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41) Cool hand Luke
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"His crime: nonconformity. His sentence: the chain gang...Cool Hand Luke [is] the loner who won't -- or can't -- bend to the arbitrary rules of his captivity." -- Container.
42) Runner
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Sam Dryden, retired special forces, lives a quiet life in a small town on the coast of Southern California. While out on a run in the middle of the night, a young girl runs into him on the seaside boardwalk. Barefoot and terrified, she's running from a group of heavily armed men with one clear goal--to kill the fleeing child. After Dryden helps her evade her pursuers, he learns that the eleven year old, for as long as she can remember, has been kept...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"One morning in the dead of winter, during the darkest years of World War II, three German soldiers head out into the frozen Polish countryside. They have been charged by their commanders with tracking down and bringing back for execution 'one of them'--a Jew. Having flushed out a young man hiding in the woods, they decide to rest in an abandoned house before continuing their journey back to the camp. As they prepare food, they are joined by a passing...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Young dreamer Philemon lives in the countryside, until one day he falls down a well and finds himself in a parallel world of islands that form the letters of the word Atlantic Ocean. Together with the strange characters he meets there, Philemon must find his way home"--
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Breaking out of maximum security at Fox River was the easy part. Now, Michael Scofield must fight to survive inside Sona, a hellish Panamanian prison where the only rule is brutal violence and the only way out is in a body bag. So, with time running out, Lincoln Burrows scrambles desperately to free his brother along with the only man who can deliver Lincoln's captive son from the sinister clutches of The Company.
47) Stone angel
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Language
English
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Description
While trying to escape with her family from the Nazis, a young Jewish French girl feels protected by angels.
49) Child of light
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"From the brilliant mind behind the Shannara saga comes an electrifying new fantasy series about a human girl struggling to find her place in a magical world she's never known. At nineteen, Auris Afton Grieg has led an ... unusual life. Since the age of fifteen, she has been trapped in a sinister prison. Why? She does not know. She has no memories of her past beyond the vaguest of impressions. All she knows is that she is about to age out of the children's...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Michael Scofield and his brother Lincoln Burrows have escaped prison and are on the run. Michael and Lincoln, along with several other escaped convicts, are not just running from the law and the FBI, they are devoting their time to uncovering a vast government plot that takes them around the world.
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Language
English
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Near the end of the Civil War, inhumane conditions at Andersonville Prison caused the deaths of 13,000 Union soldiers in only one year. In this gripping and affecting novel, three young Confederates and an entire town come face-to-face with the prison's atrocities and will learn the cost of compassion, when withheld and when given.
Author
Series
Yona of the dawn volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"While on the run, Yona and Hak head to Hak's hometown, where she attempts to heal her broken 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?"--
Author
Series
Sonny Burton novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"After Texas Ranger Sonny Burton loses his arm in a shootout with Bonnie and Clyde, he is asked by the Rangers to help find an escaped convict, Billy Bunson, who took a pregnant woman hostage. Once he begins his investigation, Sonny suspects there is more to Billy's plan than meets the eye. He suspects it's a plan for Billy to be free of Sonny once and for all. The story unfolds over a period of twenty-five years as Sonny Burton's life as a Texas...
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Language
English
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"Many people attempted daring escapes over the Berlin Wall, and most failed, giving their lives for the hope of freedom. This is the true story of one child, Peter Wetzel, and his family's daring escape from East Berlin to West Berlin via handmade hot air balloon in 1979"--
56) Operación Águila
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Language
Español
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Una red Colombiana de drogas, o nexo, está enviando drogas ilegales al territorio de EE.UU. a través de naves sumegibles. El punto de origen es un astillero a lo largo de la costa pacífica de la selva colombiana. El Escuadrón de Sombra, una unidad de élite y secreta de las Fuerzas Militares de EE.UU., ha sido elegido para llevar a cabo el ataque. el sargento Edgar Brighton encabezará el esfuerzo gubernamental conjunto. El resto del equipo asistirá...
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Language
English
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Blinded by heavy mist, a misstep causes Erro to plunge into a deep canyon where he is caught by one of the giants who is imprisoned there while Zak is plucked off the cliff ledge by a different giant--but the giants are not friendly, and while they are discussing whether to give the boys to the Alcatraz guards or turn them into lunch, Zak comes up with a way to escape either fate.
59) The wild
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Sampson is a lion on display at a zoo in New York City's Central Park, and he holds court over all the other animals, including Nigel, a testy koala bear; Larry, a dumb but well-meaning snake; Kazar, a wildebeest with a passion for choreography; Bridget, a bright but cynical giraffe; and Benny, a squirrel who is good friends with Sampson and is trying to romance Bridget without much success. Ryan is the pride and joy of Sampson's life and he becomes...
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