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Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The author puts newly unclassified documents to use in recounting how Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor hid six Americans who had slipped out a side door and gathered intelligence for the U.S. government during the Iran Hostage Crisis
In November 1979, the American embassy in Tehran was invaded by a group of radical students who took 54 workers hostage. However, six diplomats secretly escaped. Here, author Robert Wright chronicles the escapees' harrowing...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The secret Nazi death camp at Sobibor was created solely for the mass extermination of Jews. But on October 14, 1943, in the biggest and most successful prison revolt of the Second World War, the inmates fought back. Using dramatic reenactments four survivors; Toivi Blatt, Philip Bialowitz, Selma Engel-Wijnberg, and former Russian POW Semjon Rozenfeld, tell firsthand accounts of the day they escaped certain death to freedom.
205) Con air
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Cameron Poe is a highly decorated U.S. ranger who is convicted of manslaughter after protecting his wife in a drunken brawl. Finally, after eight years, he's being paroled and is going home to his wife and daughter. His ride home, the Jailbird, is also transporting society's most vicious murderers to Feltham Penitentiary, Lousiana's toughest maximum security prison. A surprising escape is made on board the plane as the cons seize control of the plane,...
206) Cemetery Beach
Author
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to giant toilet planet. Professional pathfinder Mike Blackburn breaks out of a torture cell, bringing murderous young dissident Grace Moody with him, to kick off his worst day ever - escaping on foot across a sprawling and secret off-world colony established a hundred years ago and filled with an army of lunatics. Utopia is murdery.
Author
Publisher
NAL Caliber
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In October 1969, William Albracht, the youngest Green Beret captain in Vietnam, took command of a remote hilltop outpost called Fire Base Kate, held by only 27 American soldiers and 150 Montagnard militiamen. He found their defenses woefully unprepared. At dawn the next morning, three North Vietnamese Army regiments--some 6,000 men--crossed the Cambodian border and attacked. Outnumbered three dozen to one, Albracht's men held off repeated ground...
208) The tunnels: escapes under the Berlin Wall and the historic films the JFK White House tried to kill
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1962, one year after East German Communists built the Berlin Wall, a group of daring young West Germans came up with a plan. They would risk prison, Stasi torture, even death to liberate friends, lovers, and strangers in East Berlin by digging tunnels under the Wall. Among the tunnelers and escape helpers were a legendary cyclist, an American student from Stanford, and an engineer who would later help build the tunnel under the English...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A young survivor of the Bosnian War returns to his homeland to confront the people who betrayed his family. At age eleven, Kenan Trebincevic was a happy, karate-loving kid living with his family in the quiet Eastern European town of Brcko. Then, in the spring of 1992, war broke out and his friends, neighbors and teammates all turned on him. Pero - Kenan's beloved karate coach - showed up at his door with an AK-47, screaming: "You have one hour to...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The Valachi papers: Former mob "button man" Joe Valachi turns informant when he learns top Mafia capo Vito Genovese has put a contract out on his life. From thievery add extortion to vengeance and murder, Valachi spills the innermost workings of the Cosa Nostra, culminating in his riveting testimony before a Senate subcommittee.
The stone killer: Crime drama about a tough New York cop who discovers that a prohibition gangster is planning a massacre...
Author
Series
Chickenhare volume 2
Publisher
Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Chickenhare and Abe narrowly escape from Taxidermist Klaus as they learn about the backgrounds of their partners on the run, Meg and Banjo
Author
Series
Chickenhare volume 1
Publisher
Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Chickenhare and his turtle friend Abe must fight for their lives when Mr. Barley sells them to an insane taxidermist. Presented in graphic novel form
Author
Series
Sonny Burton novels volume 2
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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...
216) Break out
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Mysterious and massive cube spaceships from another dimension materialize over our cities around the globe. They routinely abduct teenagers to be held inside their floating prison ships. And the world accepts it as inevitable. But not Liam Watts. His younger brother has been taken. And Liam is tired of "thoughts and prayers". Now, in a "take back our future" anthem, Liam must assemble a skilled team of ordinary high school students and in just a...
Author
Series
Gamayun tales volume 3
Publisher
Nobrow
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The latest installment in the Gamayun Tales series introduces a clever heroine who has a secret even she doesn't know about. Tyna of the Lake rescues the Hunter's son from a life of servitude to her father the Water Spirit. Their attempt to make an escape to the surface world is interrupted when they are captured by the Water Spirit and he reveals the truth about who Tyna's real father is. An ideal book for kids who aren't quite ready for Percy Jackson...
Publisher
New Friday, a Lev Gleason imprint
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
This graphic novella recounts the true story of Zumrat Dawut, as originally published in the independent online news organization, Insider, through interviews conducted by Anthony Del Col and testimony given to the United Nations Human Rights Council. Zumrat Dawut is a mother of three in the Xinjiang autonomous region in China, who was arrested and sent to a detention facility for simply being a Muslim. There she endured brutal living conditions,...
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