dialogue, and fast-paced courtroom action. By weaving together Steve's journal entries and his script, Myers has given the first-person voice a new twist and added yet another worthy volume to his already admirable body of work. (Ages 12 and older) --Jennifer Hubert [via]
Monster: The Autobiography of an L. A. Gang Memberby Monster K. Scott, Sanyika ShakurISBN 0140232257 (0-14-023225-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Newjack: Guarding Sing Singby Ted ConoverISBN 0375726624 (0-375-72662-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing'Book summary:Most people know it's easier to get into prison than it is to get out. But for a journalist, just getting into Sing Sing, New York's notorious maximum-security prison, isn't easy. In fact, Ted Conover was so stymied by official channels that he took the only way in--other than crime--and became a New York State corrections officer: "I wanted to hear the voices one truly never hears, the voices of guards--those on the front lines of our prison policies, the society's proxies." Newjack is Conover's account of nearly a year at ground zero of the criminal justice system. What it reveals is a mix of the obvious and the absurd, with hypocrisies not unexpected considering that the land of the free shares with Russia the distinction of having the world's largest prison population. As of December 1999, it was projected that the number of people incarcerated in the United States would reach 2 million in 2000.
This is the world Conover enters when he, along with other new recruits, undergoes seven weeks of pseudomilitary preparation at the Albany Training Academy. Then it's off to Sing Sing for the daily grind of prison life. Conover correctly and vividly captures the essence of that life, its tedium interspersed with the adrenaline rush of an "incident" and the edge of fear that accompanies every action. He also details how the guards experience their own feelings of confinement, often at the hands of the inmates:
A consequence of putting men in cells and controlling their movements is that they can do almost nothing for themselves. For their various needs they are dependent on one person, their gallery officer. Instead of feeling like a big, tough guard, the gallery officer at the end of the day often feels like a waiter serving a hundred tables or like the mother of a nightmarishly large brood of sullen, dangerous, and demanding children. When grown men are infantilized, most don't take to it too nicely.
And not taking to it nicely often involves violence. Indeed, the constant potential for violence on any scale makes even humdrum assignments dangerous. It's astonishing that more doesn't happen, given that the majority of the 1,800 inmates have been convicted of violent felonies: murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery, assault, kidnapping, burglary, arson. But beneath the simmering rage rests an unexpected sensitivity that Conover captures brilliantly. After encountering a Hispanic inmate with a tattoo of a heartbreaking passage from The Diary of Anne Frank on his back, he writes: "It was easier to stay incurious as an officer. Under the inmates' surface bluster, their cruelty and selfishness, was almost always something ineffably sad." Ultimately, the emphasis of Conover's work is on the toll prison exacts--most immediately on the jailed and their jailers, but also on a society that puts both there in increasing numbers. --Gwen Bloomsburg [via] -
No More Prisons: Urban Life, Homeschooling, Hip-Hop Leadership, the Cool Rich Kids Movement, a Hitchehiker's Guide to Community Organizing, and Why Philanthropy Is theby William Upski WimsattISBN 1887128425 (1-887128-42-5)
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Papillonby Henri Charriere, Jean-Pierre Castelnau, June P. WilsonISBN 0061120669 (0-06-112066-9)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Papillon'Book summary:Henri Charrière, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, he was eventually sent to the notorious prison, Devil's Island, a place from which no one had ever escaped . . . until Papillon. His flight to freedom remains one of the most incredible feats of human cunning, will, and endurance ever undertaken.
Charrière's astonishing autobiography, Papillon, was published in France to instant acclaim in 1968, more than twenty years after his final escape. Since then, it has become a treasured classic -- the gripping, shocking, ultimately uplifting odyssey of an innocent man who would not be defeated.
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- Papillon: ISBN 0060934794 (0-06-093479-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Papillon: ISBN 0246639873 (0-246-63987-3)
Hardcover, Hart-Davis - Papillon: ISBN 0606246916 (0-606-24691-6)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Papillon: ISBN 0688022693 (0-688-02269-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Papillon: ISBN 2221006682 (2-221-00668-2)
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The Pickwick Papersby Charles DickensISBN 1853260525 (1-85326-052-5)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pickwick Papers'Book summary:The Pickwick Papers is Dickens' first novel and widely regarded as one of the major classics of comic writing in English. Originally serialised in monthly instalments, it quickly became a huge popular success with sales reaching 40,000 by the final part. In the century and a half since its first appearance, the characters of Mr Pickwick, Sam Weller and the whole of the Pickwickian crew have entered the consciousness of all who love English literature in general, and the works of Dickens in particular. [via]
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- The Pickwick Papers: ISBN 1421926261 (1-4219-2626-1)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com - The Pickwick Papers: ISBN 1850895147 (1-85089-514-7)
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The Pickwick Papers : The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Clubby Charles Dickens, Steven MarcusISBN 0451517563 (0-451-51756-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Clubby Charles DickensISBN 1417917334 (1-4179-1733-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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- Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club: ISBN 1582790663 (1-58279-066-3)
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Hardcover, Trident Press International - Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club: ISBN 0375405488 (0-375-40548-8)
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Prisons and Punishments of Londonby Richard ByrneISBN 0586210369 (0-586-21036-9)
Hardcover, Grafton
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Struggle for Justice: A Report on Crime and Punishment in Americaby American Friends Service CommitteeISBN 0809013630 (0-8090-1363-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Harry Potter Et Le Prisonnier D'azkaban / Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabanby J. K. RowlingISBN 0320037797 (0-320-03779-7)
Softcover, French & European Pubns
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Papillonby Henri CharriereISBN 2266118358 (2-266-11835-8)
Softcover, Presses Pocket
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Harry Potter Y El Prisionero De Azkaban / Harry Potter And the Prisoner of Azkabanby J. K. Rowling, Nieves Martin Azofra, Adolfo Munoz GarciaISBN 0613359585 (0-613-35958-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Primer Suplemento a La Biblioteca Genealogica Guatemalteca: Notas, Comentarios, Adicionesby Ramiro Ordonez JonamaISBN 9992221496 (99922-2-149-6)
Hardcover, Publicacion especial de la Academia Guatemalteca de Estudios Genealogicos, Heraldicos e Historicos
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Harry Potter Aur Azkaban Ka Qaidi / Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabanby J. K. Rowling, Darakhshanda Asghar KhokharISBN 0195799151 (0-19-579915-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Harry Potter und der Gefangene von Azkabanby J. K. RowlingISBN 3551551693 (3-551-55169-3)
Softcover, Carlsen Verlag
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter und der Gefangene von Azkaban'Book summary:Dass es für ein Buch einen Erstverkaufstag gibt, ist nichts Neues, doch dass sogar eine Erstverkaufsstunde festgelegt wird, das hat es noch nicht gegeben. Als in England der dritte Band der beliebten Harry-Potter-Reihe erschien, wurde, um ein kollektives Schwänzen der Schüler zu vermeiden, bestimmt, dieses Buch nicht vor 16.30 Uhr zu veräußern. Trotzdem war nach wenigen Stunden die erste Auflage restlos ausverkauft.
Joanne Rowling knüpft auch in Deutschland mit ihrem neuen Band an ihren bisherigen Erfolg an. Harry ist mittlerweile im dritten Jahr auf der Zauberschule. Er ist so froh wie nie, als die Schule endlich wieder beginnt, denn wieder musste er seine Ferien bei den schrecklichen Dursleys verbringen. Und dann kommt auch noch die fürchterliche Tante Magda zu Besuch. Einfach grässlich. Aus Versehen lässt er sie mit einem kleinen Schwebezauber an die Decke abheben. Eigentlich bricht er damit eine Regel der Zauberer. Aber Harry droht kein Schulverweis, denn das Zauberministerium schützt ihn, da man vermutet, der gefürchtete Verbrecher Sirius Black -- aus dem gut bewachten Gefängnis Askaban entkommen -- ist hinter Harry her.
Harry rätselt, was Black mit ihm zu schaffen hat. Bei einem nächtlichen Gespräch erfährt er, dass dieser am Tod seiner Eltern beteiligt war.
Joanne Rowling lässt ihre Fantasie Purzelbäume schlagen und als erwachsener Leser kann man sich nur wünschen, immer so jung zu bleiben, dass einem dieses Buch Freude bereitet. --Manuela Haselberger
Harry Potter und der Gefangene von Askaban gibt es als Normalausgabe und als Ausgabe für Erwachsene. Die beiden Ausgaben unterscheiden sich in der Umschlaggestaltung, sind aber textlich identisch. [via]
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Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkabanby J. K. RowlingISBN 7020033458 (7-02-003345-8)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: Ancient Greek Editionby J. K. RowlingISBN 158234826X (1-58234-826-X)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury USA
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Hari Butor Wa Sajin Azkaban / Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabanby J. K. RowlingISBN 9771423738 (977-14-2373-8)
Softcover, Naufal
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