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  Couldn't Keep It to Myself

  Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution

  by Wally Lamb

  In a stunning work of insight and hope, New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb once again reveals his unmatched talent for finding humanity in the lost and lonely and celebrates the transforming power of the written word. For several years, Lamb has taught writing to a group of women prisoners at York Correctional Institution in Connecticut. In this unforgettable collection, the women of York describe in... (more)
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  I'jaam

  An Iraqi Rhapsody

  by Sina?n Ant?u?n

  An inventory of the General Security headquarters in central Baghdad reveals an obscure manuscript. Written by a young man in detention, the prose moves from prison life, to adolescent memories, to frightening hallucinations, and what emerges is a portrait of life in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. In the tradition of Kafka's The Trial or Orwell's 1984, I'jaam offers insight into life under an oppressive political... (more)
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  In the Belly of the Beast,Letters from Prison

  by Jack Henry Abbott

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  Prisoner of Tehran

  A Memoir

  by Marina Nemat

  What would you give up to protect your loved ones? Your life? In her heartbreaking, triumphant, and elegantly written memoir, Prisoner of Tehran , Marina Nemat tells the heart-pounding story of her life as a young girl in Iran during the early days of Ayatollah Khomeini's brutal Islamic Revolution. In January 1982, Marina Nemat, then just sixteen years old, was arrested, tortured, and sentenced to death for... (more)
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  Willow in a Storm: A Memoir

  by James Peter Taylor

  Written in a stark, unsentimental style, this compelling memoir shows how one man survived a seemingly impossible existence. As a child, "Jimmy Pete" was repeatedly abused by his adoptive father and family acquaintances. He married young, had a daughter, drifted into crime and ultimately killed a banker accidentally in a botched robbery. Jailed for four decades, Taylor didn’t join a gang. Instead, though... (more)
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  The kingis quair

  by James

  Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in good all round condition. With an Introduction, Notes, and Glossary. No dust jacket.