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Author
Series
Thieves of shadow volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
456 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
In their final task, junior con artist Callan and his friends mastermind a prison break from the empire's most impenetrable island fortress.
2) Con air
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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,...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"In 2007, Saket Soni received an anonymous phone call from an Indian migrant worker inside a Mississippi labor camp. He and 500 other men were living in squalor in Gulf Coast "man camps," surrounded by barbed wire, watched by armed guards, crammed into cold trailers with putrid portable toilets, forced to eat moldy bread and frozen rice. Worse, lured by the promise of good work and green cards, the men had desperately scraped together up to 20,000...
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
93 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 23 cm.
Description
Caroline and her mother make a danagerous trip across Lake Ontario to the British fort where her father is a prisoner. When Mama isn't allowed to see Papa, it's up to Caroline to deliver a secret message to him--right under the nose of a British guard
Author
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
abril de 2023.
Physical Desc
539 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations and portraits ; 24 cm
Description
"La verdadera historia de Rudi Vrba, el primer judío que escapó de Auschwitz y trató de advertir al mundo de las atrocidades nazis. En abril de 1944, Rudolf Vrba se convirtió en el primer judío en escapar de Auschwitz. Contra todo pronóstico, tras esquivar por poco las balas alemanas, él y su compañero de fuga escalaron montañas y cruzaron ríos para alcanzar la libertad. Vrba quería advertir a los últimos judíos de Europa del destino...
6) Head count
Publisher
Shout! Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A gun is pointed to Kat's head. It's his gun... or at least it was after he escaped a chain gang and stole it. Luckily for him, it's not fully loaded. But how many bullets are left? He can't quite remember. And now, with an unknown assailant pulling the trigger, Kat is forced to recall exactly what happened to each bullet. As the empty rounds click away, memories of wild animal attacks and run-ins with an impulsive police officer, a down-to-earth...
7) On fire
Publisher
Cineverse
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inspired by true and harrowing events, On Fire tells the story of an ordinary man who finds his world suddenly torn apart as devastating wildfires rip through the surrounding countryside. With precious moments ticking by, he must flee with his son and pregnant wife if they have any hope of surviving the rapid forces of Mother Nature.
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