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Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"On August 30, 1942--Zero Night--40 Allied officers staged the most audacious mass escape of World War II. Months of meticulous planning and secret training hung in the balance during three minutes of mayhem as the officers boldly stormed the huge double fences at Oflag Prison. Employing wooden ladders and bridges previously disguised as bookshelves, the highly coordinated effort succeeded and set 36 men free into the German countryside. Later known...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
In this fascinating account of spycraft and compassion, Wright (Three Nights in Havana) puts newly unclassified documents to excellent use in recounting how Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor hid six Americans who had slipped out a side door and gathered intelligence for the U.S. government during the Iran Hostage Crisis.
344) Loba
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Una loba que quiere ser libre, ¿podrá sobrevivir sin su manada? Lucy quiere escapar del territorio de su padre, un poderoso y temible político, que es también un prominente capo del crimen organizado en el norte de México. Su intento de escape no tiene un plan bien definido, por lo cual es capturada por Treviño, fiel esbirro del padre. Lucy no desiste, y en su ruta de huida va perdiendo casi todo: su cómoda vida, sus escasos amigos, sus...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"From an acclaimed historian, the dramatic story of the Christmas escape of thousands of American troops overwhelmingly surrounded by the enemy in Korea's harsh terrain. Just before Thanksgiving in 1950, five months into the Korean War, General MacArthur flew to American positions in the north and grandly announced an 'end-the-war-by-Christmas' offensive despite recent intervention by Mao's Chinese, who would soon trap tens of thousands of US troops...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Jack Savage, a former Royal Marine Commando, is approached by shipping magnate Dimitri Aleko to mastermind a breakout from the island prison of Sinos. Savage will do anything for money until he falls in love with a beautiful woman who becomes a pawn in Aleko's deadly game of international intrigue.
347) Chickenhare
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Night is falling on the frozen landscape as Chickenhare and his turtle friend Abe find themselves on their way to be sold to Klaus, an insane taxidermist with a penchant for unique animals and enough emotional baggage to go on a very long vacation. With the help of two mysterious new companions, our fuzzy, feathered, and amphibious heroes endeavor to escape their dire fate. But they soon discover that might not be so easy when they get caught up...
348) Devils' domain
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
There was a reason that people called Andersonville Prison hell on earth. With more than thirty thousand Union soldiers held captive in the worst conditions possible, death and disease were scourges visited on large numbers of them. There was a shortage of food, so it was likely that if the prisoners didn't die of disease, they'd die of starvation -- or the loose cannon of a guard might just decide it was a prisoner's day to die. It was the misfortune...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Presented in graphic novel format. "Join the determined men and women who were part of the mass breakout from the Sobibor death camp. From the organization of the daring plan to the hardships suffered after the escape, this story doesn't just tell you about mankind's fierce will to survive. It drops you behind enemy liens to experience the ordeal yourself" (Back cover).
351) Occulted
Author
Pub. Date
[2023].
Formats
Description
Survivor Amy Rose recounts her upbringing in an abusive cult which forbade independent learning, and how she discovered books in a secret library that opened up her world and inspired her to escape.--Publisher.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Appears on list
Description
American History X: Derek Vinyard, the charismatic leader of a group of young white supremacists, lands in prison for a brutal, hate-driven murder. Upon his release, ashamed of his past and pledging to reform, Derek realizes he must save his younger brother Danny from a similar fate. A groundbreaking controversial drama about the tragic consequences of racism in a family.
The Green Mile: African American John Coffey is a gentle giant of a man, who...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
The children have successfully escaped Grace Field House, but their troubles are just beginning. Now up against a dangerous natural world and their demon pursuers, Emma and Ray struggle to lead the children to safety. Just when the situation is at its most dire, a mysterious girl suddenly appears. Is she there to help, or is it a demonic trap...? --
Author
Series
Promised neverland volume 7
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
The children of the Grace Field House orphanage must escape a macabre fate before it's too late. Life at Grace Field House is good for Emma and her fellow orphans. While the daily studying and exams they have to take are tough, their loving caretaker provides them with delicious food and plenty of playtime. But perhaps not everything is as it seems... After learning the truth of the world they find themselves in, the orphans finally make their way...
Author
Series
Just beyond volume 12
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Karla and Benny accompany their uncle Bill on a scientific expedition of the island of Mala Suerte and soon discover something deadly living in the river swamp. When an abandoned village turns out to be a prison where Koroko stores his food, the group has to figure out how to free the prisoners and escape from the aptly nicknamed Beast Island.
358) The escape game
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"After the Nazis started the bombing blitz of England, Beryl Clarke puts her university education on hold to return to Leeds, care for her mother, and work as a secretary at the Waddingtons game company. While she endures the war at home, her brother James fights the enemy in the air. When he is shot down, injured, and captured, James reunites with a former college friend, American POW Kenneth Bordelon, and they plan to escape the Nazi prison camp....
359) La ciudad desolada
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
September 3, 1940, ten peculiar children flee an army of deadly monsters. Only one person can help them, but she's trapped in the body of a bird. The extraordinary journey that began in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children continues as Jacob Portman and his newfound friends journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world. There, they hope to find a cure for their beloved headmistress, Miss Peregrine. In this war-torn city, hideous surprises...
Author
Series
Yona of the dawn volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"While on the run, Yona and Hak head to Hak's hometown, where she attempts to heal her brokent heart. However, she can't rest there for long once she discovers that Su-won may soon become king! What will Yona choose to do in the wake of this news?"--