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Dublin (Ireland) Fiction Female friendship Fiction Innocence (Psychology) Fiction Prisoners Fiction Reformatories for women California Los Angeles Fiction Reformatories for women Fiction Runaway women Fiction Stalking Fiction Women ex-convicts Fiction Workhouses Ireland Dublin FictionMoore, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2017
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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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023