Summary: "In the spring of 1789, a ship left port in London bound for the Botany Bay penal colony in Australia. The ship carried precious cargo - women, sent to keep the desperate male colonists from engaging in what their governor called 'gross irregularities.' But these women were hardly quiet homemakers - they were a hardy raucous lot rounded up from London's notorious Newgate prison and other jails...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV VOYDeConnick, Kelly Sue
Summary: In a future just a few years down the road in the wrong direction, a woman's failure to comply with her patriarchal overlords will result in exile to the meanest penal planet in the galaxy. When the newest crop of fresh femmes arrive, can they work together to stay alive or will hidden agendas, crooked guards, and the deadliest sport on (or off!) Earth take them to their maker?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turtleback Books 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Into the 9.6-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake Plissken (Russell). His job: wade through L.A.'s ruined landmarks to retrieve a doomsday device"--Container
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Thrilling adventure of imprisonment and escape(s) from a French Guiana prison.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Papillon 1999Flanagan, Richard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLAKline, Christina Baker
Summary: Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Kline 2020Matthews, Owen
Summary: "The gripping completion of the Alexander Vasin trilogy, a taut thriller about two competing KGB operatives on a race against time to uncover the devastating truth behind the assassination of JFK. 1963. In a desolate Russian penal colony, the radio blares the news of President Kennedy's death. Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vasin's new post as director of a gulag camp in the middle of a frozen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATBeer, Daniel
Summary: "The House of the Dead is a history of Siberia with a focus on the last four tsars (1801-1917). Daniel Beer explores the massive penal colony that became an incubator for the radicalism of revolutionaries who would one day rule Russia"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 BEEGrenville, Kate
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRESummary: In 1788, Mary Bryant, a starving young Cornwall girl, is convicted of a petty crime and sentenced to seven years in the Australian penal colony of Botany Bay. When Mary initiates an escape, she embarks on an arduous four thousand-mile journey toward freedom in a tragic and triumphant story that would make her one of history's most fascinating and courageous unsung heroines.--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by Timeless Media Group 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV INCByler, Darren
Summary: "Novel forms of state violence and colonization have been unfolding for years in China's vast northwestern region, where more than a million and a half Uyghurs and others have vanished into internment camps and associated factories. Based on hours of interviews with camp survivors and workers, thousands of government documents, and over a decade of research, Darren Byler, one of the leading...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Global Reports 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365.45 BYLKeneally, Thomas.
Summary: In this first volume of a unique history of Australia where people are always centre stage, bestselling author Thomas Keneally brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story. Convicts and Aborigines, settlers and soldiers, patriots and reformers, bushrangers and gold seekers, it is from their lives and their stories that he has woven a vibrant history to do full...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allen & Unwin 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 994 KENMcCullough, Colleen
Summary: Sexy, educated, and a convicted felon, Englishman Richard Morgan finds romance and adventure on a harsh, untamed continent in this historical saga of Australia's first settlers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCNovik, Naomi.
Summary: Convicted of treason despite their heroic defense against Napoleon's invasion of England, Temeraire the dragon and his friend and rider, Capt. Will Laurence, are transported to the prison colony in Australia. They carry with them three dragon eggs intended to help establish a covert in the colony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey-Ballantine Books 2010
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Summary: Mal, Evie, Carlos, and Jay have received threatening messages demanding they return home. They have a sneaking suspicion that their villainous parents are behind the messages, and something Evie sees in her Magic Mirror confirms their fears. Although Maleficent's just a tiny lizard after her confrontation with Mal, could she have found a way to escape? Mal and her friends determine to sneak...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION DELDeConnick, Kelly Sue
Summary: Eisner Award-nominated writer KELLY SUE DeCONNICK (PRETTY DEADLY, Captain Marvel) and VALENTINE DE LANDRO (X-Factor) follow up on the success of EXTRAORDINARY MACHINE with the second installment of their highly acclaimed and fiercely unapologetic BITCH PLANET. A few years down the road in the wrong direction, a woman's failure to comply with her patriarchal overlords results in exile to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics Inc. 2017
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Summary: Draws on diverse original materials to recount the European settlement of Australia, from the 1788 landing of the first prison fleet to 1868.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 994 HUGSummary: Looks at sixteen of Australia's 8,000 islands, featuring unusual landscapes, creatures, and people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Athena 2017