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"Jane Morgan is a valued member of her law firm--or was, until a prudish neighbor, binoculars poised, observes her having sex on the roof of her NYC apartment building. Police are summoned, and a punishing judge sentences her to six months of home confinement. With Jane now jobless and rootless, trapped at home, life looks bleak. Yes, her twin sister provides support and advice, but mostly of the unwelcome kind. When a doorman lets slip that Jane...
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In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances...
3) Disturbia
Pub. Date
c2007
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1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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After his father's death, Kale Brecht becomes a sullen, withdrawn, and troubled young man. He finds himself under a court-ordered sentence of house arrest after a run in with the law. His mother, Julie, works night and day to support herself and her son, only to be met with Kale's indifference and lethargy. As the walls of his house begin to close in on Kale, he turns into a voyeur as his interests turn outside the windows of his suburban home towards...
4) Dear Justyce
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Incarcerated teen Quan Banks writes letters to Justyce McCallister, with whom he bonded years before over family issues, about his experiences in the American juvenile justice system.
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©2009
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344 pages ; 23 cm.
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"For fifteen years, novelist and publisher Jerome Gold worked as a rehabilitation counselor in a prison for juveniles in Washington state. Throughout his time there he kept a journal of his experiences with youths who had been incarcerated for murder, kidnap, assault, rape, auto theft, burglary, and selling drugs - kids for whom juvenile prison was a rite of passage. What started as a private journal became a harrowing account of one man's unshakable...
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David Sloane thrillers volume 5
Pub. Date
2012
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372 p. ; 24 cm.
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Bringing his teenage son on a camping trip with an old friend and his friend's son, lawyer David Sloane embarks on a legal rescue mission when the boys are caught vandalizing a general store and sentenced to six months in a detention camp with ties to a corrupt judge.
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2017.
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353 pages ; 25 cm
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"Aldis hates her job working in a juvenile detention center in rural Iceland. The boys are difficult, the owners are unpleasant, and there are mysterious noises at night. And then two of the boys go astray. Decades later, single father Odinn is looking into alleged abuse at the center. The more he finds out, though, the more it seems the odd events of the 1970s are linked to the accident that killed his ex-wife. Was her death something more sinister?...
10) Gridiron gang
Pub. Date
[2007]
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1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Sean Porter was a football player who turned into a juvenile detention counselor. He wrestles with the seemingly insolvable problem. The vast majority of young men who leave detention fall right back into crime. Looking for a way to give these not-yet-hardened kids a taste of self-esteem and discipline, Porter manages to persuade his superiors to let him teach the kids football - and then take on other high school football teams. Based on a true story....
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Twelve-fingered boy trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
c2013
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264 p. ; 20 cm.
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Fifteen-year-old fast-talking Shreve is thriving in juvenile detention until he is assigned a strangely silent and vulnerable new cellmate, Jack, who just might have superpowers and who attracts the attention both of the cellblock bullies and sinister Mr. Quincrux.
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