Author: Anthony Ray Hinton
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250124719
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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"A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit"--
Author: Leonard Peltier
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250119286
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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In September of 2022, twenty-five years after Leonard Peltier received a life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents, the DNC unanimously passed a resolution urging President Joe Biden to release him. Peltier has affirmed his innocence ever since his sentencing in 1977--his case was made fully and famously in Peter Matthiessen's bestselling In the Spirit of Crazy Horse--and many remain convinced he was wrongly convicted. Prison Writings is a wise and unsettling book, both memoir and manifesto, chronicling his life in Leavenworth Prison in Kansas. Invoking the Sun Dance, in which pain leads one to a transcendent reality, Peltier explores his suffering and the insights it has borne him. He also locates his experience within the history of the American Indian peoples and their struggles to overcome the federal government's injustices. Edited by Harvey Arden, with an Introduction by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, and a Preface by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark.
Author: Frank Fujita
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 9781574411317
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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During his time as a POW, Frank "Foo" Fujita kept a diary of daily happenings, embellished with drawings of life in the camp. He secreted the diary in the walls of his barracks, as the practice was forbidden. That diary forms the basis of these memoirs. Fujita's memoirs are also unique in that he was one of the fewer than nine hundred Americans taken prisoner on the island of Java. The bulk of American POWs in Japanese hands surrendered in the Philippines, and most of the published POW memoirs reflect their experience. Fujita's account of the defense of Java and of the fate of the "Lost Battalion" of Texas artillerymen serves to distinguish this memoir from others. At one point while a POW in Japan, Fujita was forced to be part of the Japanese radio group broadcasting propaganda. After the war, he testified at some of the war crime trials in San Francisco, and the diary on which this book is based was used as evidence in those trials.
Author: Isobel Blackthorn
Publisher: Next Chapter
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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After ghostwriter Trevor Moore rents an old farmhouse in Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, he moves in to find his muse. But instead of creative inspiration, he discovers a rucksack filled with cash. Who does it belong to, and what should he do with it? Struggling to make up his mind, Trevor gradually finds more clues, and unravels the harrowing true story of a little-known concentration camp that incarcerated gay men in the 1950s and 60s.
Author: Isobel Blackthorn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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After ghostwriter Trevor Moore rents an old farmhouse in Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, he moves in to find his muse. But instead of creative inspiration, he discovers a rucksack filled with cash. Who does it belong to, and what should he do with it? Struggling to make up his mind, Trevor gradually finds more clues, and unravels the harrowing true story of a little-known concentration camp that incarcerated gay men in the 1950s and 60s. NOTE: This is the clear print edition of A Prison In The Sun, with a 14pt font size for easier reading. Praise from critics: ★★★★★ - Readers' Favorite Awards "Storytelling at its best." - The Bookwormery Praise from readers: ★★★★★ - "The book takes you on a journey that fully immerses you in the history and atmosphere of the island where the action takes place, an experience that is simultaneously beautiful but dark... Beautiful and evocative." ★★★★★ - "With great skill and consummate ease, Blackthorn pulls it all together to produce a real page-turner which entertains to the very last page."
Author: Isobel Blackthorn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781700177438
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 445
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After millennial ghostwriter Trevor Moore rents an old farmhouse in Fuerteventura, he moves in to find his muse. Instead, he discovers a rucksack filled with cash. Who does it belong to - and should he hand it in... or keep it? Struggling to make up his mind, Trevor unravels the harrowing true story of a little-known concentration camp that incarcerated gay men in the 1950s and 60s. NOTE: This is the large print edition of A Prison In The Sun, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading. ★★★★★ - Readers' Favorite Awards
Author: Isobel Blackthorn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781034270089
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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After ghostwriter Trevor Moore rents an old farmhouse in Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, he moves in to find his muse. But instead of creative inspiration, he discovers a rucksack filled with cash. Who does it belong to, and what should he do with it? Struggling to make up his mind, Trevor gradually finds more clues, and unravels the harrowing true story of a little-known concentration camp that incarcerated gay men in the 1950s and 60s.
Author: Sami al Jundi
Publisher: Bold Type Books
ISBN: 1568584482
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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The inspiring story of a young Palestinian man who rejected his militant past to become the leader of a peace movement
Author: Shane Bauer
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735223602
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
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An enraging, necessary look at the private prison system, and a convincing clarion call for prison reform.” —NPR.org New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018 * One of President Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2018 * Winner of the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * Winner of the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism * Winner of the 2019 RFK Book and Journalism Award * A New York Times Notable Book A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history. In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An award-winning investigative journalist, he used his real name; there was no meaningful background check. Four months later, his employment came to an abrupt end. But he had seen enough, and in short order he wrote an exposé about his experiences that won a National Magazine Award and became the most-read feature in the history of the magazine Mother Jones. Still, there was much more that he needed to say. In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America from their origins in the decades before the Civil War. For, as he soon realized, we can't understand the cruelty of our current system and its place in the larger story of mass incarceration without understanding where it came from. Private prisons became entrenched in the South as part of a systemic effort to keep the African-American labor force in place in the aftermath of slavery, and the echoes of these shameful origins are with us still. The private prison system is deliberately unaccountable to public scrutiny. Private prisons are not incentivized to tend to the health of their inmates, or to feed them well, or to attract and retain a highly-trained prison staff. Though Bauer befriends some of his colleagues and sympathizes with their plight, the chronic dysfunction of their lives only adds to the prison's sense of chaos. To his horror, Bauer finds himself becoming crueler and more aggressive the longer he works in the prison, and he is far from alone. A blistering indictment of the private prison system, and the powerful forces that drive it, American Prison is a necessary human document about the true face of justice in America.
Author: Isobel Blackthorn
Publisher: Blurb
ISBN: 9781034401780
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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After ghostwriter Trevor Moore rents an old farmhouse in Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, he moves in to find his muse. But instead of creative inspiration, he discovers a rucksack filled with cash. Who does it belong to, and what should he do with it? Struggling to make up his mind, Trevor gradually finds more clues, and unravels the harrowing true story of a little-known concentration camp that incarcerated gay men in the 1950s and 60s. This is the large print edition of A Prison In The Sun, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.
