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1) Lockdown
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Description
When fourteen-year-old Alex is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign, boys who disappear in the middle of the night sometimes return weirdly altered, and escape might just be possible.
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 3
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
After his failed attempt to escape from Furnace Penitentiary, Alex struggles to survive the bloodstained laboratories beneath where monsters are manufactured, with a death sentence--or worse--hanging over his head.
3) The Rig
Author
Series
The rig volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
"Fifteen-year-old Will Drake has made a career of breaking out from high-security prisons. His talents have landed him at the Rig, a specialist juvenile holding facility in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. No one can escape from the Rig. No one except for Drake"--
6) Solitary
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 2
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, fourteen-year-old Alex Sawyer thinks that he has escaped the hellish Furnace Penitentiary, but instead he winds up in solitary confinement, where new horrors await him.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
"Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as The Handmaid's Tale and as richly imagined as The Blind Assassin. Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs. They desperately need to turn their situation around and fast. The Positron...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Publisher Annotation: In the Chiconautla prison, an inmate convicted of a misdemeanor claims to be Zeta 9, one of the founders of the bloodiest cartel in Mexico. Incredulous, but moved by curiosity, a journalist comes to meet him, thus immersing himself in a scenario where the boundaries between truth and deception are blurred. Determining the identity of this unreadable character, who is involved in the most grotesque cynicism, becomes a challenge...
9) Incarceron
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.
10) The jackal
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From #1 New York Times bestselling author J.R. Ward comes the start of a captivating new Black Dagger Brotherhood spin-off series set in an underground prison where only murderous and thieving creatures dwell.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From twice National Book Award-nominated Rachel Kushner, whose Flamethrowers was called "the best, most brazen, most interesting book of the year" (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine), comes a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. It's 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California's Central Valley....
13) Eileen
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Eileen is stuck taking care of her alcoholic father, and working as secretary at a boys prison when she meets Rebecca, a new counselor, who takes advantage of Eileens loneliness to pull her into an unimaginable crime.
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