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"In this gripping narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most famous prison stories in history and makes it utterly his own. During World War II, the German army used the towering Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant Allied prisoners. For four years, these prisoners of the castle tested its walls and its guards with ingenious escape attempts that would become legend. But as Macintyre shows, the story of Colditz was about much more than escape....
22) Dasher
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Dasher is an adventurous young reindeer with a wish in her heart. She spends her days with her family under the hot sun in a traveling circus, but she longs for a different life - one where there is snow beneath her hooves and the North Star above her head. One day, when the opportunity arises, Dasher seizes her destiny and takes off in pursuit of the life she wants to live. It's not long before she meets a nice man in a red suit with a horse-drawn...
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Miss Peregrine volume 2
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The #1 New York Times best-selling series.
Bonus features:
• Sneak preview of the third Peculiar Children novel
• Exclusive Q&A with Ransom Riggs
• Never-before-seen peculiar photography
Like its predecessor, this second novel in the Peculiar Children series blends thrilling fantasy with vintage photography to create a one-of-a-kind reading experience.
September 3,...
Bonus features:
• Sneak preview of the third Peculiar Children novel
• Exclusive Q&A with Ransom Riggs
• Never-before-seen peculiar photography
Like its predecessor, this second novel in the Peculiar Children series blends thrilling fantasy with vintage photography to create a one-of-a-kind reading experience.
September 3,...
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Stanley books (Linda Bailey) volume 2
Pub. Date
c2006
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[32] p. : col. ill. ; 24 x 27 cm.
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Tired of staying in the yard all the time, Stanley the dog finds a secret way out and heads out for a night on the town where he chases cats, raids garbage cans, and takes the ride of his life on a skateboard down a steep hill.
25) Room: a novel
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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.
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2010
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On the evening of March 17, 1959, as the people of Tibet braced for a violent power grab by Chinese occupiers—one that would forever wipe out any vestige of national sovereignty—the twenty-four-year-old Dalai Lama, Tibet’s political and spiritual leader, contemplated the impossible. The task before him was immense: to slip past a cordon of crack Chinese troops ringing his summer palace and, with an escort of 300, journey across the highest terrain...
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The hysterical, clever, and unforgettable sequel to Jonas Jonasson's international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. He's back. Even older. Even funnier. It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they're not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship, and they could never have imagined...
28) Reign of shadows
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Reign of shadows volume 1
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Seventeen years ago, an eclipse cloaked the kingdom of Relhok in perpetual darkness. In the chaos, an evil chancellor murdered the king and queen and seized their throne. Luna, Relhok's lost princess, has been hiding in a tower ever since. Luna's survival depends on the world believing she is dead. But that doesn't stop Luna from wanting more. When she meets Fowler, a mysterious archer braving the woods outside her tower, Luna is drawn to him despite...
29) You can't hide
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Shadow House volume 2
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Poppy, Marcus, Dash, Dylan, and Azumi are trapped inside of Larkspur House, a sinister estate haunted by the ghosts of the orphaned children who have gone before, and the house is using their fears and secrets to pick them off one by one--because nobody gets out of the shadow house alive.
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[2016]
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1 videodisc (62 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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They may have busted out of prison, but the World War II battle for freedom has just begun for Alcatraz convicts Champ Larkin and his pal Jimbo. Eluding the Rock's patrol boats, the fugitives capture a lighthouse, taking the denizens prisoner while plotting their mainland escape. But among the captives, a veteran skipper, his flinty daughter, a chatty assistant and a wily radio operator; is a Nazi spy who's key to a German plot to attack San Francisco....
31) Room
Pub. Date
2016
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1 videodisc (ca. 118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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After five-year old Jack and his Mom escape from the enclosed environment that Jack has known his entire life, the boy makes a miraculous discovery: the outside world.
32) Incarceron
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Incarceron is a prison so vast that it contains not only cells and corridors, but metal forests, dilapidated cities, and wilderness. It has been sealed for centuries, and only one man has ever escaped. Finn has always been a prisoner here. Although he has no memory of his childhood, he is sure he came from Outside. His link to the Outside, his chance to break free, is Claudia, the warden's daughter, herself determined to escape an arranged marriage....
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2022.
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206 pages ; 22 cm
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"In Jonathan Dee's elegant and explosive new novel, Sugar Street, an unnamed male narrator has hit the road. Rid of any possible identifiers, his possessions amount to $168,548 in cash stashed in an envelope under his car seat. Vigilantly avoiding security cameras, he drives until he hits a city where his past is unlikely to track him down, and finds a room to rent from a less-than-stable landlady whose need for money outweighs her desire to ask questions....
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Good luck girls volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
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344 pages ; 22 cm
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Having escaped their lives as prostitutes, the Good Luck Girls have new lives across the border in Ferron. Aster remains in Arketta, helping more girls escape from "welcome houses." She develops a wildly ambitious plan to free all the dustbloods from their debt slavery. Friendships will be forged, lives will be lost. But will the dustbloods come into power and freedom, or will the resistance just open them up to a new sort of danger? -- adapted from...
35) Strangelets
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Six smarter-than-most teens wake up in the same hospital after having experienced a traumatic event that they can't quite remember … other than being forcibly sucked into an abyss at the moment of their deaths. With individual clocks ticking-and with each guarding an individual secret-they band together and conspire to piece together the whole of what happened.
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Running out of time volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
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Twelve-year-old Zola, who has a surprising connection to Jessie, discovers that she is stuck in a fake utopian future, and that those around her are counting on her to help them escape.
Twelve-year-old Zola thinks she has the perfect life. She thinks everyone does, now that it's 2193, and humanity has solved all its problems. Insta-Closets deliver new clothes every morning, Insta-Ovens deliver gourmet meals on demand, and virtual reality goggles...
37) We're no angels
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2005, c1955
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1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A jaunty excursion about three convicts who are plotting their escape from Devil's Island. Fate intervenes when they hide out with kindly but inept Felix and his family. Based on a play by Albert Husson.
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2020.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations; 27 x 27 cm
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"In a world built for Perfect Pets, Barnabus is a Failed Project, half mouse, half elephant, kept out of sight until his dreams of freedom lead him and his misfit friends on a perilous adventure. A stunning picture book from international bestsellers The Fan Brothers, joined by their brother Devin Fan."--
39) The capybaras
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2021.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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"A charming and hilarious tale for kids ages 4-8 about how accepting others can enrich us all--featuring capybaras, the beloved animal sensation capturing hearts around the world."--Provided by publisher.
40) Bloody saddles
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Pub. Date
2002
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312 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
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The powerful J Bar C combine was ruthlessly grabbing all the land and cattle in the Twin Buttes range. Using crooked money and hired killers, they were forcing the weaker cattlemen off the range. But when its unscrupulous killers tried to intimidate and run rough-shod over Buck Comstock as they ahd with the other small ranch owners, his fast-clicking six-shooters proved too great a hazard. As a last resort, they "railroaded" Buck into a twenty-five...
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