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2010., Adult, 93, Alliance Films Call No: DVD Fic Bronson Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Michael Peterson was 19 years old in 1974. Reckless, and hoping to make a name for himself, he picked up a homemade sawed-off shotgun and set off to rob a post office. Caught and arrested soon after, he was convicted and sentenced to seven years in prison. Ultimately, Peterson ended up behind bars for 34 years, 30 of which were spent in solitary confinement. While incarcerated, his alter ego, Charles Bronson, surfaced and eventually replaced his own personality.
![Bronson [DVD] (2008). Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn.](/Library/images/~imageCT100031.JPG "Bronson [DVD] (2008). Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn.")
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c2010., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic McC Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Opening in England at the turn of the twentieth century, C is the story of a boy named Serge Carrefax, whose father spends his time experimenting with wireless communication while running a school for deaf children. Serge grows up amid the noise and silence with his brilliant but troubled older sister, Sophie: an intense sibling relationship that stays with him as he heads off into an equally troubled larger world. After a fling with a nurse at a Bohemian spa, Serge serves in World War I as a radio operator for reconnaissance planes. When his plane is shot down, Serge is taken to a German prison camp, from which he escapes. Back in London, he<U+2019>s recruited for a mission to Cairo on behalf of the shadowy Empire Wireless Chain. All of which eventually carries Serge to a fitful--and perhaps fateful--climax at the bottom of an Egyptian tomb . . ."--Publisher.
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-- Camp xray2015., Adult, Mongrel Media Call No: DVD Fic Camp Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A young woman joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small town roots. But she ends up as a new guard at Guantanamo Bay instead, where her mission is far from black and white. Surrounded by hostile jihadists and aggressive squadmates, she strikes up an unusual friendship with one of the detainees, Ali. A story of two people, on opposite sides of a war, struggling to find their way through the ethical quagmire of Guantanamo Bay. And in the process, they form an unlikely bond that changes them both.
![Camp x-ray [DVD] (2015). Directed by Peter Sattler.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Camp x-ray [DVD] (2015). Directed by Peter Sattler.")
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2015., Accent Press Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: After spending the last months of the Great War as POWs, Wolf Mau and his fellow soldiers are relieved to be back in Germany. Their homeland is defeated, starving, and broken they didn't expect a welcome home party. But neither did they anticipate murder ...A killer is stalking the medieval streets of Konigsberg. A killer who specialises in kidnapping demobbed soldiers ... before torturing them using medieval methods and leaving their mutilated corpses in the city's red light district.With senior police officials more concerned with politics than crime-solving, it falls to Wolf to hunt down whoever is committing these sadistic crimes before he and his remaining friends find themselves on the growing list of victims ...
![The defeated aristocrat [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT76989.JPG "The defeated aristocrat [eBook]")
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By Jenoff, Pam2020., Park Row Books Call No: Fic Jen Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Kommandant's girl Volume: 2.Summary Note: 1945. Surviving the brutality of a Nazi prison camp, Marta Nederman is lucky to have escaped with her life. She meets Paul, an American soldier who gives her hope of a happier future. But their plans to meet in London are dashed when Paul's plane crashes. Devastated and pregnant, Marta marries Simon, a caring British diplomat, and glimpses the joy that home and family can bring. Her happiness is threatened when she learns of a Communist spy in British intelligence-- and the one person who can expose the traitor is connected to her past.-- adapted from jacket.
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2000., General, 150, Turner Entertainment Co. ; Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Dirty Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Twelve convicts, most of them murderers, are recruited in World War II to infiltrate a protected German retreat and kill the generals there, in exchange for their release from prison.
![The dirty dozen [DVD] (1967). Directed by Robert Aldrich.](/Library/images/~imageCT99889.JPG "The dirty dozen [DVD] (1967). Directed by Robert Aldrich.")
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2016., Penguin Books Call No: Fic Mos Edition: Trade paperback edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Dreaming of life in the city while caring for her alcoholic father and working in a 1960s boys' prison, a disturbed young woman is manipulated into committing a psychologically charged crime during the holiday season.
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-- Film noir classic collection.[2007]., General, Distributed by Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Film Noir 4 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Film noir classic collection double feature.Summary Note: They live by night: Three prisoners flee from a state prison farm in Mississippi. Among them is 23-years-young Bowie, who spent the last seven years in prison and now hopes to be able to prove his innocence or retire to a home in the mountains and live in peace together with his new love, Kitty. But his criminal companions persuade him to participate in several heists, and soon the police believe him to be their leader and go after "Bowie the Kid" harder than ever.
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2016., Adult, The Hogarth Shakespeare/Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Atw Edition: 1st United States ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Felix is at the top of his game as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And brewing revenge. After 12 years revenge finally arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Here Felix and his inmate actors will put on his Tempest and snare the traitors who destroyed him. It's magic! But will it remake Felix as his enemies fall?"--From publisher.
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2011., Penguin Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: 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.
![Incarceron [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT85508.JPG "Incarceron [eBook]")
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c2000., General, MGM Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Escape NY Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a prison which houses the world's most brutal inmates. And when the President of the United States crash lands inside, only one man can bring him back: Snake Plissken, a notorious outlaw and former Special Forces war hero who, in exchange for a full pardon, descends into the decayed city and wages a blistering war against the captors. But time is short: in 24 hours, an explosive charge planted inside Snake's body will end the mission-- and his life-- unless he succeeds!.
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2018., Adult, Scribner Call No: Fic Kus Edition: Scribner export edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "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 casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike, and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living."--From publisher.
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2014., Blackstone Audio, Inc. Call No: CD Fic Fla Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thailand-Burma Death Railway in 1943, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. His life is a daily struggle to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from pitiless beatings--until he receives a letter that will change him forever. Moving deftly from the POW camp to contemporary Australia, from the experiences of Dorrigo and his comrades to those of the Japanese guards, this savagely beautiful novel tells a story of death, love, and family, exploring the many forms of good and evil, war and truth, guilt and transcendence, as one man comes of age and prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.
![The narrow road to the deep north [CD]](/Library/images/~imageCT78525.JPG "The narrow road to the deep north [CD]")
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-- Les voies du destin2014., Adult, Entertainment One Films Canada Inc. Call No: DVD Fic Railway M Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Eric Lomax is a British Army officer who is captured by the Japanese during WWII and sent to a POW camp, where he is tortured and forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway. Years later, and still suffering from the psychological trauma, Lomax is persuaded by his wife Patti to find and confront one of his captors. Lomax returns to the scene of his torture and manages to track down his captor from the prison camp in an attempt to let go of a lifetime of bitterness and hate. Based on a true story.
![The railway man [DVD] (2014). Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky](/Library/images/~imageCT81713.JPG "The railway man [DVD] (2014). Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky")
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2023., Adult, St. Martin's Press Call No: NEW Fic Mor Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend to Allied troops. But as Singapore falls to the Japanese she joins the terrified cargo of people, including the heartbroken Norah, crammed aboard the Vyner Brooke merchant ship. Only two days later, they are bombarded from the air off the coast of Indonesia, and in a matter of hours, the Vyner Brooke lies broken on the seabed. After surviving a brutal 24 hours in the sea, Nesta and Norah reach the beaches of a remote island, only to be captured by the Japanese and held in one of their notorious POW camps. The camps are places of starvation and brutality, where disease runs rampant. Sisters in arms, Norah and Nesta fight side by side every day, helping whoever they can, and discovering in themselves and each other extraordinary reserves of courage, resourcefulness and determination.
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c2010., Silver Oak Call No: Fic Ros Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Ex-convict Piet Hoffman--a family man, a rising member of Stockholm's Polish mafia, and an undercover police informant--is sent to a maximum security prison to make himself the boss of the amphetamine trade so the police can shut it down.
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2021., Adult, Simon & Schuster Call No: BLK Fic Joh Edition: Canadian export edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Brown was promised her freedom on her eighteenth birthday. Instead she finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil's Half-Acre, a jail where slaves are broken, tortured, and sold every day. Forced to become the mistress of the brutal man who owns the jail, Pheby's survival lies in outwitting him-- even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice.
