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Pub. Date
2004.
Description
"Do Penance or Perish tells the fascinating story of Ireland's Good Shepherd Magdalen Asylums. First brought to widespread public attention by the 2002 film The Magdalen Sisters, the asylums were homes that were founded in the mid-nineteenth century for the detention of prostitutes undergoing reform. The inmates of these asylums were discouraged - and many forcibly prevented - from leaving and sometimes were detained for life. Put to work without...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Description
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared--Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.
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Pub. Date
p2009
Description
For the first four months of 1942, U.S., Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought what was America's first major land battle of World War II, the battle for the tiny Philippine peninsula of Bataan. It ended with the surrender of 76,000 Filipinos and Americans, the single largest defeat in American military history. The defeat, though, was only the beginning, as Michael and Elizabeth M. Norman make dramatically clear in this powerfully original book....
664) Rebel jail Volume 5
Author
Series
Star Wars volume 5
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"While the Princess is securing Dr. Aphra at Sunspot Prison, a mysterious invader has seized control of the facility and begins eliminating prisoners. Cornered, Leia and Sana join forces with the doctor to release the inmates and spare them from an untimely death. Meanwhile, Han and Luke have responded to Sana's distress call, arriving in time for the unknown attacker to reveal himself..."
665) Rebel jail Volume 3
Author
Series
Star Wars volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Teaming with smuggler Sana Starros, Princess Leia hands Aphra to the best-concealed penitentiary she knows: Sunspot Prison. There, Aphra is expected to be imprisioned indefinitely, lest the Empire uncover her location and relcaim her. Elsewhere, Han and Luke are busy replenishing supplies for the Alliance, that is until Han gambles and loses the rebel funds. Meanwhile, a security breach back at Sunspot Prison bodes ill for the rebels..."
666) Rebel jail Volume 4
Author
Series
Star Wars volume 4
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"While the Princess is securing Dr. Aphra at Sunspot Prison, an unknown attacker assumes control of the facility and begins eliminating the prisoners. Elsewhere, Luke and Han have taken a nerf smuggling job in order to regain the Alliance funds that Han lost gambling. Back at the prison, Leia and Sana Starros have forged an alliance with Dr. Aphra to take down the prison's mysterious invader--an enemy who may not be so mysterious after all..."
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Following the events of Kristallnacht in 1938, Peter Fleischmann evaded the Gestapo's midnight roundups in Berlin by way of a perilous journey to England via the Kindertransport train. But he could not escape the British police, who came for him in the early hours and shipped him off to Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man, under suspicion of being a spy for the very regime he had fled. Peter's story was no isolated incident. During Hitler's rise to...
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Pub. Date
[1999]
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In the Old South of the 1930s, when a gentle giant of a man is sentenced to death for the murder and rape of two little girls, the fact that he is Black and the girls are white is inflammatory enough, but the situation is further complicated by his near muteness and gift for healing.