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Free : my search for meaning / by Knox, Amanda,author.;
"Amanda Knox spent nearly four years in prison and eight years on trial for a murder she didn't commit -- and became a notorious tabloid story in the process. Though she was exonerated, it's taken more than a decade for her to reclaim her identity and truly feel free. Free recounts how Knox survived prison, the mistakes she made and misadventures she had reintegrating into society, and culminates in the untold story of her return to Italy and the extraordinary relationship she's built with the man who sent her to prison. It is the gripping saga of what happens when you become the definition of notorious but have quietly returned to the matters of a normal life -- seeking a life partner, finding a job, or even just going out in public. In harrowing (and sometimes hilarious) detail, Amanda tells the story of her personal growth and hard-fought wisdom, recasting her public reckoning as a private reflection on the search for meaning and purpose that will speak to everyone persevering through hardship"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Knox, Amanda.; Judicial error; Murder; Prisoners;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Behind enemy lines : World War II / by Matas, Carol,1949-;
Subjects: Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force; Prisoners of war; Prisoners of war; World War, 1939-1945;
© c2012., Scholastic Canada,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Japanese Canadian internment in the Second World War / by Hickman, Pamela.; Fukawa, Masako,1940-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 156), Internet addresses (p. 157) and index.LSC
Subjects: Japanese Canadians; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Japanese Canadians;
© c2011., James Lorimer and Co.,
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The little captive / by Kristensen, Lise G.; Kristensen, Lise G.Blue door.;
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Subjects: Kristensen, Lise G.; Prisoners of war; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
© 2014, c2012., Pan Books,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The end of the world and beyond : continues The unexpected life of Oliver Cromwell Pitts: being an absolutely accurate autobiographical account of my follies, fortune & fate written by himself / by Avi,1937-;
After his thievery conviction in 1724, Oliver Cromwell Pitts is sent from England across the Atlantic to America where he is enslaved on a tobacco farm, never giving up on finding his sister, Charity, brought to the colonies on a different ship.LSC
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Adventure fiction.; Prisoners; Indentured servants; Slavery;
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Question 7 / by Flanagan, Richard,1961-author.;
"By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when Flanagan as a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river not knowing if he is to live or to die. At once a love song to his island home and to his parents, this hypnotic melding of dream, history, place and memory is about how our lives so often arise out of the stories of others and the stories we invent about ourselves"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Flanagan, Richard, 1961-; Flanagan, Richard, 1961-; Authors, Australian; Families; Prisoners of war; World War, 1939-1945;
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Didn't nobody give a shit what happened to Carlotta / by Hannaham, James,author.;
'Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta' is the raucous, irreverent, and harrowing story of a trans womans re-entry into life on the outside after more than 20 years in a men's prison, set over one eventful Fourth of July weekend in Brooklyn. From the author of 'Delicious Foods', which won the PEN/Faulkner Award and was a NYT Notable Book. #diversity.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Transgender fiction.; Novels.; African Americans; Ex-convicts; Families; Parolees; Prisoners; Transgender women;
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The escape artists : a band of daredevil pilots and the greatest prison break of the Great War / by Bascomb, Neal,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The story of three downed British airmen who mastermind an elaborate, rollicking escape from a WWI German POW camp"--
Subjects: Prisoner-of-war escapes; Escaped prisoners of war; Prisoner-of-war camps; World War, 1914-1918; Airmen;
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The great escape : a Canadian story / by Barris, Ted,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Stalag Luft III.; Prisoner-of-war escapes; Prisoners of war; Prisoners of war; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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Sisters under the rising sun [sound recording] / by Morris, Heather(Screenwriter),author.; Carmichael, Laura,1986-narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Laura Carmichael."A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris. 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. Sisters under the Rising Sun is a story of women in war: a novel of sisterhood, bravery and friendship in the darkest of circumstances, from the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Cilka's Journey and Three Sisters"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Female friendship; Hope; Musicians; Nurses; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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