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1) 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.
2) 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.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1764, after Kaya and her sister are kidnapped from their Nez Percé village by enemy horse raiders, she tries to find a way to escape back home. Includes historical notes on education and learning among the Nez Percé Indians.
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
11) 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.
13) The ascent
Author
Publisher
GCP, Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Kurt Argento, an ex-Detroit street cop who can't let injustice go-and who has the fighting skills to back up his idealism. If he sees a young girl being dragged into an alley, he's going to rescue her and cause some damage. When he does just that in a small corrupt Missouri town, he's brutally beaten and thrown into a maximum-security prison. Julie Wakefield, a grad student who happens to be the governor's daughter, is about to take a tour of the...
14) Backfire
Author
Series
Mountain Cove volume 3
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
NOWHERE LEFT TO HIDE Tracy Murray had thought she'd be safe disappearing in the wilds of Alaska after her testimony put away a gang leader. But the gang symbol tattooed on an attacker's arm means the clock has run out. She's been found -- and she knows the killers won't let her escape alive again. She can't fight an entire gang alone -- she needs help. But when she finds herself relying on widowed firefighter David Warren, a new struggle emerges....
Author
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In this second book in the American Revolutionary War Adventure series, Submarines, Secrets and a Daring Rescue , twins Ambrose and John Clark find themselves volunteering for another mission to help the newly forming United States. Inspired by their success in delivering a secret message to General George Washington himself, the boys step up to help transport much-needed gunpowder to the patriots and end up in an even more dangerous situation, trying...
16) Hostage: a novel
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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
Publisher
Park Row Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Growing up in New York City in the 1910s, Luella and Effie tildon realize that even as wealthy young women, their freedoms come with limits. But when the sisters discover a shocking secret about their father, Luella, the brazen older sister, becomes emboldened to do as she pleases. Her rebellion comes with consequences, and one morening Luella is mysteriously gone. Effie suspects her father has sent Luella to the House of Mercy and hatches a plan...
18) Escape
Author
Series
Black book thriller volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"New York Times bestselling detective Billy Harney of The Black Book is chasing down a billionaire crime boss and a prison escape artist while a young girl's life hangs in the balance. As Chicago PD's special-ops leader, Detective Billy Harney knows well that money is not the only valuable currency. The filthy rich man he's investigating is down to his last twenty million. He's also being held in jail. For now. Billy's unit is called in when an escape...
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