Leavitt, Caroline
Summary: "As a teenager, for a moment, Ella Fitchburg found love--yearning, breathless love--that consumed both her and her boyfriend, Jude, as they wandered the streets of New York City together. But her life was unexpectedly upended when she was accused of trying to murder Jude's father, an imperious superior court judge, and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. When she learns she's pregnant...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEATrussoni, Danielle
Summary: "All the world is a puzzle, and Mike Brink--a celebrated and ingenious puzzle constructor--understands its patterns like no one else. Once a promising Midwestern football star, Brink was transformed by a traumatic brain injury that caused a rare medical condition: Acquired Savant Syndrome. The injury left him with a mental superpower--he can solve puzzles, calculate equations, and see patterns...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRURutkoski, Marie
Summary: War has begun. Arin is in the thick of it, with the East as his ally and the empire as his enemy. He's finally managed to dismiss the memory of Kestrel, even if he can't quite forget her. Kestrel turned into someone he could no longer recognize: someone who cared more for the empire than for the lives of innocent people-and certainly more than she cared for him. At least, that's what he thinks....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUTStabenow, Dana.
Summary: Hired by a woman to clear her mother's name, Kate must confront twenty years of secrets and murder in one of Alaska's most powerful families.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M STAStabenow, Dana.
Summary: Hired by a woman to clear her mother's name, Kate must confront twenty years of secrets and murder in one of Alaska's most powerful families.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAAdjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame
Summary: "The explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black, about two top women gladiators fighting for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADJCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADJCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ADJClement, Jennifer
Summary: Born in a rural Mexico region where girls are disguised as boys to avoid the attentions of traffickers, Ladydi dreams of a better life before moving to Mexico City, where she falls in love and ends up in a prison with other women who share her experiences.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEConnolly, Cressida
Summary: Moving into her sister's country house in 1938 England after years abroad, Phyllis becomes entangled in a circle of idealistic new friends and their views about a charismatic new leader before a lapse in judgment changes the course of her life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONPisel, Angela
Summary: "Angela Pisel's poignant debut explores the complex relationship between a mother and a daughter, and their quest to discover the truth and whether or not love can prevail--even from behind bars. Grace Bradshaw knows the exact minute she will die. On death row for murdering her infant son, her last breath will be taken on February 15 at 12:01 a.m. Eleven years, five months, and twenty-seven...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PISScott, Anika
Summary: "Sisters Vera and Marya were brought up as good Soviets: obedient despite hardships of poverty and tragedy, committed to communist ideals, and loyal to Stalin. Several years after fighting on the Eastern front, both women find themselves deep in the mire of conflicts shaping a new world order in 1947 Berlin. When Marya, an interpreter, gets entangled in Vera's cryptic web of deceit and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ScottLittle, Elizabeth
Summary: After being released from prison on a technicality, Janie Jenkins tracks down the one lead she has on her mother's real killer and is startled by what she uncovers about her mother's past in a small South Dakota town.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LITLittle, Elizabeth
Summary: "Former "It Girl" Janie Jenkins is sly, stunning, and fresh out of prison. Ten years ago, at the height of her fame, she was incarcerated for the murder of her mother, a high-society beauty known for her good works and rich husbands. Now, released on a technicality, Janie makes herself over and goes undercover, determined to chase down the one lead she has on her mother's killer. The only...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LITKelly, Martha Hall.
Summary: An arresting, powerful debut novel inspired by the life of debutante turned unlikely WWII hero Caroline Ferriday. Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish Catholic teenager, is nervously anticipating the changes that are sure to come since Germany has declared war on Poland. As tensions rise abroad - and in her personal life - Caroline's interest in aiding the war effort grows and she eventually comes to hear...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KELBourland, Barbara
Summary: "Caroline, a former marathon runner who dropped out of school at fourteen to pursue an Olympic medal, was the perfect candidate for a tiara: shapely, disciplined, accustomed to public attention, and utterly uneducated. After she meets Finn, the handsome prince of a small European kingdom, her fate is sealed. With a collar of pearls locked around her throat and a rope of diamonds leashing her to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOUMoore, Susanna.
Summary: The story of Helen, an inmate at Sloatsburg, and the horrible crime that led to her life sentence at the prison, is told through the voices of Helen herself; Dr. Louise Forrest, head of mental services at the prison; and Ike Bradshaw, a young correctionsofficer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOCarey, M. R.
Summary: On a heroin bender, Jess Moulson set fire to her apartment complex. A ten-year-old boy died in the fire. Sentenced to spend the rest of her life in Fellside, a maximum security prison on the edge of the Yorkshire, Jess is haunted by the ghost of the boy she killed, as well as all the mistakes she has made in her life. When Jess decides not to run drugs for a fellow prisoner is she on the road...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARKushner, Rachel
Summary: 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. Outside is the world from which she has been severed, the San Francisco of her youth and her young son, Jackson. Inside is a new reality, thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive. The bluffing and pageantry and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KUSFurnivall, Kate.
Summary: Once, Russia was a place split between breathtaking wealth and desperate poverty. Now, as the country conforms under Stalin's violent rule, a young woman becomes a fugitive, and a storied hero turns into a living, breathing man.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FURCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FURPatterson, James
Summary: Top cop. Devoted sister. Now Inmate 3329. But prison bars won't stop Harriet Blue from seeking justice for the murder of her brother. Prison is a dangerous place for a former cop - as Harriet Blue is learning on a daily basis. So, following a fight for her life and a prison-wide lockdown, the last person she wants to see is Deputy Police Commissioner Joe Woods. The man who put her inside. But...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATPatterson, James
Summary: "Top cop. Devoted sister. Now Inmate 3329. But prison bars won't stop Harriet Blue from seeking justice for the murder of her brother. Prison is a dangerous place for a former cop--as Harriet Blue is learning on a daily basis. So, following a fight for her life and a prison-wide lockdown, the last person she wants to see is Deputy Police Commissioner Joe Woods. The man who put her inside. But...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Patterson 2020Silver, Elizabeth L.
Summary: Visited by a high-powered attorney who has initiated a clemency petition on her behalf and who is also the mother of her victim, death-row inmate Noa is slowly persuaded to share the events surrounding the murder in spite of her reluctance to reveal the whole story or have her life extended.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SILAdams, Hope
Summary: "Nearly two hundred condemned women on board a sailing ship bound for Australia. One of them is a murderer. London, 1841. One hundred eighty Englishwomen file aboard the Rajah, embarking on a three-month voyage to the other side of the world. They're daughters, sisters, mothers-and convicts. Transported for petty crimes. Except one of them has a deadly secret, and will do anything to flee...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADAGappah, Petina
Summary: Memory, the narrator of Petina Gappah's The Book of Memory, is an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, after being sentenced for murder. As part of her appeal, her lawyer insists that she write down what happened as she remembers it. The death penalty is a mandatory sentence for murder, and Memory is, both literally and metaphorically, writing for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAPKushner, Rachel
Summary: "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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018