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2) The Bad Guys
Author
Series
Bad guys (Aaron Blabey) volume 1
Language
English
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The Bad Guys, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Shark, Mr. Snake, and Mr. Piranha, want to be heroes, and they decide that the way to do it is free the 200 dogs in the city dog pound--but their plan soon goes awry.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
We all love the Shawshank Redemption; the story of a man who successfully escaped from a prison. But as they say, life is stranger than fiction and there have been events which can even put the movies to shame. It's amazing to see what prisoners go through and the creative plans they come up with to escape. This amazing book reveals the secrets of some of the most epic and ingenious escapes in history. Discover the adventures of those who were not...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn't commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison....
5) Room
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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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.
"See it you must for the Oscar-caliber Larson and young Tremblay, whose remarkable mother-and-child bond is nothing sort of astonishing to watch."--New York Post.
6) The Rig
Author
Series
The rig volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
"Fifteen-year-old Will Drake has made a career of breaking out from high-security prisons. His talents have landed him at the Rig, a specialist juvenile holding facility in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. No one can escape from the Rig. No one except for Drake"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The Great Eggscape is when the Good Egg and his pals escape their carton and drop into the store for a morning of fun, enjoyed by everybody. Well, almost everybody. Shel (an egg) isn't a huge fan of group activities, especially when he's made to be “It” for a game of hide-and-seek. Nevertheless, Shel doesn't want to let his friends down, so he reluctantly plays, anyway. But after a morning of hiding and seeking, somebody's still missing. Will...
Author
Series
Asylum novels (Madeleine Roux) volume Prequel
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
When Rick is sent to Brookline asylum against his will, he soon finds out that life there is nearly inhumane. He seeks the help of a sympathetic nurse and plans his escape before it's too late.
10) Hollow city
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
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.
11) Room: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
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.
14) Dragon run
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
It is testing day, and twelve-year-old Al has scored a zero--but as he flees the cullers he begins to realize that being a zero actually means that he is a threat to the vicious dragons who rule his people.
15) The keeper
Author
Series
Vega Jane volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Vega Jane and her friend Delph have taken the map that Quentin Harris left them and set out from the town of Wormwood, determined to brave the Quag and find freedom on the other side--but the Quag was designed to keep the town people in, and it is filled with bloodthirsty creatures and sinister magic, and it is not going to let them escape unscathed.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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After security expert Ray Breslin is hired to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Hong Kong tech mogul from a formidable Latvian prison, Breslin's girlfriend is also captured.
Screen legend Sylvester Stallone kicks this explosive action tale into high gear. After security expert Ray Breslin is hired to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Hong Kong tech mogul from a formidable Latvian prison, Breslin's girlfriend is also captured. Now he and his team,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When his latest escape goes wrong, the Great Zoodini--a fennec fox--winds up at an animal sanctuary/drive-in movie theater where he gets the chance to become world-famous but wonders if fame is worth losing his newfound family--the only ones who've ever accepted him.
20) Shadows of truth
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"After their . . . escape from Vardean prison, Cayder and his friends leap into the unknown, tumbling headlong out of Telene and into the mysterious world beyond the veil. Leta--who dreamed about the veil as a child--finds that the truth is more magical, and terrifying, than she could ever have imagined. Meanwhile, Cayder and Elenora learn that both this world and their own are teetering on the brink of destruction. Still reeling from Elenora's betrayal,...
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