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21) Les maudits
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Français
Description
In 1945, during the last days of the war, a submarine flees Oslo for South America with a group of Nazis and sympathizers onboard. A young French doctor is also taken aboard to care for a wounded passenger. Soon intrigues develop, hatreds spring up, and then mutiny erupts on the submarine.
Author
Publisher
Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Originally published in Hong Kong, Xu Hongci's remarkable memoir recounts his life from childhood through his final prison break. After discovering his story in a Hong Kong library, the journalist Erling Hoh tracked down the original manuscript and complied this condensed translation, which includes background on this turbulent period, an epilogue that follows Xu Hongci up to his dealth, and Xu Hongci's own drawings and maps. Both a historical narrative...
23) League of liars
Author
Series
League of liars volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ever since his mother was killed, seventeen-year-old Cayder Broduck has had one goal--to see illegal users of magic brought to justice. People who carelessly use extradimensional magic for their own self-interest, without a care to the damage it does to society or those around them, deserve the worst kind of punishment as far as Cayder is concerned. Because magic always has a price. So when Cayder lands a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to apprentice...
Author
Series
Running out of time volume 2
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Zola, who has a surprising connection to Jessie, discovers that she is stuck in a fake utopian future, and that those around her are counting on her to help them escape.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this gripping narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most famous prison stories in history and makes it utterly his own. During World War II, the German army used the towering Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant Allied prisoners. For four years, these prisoners of the castle tested its walls and its guards with ingenious escape attempts that would become legend. But as Macintyre shows, the story of Colditz was about much more than escape....
Author
Series
Hat trilogy (Jon Klassen) volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A tiny minnow wearing a pale blue bowler hat has a thing or two up his fins in this underwater light-on-dark chase scene.
Author
Series
Glintchasers novels volume 2
Publisher
CamCat Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The Starbreakers were heroes, until a tragedy broke them apart. Only now, years later, have they begun to make peace with each other. The rest of the world is a different story. There has been a breakout in the prison known as Oblivion, and now the worst of the worst have been turned loose on an unsuspecting world. Desperate to contain the crisis, the right hand of the king has called the disgraced Starbreakers back into service. After all, they...
Author
Series
Rome escape line trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. Gestapo boss Obersturmbannf�uhrer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. Hunger is widespread. Rumors fester. The war's outcome is far from certain. Diplomats, refugees, and escaped Allied prisoners flee for protection into Vatican City, at one fifth of a square mile the world's smallest state, a neutral, independent country within Rome. A small band of unlikely friends led by a courageous Irish priest is...
29) The gathering
Author
Series
Shadow House volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Appears on list
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....
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 2
Publisher
Quirk Books
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 116
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
日本語
Description
A grand-scale adventure as only Akira Kurosawa could make one. A general charged with guarding his defeated clan's princess as the two smuggle royal treasure across hostile territory. Accompanying them are a pair of bumbling, conniving peasants who may or may not be their friends. This rip-roaring ride is among the director2s most beloved films and was a primary influence on George Lucas2s Star Wars. Delivers Kurosawa2s trademark deft blend of wry...
34) Naondel
Author
Series
Red Abbey chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating points of view, Kabira, Garai, and the other First Sisters share a history of years of sexual violence, oppression, and exploitation at the hands of the vizier Iskan, whose dark powers originate from his control of the sacred spring at his palace at Ohaddin, before the women are able to escape and establish the female haven of Red Abbey on the island of Menos.
Author
Series
Addicted to Heaven volume 2
Publisher
Laksa Media Groups Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Flights of Marigold is a multi-generational family saga of betrayal, survival, deception, revenge, and redemption caused by a chain of addictions and power struggle. In an empire devastated by conquest and fanaticism, three sisters struggle to escape racism, imprisonment, and death, while a royal family challenges their brother for a portion of the kingdom. Can sisterhood maintain their relationships to reclaim their family heritage amid having differences...
36) Two dogs
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Follows the adventures of two mischievous dachshunds when they manage to escape to their family's backyard one day.
39) The missing
Author
Series
Shadow House volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Shadow House never sleeps . . . Five children have been lured into Shadow House, all for different reasons. None of them knows the others. And none of them knows what to do when they can't find a way back out. But something is different inside the house. Someone -- or something -- is there with them, and seems to know more than they do. Only how are the kids supposed to decide if that someone is trying to help them . . . or trap them there forever?...
40) The great escape
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized version of the unprecedented escape from Stalag Luft III. A high-security German prisoner-of-war camp in 1942 holds only known troublemakers and risk-takers, all of whom are determined to pull off the war's most daring escape.
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