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1) The escape
Author
Series
John Puller volume 3
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When John Puller's older brother Robert inexplicably escapes from the military's most secure prison, where he's being held for national security crimes, Puller finds himself part of an investigation to hunt down his own brother. As he digs more deeply into the case, Puller discovers troubling details about his brother's conviction and that someone is out there who doesn't want the truth to ever come out." --
Author
Series
Gunnie Rose volume 3
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Saga Press hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Picking up right where A Longer Fall left off, this thrilling third installment follows Lizbeth Rose as she takes on one of her most dangerous missions yet: rescuing her estranged partner, Prince Eli, from the Holy Russian Empire. Once in San Diego, Lizbeth is going to have to rely upon her sister Felicia, and her growing Grigori powers to navigate her way through this strange new world of royalty and deception in order to get Eli freed from jail...
3) Dragon run
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
325 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is testing day, and twelve-year-old Al has scored a zero, but as he flees ruthless assassins known as Cullers, he begins to realize that being a zero actually means that he is a threat to the vicious dragons who rule his people.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.
6) Hollow City
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children volume 2
Publisher
Quirk Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In 1940, Jacob and his new friends escape from Miss Peregrine's island and travel to London where they encounter new allies, a menagerie of peculiar animals, and other unexpected surprises.
7) Escape room
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a group of strangers are given black boxes with tickets to an escape room with a chance to win money, they discover that the room has more extreme conditions than expected, and must fight for survival.
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
399 pages : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London, the "peculiar" capital of the world.
10) Two for Texas
Author
Publisher
Audioworks
Pub. Date
c1989
Physical Desc
5 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Son Holland, an inmate in a Louisiana penal camp, did not count on killing a man in order to escape, but as he flees to Texas he finds himself in the midst of the final tragic battle for the Alamo.
11) Amber smoke
Author
Series
The escaped volume 1
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (6 hr., 30 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
The door to the massive New York Times bestselling House of Night series has closed. Now, Kristin Cast kicks down a new door to welcome her millions of fans to her latest sizzling series.
There is a world that runs parallel to our own, a world in which the souls of the damned are caged, where they are looked over by the Furies, and where they spend eternity in torment, mirroring the devastation and mayhem they created when alive.
Someone has opened...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
As World War II rages and Hitler begins implementing his "final solution" to systematically and ruthlessly exterminate the Jewish people, Jacob Weisz must rely on his wits and a God he's not sure he believes in to somehow escape from Auschwitz and alert the world to the Nazi's atrocities before Fascism overtakes all of Europe.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
It's another Thanksgiving at Grandma's. Gavin expects a long day of boredom and being pestered by distantly related toddlers, but his cousin Rhonda has a different idea: make a break for it - out of the kids' room to the swing set in the backyard! Gavin isn't so sure, especially when they encounter vicious guard dogs (in homemade sweaters), a hallway full of overly affectionate aunts, and worse yet, the great wall of butts! Will they manage to avoid...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In A Small Town, twelve conspirators meticulously plan to throw open all the gates to the prison that contains them, so that more than a thousand convicts may escape and pour into the nearby small town. The newly freed prisoners rape, murder, and destroy the town-burning down homes and businesses. An immense manhunt ensues, but the twelve who plotted it all get away. After two years, all efforts by the local and federal police agencies have been...
16) Outfoxed
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Defense lawyer Andy Carpenter spends as much time as he can working on his true passion, the Tara Foundation, the dog rescue organization he runs. Lately, Andy has been especially involved in a county prison program where inmates help train dogs the Tara Foundation has rescued to make them more adoptable, benefiting both the dogs and the prisoners. One of the prisoners Andy has been working with is Brian Atkins, who has 18 months left on a 5-year...
Author
Language
English
Description
This gripping collection begins with 'Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption," in which an unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge'the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption.
Next is 'Apt Pupil," the inspiration for the film of the same name about top high school student Todd Bowden and his obsession with the dark and deadly past of an older man in town.
In 'the Body," four rambunctious...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First U.S. edition
Physical Desc
x, 376 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In April 1944, Rudolf Vrba became the first Jew to break out of Auschwitz--one of only four who ever pulled off that near-impossible feat. He did it to reveal the truth of the death camp to the world--and to warn the last Jews of Europe what fate awaited them at the end of the railway line. Against all odds, he and his fellow escapee, Fred Wetzler, climbed mountains, crossed rivers and narrowly missed German bullets until they had smuggled out the...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
432 p. ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A captivating true-crime caper about Arthur Barry, a jewel thief who charmed celebrities and millionaires, stole from Rockefellers and royalty, and pulled off the most audacious and lucrative heists of the Jazz Age"--
Author
Series
Buck Trammel volume 5
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the criminal underworld of Laramie County, Lucien Clay was king. He terrorized the locals, robbed the coffers, and ruled the place with an iron fist. Thankfully he's behind bars now--along with a load of other lowlife scum--thanks to Laramie's new sheriff, Buck Trammel. Unfortunately, Buck can only enforce the law while others specialize in working around it: namely, lawyers. And no lawyer is more crooked or corrupt than the belly-crawling snake...