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21) Into the deep
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In this intense action thriller, Jess is swept off her feet by a mysterious stranger named Ben, who takes her to his boat that's docked nearby. Dangerously adrift miles from shore, their romance in interrupted when Lexie shows up, and soon the three get wasted and play sexy games. But when the party takes a turn for the worse, it's clear that Ben or Lexie is a dangerous liar. In the explosive climax, Jess must decide which one to help, and which one...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In April 1944, Rudolf Vrba became the first Jew to break out of Auschwitz--one of only four who ever pulled off that near-impossible feat. He did it to reveal the truth of the death camp to the world--and to warn the last Jews of Europe what fate awaited them at the end of the railway line. Against all odds, he and his fellow escapee, Fred Wetzler, climbed mountains, crossed rivers and narrowly missed German bullets until they had smuggled out the...
Publisher
ClassicFlix
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Detective Sam Wagner's job is never easy. Even an average day proves stressful for him and his family. But this is no ordinary day for Wagner or his wife Lila. After pegging a recent bank robbery as an inside job orchestrated by mild-mannered clerk Leon Poole, Wagner heads to the suspect2s apartment to make the arrest expecting him to be alone. Instead, Poole2s beloved wife is with him and caught in the crossfire of a shootout leaving her dead.
25) Catfish Charlie
Author
Series
Catfish Charlie volume 1
Language
English
Description
As a former Texas Ranger, Charlie "Catfish Charlie" Tuttle spent the good part of his life catching outlaws. Happily retired in Wolfwater, Texas, he's content just catching fish--namely Bubba, the wily old catfish who lives in the pond near Charlie's shack and keeps slipping off Charlie's hook. He also likes hanging out with his trusty tomcat Hooligan Hank and tossing back bottles of mustang berry wine. Sure, his glory days are behind him. There's...
26) Alcatraz (NR)
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
America's most infamous maximum security prison Alcatraz, home to the country's most dangerous criminals, is considered to be an impenetrable fortress. A group of prisoners, led by an armed robber and a gangster, are tired of living under the thumb of the strict warden and his sadistic guards. The inmates formulate an escape plan and on the 2nd of May 1946, their fight for freedom begins as they take several guards hostage and attempt to break out...
Publisher
Magnet
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
Set in the 80s; a young, mute woman is kept captive and sedated in a secluded compound by drugs and a mind-control sadistic leader, manages to escape her confinement. As she tries to escape the compound, obviously hindered by lack of communication skills and terror of the search by her captors & guardians of the compound she has no one to trust, no one to help her.
29) Dasher
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dasher is an adventurous young reindeer with a wish in her heart. She spends her days with her family under the hot sun in a traveling circus, but she longs for a different life - one where there is snow beneath her hooves and the North Star above her head. One day, when the opportunity arises, Dasher seizes her destiny and takes off in pursuit of the life she wants to live. It's not long before she meets a nice man in a red suit with a horse-drawn...
30) The great escape
Series
Criterion collection volume 1027
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
One of the most exciting adventure tales ever told, this action epic recounts the planning, execution, and aftermath of a daring true-life escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, in which 250 men attempted to tunnel their way to freedom.
32) Incarceron
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In Incarceron, a vast intelligent city-prison sealed off from the outside world and hidden from everybody except the Warden, two young people, Cynthia, the Warden's daughter who is trying to esacape an arranged marriage, and Finn, a young prisoner who cannot remember his childhood, join forces to attempt to escape.
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Language
English
Description
In 1944 the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped and sheltered for months by villagers behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia. Classified for over half a century for political reasons, the full account of Operation Halyard, a story of loyalty, self-sacrifice, and bravery, is now being told for the first time.--From publisher description.
Author
Series
How to catch-- volume 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
A very clever yeti eludes the traps of children as he hides in the snow-covered mountains he calls home.
36) Pursuit
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
An action-thriller about a tough cop2s hunt for an even tougher criminal. Calloway, a ruthless hacker, is desperate to find his wife who2s been kidnapped by a drug cartel when he crosses paths with Detective Breslin. But after he escapes police custody, Breslin joins forces with a no-nonsense female cop to reclaim his prisoner. But is Calloway2s crime-boss father somehow involved in this explosive situation?
Series
Publisher
A & E Television Networks, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Executive produced and hosted by Oscarʼ-winning actor Morgan Freeman, this compelling 8-part docuseries explores some of the most infamous prison escapes in history from Alcatraz and Rikers Island to Germany2s Stalag Luft III and HM Prison Maze in Belfast. Featuring dramatic recreations and cutting-edge visual effects, alongwith interviews with some of the prisoners themselves, their families, their cellmates, and guards who were there, uncovers...
39) Con Air
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998?]
Language
English
Description
A prison parolee on his way to freedom faces impossible odds when the maximum security transport plane he's on is skyjacked by the most vicious criminals in the country, led by the infamous murderer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom.
Author
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"--
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