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Moore, Susanna.

Summary: The story of Helen, an inmate at Sloatsburg, and the horrible crime that led to her life sentence at the prison, is told through the voices of Helen herself; Dr. Louise Forrest, head of mental services at the prison; and Ike Bradshaw, a young correctionsofficer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOO

Kibler, Julie

Summary: In turn-of-the-20th century Texas, the Berachah Home for the Redemption and Protection of Erring Girls is an unprecedented beacon of hope for young women consigned to the dangerous poverty of the streets by birth, circumstance, or personal tragedy. Built in 1903 on the dusty outskirts of Arlington, a remote dot between Dallas and Fort Worth's red-light districts, the progressive home bucks...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIB

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIB

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Fiction Kibler 2019

Bostwick, Marie

Summary: Hope Carpenter finds new purpose in a new phase of life when her husband's 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 with surprising results.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOS

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BOS

Alexander, V. S.

Summary: When her beauty provokes a lustful revelation from a young priest, sixteen-year-old Teagan is sent to one of Dublin's Magdalen Laundries for fallen women, where she befriends two other girls who help her endure the harsh captivity.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2017

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Pochoda, Ivy

Summary: "A rage-brimmed, razor-sharp, feminist neo-western about two women who meet in an LA prison and the cat-and-mouse game that follows their release"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POC

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POC

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