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281) The tunnel
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
"Tells the incredible true story of a massive underground escape attempt from East to West Berlin. Anti-communist East German swimming champion Harry Melchior narrowly escapes the Communist regime just after the Berlin Wall is completed, and is determined to rescue his beloved sister, whom he was forced to leave behind" -- Container.
283) The wild
Series
Pub. Date
c006.
Description
Sampson is a lion on display at a zoo in New York City's Central Park, and he holds court over all the other animals, including Nigel, a testy koala bear; Larry, a dumb but well-meaning snake; Kazar, a wildebeest with a passion for choreography; Bridget, a bright but cynical giraffe; and Benny, a squirrel who is good friends with Sampson and is trying to romance Bridget without much success. Ryan is the pride and joy of Sampson's life and he becomes...
Author
Series
Sonny Burton novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"After Sonny Burton lost his right arm, he thought his days as a Texas Ranger were behind him. When Billy Burnson escapes from Huntsville Prison, the Rangers come to Sonny for help because he had history with Billy. From when Billy was only a boy, Sonny was there, chasing him, or trying to save him. Sonny knows if he doesn't go after Billy, Billy will come after him. He keeps his investigation close to the vest, until he is joined by his son, Jesse,...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Description
"Based on true events, this beautifully rendered novel from the author of Schindler's List and The Daughters of Mars brilliantly explores a World War II prison camp, where Japanese prisoners resolve to take drastic action to wipe away their shame. Alice is a young woman living on her father-in-law's farm on the edge of an Australian country town, while her husband is held prisoner in Europe. When Giancarlo, an Italian anarchist at the prisoner-of-war...
287) Con air
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Cameron Poe is a highly decorated U.S. ranger who is convicted of manslaughter after protecting his wife in a drunken brawl. Finally, after eight years, he's being paroled and is going home to his wife and daughter. His ride home, the Jailbird, is also transporting society's most vicious murderers to Feltham Penitentiary, Lousiana's toughest maximum security prison. A surprising escape is made on board the plane as the cons seize control of the plane,...
288) Bound by firelight
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2022.
Description
"After a magical eruption devastates the kingdom of Belwar, royal heir Adraa is falsely accused of masterminding the destruction and forced to stand trial in front of her people, who see her as a monster. Adraa’s punishment? Imprisonment in the Dome, an impenetrable, magic-infused fortress filled with Belwar’s nastiest criminals—many of whom Adraa put there herself. And they want her to pay. Jatin, the royal heir to Naupure, has been Adraa’s...
289) Blood of Amber
Author
Series
Chronicles of Amber volume 7
Pub. Date
c1986
Description
Merle Corey, hero of Trumps of Doom (1985), escapes from prison with the help of a woman who has many shapes. Merle Corey escapes from prison into Amber, a world of wonders and confusions where friends and foes are sometimes indistinguishable, where a man is out to kill him and a woman to help him. This is the seventh Amber novel.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Set nearly a year after the conclusion of Hirsch’s 2013 book The Darkest Path — a survival adventure following a former child soldier named Cal Roe caught in the midst of the 2nd American Civil War — this short novel continues the story entirely from the point-of-view of Cal’s faithful dog, Bear"--Goodreads.
293) Escape!: the story of the Confederacy's infamous Libby Prison and the Civil War's largest jail break
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Robert P. Watson provides the definitive account of the Confederacy's infamous Libby Prison, site of the Civil War's largest prison break. Libby Prison housed Union officers, high-profile foes of the Confederacy, and political prisoners. Watson captures the wretched conditions, cruel guards, and the story of the daring prison break, called 'the most remarkable in American history.'"--
294) Flight of fury
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Making a deal with a clandestine U.S. agency, John and his sidekick Rojar fight rebel forces to retrieve a hijacked Stealth Bomber in exchange for his freedom.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
World War II saw the formal beginning of small, highly trained Special Forces military groups. The Army Rangers were among them. As the war was ending, the US saw a chance to rescue more than 500 men being held captive deep in the Philippine jungle by Japanese forces. Inside, read about one of the greatest raids in military history, one that put Army Rangers firmly in the mix as one of America's Special Forces. Sometimes a job is so tough, so dangerous,...
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
"Summers are always stifling in southern Virginia, and they're even hotter on the Mecklenburg Correctional Center's Death Row when Dennis Stockton arrives there in July 1983. Charged with murder for hire, Stockton insisted he was innocent, but his jury sentenced him to die. In prison, he begins keeping a diary and it soon becomes his lifeline, nurturing dreams of freedom and publication as an author."--BOOK JACKET. "Mecklenburg's officials had always...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
A look at one U.S. Army private's attempt to free Nazi soldiers from a Colorado prisoner of war camp during World War II.
Harvard honor alumnus Dale Maple had a promising future, but his obsession with Nazi Germany led to his downfall. Classmates often accused him of pro-Nazi sentiments, and one campus organization even expelled him. After graduation, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, only to be relegated to a unit of soldiers suspected of harboring...
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
American Betty Mahmoody goes with her daughter and her Iranian-born husband to his native Iran for a vacation. Soon Betty discovers her husband doesn't intend to ever return to America. He will let her go, but her daughter must stay. As a stranger in a foreign police state, Betty has no money, no friends, no rights, and makes a desperate, heroic bid to escape with her child.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
In September 1970, ex-Harvard professor and 'High Priest of LSD' Dr. Timothy Leary escaped from prison with the aid of the radical Weather Underground. Spanning twenty-eight months, President Nixon's careening, global manhunt for Dr. Timothy Leary winds its way among homegrown radicals, European aristocrats, a Black Panther outpost in Algeria, an international arms dealer, hash-smuggling hippies from the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, and secret agents...