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English
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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...
2) Hollow city
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 2
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In 1940, Jacob and his new friends escape from Miss Peregrine's island and travel to London where they encounter new allies, a menagerie of peculiar animals, and other unexpected surprises.
Author
Series
Shadow House volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
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.
6) No way out
Author
Series
Shadow House volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Four of the orphans who were lured to Larkspur House have made it out of the shadow house alive, but Poppy, Dash, Azumi, and Dylan are still on the grounds of the estate and far from safety--and unless they solve the mystery of what it is that the house wants from them they may never escape.
Author
Series
100 year old man novels volume 2
Language
English
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It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Centenarian Allan Karlsson 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 that the captain of the ship would be harbouring a suitcase full of contraband uranium, on a nuclear weapons mission for Kim Jong-un. Soon Allan and Julius are at the centre of a complex...
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Language
English
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"The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon...
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Series
Good luck girls volume 1
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The country of Arketta calls them Good Luck Girls--they know their luck is anything but. Sold to a "welcome house" as children and branded with cursed markings. Trapped in a life they would never have chosen. When Clementine accidentally kills a man, the girls risk a dangerous escape and harrowing journey to find freedom, justice, and revenge in a country that wants them to have none of those things. Pursued by Arketta's most vicious and powerful...
12) The missing
Author
Series
Shadow House volume 4
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Five children have been lured into Shadow House, all for different reasons, and they must determine if someone is trying to help them escape or trap them there forever.
13) The gathering
Author
Series
Shadow House volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Poppy Caldwell is an orphan who keeps seeing a figure standing behind her in the mirror at the group home where she lives, but she does not associate this ghost with the letter that mysteriously appears in her file, claiming to be from a long-lost aunt, and inviting her to Larkspur House--and she is just one of five children who find themselves gathered in this strange house with a deadly past, and apparently no intention of letting the children escape....
14) Out of sight
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
A bank robber in Florida commandeers a car belonging to a woman U.S. marshall, climbs with her into the trunk, while an accomplice drives. So begins a novel about two people who really wish the ride had gone forever. As it is, she escapes to lead a manhunt for him.
15) The capybaras
Author
Publisher
Greystone Kids
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"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"--
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Inky's Great Escape follows a Houdini-esque octopus as he pulls his greatest disappearing act yet. Inky, worn out from his exciting life in the ocean, has retired to the aquarium. There he quietly regales his tankmate Blotchy with tales of his past adventures. Then Blotchy dares Inky to make one more daring escape: out of their tank . . . and the aquarium. Will Inky succeed?
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A mesmerizing tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is one of Stephen King's most beloved and iconic stories, and it helped make Castle Rock a place readers would return to over and over again. Suspenseful, mysterious, and heart-wrenching, this iconic King novella, populated by a cast of unforgettable characters, is about a fiercely compelling convict named Andy Dufresne who is seeking his ultimate...
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Series
Pets on the loose! volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A young graphic novel chapter book about the escape escapades of class pets at Daisy P. Flugelhorn Elementary School"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In the fall 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.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Long treated with indifference by critics and historians , British silent cinema has only recently undergone the reevaluation it has long deserved. A cottage on Dartmoor is perhaps the most significant rediscovery. A tense, shocking thriller that stylistically evokes the early films of Alfred Hitchcock and the masterworks of Russian and German silent cinema. This film also contains Silent Britain, a new feature-length documentary that celebrates this...
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