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The Innocent Man
Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
Written by John Grisham

Format: Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $9.99

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron’s home, a...

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Running the Books
The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
Written by Avi Steinberg

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $16.00

Avi Steinberg is stumped. After defecting from yeshiva to attend Harvard, he has nothing but a senior thesis on Bugs Bunny to show for himself. While his friends and classmates advance in the world, Steinberg remains stuck at a crossroads, his “romantic” existence as a freelance obituary writer no longer cutting...

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In the Place of Justice
A Story of Punishment and Redemption
Written by Wilbert Rideau

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $16.00

Wilbert Rideau, an award-winning journalist who spent forty-four years in prison, delivers a remarkable memoir of crime, punishment, and ultimate triumph.
 
After killing a bank teller in a moment of panic during a botched robbery, Wilbert Rideau was sentenced to death at the age of nineteen. He spent several... Read more >

Orange Is the New Black
My Year in a Women's Prison
Written by Piper Kerman

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 8, 2011
Price: $16.00

SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES

With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years ago. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous federal... Read more >

I Don't Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine
Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup
Written by David Chura

Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: February 22, 2011
Price: $14.00

A veteran teacher gives an “inside” view of the lives of juveniles sentenced as adults
 
David Chura taught high school in a New York county penitentiary for ten years—five days a week, seven hours a day. In these pages, he gives a face to a population regularly demonized and reduced to... Read more >

Ancient Farming

Written by Peter Reynolds

Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: February 15, 2011
Price: $13.95

This book explores the development and nature of farming in Britain throughout the prehistoric period. Starting with the transition from the hunter-gatherer in the late neolithic/early neolithic, expert author Peter Reynolds traces the sequence of farming from the initial struggle to dominate the landscape to the full 'agroscope' of the late... Read more >

Brochs of Scotland

Written by J.N.G. Ritchie

Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: February 15, 2011
Price: $13.95

This book examines some of the most spectacular ancient monuments in Britain - the iron age brochs of north and west Scotland. It sets the building of these unique fortifications into context and examines some of the impressive sites that may still be visited, including the brochs of Mousa and Clickhimin... Read more >

God of the Rodeo
The Quest for Redemption in Louisiana's Angola Prison
Written by Daniel Bergner

Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: February 9, 2011
Price: $11.99

Never before had Daniel Bergner seen a spectacle as bizarre as the one he had come to watch that Sunday in October. Murderers, rapists, and armed robbers were competing in the annual rodeo at Angola, the grim maximum-security penitentiary in Louisiana. The convicts, sentenced to life without parole, were thrown, trampled... Read more >

Running the Books
The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
Written by Avi Steinberg

Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: October 19, 2010
Price: $26.00

Avi Steinberg is stumped. After defecting from yeshiva to Harvard, he has only a senior thesis essay on Bugs Bunny to show for his effort. While his friends and classmates advance in the world, he remains stuck at a crossroads, unable to meet the lofty expectations of his Orthodox Jewish upbringing...

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Running the Books

Written by Avi Steinberg

Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: October 19, 2010
Price: $11.99

Avi Steinberg is stumped. After defecting from yeshiva to Harvard, he has only a senior thesis essay on Bugs Bunny to show for his effort. While his friends and classmates advance in the world, he remains stuck at a crossroads, unable to meet the lofty expectations of his Orthodox Jewish upbringing...

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Running the Books
The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
Written by Avi Steinberg
Read by Dustin Rubin

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 19, 2010
Price: $22.50

Avi Steinberg is stumped. After defecting from yeshiva to Harvard, he has only a senior thesis essay on Bugs Bunny to show for his effort. While his friends and classmates advance in the world, he remains stuck at a crossroads, unable to meet the lofty expectations of his Orthodox Jewish upbringing...

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The Death Penalty
Debating the Moral, Legal, and Political Issues
Edited by Robert M. Baird

Format: Trade Paperback, 379 pages
On Sale: July 27, 2010
Price: $19.00

Critically important dimensions of this hotly contested death penalty debate—whether moral, legal, or political—are laid bare for public scrutiny in these carefully reasoned essays and judicial decisions. Is capital punishment a deterrent to criminal behavior? Do state executions of criminals violate the proper standards of civilized society? Should the death penalty... Read more >

Viking Age Archaeology

Written by Richard Hall

Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: June 22, 2010
Price: $13.95

Viking raids, and the subsequent Scandinavian settlements in the ninth and tenth centuries, had a major effect on many parts of Britain and Ireland. These impacts can best be seen in a wide variety of archaeological discoveries, primarily from distinctive pre-Christian burials, which contain weapons, tools, jewellery and metal, wood and... Read more >

In the Place of Justice
A Story of Punishment and Deliverance
Written by Wilbert Rideau

Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2010
Price: $11.99

From Wilbert Rideau, the award-winning journalist who spent forty-four years in Louisiana prisons working against unimaginable odds to redeem himself, the story of a remarkable life: a crime, its punishment, and ultimate triumph.

After killing a woman in a moment of panic following a botched bank robbery, Rideau, denied a fair trial... Read more >

Orange Is the New Black
My Year in a Women's Prison
Written by Piper Kerman

Format: eBook
On Sale: April 6, 2010
Price: $11.99

SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES

BONUS: This edition contains an Orange Is the New Black discussion guide.

With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years ago. But that past has caught up with...

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The Innocent Man

Written by John Grisham

Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: March 16, 2010
Price: $9.99

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron’s home, a... Read more >

I Don't Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine
Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup
Written by David Chura

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2010
Price: $24.95

A veteran teacher gives an “inside” view of the lives of juveniles sentenced as adults
 
David Chura taught high school in a New York county penitentiary for ten years—five days a week, seven hours a day. In these pages, he gives a face to a population regularly demonized and reduced to... Read more >

I Don't Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine
Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup
Written by David Chura

Format: eBook
On Sale: March 1, 2010
Price: $24.95

Since the early 1990s, thanks to inflamed rhetoric in the media about “superpredators” and a wave of get-tough-on-crime laws, the number of juveniles in prison has risen by 35 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, and their placement in adult prison has increased by 208 percent, according to a... Read more >

Newjack
Guarding Sing Sing
Written by Ted Conover

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 20, 2010
Price: $11.99

Acclaimed journalist Ted Conover sets a new standard for bold, in-depth reporting in this first-hand account of life inside the penal system.

When 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. So begins... Read more >

Rationale of Punishment

Written by Jeremy Bentham

Format: Trade Paperback, 434 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2008
Price: $12.99

This edition of utilitarian philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham’s The Rationale of Punishment is the first comprehensive version of this classic philosophical text since 1830. Editor James T. McHugh approaches this important work on penology from a new perspective. Through a careful examination and comparison of original manuscripts—plus the 1818... Read more >

American Furies
Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment
Written by Sasha Abramsky

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2008
Price: $17.00

In this disturbing yet elegant exposé of U.S. penitentiaries and their surrounding communities, Sasha Abramsky shows how American prisons have abandoned their long-held ideal of rehabilitation, often for political reasons. After surveying our current state of affairs-life sentences for nonviolent crimes, appalling conditions for inmates, the growth of private prisons, the... Read more >

The Innocent Man
Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
Written by John Grisham
Read by Dennis Boutsikaris

Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $19.99


In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A’s, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory.
Six years later he was back, his dreams... Read more >

Executioner's Current
Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair
Written by Richard Moran

Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99

In this amazing story of high stakes competition between two titans, Richard Moran shows how the electric chair developed not out of the desire to be more humane but through an effort by one nineteenth-century electric company to discredit the other.

In 1882, Thomas Edison ushered in the “age of electricity”... Read more >

A World Apart
Women, Prison, and Life Behind Bars
Written by Cristina Rathbone

Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $9.99

“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 invisible women of the oldest running women’s prison in America.

The picture... Read more >

The Innocent Man

Written by John Grisham

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2007
Price: $16.00

In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron’s home, a young cocktail waitress named... Read more >