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After suffering a brain injury from a bank heist gone wrong, Macdonald develops amnesia and is put into a prison psychiatric ward. Following his seventh year of evaluation, he is coerced by an inmate and a ward doctor to break out of prison and injected with a serum that forces him to relive the life he's forgotten. Macdonald must now elude a local detective, a tough FBI agent, and the drug's dangerous side effects in order to recover the stolen money....

September 3, 1940, ten peculiar children flee an army of deadly monsters. Only one person can help them, but she's trapped in the body of a bird. The extraordinary journey that began in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children continues as Jacob Portman and his newfound friends journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world. There, they hope to find a cure for their beloved headmistress, Miss Peregrine. In this war-torn city, hideous surprises...

"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"--

While on vacation in San Francisco, Stanley meets a girl who enlists his help in performing a trick: escaping from Alcatraz.

A group of prisoners try to escape the Underdark before they are taken to the drow city of Menzoberranzan and sold off as slaves, in a book where the reader's choices determine the ending of the story.

"In a funny and heartfelt romp, Oliver enlists the help of his favorite pro-wrestler to spring his dad from a Florida correctional center."--

"The Cuphead Show! follows the adventures of two lovable brothers--Cuphead and Mugman--through their unique misadventures! And this time, they'll need each other more than ever, when Cuphead's misbehaving ways land them in jail, and they have concocted an outrageous escape plan! There's only one problem-Mugman likes being in jail!!!"--

"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...

In June 2015, two vicious convicted murderers broke out of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, in New York's North Country, launching the most extensive manhunt in state history. Aided by prison employee Joyce Mitchell, double murderer Richard Matt and cop-killer David Sweat slipped out of their cells, followed a network of tunnels and pipes under the thirty-foot prison wall, and climbed out of a manhole to freedom. For three weeks, the...

"Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends, who possess supernatural abilities, must journey to London (circa 1940), the 'peculiar' capital of the world. There they hope to find a cure for their beloved headmistress, Miss Peregrine. But in this war-torn city, hideous surprises lurk around every corner"--