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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.
2) Hollow city
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Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London (circa 1940), the "peculiar" capital of the world.
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370 pages ; 18 cm
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English
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A breathtaking joyride through the solar system several centuries hence, a world of marching cities, ubiquitous public-key encryption, people who communicate via shared memory, and a race of hyper-advanced humans who originated as an MMORPG guild.
Broken free from a nightmarish distant-future prison by a mysterious woman who offers him his life back if he will complete the ultimate heist he left unfinished, con man Jean le Flambeur is pursued in...
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1 videodisc (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Français
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French secret agent Joss Baumont has been assigned the treacherous task of killing an African president. However, due to a series of drastic political changes, the mission is negated. The tables turned on Baumont when the person responsible for assigning him the task turned him in to the African authorities. Sentenced to long-term imprisonment, Baumont makes a daring escape with the intent of fulfilling the Secret Service's murderous request as a...
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213 pages ; 22 cm
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It's 1975, and Shaltiel Feigenberg, a professional storyteller and writer, has been taken hostage. He has been abducted from his home in Brooklyn, New York, blindfolded and tied to a chair in a dark basement. His captors, an Arab and an Italian, don't explain why Shaltiel has been chosen, just that his life will be bartered for the freedom of three Palestinian prisoners. As his days of waiting commence, Shaltiel resorts to what he does best, telling...
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275 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
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English
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The story of four indentured servants in Czarist Russia in 1853 who escape and travel to freedom by canoe. In 1853, four Scandinavian indentured laborers in Russian Alaska steal a canoe and begin to paddle south toward the mouth of the Columbia River, twelve hundred miles away.
9) Escape plan
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1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Ray Breslin, one of the world's foremost authorities on structural security, agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called The Tomb. Deceived and wrongly imprisoned, Ray must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built.
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1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey", this is the story of three convicts-- escapees from a prison farm in Mississippi-- and their adventure as they travel home in hopes of recovering buried loot before it's lost forever in a flood.
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1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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At age 70, Forrest Tucker infamously made his escape from the tough San Quentin prison. Once he had gained his freedom, he embarked on a new set of heists that left investigators scratching their heads and the public fascinated by the story. This true story details Tucker's life which includes a detective wrapped up in the case, and a female who takes a liking to Tucker despite the criminal path he's on.
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406 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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"All Logan is trying to do is get back to Texas after a cattle drive to New Mexico Territory. But as well as being a rancher, he is a water-witch, and that's his downfall. By coincidence, he sees a broadside offering $50.00 for a dowser to come to Liberty Prison and witch a new well. That's too good to pass up, but that's where his problems begin. Liberty's warden has no intention of paying for a well - he keeps Logan as an inmate. Logan has to escape...
15) We're no angels
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1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Three convicts, Joseph, Albert and Jules, are plotting their escape from Devil's Island. Fate intervenes when they hide out with kindly but inept Felix and his family. Felix manages a store for his arrogant cousin Andre, who makes the fatal mistake of stealing Albert's pet, a poisonous snake. After resolving Felix's problems, the convicts return to prison, convinced that the world is much too wicked.
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383 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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"Two teenagers, in love and insane, journey across the United States in this Bonnie and Clyde-like adventure, pursuing a warped American dream, where Elvis is still king and the corndog the "backbone of this great country." Kody Rawlee Green is stuck in juvie. Tella "Teal Cartwheels" Carticelli is packing her bags for Rome -- on the orders of her parents who want her as far from Kody as possible. But teenage love is too strong a force for the obstacles...
17) High Sierra
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1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Bogart plays a convicted killer sprung from jail by a mobster who wants him to assist in a California hotel holdup.
18) Boundary
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Other horizons trilogy volume 1
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vi, 289 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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A group of teenagers try to escape after having spent their entire lives in a mysterious estate with no contact with the outside world.
19) Lockdown
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Escape from Furnace volume 1
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273 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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When fourteen-year-old Alex Sawyer is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign, boys who disappear in the middle of the night sometimes return weirdly altered, and escape might just be possible.
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"The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon...
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