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While on vacation, Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch receives a strange summons from Billy Cronk, one of his oldest friends and a man he had to reluctantly put behind bars for murder. Billy wants him to investigate a new female prison guard with a mysterious past, and Mike feels honor-bound to help his friend. But when the guard becomes the victim in a brutal attack at the prison, he realizes there may be a darker cover-up at play--and that Billy...
2) Barker House
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Follows the story of nine ... New Hampshire correctional officers over the course of one year on the job. While veteran guards get by on what they consider survival strategies-- including sadistic power-mongering and obsessive voyeurism-- two rookies, including the only female officer on her shift, develop their own tactics for facing 'the system'"--Publisher marketing.
3) Black River
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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A former prison guard and talented fiddler returns to his Montana hometown to bury his wife and confront an inmate who, twenty years earlier, held him hostage during a prison riot.
4) Dead by dawn
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Mike Bowditch novels volume 12
Mike Bowditch Mystery
Mike Bowditch mysteries volume 12
Mike Bowditch) volume 12
Mike Bowditch Mystery
Mike Bowditch mysteries volume 12
Mike Bowditch) volume 12
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English
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"Mike Bowditch is fighting for his life. After being ambushed on a dark winter road, his Jeep crashes into a frozen river. Trapped beneath the ice in the middle of nowhere, having lost his gun and any way to signal for help, Mike fights his way to the surface. But surviving the crash is only the first challenge. Whoever set the trap that ran him off the road is still out there, and they're coming for him. Hours earlier, Mike was called to investigate...
5) Sugar Land
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English
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It's 1923 in Midland, Texas, and Miss Dara falls in love with her best friend--who also happens to be a girl. Terrified, Miss Dara takes a job at the Imperial State Prison Farm for men. Once there, she befriends inmate and soon-to-be legendary blues singer Lead Belly, who sings his way out (true story)--but only after he makes her promise to free herself from her own prison.
6) City Island
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Vince Rizzo is a lifelong resident of the tiny, tradition-steeped Bronx enclave of City Island. A family man who makes his living as a corrections officer, Vince longs to become an actor. Vince would rather let his wife believe his weekly poker games are a cover for an affair than admit he is secretly taking acting classes in Manhattan. When Vince is asked to reveal his biggest secret in class, he inadvertently sets off a chaotic chain of events that...
7) Firelight
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 77
Language
English
Description
"Cuba Gooding, Jr. plays Dwayne Johnson (D.J.), a counselor at a women's correctional center who dedicates his professional life to helping young people reclaim their own self-respect through selfless service to others. The incarcerated young women in the center come from troubled, often violent, backgrounds. Many of them belong to gangs and have been involved with illegal drugs. In the words of D.J., 'They come in here so broken. These are girls...
12) Sanctuary
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Series
Sanctuary volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
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465 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Prison-guard-in-training Kenzie is taken hostage by the superpowered criminals of the Sanctuary space station-- only to have to band together with them when the station is attacked by mysterious creatures"--
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