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• In the Country We Love

  My Family Divided

  Guerrero, Diane, 1986-

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  The author talks about her struggles as an undocumented immigrant, and the heartbreaking day she came home from school to find that her parents had been deported.

• Running the Books

  the Adventures of An Accidental Prison Librarian

  Steinberg, Avi

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  In this captivating memoir, Steinberg, a Harvard grad and struggling obituary writer, spends two years as a librarian and writing instructor at a Boston prison, attracting con men, minor prophets, ghosts, and an assortment of quirky regulars…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Random Family

  Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx

  LeBlanc, Adrian Nicole

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  LeBlanc immerses readers in the intricacies of the ghetto, revealing the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour, gold-drenched drug dealers, and street-corner society. This book is hugely popular among inmates at Danbury prison.

• Candy Girl

  a Year in the Life of An Unlikely Stripper

  Cody, Diablo

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  Diablo Cody was 24, a college graduate from a stable family with a supportive boyfriend and a boring copywriting job when on a whim, she signed up for amateur night at Minneapolis's seedy Skyway Lounge. Here she tells the fish-out-of-water story of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven

  Gilman, Susan Jane

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  Eager to conquer the world, the author and her Connecticut trust-fund friend, Claire, both naive 21 year old graduates from Brown, set out to backpack around the world for a year and become heroines in their own epic stories. This amusing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 25th Hour

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  Monty Brogan is facing a seven year prison sentence for dealing drugs. On the night before he has to go to jail, he decides to go out with his friends one last time, and re-examines his life in the process

• Mule

  a Novel of Moving Weight

  D'Souza, Tony

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  James and Kate are golden children of the late twentieth century, but an economic downturn and an unexpected pregnancy send them searching for a way to survive. A friend in California's Siskiyou County grows prime-grade marijuana; if James…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A World Apart

  Women, Prison, and Life Behind Bars

  Rathbone, Cristina

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  "Life in a women's prison is full of surprises," writes Cristina Rathbone in her landmark account of life at MCI-Framingham. And so it is. After two intense court battles with prison officials, Rathbone gained unprecedented access to the otherwise…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Some Girls

  My Life in a Harem

  Lauren, Jillian

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  A jaw-dropping story of how a NYU theater dropout from the suburbs ends up on a plane to Borneo, where she would spend eighteen months in a prince's harem, only to emerge from the secret Xanadu both richer and wiser.

• What We Saw From the Cheap Seats

  Spektor, Regina

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  Can’t get the theme song from the Orange is The New Black series on Netflix out of your head? Check out the latest album by the Moscow-born, Bronx-raised singer-songwriter responsible for “You’ve Got Time”.

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• Orange Is the New Black

  My Year in a Women's Prison

  Kerman, Piper,

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  Smith College alumna, Piper Kerman has a career, a boyfriend and a loving family when finds herself sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous federal correctional facility for having delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years ago as a reckless…Read moreRead more of this annotation