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For All Time

By: Jen Oberholtzer

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Cerinda MacDouglas and Riley Crawford have never had the greatest luck when it comes to finding lasting love. When dinner their ex's with goes wrong one evening, they drive off intent on once and for all leaving them behind. Something goes drastically wrong on the way. They find themselves in the land of the Vikings, and in the care of two of the fiercest Vikings ever to have walked the Earth. Veli and Tero Hakkarainen are just as drawn to, as they are mystified by, the two woman who appeared out of nowhere, and onto their battlefield. They return to their home with the women that have already besieged their hearts and minds. Their fierce protectiveness of one another, as well as the clan, has both men realizing that these two women are what they have been looking for and they will do whatever it takes to gain their trust and ultimately, their love. For All Time is the story of two friends and two brothers, who must learn to trust, and love, even if it means risking everything to be together.

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320

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1435742893

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9781435742895

Liberty's Prisoners

Carceral Culture in Early America

By: Jen Manion

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Liberty's Prisoners

Carceral Culture in Early America

By: Jen Manion

Liberty's Prisoners examines how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary system in the United States. The first penitentiary was founded in Philadelphia in 1790, a period of great optimism and turmoil in the Revolution's wake. Those who were previously dependents with no legal standing—women, enslaved people, and indentured servants—increasingly claimed their own right to life, liberty, and happiness. A diverse cast of women and men, including immigrants, African Americans, and the Irish and Anglo-American poor, struggled to make a living. Vagrancy laws were used to crack down on those who visibly challenged longstanding social hierarchies while criminal convictions carried severe sentences for even the most trivial property crimes. The penitentiary was designed to reestablish order, both behind its walls and in society at large, but the promise of reformative incarceration failed from its earliest years. Within this system, women served a vital function, and Liberty's Prisoners is the first book to bring to life the e xperience of African American, immigrant, and poor white women imprisoned in early America. Always a minority of prisoners, women provided domestic labor within the institution and served as model inmates, more likely to submit to the authority of guards, inspectors, and reformers. White men, the primary targets of reformative incarceration, challenged authorities at every turn while African American men were increasingly segregated and denied access to reform. Liberty's Prisoners chronicles how the penitentiary, though initially designed as an alternative to corporal punishment for the most egregious of offenders, quickly became a repository for those who attempted to lay claim to the new nation's promise of liberty.

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297

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812292421

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9780812292428

Kaleidoscope Eyes

By: Jen Bryant

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Kaleidoscope Eyes

By: Jen Bryant

Will Lyza’s 1968 summer mystery lead to . . . pirate treasure? When Lyza helps her dad clean out her late grandfather’s house, a mysterious surprise brightens the sad task. In Gramps’s dusty attic, Lyza discovers three maps, carefully folded and stacked, bound by a single rubber band. On top, an envelope says “For Lyza ONLY.” What could this possibly be? It takes the help of her two best friends, Malcolm and Carolann, to figure out that the maps reveal three possible spots in their own New Jersey town where Captain Kidd (the Captain Kidd, seventeenth-century pirate) may have buried a treasure. Can three thirteen-year-olds actually conduct a secret treasure hunt? And what will they find? In a tale inspired by a true story of buried treasure, Jen Bryant weaves an emotional and suspenseful novel in poems, all set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War during a pivotal year in U.S. history.

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Yearling

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044042190X

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9780440421900

The Fortune of Carmen Navarro

By: Jen Bryant

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The Fortune of Carmen Navarro

By: Jen Bryant

In this modern-day resetting of the story on which the opera, Carmen, was based, four teens tell of half-gypsy Carmen, who believes she will become a famous singer, military cadet Ryan's passion for her, and their best friends' efforts to protect them both.

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Ember

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037585097X

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9780375850974

The Trial

By: Jen Bryant

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The Trial

By: Jen Bryant

Imagine you are Bruno Richard Hauptmann, accused of murdering the son of the most famous man in America. In a compelling, immediate voice, 12-year-old Katie Leigh Flynn takes us inside the courtroom of the most widely publicized criminal case of the 20th century: the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh’s baby son. And in doing so, she reveals the real-life figures of the trial—the accused, the lawyers, the grieving parents—and the many faces of justice.

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0307548260

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