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The reformatory : a novel / by Due, Tananarive,1966-author.;
In the Jim Crow South, twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., who can see ghosts, is sent to The Reformatory where boys forced to work to remediate their so-called crimes have gone missing, while his sister Gloria rallies everyone in Florida to get him out before it's too late.
Subjects: Ghost stories.; Horror fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Florida School for Boys; African Americans; African Americans; Ghosts; Race relations; Reformatories;
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Wentworth. [videorecording] / by Atkinson, Kate,1972-actor.; Carlin, Kevin,television director.; Cormack, Danielle,actor.; Crittenden, Amanda,television producer.; McTighe, Pete,screenwriter.; Silva, Nicole da,actor.; Ireland, Celia,actor.; Clanton, Shareena,actor.; Milosevic, Katrina,actor.; Acorn Media (Firm),publisher.; Foxtel (Firm),production company.; FremantleMedia Australia (Firm),production company.; RLJ Entertainment,film distributor.;
Danielle Cormack, Nicole da Silva, Kate Atkinson, Celia Ireland, Shareena Clanton, Katrina Milosevic.Drastic changes are in store for the women at Wentworth Prison as the hit Australian drama returns. In Season Two, Bea languishes in solitary, plotting revenge for her daughter's murder, while Franky runs the prison unopposed. But the arrival of sadistic new governor Joan Ferguson threatens Franky's top-dog status. With Franky's contraband operation in her crosshairs, Ferguson attempts to recruit informants, and the inmates are forced to choose a side.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Television crime shows.; Television programs.; Reformatories for women; Women prisoners;
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Wentworth. [videorecording] / by Atkinson, Kate,1972-actor.; Carlin, Kevin,television director.; Cormack, Danielle,actor.; Crittenden, Amanda,television producer.; McQuade, Kris,1952-actor.; McTighe, Pete,screenwriter.; Radulovich, Lara,screenwriter.; Silva, Nicole da,actor.; Walsman, Leenanna,actor.; Acorn Media (Firm),publisher.; Foxtel (Firm),production company.; FremantleMedia Australia (Firm),production company.; RLJ Entertainment,film distributor.;
Danielle Cormack, Nicole da Silva, Kris McQuade, Leeanna Walsman, Kate Atkinson.When Bea Smith arrives at Wentworth Prison, arrested for the attempted murder of her abusive husband, she is thrown head-first into a hostile and unforgiving environment with rules of its own. Bea tries to stay out of trouble, but quickly becomes caught up in a brutal rivalry between celebrity inmate Franky and former mob boss Jacs. Wentworth proves to be a dangerous place for the officers as well as the inmates, who are often prisoners to their own personal dilemmas.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Television crime shows.; Television programs.; Reformatories for women; Women prisoners;
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Orange is the new black. [videorecording] / by Aduba, Uzo,actor.; Brooks, Danielle,actor.; Cruz, Jackie,1986-actor.; DeLaria, Lea,actor.; Harney, Michael J.,actor.; Kohan, Jenji,1969-creator.; Leyva, Selenis,1972-actor.; Lyonne, Natasha,actor.; Manning, Taryn,actor.; Moore, Adrienne C.,actor.; Mulgrew, Kate,1955-actor.; Pimentel, Jessica,actor.; Polanco, Dascha,actor.; Prepon, Laura,1980-actor.; Rodriguez, Elizabeth,1980-actor.; Sandow, Nick,actor.; Schilling, Taylor,1984-actor.; Stone, Yael,actor.; television adaptation of (work):Kerman, Piper.Orange is the new black.; Lions Gate Entertainment (Firm),distributor.; Lions Gate Television (Firm),production company.; Netflix (Firm),production company.; Tilted Productions,production company.;
Taylor Schilling, Natasha Lyonne, Uzo Aduba, Danielle Brooks, Jackie Cruz, Lea Delaria, Michael J. Harney, Selenis Leyva, Taryn Manning, Adrienne C. Moore, Dascha Polanco, Nick Sandow, Yael Stone, Kate Mulgrew, Laura Prepon, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Jessica Pimentel.In the show's final season, a recently paroled Piper tries to get back on her feet while life in Litchfield, as corrupt as ever, goes on without her.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Television comedies.; Television programs.; Prison television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Reformatories for women; Women prisoners; Female friendship;
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The lost girls of Willowbrook / by Wiseman, Ellen Marie,author.;
"Six years after her twin sister's death, 16-year-old Sage discovers a shocking secret, her sister didn't die, she was committed to Willowbrook State School until she recently went missing, and, determined to find her, Sage walks through its doors, which changes her life in ways she never could have imagined"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Missing children; Reformatories; Secrecy; Twin sisters;
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The Nickel boys : a novel / by Whitehead, Colson,1969-author.;
In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood is sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, whose mission statement says it provides "physical, intellectual and moral training" so the delinquent boys in their charge can become "honorable and honest men." In reality, the Nickel Academy is a grotesque chamber of horrors where the sadistic staff beats and sexually abuses the students, corrupt officials and locals steal food and supplies, and any boy who resists is likely to disappear "out back." Stunned to find himself in such a vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold onto Dr. King's ringing assertion "Throw us in jail and we will still love you." His friend Turner thinks Elwood is worse than naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. The tension between Elwood's ideals and Turner's skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades. Formed in the crucible of the evils Jim Crow wrought, the boys' fates will be determined by what they endured at the Nickel Academy.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Historical fiction.; Reformatories; African American teenagers; Racism;
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The Nickel boys [sound recording] : a novel / by Whitehead, Colson,1969-author.; Jackson, JD,narrator.; Random House Audio Publishing,publisher.; Books on Tape, Inc.,publisher.;
Read by JD Jackson ; acknowledgements read by the author.In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood is sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, whose mission statement says it provides "physical, intellectual and moral training" so the delinquent boys in their charge can become "honorable and honest men." In reality, the Nickel Academy is a grotesque chamber of horrors where the sadistic staff beats and sexually abuses the students, corrupt officials and locals steal food and supplies, and any boy who resists is likely to disappear "out back." Stunned to find himself in such a vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold onto Dr. King's ringing assertion "Throw us in jail and we will still love you." His friend Turner thinks Elwood is worse than naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. The tension between Elwood's ideals and Turner's skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades. Formed in the crucible of the evils Jim Crow wrought, the boys' fates will be determined by what they endured at the Nickel Academy.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Bildungsromans.; Historical fiction.; Reformatories; African American teenagers; Racism;
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Lucky turtle / by Roorbach, Bill,author.;
"When privileged white sixteen-year-old Cindra is sent to a reform camp in Montana, she becomes transfixed by Lucky, a mysterious camp employee. As the connection between them grows, Lucky and Cindra become lovers and escape into the Rocky Mountains to create an idyllic life, living off Lucky's vast knowledge of the wilderness."--
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Novels.; Camps; Interpersonal relations; Reformatories; Teenage girls; Wilderness survival; Camps; Interpersonal relations; Reformatories; Teenage girls; Wilderness survival;
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The Home for Wayward Girls : a novel / by Bradley, Marcia,author.;
Growing up in the 1990s, Loretta knows little of life beyond the Home for Wayward Girls, the secluded ranch where her parents run a program designed to "correct" teen girls' "bad behavior." Loretta witnesses firsthand how the adults use abusive discipline to crush these young women's spirits and break their wills. Since childhood she's been afraid of her father, and avoids him by spending time with the residents, secretly teaching them the survival skills they'll need in case they manage to escape. One day, a horrifying act of violence forces Loretta to flee the ranch herself. Eventually finding safety and a sympathetic community, Loretta dedicates herself to working with lost, vulnerable, and defenseless teens, determined to prevent the same thing from happening to other girls like her.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Reformatories; Runaway teenagers; Teenage girls;
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Home for erring and outcast girls : a novel / by Kibler, Julie,author.;
"In turn-of-the-twentieth-century Texas, the Berachah Home for the Redemption of Erring Girls is an unprecedented beacon of hope for young women consigned to the dangerous poverty of the streets by birth, circumstance, or personal tragedy. Built in 1903 on the dusty outskirts of Arlington, a remote dot between the red-light districts of Dallas and Fort Worth, the progressive home bucks public opinion by offering faith, training, and rehabilitation to prostitutes, addicts, unwed mothers, and "ruined" girls without forcibly separating mothers from children. When Lizzie Bates and Mattie McBride meet there-- one sick and abused, but desperately clinging to her young daughter, the other jilted by the beau who fathered her ailing son-- they form a friendship that will see them through unbearable loss, heartbreak, difficult choices, and ultimately, diverging paths. A century later, Cate Sutton, a reclusive university librarian, uncovers the hidden histories of the two troubled women when she stumbles upon the cemetery on Berachah's former grounds. She begins to comb through the home's archives in university's library. Pulled by an indescribable connection, Cate confronts her own heartbreaking past, and to reclaim the life she thought she had forever let go of."-- Dust jacket flap.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Unmarried mothers; Women; Reformatories for women; Female friendship; Librarians;
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