Showing posts with label Prison. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prison. Show all posts
Thursday, March 19, 2020

Half Broke

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Gaffney, Ginger.  Half Broke . New York: Norton. 2020 . Print First Sentences: At first it seemed like just another ranch a...
Thursday, July 25, 2019

Confessions of an Innocent Man

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Dow, David R.  Confessions of an Innocent Man . New York: Dutton 2019 . Print First Sentences: If you ask a lucky person to...
Monday, March 12, 2018

An American Marriage

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Jones, Tayari.  An American Marriage . Chapel Hill: Algonquin 2018 . Print. First Sentences: There are two kinds of people in the ...
Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Life or Death

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Robotham, Michael.  Life or Death . New York: Mulholland Books. 2014. Print. First Sentences: Audie Palmer had never learned how...
Monday, July 6, 2015

Running the Books

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Steinberg, Avi.  Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian . New York: Anchor. 2010. Print. First Senten...
Sunday, May 31, 2015

Kiss of the Spider Woman

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Puig, Manuel.  Kiss of the Spider Woman . New York: Vintage. 1978. Print. First Sentences: - Something a little strange, that...
Monday, July 7, 2014

My Life in Prison

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Low rie, Donald . My Life in Prison . New York: Mitchell Kinnerley. 1912. Print First Sentences: I was broke. I had not eaten in thr...
Sunday, August 11, 2013

Shakespeare Saved My Life

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Bates, Laura.  Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard . Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks. 2013. Print First Se...