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If You Like...Orange is the New Black
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Read the Book that Inspired the Show
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Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Woman's Prison
by Piper Kerman
Traces the author's 15-month incarceration at an infamous women's correctional facility for drug trafficking, an imprisonment during which she gained a unique perspective on the criminal justice system and met a varied community of women living under exceptional circumstances.
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Couldn't Keep it to Myself: Testimonies from our Imprisoned Sisters
by Wally Lamb
The author of She's Come Undone recounts his work with the York Correctional Institution and the stories of his women inmate students, describing the circumstances that led to their incarcerations and the process by which they found their literary voices.
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When Mothers Kill: Interviews from Prison
by Michelle Oberman
A compelling, deeply moving study of women who have committed the ultimate crime draws on interviews with women imprisoned for killing their own children to reveal their troubled relationships with parents, twisted notions of love, violent lives, and conflicting attitudes toward motherhood, as well as the social and institutional systems that have failed these women.
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Prison Baby: a Memoir
by Deborah Stein
After discovering that she was born in a prison to a heroin-addicted mother, the author recalls her subsequent descent into drugs and crime and her recovery as she finds forgiveness and acceptance for both her real and adopted mothers.
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Running the Books: the Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
by Avi Steinberg
A lighthearted immersion memoir chronicles the Harvard graduate and lapsed Orthodox Jewish author's stint as a librarian in a tough Boston prison, where he met such inmates as a pimp who enlisted his help writing a memoir and a gangster who dreamed of hosting a cooking show.
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Candid and Amusing Memoirs
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Cancer Vixen: a True Story
by Marisa Acocella Marchetto
In a powerful, witty graphic memoir, a New York City cartoonist recounts her eleven-month bout with breast cancer, from initial diagnosis to cure--and every challenge in between--chronicling her high-powered Manhattan lifestyle, the romance between the ultimate bachelorette and her surprising Prince Charming, and her fierce battle against disease.
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Nina Here nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender
by Nick Krieger
This candid and humorous memoir of gender awakening brings readers into the world of the next generation of transgender warriors and tells a classic tale of first love and self-discovery.
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She Matters: a Life in Friendships
by Susanna Sonnenberg
The best-selling author of Her Last Death presents an illuminating and provocative assessment of the women who have profoundly shaped her life, in a candid series of portraits that explores the powerful bonds and complex nuances that mark female friendships.
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Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
by Nina Sankovitch
Torn apart by grief after losing her sister, the author, a 46-year-old mother of four, turned to literature for comfort, devoting herself to reading one book a day for a year, which brought much needed joy, healing and wisdom into her life.
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Eat My Globe: One Year to Go Everywhere and Eat Everything
by Simon Majumdar
The creator of the blog by the same name and co-creator of the award-winning doshermanos blog traces his year-long journey around the world in search of unique international food culture, a quest during which he sampled such fare as the infamous rotten shark meat of Iceland, Argentina's beef, and Kansas City's barbecue.
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Julie and Julia : 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
by Julie Powell
Recounts how the author escaped the doldrums of an unpromising career and lackluster Queens apartment by mastering every recipe in Julia Child's 1961 classic, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, a year-long endeavor of humor and accomplishment that transformed her life.
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Prayers for the Stolen: a Novel
by Jennifer Clement
Born in a rural Mexico region where girls are disguised as boys to avoid the attentions of traffickers, Ladydi dreams of a better life before moving to Mexico City, where she falls in love and ends up in a prison with other women who share her experiences.
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Affinity
by Sarah Waters
Visiting a grim London prison as part of rehabilitative charity work, an upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt is drawn into the Victorian world of enigmatic spiritualist and inmate Selina Dawes and is persuaded to help her escape.
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White Oleander: a Novel
by Janet Fitch
The struggle to build an authentic identity lies at the heart of Astrid's life as a foster child in Los Angeles after her poet mother, who has kept Astrid isolated from the world, is imprisoned for murder.
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Alias Grace
by Margaret Atwood
Takes readers into the life and mind of Grace Marks, one of the most notorious women of the 1840s, who is serving a life sentence for murders she claims she cannot remember.
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Daughter's Keeper
by Ayelet Waldman
When Olivia falls victim to the maelstrom surrounding the war on drugs, she and her self-sufficient mother, Elaine, find themselves embroiled in a courtroom drama.
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