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Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.
2) Escape room
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
When a group of strangers are given black boxes with tickets to an escape room with a chance to win money, they discover that the room has more extreme conditions than expected, and must fight for survival.
Author
Series
100 year old man novels volume 1
Description
Confined to a nursing home and about to turn 100, Allan Karlsson, who has a larger-than-life back story as an explosives expert, climbs out of the window in his slippers and embarks on an unforgettable adventure involving thugs, a murderous elephant and a very friendly hot dog stand operator.
4) The chase
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A sheriff attempts to capture an escaped convict before a bloodthirsty mob lynches him.
5) Bandits
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After busting out of jail and on the run, 2 bank robbers devise the perfect crime with imperfect partners. Not wanting to hurt anyone during their robberies, they go to the homes of bank personnel and end up staying the night with the families so that they can all go to the bank in the morning, hence becoming the "sleepover bandits."
Author
Series
Stanley books (Linda Bailey) volume 2
Formats
Description
Tired of staying in the yard all the time, Stanley the dog finds a secret way out and heads out for a night on the town where he chases cats, raids garbage cans, and takes the ride of his life on a skateboard down a steep hill.
7) Escape plan
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a structural security authority finds himself locked in the world's most secret and secure prison, he must use his skills to escape.
Author
Series
Carter Blake thrillers volume 1
Formats
Description
When an infamous killer escapes from prison two weeks before his scheduled execution, Carter Blake, a manhunter with special talents, teams up with an FBI special agent in a case that is overshadowed by deceptions and corruption.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Description
El pulpo vivía feliz en su cueva submarina hasta que un día, un buzo lo captura y lo lleva a vivir a un acuario. Los humanos le dan comida y le ponen pruebas que parecen juguetes. Pero todos los días son iguales, y el pulpo pronto se cansa de la vida cautiva. Y así, al amparo de la oscuridad, emprende un escape audaz.
"An octopus plots his escape from an aquarium"--
Author
Series
Running out of time volume 2
Formats
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.
11) The missing
Author
Series
Shadow House volume 4
Formats
Description
Five children have been lured into Shadow House, all for different reasons, and they must determine if someone is trying to help them escape or trap them there forever.
12) Last passenger
Formats
Description
A small group of everyday passengers on a speeding London commuter train battle the sociopathic driver who has a dark plan for everyone on-board.
13) You can't hide
Author
Series
Shadow House volume 2
Formats
Description
Poppy, Marcus, Dash, Dylan, and Azumi are trapped inside of Larkspur House, a sinister estate haunted by the ghosts of the orphaned children who have gone before, and the house is using their fears and secrets to pick them off one by one--because nobody gets out of the shadow house alive.
14) The damned
Publisher
Entertainment One Films USA
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
Description
During the closing days of WWII, a group of Nazi's and sympathizers flee for South America aboard a submarine, but their escape is ultimately doomed.
15) Escape plan
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ray Breslin, one of the world's foremost authorities on structural security, agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called The Tomb. Deceived and wrongly imprisoned, Ray must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built.
Author
Series
Hat trilogy (Jon Klassen) volume 2
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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.
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Formats
Description
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...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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...
19) The sea runners
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
275 pages : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Description
In 1853, four bonded servants escape from a Russian fur post at New Archangel (now Sitka, Alaska) when they cannot bear the ill treatment. A harrowing trip southward brings the two survivors to a bay in southern Washington, where they are rescued.
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