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  Crime and Punishment

  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  Crime and Punishment 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. 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 Siberia, where he was serving his sentence in Katorga camps, the Tsarist... (more)
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  Gone Girl

  by Gillian Flynn

  'What are you thinking, Amy? The question I've asked most often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I suppose these questions stormcloud over every marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?' Just how well can you ever know the person you love? This is the question that Nick Dunne must ask himself on... (more)
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  Michael Vey: Book 1

  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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  Holes: Book 1

  Holes

  by Louis Sachar

  Stanley Yelnats is sentenced to dig holes at Camp Green Lake detention center for allegedly 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 as his punishment at Camp Green Lake continues. Will Stanley leave the... (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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  Centenary Works of Hawthorne: Book 1

  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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  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.No human should be allowed to die before they read this epic comedy.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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  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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  Tears of Heaven: Book 1

  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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  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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  The Last Way Station

  Hitler's Final Journey

  by Jon Reisfeld

  On April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler, one of the greatest mass-murderers in history, retired to his room in his bunker, 25 feet beneath the old Reich Chancery garden. Above him, the Red Army was encircling Berlin as his dream of a thousand-year Aryan empire lay in ruins. Hitler placed a glass cyanide capsule between his teeth and pointed a loaded service pistol at his right temple. Then, smugly believing he had both... (more)
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  Crime and Punishment

  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, described as both a historical reflection and a psychological investigation of the human psyche's dark corners, is one of the author's timeless pieces and one of world literature's classics. This new edition puts Crime and Punishment at the reader's fingertips.
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  Wicked Women of Northeast Ohio

  by Jane Ann Turzillo

  In Wicked Women of Northeast Ohio , author Jane Ann Turzillo recounts the misdeeds of ten dark-hearted women who refused to play by the rules. They unleashed their most base impulses using axes, guns, poison and more. You'll meet Perry's Velma West, a mere slip of a girl who was unfortunately too near a hammer during an argument. New Philadelphia's Ellen Athey--no lady herself--had a similar problem with an axe.... (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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  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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  The Crucible

  by Arthur Miller

  Arthur Miller also wrote the screenplay for the 1992 movie starring Daniel Day Lewis and Winona Rider. The film features a scene (between John and Abigail) that was deleted from the original production.
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  Delia: Book 3

  Delia's Gift

  by V. C. Andrews

  HOPE IS SHATTERED ... La esperanza se destruye No amount of money can keep heartbreak away: Delia Yebarra learned that painful lesson after a boating tragedy ended her fairy-tale romance with Adan Bovia, a wealthy politician's son. But when she discovers she is carrying his child, Delia has no choice but to live under the watchful eye of Adan's powerful father, who blamed Delia for the deadly accident but soon... (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)