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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Sam Dryden, retired special forces, lives a quiet life in a small town on the coast of Southern California. While out on a run in the middle of the night, a young girl runs into him on the seaside boardwalk. Barefoot and terrified, she's running from a group of heavily armed men with one clear goal--to kill the fleeing child. After Dryden helps her evade her pursuers, he learns that the eleven year old, for as long as she can remember, has been kept...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
"Young dreamer Philemon lives in the countryside, until one day he falls down a well and finds himself in a parallel world of islands that form the letters of the word Atlantic Ocean. Together with the strange characters he meets there, Philemon must find his way home"--
263) Obby challenge
Author
Series
Diary of a Roblox pro ; Bk.3 volume 3
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"It's time to escape the obby! Ari's best friend's dad is a professional obby builder. He even constructs obbies to help train the Roblox army. Ari and his friends are excited to visit the latest obby creation but they are absolutely forbidden to touch anything. Well, Ari and his friends just can't help themselves! When they find themselves trapped in the new obby course they must find a way to escape or risk losing it all"--
264) The gauntlet
Author
Series
Gauntlet volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"A trio of friends from New York City find themselves trapped inside a mechanical board game that they must dismantle in order to save themselves and generations of other children in this ... debut that's a steampunk Jumanji with a Middle Eastern flair"--
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
In late 1944, the Allies invaded the Japanese-held Philippines, and soon the end of the Pacific War was within reach. But for the last 150 American prisoners of war still held on the island of Palawan, there would be no salvation. After years of slave labor, starvation, disease, and torture, their worst fears were about to be realized. On December 14, with machine guns trained on them, they were herded underground into shallow air raid shelters-death...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"The Nine follows the true story of the author's great aunt Helene Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back to Paris. The nine women were all under thirty when they joined the resistance. They smuggled arms through Europe, harbored parachuting agents, coordinated communications between regional sectors, trekked...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"It's 1939, and all across Europe the Nazis are coming for Jews and anti-fascists. The only way to avoid being imprisoned or murdered is to assume a new identity. For that, people are desperate for papers. And for that, the underground needs forgers. Sarah, a young Jewish artist, and her music teacher and father figure, Mr. Lieb, have already fled one home--Berlin. Now in Paris, they meet Cesar, a Spanish Republican who knows well the brutality of...
269) Midnight express
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
This film is based on a true story. William Hayes, a naive young American vacationing with his girlfriend in Istanbul, Turkey, tries to smuggle a couple of kilos of hash out of the country. He is caught, thrown into a Turkish prison, and subsequently raped, tortured, and forced into the brutality that defines the inmates' constant struggle for survival. There are other foreigners there, many for smuggling, and word is that the only way out of the...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"In September 1961, at the height of the Cold War, 22-year-old Joachim Rudolph escaped from East Germany, one of the world's most brutal regimes. He'd risked everything to do it. Then, a few months later, working with a group of students, he picked up a spade... and tunneled back in. The goal was to tunnel into the East to help people escape. They spend months digging, hauling up carts of dirt in a tunnel ventilated by stove pipes. But the odds are...
271) After the fox
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
A convicted con artist becomes a new wave Italian director as a front. Peter Sellers as the Fox dons no less than eight disguises en route to becoming director Federico Fabrizi.
Author
Series
Murray Family volume 10
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Arriving to late to rescue Lord Peter Gerard, Highlander Sigimor Cameron decides the best way he can repay the debt he owes is to rescue Peter's sister and young son.
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Sent to prison at age 19 on a minor drug offense, a 10-to-20 year sentence, Susan Marie LeFevre chose to escape the life she'd been dealt and begin a new one. She spent the next thirty-two years living the life she'd always planned, all the while carrying the secret of the past. When her tow lives collided, the results were played out in the courtrooms and news media.
277) The way back
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
"Inspired by an incredible true story... begins in 1940 when seven prisoners attempt the impossible: escape from a brutal Siberian gulag. Thus begins a treacherous 4,500-mile trek to freedom across the world's most merciless landscapes. They have little food and few supplies. They don't know or trust each other. But together, they must withstand nature at its most extreme. Their humanity is further tested when they meet a teenage runaway who begs...
278) Drop 50 & magnify
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Charlee Cox is a spoiled, second-generation prison guard in a minimum-security prison for women. His mother is the warden. The warden knows her lifelong bachelor son is up to something in her prison, but she needs proof--before he ruins his life and hers. A tunnel, conjugal visits, a spy on a diet, and forbidden love all lead to the only escape in the prison's history. And only Charlee could get away with it.
279) Colditz
Pub. Date
2006
Description
This films tells a remarkable story of the prisoners in the German POW camp called Colditz.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
It was only meant to be a brief detour. But then Lauren finds herself trapped in a town called Lost on the edge of a desert, filled with things abandoned, broken and thrown away. And when she tries to escape, impassible dust storms and something unexplainable lead her back to Lost again and again. The residents she meets there tell her she's going to have to figure out just what she's missing--and what she's running from--before she can leave. So...