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61) Caught
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Twenty-five-year-old David Slaney, locked up on charges of marijuana possession, has escaped his cell and sprinted to the highway. There, he's picked up by his sister's friend and taken to a strip bar, where he survives his first night on the run. Evading the cops isn't his only objective. Slaney also wants to track down his old partner, Hearn, and get back into the drug business. As Slaney makes his fugitive journey across Canada, he adopts numerous...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Located on an island in San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz was once considered one of the country's most secure prisons. But that didn't stop three prisoners from making a daring escape the night of June 11, 1962. They set sail across the bay on a homemade raft made of raincoats. Then they vanished. What happened to them? Explore the theories and discover why their escape has become one of history's greatest mysteries"--
64) Labor Day
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
A lonely, divorced mother allows an escaped killer to stay with her and her thirteen-year-old son.
Author
Series
Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
"In this race-to-the-finish thriller in the bestselling Tom Clancy's Op-Center series, an attempt to exfiltrate a Chinese scientist threatens to incite a full-fledged war between China and the United States. When the launch of their powerful new hypersonic missile ends in destruction, the Chinese government needs someone to blame. Was it a failure of engineering, or sabotage? The chief engineer on the project, Dr. Yang Dàyóu, is targeted as the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
A dangerous criminal has escaped from prison and is headed in the direction of New Brighton, where teenager Hamid Abdi is babysitting his twin cousins, but he is not worried until the twins tell him that a man dressed as a clown has been coming into their bedroom--and when the electricity goes out Hamid is pulled into their living nightmare.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 20
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Serial killer Asa Surette avoids the death penalty for murders he committed while capital punishment was banned. But when Robicheaux's daughter Alafair writes a series of articles implicating Surrette in other murders which could get him death, he decides to escape prison and make her pay. Can Robicheaux save his daughter?
68) Trackdown
Author
Series
Lawman westerns volume 11
Pub. Date
2014
Description
When U.S. Marshal Jack Slade is ambushed by the family one of the prisoners he is transporting to Leavenworth, Kansas, he will stop at nothing to recapture the them.
69) 3 from hell
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
The long anticipated follow up to House of 1,000 Corpses and The Devil's rejects. After barely surviving a furious shootout with the police, Baby Firefly, Otis Driftwood, and Captain Spaulding are behind bars. But pure evil cannot be contained, and a firestorm of murder, madness, and mayhem will be released.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
As famine and death ravage Richmond, VA, five northern Civil War POWs plan a daring escape by hijacking a hot air balloon. Drifting through the night, they wake to find themselves marooned on a desert island, but they're not alone. Littered with wreckage, the island is home to a cast of survivors who have been lost in space and time. Forced to defend themselves against vicious pirates, terrifying creatures and a volcano that's ready to blow, they...
71) Captive
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
When Brian Nichols, on the run as the subject of a city-wide manhunt and desperate to make contact with his newborn son, takes recovering meth addict Ashley Smith hostage in her own apartment, she turns for guidance to Rick Warren's bestselling inspirational book, The Purpose Driven Life. While reading aloud, Ashley and her would-be killer each face crossroads where despair and death intersect hope.
Author
Series
Rose Gardner mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2014
Description
While Rose recovers from a broken heart, she finds herself at odds with her sister -and business partner- Violet. Rose buries herself in her landscaping work, but becomes worried when her employee and friend, Bruce Wayne Decker, goes missing. In the meantime, Fenton County assistant D.A., Mason Deveraux has been patiently waiting to begin a relationship with Rose, but she realizes she needs to confront the demons of her past before she can embrace...
73) No good deed
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Terri is a devoted wife and mother of two, living an ideal suburban life in Atlanta when Colin, a charming but dangerous escaped convict, shows up at her door claiming car trouble. Terri offers her phone to help him but soon learns that no good deed goes unpunished as she finds herself fighting for survival when he invades her home and terrorizes her family.
74) Nevertell
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Lina escapes from the Siberian prison camp where she was born, only to find herself pursued in the frozen wilderness by a witch, her wolf pack, and an enormous bird, and she will need all her courage and the magic she never suspected she has if she is to survive.
75) Maze
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
The date is September the 25th, 1983 -- the Troubles are ongoing. Thirty-eight members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) are being held captive in HM Prison Maze, an impenetrable, escape-proof jail. The odds are against them. The Maze is fortified with 15-foot fences, 18-foot concrete walls, barbed wire and steel gates. Months of planning have lead up to this moment; the moment when these daring men, assisted by some guards, break free...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
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 séances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around camp, and one day, a Turkish officer approaches Jones with a...
77) Serial killers
Series
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Interview with a serial killer: Crime writer Ellen Carter has a dark secret: her husband is buried behind the walls of her house. Leslie Steckler rents a room from Ellen, and discovers her secret. He blackmails her into writing the definitive study of mass murder, his biography.
Frozen in fear: A troubled artist traps his female victims in ice sculptures.
In the dead of winter: Sam Tucker was just released from prison. Now, he stalks the Utah desert...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"The inspiring, dramatic, and heartwarming true account of an escaped convict and his wife of thirty-five plus years who never knew his secret, which captured the imaginations of millions on Humans of New York."--
"The inspiring, dramatic, and heartwarming true account of an escaped convict and his wife of thirty-five plus years who never knew his secret, which captured the imaginations of millions on Humans of New York.Bobby and Cheryl Love were...