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  Crime and Punishment

  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  Crime and Punishment (Russian: Преступление и наказание Pryestupleniye i nakazaniye) is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. This was first published in the Russian literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866.<1> It was later published in a single volume. This is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels following his return from five years of exile in... (more)
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  Holes: Book 1

  Holes

  by Louis Sachar

  Stanley Yelnats is sentenced to dig holes at Camp Green Lake detention center for stealing a pair of sneakers. His grandfather tells him it is because a curse of bad luck that's in the family, which all started because of his no-good, dirty, rotten, pig-stealing great-great-grandfather. Stanley starts to feel the effects of the curse in earnest as his punishment at Camp Green Lake continues. When he gets to... (more)
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  Discipline & Punish

  The Birth of the Prison

  by Michel Foucault, Alan Sheridan

  In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
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  The Scarlet Letter

  by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  A stark and allegorical tale of adultery, guilt and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne's exploration of the dichotomy between the public and private self, internal passion and external convention, gives us the unforgettable Hester Prynne, who discovers strength in the face of ostracism and emerges as a heroine ahead of her... (more)
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  Michael Vey

  The Prisoner of Cell 25

  by Richard Paul Evans

  My name is Michael Vey, and the story I’m about to tell you is strange. Very strange. It’s my story. To everyone at Meridian High School, Michael Vey is an ordinary fourteen-year-old. In fact, the only thing that seems to set him apart is the fact that he has Tourette’s syndrome. But Michael is anything but ordinary. Michael has special powers. Electric powers. Michael thinks he's unique until he discovers that... (more)
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  The Janitor's Boy

  by Andrew Clements

  It was the perfect crime. Unfortunately, it also led to the perfect punishment. When Jack Rankin gets busted for defacing a school desk with a huge wad of disgusting, watermelon bubble gum, the principal sentences him to three weeks of after-school gum cleanup for the chief custodian. The problem is, Jack's anger at the chief custodian was the reason for his gum project in the first place. The chief custodian... (more)
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  Divine Comedy: Book 1

  The Inferno

  by Dante Alighieri

  The epic grandeur of Dante’s masterpiece has inspired readers for 700 years, and has entered the human imagination.The new Hollander (Robert & Jean) translations are excellent.
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  Breaking Point

  by Alex Flinn

  "We may need to plant a bomb in Old Lady Zaller'sclassroom. " "What?" I stared at Charlie across the monitor. Charlie smiled, and I laughed. You really had me going there, man." "I'm completely serious." Still smiling. "We've done the research, got the info." He took a disc from the holder and inserted it into the drive. Pressed a button. The hard drive swallowed it like a snake on a mouse. A few clicks of... (more)
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  In the Place of Justice

  A Story of Punishment and Deliverance

  by Wilbert Rideau

  From Wilbert Rideau, the award-winning journalist who spent forty-four years in Louisiana prisons working against unimaginable odds to redeem himself, the story of a remarkable life: a crime, its punishment, and ultimate triumph. After killing a woman in a moment of panic following a botched bank robbery, Rideau, denied a fair trial, was improperly sentenced to death at the age of nineteen. After more than a... (more)
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  Heaven and Hell

  The journey of Chris and Serena Davis

  by Kenneth Zeigler

  Heaven and Hell takes you on a journey through Heaven and Hell, as viewed through the eyes of Chris and Serena Davis, who come to experience their reality first hand. Through God s mercy, those who dwell in Heaven, have no recollection of loved ones in Hell. At least, most don t. Yet, in the most beautiful place in the universe, one man s troubling dreams lead him to realize that the love of his earth life has... (more)
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  Cages

  by Peg Kehret

  Kit never means to steal the bracelet; it is just a dumb mistake. But when she is caught Kit is sentenced to twenty hours of volunteer work at the humane society. Kit knows how it feels to be stuck in a cage like those animals and soon she begins to learn that the key to her own cage is right in front of her. "Readers will relate to <Kit's> anguish and her spirit and courage." - Booklist
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  Cruel Crimes and Painful Punishments (Horrible Histories S.)

  by Terry Deary

  Cruel Crime and Painful Punishment is crammed full of 7,000 yearsof law-makers and law-breakers with a rogue's gallery of pirates,witch-finders, highwaymen, torturers, traitors and tyrants. Want to know: Who was sentenced to death-by coffee? Where you could be whipped for flying a kite? Why a cockerel was burnt at the stake? Read on for horrible hangings, putrid prisons and terrible transportation. Find out the... (more)
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  The Magical Monkey King: Mischief in Heaven

  by Ji-Li Jiang

  Every child in China grows up listening to stories of the irrepressible Monkey King. Smart, brave, powerful, and most of all mischievous, Monkey King finds himself in the midst of adventure at every turn. Join Monkey as he wins his title as King of the Monkeys, studies with a great sage to learn the secrets of immortality, and even takes on the job as a royal gardener in the Kingdom of Heaven. With Monkey, be... (more)
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  Bad Girls

  by Alex McAulay

  Thick with suspense and simmering with adolescent turmoil, Bad Girls is an action-adventure survival story that pits a group of troubled teens against a forbidding tropical landscape, an elusive enemy, and, worst of all, each other. It's Mean Girls meets Lord of the Flies, and it marks the debut of an innovative new voice in fiction. Anna Wheeler's parents have had it up to here. They can't seem to control their... (more)
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  Read My Lips

  by Teri J. Brown

  Popularity is as easy as a good secret. Serena just wants to fly under the radar at her new school. But Serena is deaf, and she can read lips really well-even across the busy cafeteria. So when the popular girls discover her talent, there's no turning back. From skater chick to cookie-cutter prep, Serena's identity has done a 180...almost. She still wants to date Miller, the school rebel, and she's not ready... (more)
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  The Book of Execution: An Encyclopedia of Methods of Judicial Execution

  by G. Abbott

  This is a collection of gruesome executions, from being eaten by animals, boiled alive and burned at the stake to the electric chair, hanging, the iron maiden and torn apart by horses.
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  The Crucible

  by Arthur Miller

  Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 — one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history — and the Red Scare which gripped America in the 1950s. The story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice is a savage attack on McCarthyism that brings to light the evils of mindless... (more)
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  Boy who cried ninja

  by Alex Latimer

  In this quirky twist on The Boy Who Cried Wolf, a boy s excuses turn out to have an unexpected element of truth.
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  CRIME & PUNISHMENT IN VERSE (POETIC PRODUCTS)

  by POETIC PRODUCTS

  Some rue to life accounts of people in prison, or in the court system, or just in trouble from an early age, and the people that are closest to them. Many written by people who are ex prisoners.
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  New Life

  by Dragon

  A Different Standard of Love and Life. Dave is having trouble finding someone who shares his taste in lifestyle. When he joins an online match site he meets Jane who seems to be open to Dave’s ideas. She is tired of normal men, normal sex, normal everything. The first thing that Dave does is tell Jane that from now on he will refer to her as Little One and she is only to call him Master. To do otherwise means... (more)