Morris, Heather
Summary: "In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter, Sally, on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh-Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction MorrisAdjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame
Summary: "The explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black, about two top women gladiators fighting for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADJKumanomata, Kagiji
Summary: Winter has come, and Princess Syalis will do anything to stay warm, including creating a DIY magical device (known as a "Ko-tatsu"), knitting woolen underwear and trying to convince the castle blacksmith to make her a window to keep out the drafts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media LLC 2018
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Summary: War has begun. Arin is in the thick of it, with the East as his ally and the empire as his enemy. He's finally managed to dismiss the memory of Kestrel, even if he can't quite forget her. Kestrel turned into someone he could no longer recognize: someone who cared more for the empire than for the lives of innocent people-and certainly more than she cared for him. At least, that's what he thinks....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: An arresting, powerful debut novel inspired by the life of debutante turned unlikely WWII hero Caroline Ferriday. Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish Catholic teenager, is nervously anticipating the changes that are sure to come since Germany has declared war on Poland. As tensions rise abroad - and in her personal life - Caroline's interest in aiding the war effort grows and she eventually comes to hear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2016
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Summary: Top cop. Devoted sister. Now Inmate 3329. But prison bars won't stop Harriet Blue from seeking justice for the murder of her brother. Prison is a dangerous place for a former cop - as Harriet Blue is learning on a daily basis. So, following a fight for her life and a prison-wide lockdown, the last person she wants to see is Deputy Police Commissioner Joe Woods. The man who put her inside. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction PatBostwick, Marie
Summary: Hope Carpenter and her husband, Rick, are suddenly facing an uncertain future after a forced retirement strains both their savings and their marriage. Seeking inspiration and a financial boost, Hope gets a job teaching crafts to inmates at a local women's prison. She begins to find common ground with the inmates: worries about their families; their fear of having failed those who need them. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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Summary: "Sisters Vera and Marya were brought up as good Soviets: obedient despite hardships of poverty and tragedy, committed to communist ideals, and loyal to Stalin. Several years after fighting on the Eastern front, both women find themselves deep in the mire of conflicts shaping a new world order in 1947 Berlin. When Marya, an interpreter, gets entangled in Vera's cryptic web of deceit and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ScottArlidge, M. J.
Summary: Framed for a murder she didn't commit. As one of HM Prison Holloway's most high-profile new inmates, Detective Helen Grace has a target on her back with nowhere to hide. Helen has made a long list of enemies over the course of her career-some are incarcerated within these very walls. When one of her fellow prisoners is found mutilated and murdered in her locked cell, it's clear that the killer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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Summary: "Ranita Atwater is wrapping up her four-year sentence for opioid possession at Oak Hills Correctional Center, near Boston. With three years of sobriety, she is determined to stay clean and regain custody of her two children from her aunts who have been raising them. My name is Ranita, and I'm an addict, she has said again and again at [Narcotics Anonymous] meetings. But who else is she? Who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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Summary: When her husband goes to prison for his involvement in a string of burglaries and the death of a victim, his wife must raise their child in a community that is sometimes hostile to her, while struggling to maintain her dignity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2006
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Summary: "Talin is a Striker, a member of an elite fighting force that stands as the last defense for the only free nation in the world: Mara. A refugee, Talin knows firsthand the horrors of the Federation, a world-dominating war machine responsible for destroying nation after nation with its terrifying army of mutant beasts known only as Ghosts. But when a mysterious prisoner is brought from the front...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puck 2021