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Author
Pub. Date
1934
Physical Desc
xviii, 332 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, essayist, painter, author, and playwright. His body of work encompasses 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays and several essays, as well as numerous paintings and drawings. He is remembered as an unsurpassed voice of 20th century poetry, as well as one of the most popular, even today. Cummings attended Harvard, receiving both his bachelor's and master's by 1916. A year later, he enlisted in the...
Author
Pub. Date
1962
Edition
A modern abridgment.
Physical Desc
384 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
To commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War, Diversion Books is publishing seminal works of the era: stories told by the men and women who led, who fought, and who lived in an America that had come apart at the seams. For men who endured the horrors of the Civil War, Andersonville Prison represented an even more terrifying level of hell. The prisoners starved while disease ran rampant. John McElroy was captured in battle and transferred...
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 262 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A few years ago, Joe Hallinan, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, met a tough law-and-order Texan named Jack Kyle, who had been a Texas prison warden in the 1960s and had worked in the penal system nearly all his adult life. It used to be, Kyle told Hallinan, that nobody wanted prisons. But after the Texas economy went bust in the mid-1980s, people began to reconsider prisons, and "now, ever'body wants 'em." Kyle believed in locking people up...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Explores the characters of fantasy & folklore and places them in historical context. This series explores the characters who populate the world of fantasy and folklore. Elves, dragons, fairies, and other figures are placed in historical context for lovers of fantasy. Exploring these persistent characters throughout literature also serves as an excellent introduction for readers who are just discovering this favorite genre.
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
2nd Vintage Books ed.
Physical Desc
333 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Two hundred and fifty years ago, a man condemned of attempting to assassinate the King of France was drawn and quartered in a grisly spectacle that suggested an unmediated duel between the violence of the criminal and the violence of the state. This groundbreaking book by Michel Foucault, the most influential philosopher since Sartre, compels us to reevaluate our assumptions about all the ensuing reforms in the penal institutions of the West. For...
7) Red Cap
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
160 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1862 Maryland, 13-year-old Ransom Powell watches his friends argue, then march off to war. Some put on gray uniforms, others wear blue. He is too young to fight, but when he hears a Union division in Virginia needs a drummer, he runs away from home and lies about his age. At first Ranse finds it thrilling to defend his country. His first skirmish changes that, however-suddenly war is more horrible than exciting. When his regiment is captured and...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Through her evocative intertwined histories of the penitentiary and the monastery, Jane Brox illuminates the many ways silence is far more complex than any absolute; how it has influenced ideas of the self, soul, and society. Brox traces its place as a transformative power in the monastic world from Medieval Europe to the very public life of twentieth century monk Thomas Merton, whose love for silence deepened even as he faced his obligation to speak...
Author
Publisher
Essential Library
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
1160L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (112 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Language
English
Description
Examines the history of for-profit prisons in the United States justice system, exploring scandals like the "Kids for Cash" scheme in Pennsylvania and gerrymandering. Discusses whether or not for-profit prisons have a future in the American justice system. Includes a glossary.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xii, 364 pages : illustrations, maps, plan ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Between 1775 and 1783, some 200,000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown, and just over 6,800 died in battle. About 25,000 became prisoners of war, most of them confined in New York City under conditions so atrocious that they perished by the thousands. Evidence suggests that at least 17,500 Americans may have died in these prisons--more than twice the number to die on the battlefield. New York City was the principal base of the Crown's...
18) Breakout
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
441 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From multiple perspectives, Breakout tells of a time capsule project and the middle schoolers who contribute, including future journalist Nora Tucker and newcomer Elidee Jones, whose brother is in the local prison.
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