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Author : Leah Pileggi
Release : 2013-08-01
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 117/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Prisoner 88 by : Leah Pileggi
Download or read book Prisoner 88 written by Leah Pileggi. This book was released on 2013-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1885, ten-year-old Jake is sent to prison for killing a man who threatened his father, and struggles to survive the harsh realities of prison life in the Idaho Territory.
Author : Leah Pileggi
Release : 2013-08-01
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 603/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Prisoner 88 by : Leah Pileggi
Download or read book Prisoner 88 written by Leah Pileggi. This book was released on 2013-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you were ten years old and thrown into prison with hardened criminals? That's just what happens to Jake Oliver Evans. Inspired by a true account of a prisoner in the Idaho Territorial Penitentiary in 1885, Jake's story is as affecting as it is shocking. Convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to five years, Jake is taken under the wing of a young guard and the kindly warden, as well as a few fellow prisoners. He is taught to read and given a job tending hogs at a nearby farm. In prison, Jake finds a home he has never had in a place most people are desperate to leave. But when he has to make a choice about right and wrong during an explosive escape attempt, Jake jeopardizes his friendships and his security. Debut novelist Leah Pileggi introduces a strong yet vulnerable character in an exciting and harrowing story of a child growing up on his own in America's Old West.
Author : Roy D. Tanenbaum
Release : 1998
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Prisoner 88 by : Roy D. Tanenbaum
Download or read book Prisoner 88 written by Roy D. Tanenbaum. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of Sobolewski, as told to Tanenbaum. Sobolewski, a Pole born in Nisko in 1923, spent four and a half years in Auschwitz from its very beginning - hence the title and his identity as "prisoner 88." As a Pole, he was relatively privileged, but saw how most Jews were either killed immediately or subjected to far more tormenting and lethal treatment than others. 20 years after the war he had an experience that transformed him into a witness of the Jewish suffering he had seen and a protester against Holocaust denial and neo-Nazism in Canada and against attempts (especially at the museum at Auschwitz) to de-Judaize the Holocaust in Poland. He expresses great concern about the failures of his own Roman Catholic Church during the Holocaust as well as its failure since to fully repent. He has been active in trying to teach younger generations about the Holocaust. His testimony includes information on the gas chambers and crematoria, the revolt of the Jewish Sonderkommando in Birkenau, and other aspects of the Holocaust that others have tried to dispute or reject. To draw attention to his role, Sobolewski has appeared in public in the uniform of a concentration camp prisoner.
Author : Gera-Lind Kolarik
Release : 2012-10-25
Genre : True Crime
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 701/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Prisoners of Fear by : Gera-Lind Kolarik
Download or read book Prisoners of Fear written by Gera-Lind Kolarik. This book was released on 2012-10-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connie Krauser Chaney had a troubled childhood that she hoped to escape by creating her own stable and caring family. Stability, however, was the last thing she found with her husband Wayne Chaney. Physically and sexually abusive, Wayne was an uncontrollable force in the life of Connie and their young beautiful son, Max. Acclaimed author Gera-Lind Kolarik investigates both sides of this fatally abusive relationship, which prompted one of the United States' first anti-stalking laws.
Author : Ted Conover
Release : 2010-01-20
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 098/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Newjack by : Ted Conover
Download or read book Newjack written by Ted Conover. This book was released on 2010-01-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION • An acclaimed journalist sets a new standard for bold, in-depth reporting in this first-hand account of life inside the penal system at Sing Sing. “Newjack is about as good as it gets—by turns gripping, funny, frightening, and sad.” —The Washington Post Book World When Ted Conover’s request to shadow a recruit at the New York State Corrections Officer Academy was denied, he decided to apply for a job as a prison officer himself. The result is an unprecedented work of eyewitness journalism: the account of Conover's year-long passage into storied Sing Sing prison as a rookie guard, or "newjack." As he struggles to become a good officer, Conover angers inmates, dodges blows, and attempts, in the face of overwhelming odds, to balance decency with toughness. Through his insights into the harsh culture of prison, the grueling and demeaning working conditions of the officers, and the unexpected ways the job encroaches on his own family life, we begin to see how our burgeoning prison system brutalizes everyone connected with it. An intimate portrait of a world few readers have ever experienced, Newjack is a haunting journey into a dark undercurrent of American life.
