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"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 by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett...
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2010
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1 videodisc (ca. 122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Violence, drug material, language, some sexuality and thematic elements.
Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn't commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there...
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It?s another Thanksgiving at Grandma?s. Gavin expects a long day of boredom and being pestered by distantly related toddlers, but his cousin Rhonda has a different idea: make a break for it ? out of the kids? room to the swing set in the backyard! Gavin isn?t so sure, especially when they encounter vicious guard dogs (in homemade sweaters), a hallway full of overly affectionate aunts, and worse yet, the great wall of butts! Will they manage to avoid...
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Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
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1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey", this is the story of three convicts-- escapees from a prison farm in Mississippi-- and their adventures as they travel home in hopes of recovering buried loot before it's lost forever in a flood.
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Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
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232 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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"Audrey is a cow with poetry in her blood, who yearns for the greener pastures beyond Bittersweet Farms. But when Roy the horse tells this bovine dreamer that she is headed for Abbot's War, the slaughter house, Audrey knows that she must leave her home and friends sooner than she ever imagined. With the help of a whole crew of animals and humans alike, Audrey attempts to escape the farm she lives on--and certain death."--Amazon.
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100 year old man novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
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When a hot air balloon ride ends with a sea landing and an unexpected rescue from a North Korean ship, one hundred-year-old Allan Karlsson and his sidekick Julius find themselves in the middle of a diplomatic crisis of epic proportions.
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Tundra
Pub. Date
[2020]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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"In a world built for Perfect Pets, Barnabus is a Failed Project, half mouse, half elephant, kept out of sight until his dreams of freedom lead him and his misfit friends on a perilous adventure"--
10) Backtrace
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
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1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The lone surviving thief of a violent car robbery escapes from prison, and is injected with an experimental drug that causes him to relive the life he has forgotten.
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Paramount
Pub. Date
[2005]
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1 videodisc (ca. 96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Shockblast: Rampage": With the Autobots in pursuit, Shockblast makes contact with Megatron and is able to breach the Energon Grid. "Open fire!": Megatron and Optimus Prime are set to face off in a final showdown - until Shockblast interferes. "Ripped-up space": In an attempt to regain control of Unicron, Megatron accidentally causes an explosion. "Protection": On the other side of the rip, the Autobots must now defend a whole new set of planets.
12) Adoration
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Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
2021.
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Young lovers are on the run in the final film of Fabrice du Welz's Ardennes trilogy. An official selection of Fantastic Fest, the film follows shy twelve-year old Paul who lives near a psychiatric institute. After an encounter with a patient there, the troubled yet beautiful Gloria, he becomes infatuated and vows to protect her. Insisting the doctors are holding her hostage for an inheritance, the two escape and wreak havoc across the French countryside....
13) DeadTectives
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Rlj Distribution Solutions
Pub. Date
[2020]
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1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A group of reality TV ghost hunters experience paranormal activity for the first time when they visit a haunted mansion in Mexico.
14) Escape
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As Chicago PD’s special-ops leader, Detective Billy Harney knows well that money is not the only valuable currency. The filthy rich man he’s investigating is down to his last twenty million. He’s also being held in jail. For now. Billy’s unit is called in when an escape plan results in officers down and inmates vanished. In an empty lot, Billy spots two Kevlar vests. Two helmets. Two assault rifles. And a handwritten note: "Hi, Billy. Are...
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Thieves of shadow volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
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456 pages ; 22 cm.
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In their final task, junior con artist Callan and his friends mastermind a prison break from the empire's most impenetrable island fortress.
16) A man escaped
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Criterion collection volume 650
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2013
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2 videodiscs (101 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
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Based on the memoirs of an imprisoned French resistance leader, this unbelievably taut and methodical marvel follows the fictional Fontaine's single-minded pursuit of freedom, detailing the planning and carrying out of his escape with gripping precision.
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Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2010
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xv, 302 p. ; 25 cm.
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Documents the Dalai Lama's flight from Tibet to India in 1959, describing the violent uprising in Lhasa between Tibetan rebels and Chinese occupiers and the near-death incidents that the Buddhist spiritual leader endured.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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x, 376 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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"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...
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004.
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2 DVDs (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Harry, Ron, and Hermione, now teenagers, return for their third year at Hogwarts. There they are forced to face escaped prisoner Sirius Black, who poses a great threat to Harry. Harry must overcome the threats of Dementors, outsmart a werewolf, and finally deal with the truth about Sirius and his relationship with his parents. Harry and friends master advanced magic classes, cross time barriers, and change the course of more than one life.
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Miss Peregrine volume 2
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Quirk Books
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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. Illustrations feature vintage photography.
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