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1. Survival in Auschwitz : the Nazi assault on humanity
by Primo Levi
Levi's haunting memoir about his ten months in the German death camp Auschwitz is an unforgettable chronicle of systematic cruelty and miraculous ... More
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2. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared. Then, on the ocean surface, the face of a young ... More
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3. Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
by Michel Foucault
In the Middle Ages there were gaols and dungeons, but punishment was for the most part a spectacle. The economic changes and growing popular dissent ... More
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4. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
by Blaine Harden (Read by)
Introducing the incredible story of Shin Dong-hyuk - the only person born in a North Korean gulag ever to escape...Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong ...
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5. Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25
by Richard Paul Evans
To everyone at Meridian High School, fourteen-year-old Michael Vey is nothing special, just the kid who has Tourette's syndrome. But in truth, ... More
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6. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
by Ted Conover (Read by)
Acclaimed journalist Conover sets a new standard for reporting when he applies for a job as a prison officer. So begins his odyssey at Sing Sing, ... More
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7. We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
by David Howarth, Professor Stephen E Ambrose (Introduction by)
The incredible story of a Norwegian commando saved from the Nazis by residents of a small arctic village--an astonishing true story of heroism and ... More
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8. Monster
by Walter Dean Myers
Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life ... More
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9. In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
by Neil White
"Neil White was once was a man who lived by appearances - he owned expensive cars and a big house and worked at glossy magazines. When his bank ... More
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10. Journey Into the Whirlwind
by Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg, P Stevenson (Translator), Max Hayward (Translator)
Eugenia Ginzburg's critically acclaimed memoir of the harrowing eighteen years she spent in prisons and labor camps under Stalin's rule By the late ... More
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11. The Mullah's Storm
by Thomas W Young
List of all editionsA transport plane carrying an important Taliban detainee for interrogation is shot down in a blizzard over Afghanistan. For two people--navigator ... More
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12. Escape from the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew
by Alex Kershaw
List of all editionsKershaw presents the adrenaline-soaked story of nine men who fought the Japanese from America's deadliest submarine, survived its sinkage, and ... More
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13. The Brethren
by John Grisham
List of all editionsTrumble is a minimum security federal prison, home to drug dealers, bank robbers, swindlers, embezzlers, tax evaders, and three former judges who ... More
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14. Sapphique
by Catherine Fisher
List of all editionsFinn has escaped from the terrible living Prison of Incarceron, but its memory torments him, because his brother Keiro is still inside. Outside, ... More
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15. The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
List of all editionsTranslation of: Arkhipelag GULag, 1918-1956.
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16. Highland Conqueror
by Hannah Howell
List of all editionsThe "New York Times" bestselling author captures the breathless danger and desire of the Highlands in this exciting tale of a fierce Scotsman who ... More
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17. The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of WWII's Most Decorated Platoon
by Alex Kershaw
List of all editionsFrom the author of the bestselling "The Bedford Boys" comes the remarkable story of America's most decorated platoon that miraculously halted Hitler ... More
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18. Fugitives
by Alexander Gordon Smith
List of all editionsI am no longer trapped in the darkness. But the darkness is still trapped inside me. We did it. We cracked the gates, escaped from Furnace. We're out ... More
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19. On American Soil: How Justice Became a Casualty of World War II
by Jack Hamann
List of all editionsThrough his access to previously classified documents and information gained from extensive interviews, journalist Hamann tells the story behind ... More
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20. Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II
by Louis Zamperini, David Rensin
List of all editionsAthletically gifted, Louis Zamperini propelled himself from the tough streets of Southern California to the 1936 Berlin Olympics, but when war came ... More
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21. The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
by Slavomir Rawicz
List of all editionsThis is one of the world's greatest stories of adventure, survival and escape. SlavomirRawicz was a young Polish cavalry officer. On 9th November ... More
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23. Are Prisons Obsolete?
by Angela Yvonne Davis
List of all editionsWorld-renowned activist Angela Davis discusses how mass incarceration has had little or no effect on crime, how disproportionate numbers of the poor ... More
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24. Lockdown: Escape from Furnace
by Alexander Gordon Smith
List of all editionsFurnace Penitentiary: the world's most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth's surface. Convicted of a murder he didn't ... More
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25. Haunted
by Chuck Palahniuk
List of all editions"Haunted" is a novel made up of stories: twenty-three of them to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach ... More







