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1) The getaway
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1998, c1994
Language
English
Description
When master criminal Doc McCoy is forced to do time in a Mexican jail, his wife Carol visits a powerful crime boss in hopes of enlisting his assistance in an escape. Once free, Doc and Carol take off with the loot from a botched robbery and find themselves on the run from the law, an angry partner, and a hit squad.
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
An innocent man, Edmond Dantes, is imprisoned for years on a godforsaken island while the friend who betrayed him takes Dantes ravishing fiancé for himself. Dantes eventually escapes, recovers a fortune in buried pirate treasure, transforms himself into the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo, and methodically goes about exacting his revenge.
3) Unspeakable
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Jack Sawyer, a drifter whose easygoing nature hides a troubled past, returns to his hometown in Blewer County, Texas in an attempt to protect widow Anna Corbett and her young son from revenge-minded escaped convict Carl Herbold.
4) Out of sight
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Deputy U.S. Marshal Karen Sisco is taken hostage by bank robber Jack Foley when she is caught in the middle of his escape from Florida's Glades Prison, and realizes she is attracted to her captor while huddled with him in the trunk of the getaway car.
5) The island
Publisher
DreamWorks Pictures
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a utopian facility in the mid 21st century. Like all of the inhabitants, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to the "The Island." But Lincoln soon realizes that everything about his existence is a lie. He discovers that all of the inhabitants of the facility are actually human clones. Lincoln makes a daring escape with a beautiful fellow resident named Jordan Two-Delta. Relentlessly pursued by the forces of the evil...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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."--
8) Room
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
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.
9) Dasher
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A chronicle of the perilous European mountain escape route used during World War II, with epic stories from survivors and their families. After the Nazi invasion of Belgium in 1940, an underground network was established to help British servicemen escape German-occupied Europe. As the war progressed, others began using the secret route as well, traveling to the south of France, over the Pyrenees mountains, and into neutral Spain. The Chemin de la...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Discusses how to survive one hundred of the most dangerous things in the world, including avalanches, tornadoes, rattlesnakes, sharks, falling down a well, and more, and covers the likelihood of encountering each threat and the probability of survival.
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children volume 2nd
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Language
English
Description
New York Times Bestselling Author
It was supposed to be impossible. No man could break out of the brutal convict labor camp at Five Shadows. Until they locked up Bowen. He was like dynamite--charged to go off, to explode out of that desert hell so he could clear his name. Already the deadly trackers have caught him, dragged him back through the mesquite and rocks, beat him and left him to rot in the punishment cell. But they can’t stop
16) Room
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
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.
17) The great escape
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An account of the escape of almost one hundred British prisoners of war from a German prison camp in 1944.
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