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"In this stunning work of historical fiction, Laila Lalami brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America -- a Moroccan slave whose testimony was left out of the official record. In 1527, the conquistador P?nfilo de Narv?ez sailed from the port of Sanl?car de Barrameda with a crew of six hundred men and nearly a hundred horses. His goal was to claim what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States for the Spanish crown and,...
142) The defiant ones
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[c2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two convicts escaping from a Southern work gang discover that they are bound together by an unbreakable iron chain and separated by a hatred for each other. But in order to elude capture they must overcome their hostility.
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xvii, 299 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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"On August 30, 1942-- Zero Night-- 40 Allied officers staged the most audacious mass escape of World War II. Months of meticulous planning and secret training hung in the balance during three minutes of mayhem as the officers boldly stormed the huge double fences at Oflag Prison. Employing wooden ladders and bridges previously disguised as bookshelves, the highly coordinated effort succeeded and set 36 men free into the German countryside. Later known...
Publisher
Flicker Alley, LLC
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (230 min.) : sd., b&w., tinted ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 p. : ill., ports. ; 19 cm)
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Bardelys the magnificent: "In France "in an age of light loves and lively scandals," the Marquis de Bardelys (Gilbert) casual womanizer and accomplished swashbuckler, is entranced by Roxalanne de Levedan (Eleanor Boradman)l and against a background of knavery and intrigue, he sets out to woo and win her."--Back of container.
Monte Cristo: "Gilbert is Admond Dantes, a sailer unjustly imprisoned for twenty years, time he spends acquiring education...
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Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (610 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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Anna Karenina: When the young wife of a statesman runs off with a young officer, she is outcast and forbidden to see her son. Desperate, the woman comes to believe that life is no longer worth living.
A farewell to arms: When an injured American ambulance driver and English nurse desert to Switzerland, the danger they've struggled to escape is replaced by a more serious threat.
Les misérables: 1935 and 1952 adaptations of the Victor Hugo classic...
146) Les misérables
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Against the backdrop of France at a time of civil unrest, this is the story of Jean Valjean, a former convict unable to escape his past life. His future is threatened by his nemesis, the chilling police officer and former prison guard Javert, who is determined to bring him to justice. As revolution ignites on the streets of Paris, Jean Valjean begins an epic journey towards self-acceptance, redemption, and love.
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
ix, 367 pages ; 24 cm
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"Based on true events, this beautifully rendered novel from the author of Schindler's List and The Daughters of Mars brilliantly explores a World War II prison camp, where Japanese prisoners resolve to take drastic action to wipe away their shame. Alice is a young woman living on her father-in-law's farm on the edge of an Australian country town, while her husband is held prisoner in Europe. When Giancarlo, an Italian anarchist at the prisoner-of-war...
148) The tunnels: escapes under the Berlin Wall and the historic films the JFK White House tried to kill
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Publisher
Crown Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
400 pages cm
Description
"In the summer of 1962, the year after the rise of the Berlin Wall, a group of young West Germans risked prison, Stasi torture, and even death to liberate friends, lovers, and strangers in East Berlin by digging tunnels under the Wall. Then two U.S. television networks heard about the secret projects and raced to be first to document them from the inside. NBC and CBS funded two separate tunnels in return for the right to film the escapes, planning...
149) White nights
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (136 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Soviet dancer, who has defected to the West, is suddenly trapped in Russia and must attempt to escape again, with the aid of an American tap dancer who regrets having defected to the Soviet Union.
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xvi, 329 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Description
"Imprisoned in a remote Turkish prison camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate saeances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around camp, and one day, a Turkish officer approaches Jones with a...
151) 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...
152) The gauntlet
Author
Series
Gauntlet volume 1
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm
Description
When twelve-year-old Farah and her two best friends get sucked into a mechanical board game called The Gauntlet of Blood and Sand, a puzzle game akin to a large Rubik's cube, they know it is up to them to defeat the game's diabolical architect in order to save themselves and those who are trapped inside, including her baby brother Ahmed.
153) Robert Smalls
Author
Series
Tales of the talented tenth volume no. 3
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
119 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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"For the third book in the bestselling Tales of the Talented Tenth series, Joel Christian Gill brings Robert Smalls to life by telling the true story of the enslaved African who pulled off one of the most daring and largest heists of the Civil War. Come along for the adventure as Robert earns a job working for the C.S.S. Planter, escapes to freedom, goes on to become a first-generation Black politician, and makes history by writing and leading the...
154) The nine
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
11 CDs (13 hrs., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The powerful, previously untold WWII story of nine female resistance fighters who banded together to survive the camps and ultimately escaped from a final death march across war-torn Germany.
156) Le trou =: The hole
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Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (132 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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In a Paris prison cell, five inmates use every ounce of their tenacity and ingenuity in an elaborate attempt to tunnel to freedom. Four of the inmates have been together for awhile in their cell, when Gaspard, the fifth inmate, is added to the cell. The original four inmates must decide if they want to take him into their confidence or not and whether to continue tunneling or not.
157) The Simple Truth
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When cop-turned-attorney John Fiske comes to Washington to investigate his brother's murder, he unearths decades-old secrets and discovers the truth is anything but simple in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller.
It's never what it seems...
Young attorney Michael Fiske broke the law when he took Rufus Harms's prison letter from the Supreme Court. But he also sealed his own fate. Suddenly everyone who has anything...
It's never what it seems...
Young attorney Michael Fiske broke the law when he took Rufus Harms's prison letter from the Supreme Court. But he also sealed his own fate. Suddenly everyone who has anything...
Publisher
DreamWorks Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
3 DVDs : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Flushed away: Roddy is a decidedly upper-crust "society mouse" who lives the life of a pampered pet in a posh Kensington flat. When a sewer rat named Sid comes out of the sink, he desides he had hit the jackpot. Roddy schemes to rid himself of Sid by luring him into the "whirlpool." Sid may be an ignorant slob, but he's no fool, but it is Roddy who winds up being flushed away into the bustling sewer world of Ratropolis. There Roddy meets Rita, an...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
273 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Description
"Park has told the harrowing story of her escape from North Korea as a child many times, but never before [now] has she revealed the most intimate and devastating details of the repressive society she was raised in and the enormous price she paid to escape"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
x, 290 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Description
"From the bestselling author of Escape from Camp 14, the murderous rise of North Korea's founding dictator and the fighter pilot who faked him out In The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot, New York Times bestselling author Blaine Harden tells the riveting story of how Kim Il Sung grabbed power and plunged his country into war against the United States while the youngest fighter pilot in his air force was playing a high-risk game of deception--and...
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