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"In A Small Town, twelve conspirators meticulously plan to throw open all the gates to the prison that contains them, so that more than a thousand convicts may escape and pour into the nearby small town. The newly freed prisoners rape, murder, and destroy the town-burning down homes and businesses. An immense manhunt ensues, but the twelve who plotted it all get away. After two years, all efforts by the local and federal police agencies have been...
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Maggy Thorsen mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"The choice of an antique silver coffee urn as the final resting place for elderly Celeste Bouchard's ashes might seem a cruel joke. After all, the wealthy boutique owner was taken ill and died while daughter Hannah was off having lattes at Uncommon Grounds. But Maggy Thorsen, the coffeehouse's owner, has more pressing things on her mind: a jail break and subsequent shoot-out has forced her main squeeze, Sheriff Jake Pavlik, to take refuge with her....
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Stellaxis operatives 06 and 22 have escaped. Years ago, they survived a corporate civil war; Stellaxis kidnapped and modified them into celebrity supersoldiers. But 06 and 22 have finally broken free from their barracks. They flee into a strange city they barely remember, trying to remain anonymous while their faces appear on billboards. It will be an expensive disaster for the director of the supersoldier program if word gets out about the escaped...
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 20
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English
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Police detective Dave Robicheaux faces off with the most diabolical villain he has ever faced in the twentieth installment of the Dave Robicheaux series. A summer getaway in Montana for Dave Robicheaux's family and friends is violently shattered by the arrival of serial killer and prison escapee Asa Surrette. He avoids the death penalty for murders he committed while capital punishment was banned in his home state of Kansas. But when Robicheaux's...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Four years after her tumultuous senior year, Jade Daniels is released from prison right before Christmas when her conviction is overturned. But life beyond bars takes a dangerous turn as soon as she returns to Proofrock. Convicted Serial Killer, Dark Mill South, seeking revenge for thirty-eight Dakota men hanged in 1862, escapes from his prison transfer due to a blizzard, just outside of Proofrock, Idaho. Dark Mill South's Reunion Tour began on December...
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Amnesiac Chuck Mool escapes from prison with 3 other inmates and makes his way to his hometown to find out the truth about his identity. While in town, he finds out he has a reputation as a fast gun and that the town is in the midst of a power struggle between two wealthy ranchers, one of whom apparently is his father.
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"It was the night before his wedding, fifteen years ago, that the nightmare began for Jay Crawford--locked up for a crime he never committed. Now, he's escaped prison and wants nothing more than to clear his name and protect his family. To get justice, he'll need the help of the three best friends who have always had his back--Wil, Kyle and Allan. But a man on the run requires absolute trust ... and Jay may just be setting himself up for the ultimate...
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"Sandy has no idea that tonight her life will be forever changed. As a late autumn sky darkens over the Adirondack mountains ... the mood in the Tremont house is already charged with tension ... But when her husband Ben, a wilderness guide, arrives home, the troubled atmosphere immediately lightens ... Nearby, two desperate men on the run make their way through the fading light ... After nearly two decades as prison cellmates, they have become a deadly...
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Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2012.
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1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Imprisoned Harry Lomart is a vicious, brute of a man and yet he is prepared to do his long jail term as he is confident that on his release his beautiful wife Pat will be waiting for him, but a visit from Pat brings him his worst nightmare.
10) Caught
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
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318 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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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...
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Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Berkley Sensation mass-market edition.
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294 pages ; 18 cm.
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English
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Joan Price is a wanted woman. A thief and a fugitive from the mental hospital where she was falsely committed, she's now on the run from her former partners in crime. But luck must be on her side--just when it seems all is doomed, she runs straight into the arms of Martin Hargrove, Earl of Fenbrook, who mistakes her for his distant cousin, Daphne.
12) Raina's choice
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Series
Western justice volume 3
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Raina Vernay is a slave to her brother-in-law's brutal bidding in a seedy Louisiana saloon. She's at the end of her rope. Then a mysterious stranger, Ty Kincaid, arrives in town from Mexico, headed for Arkansas by way of the riverboats, and Raina's mind starts churning a plan. She longs to find the father she's never known. Is Ty her ticket to Indian Territory? Maybe not, when Ty lands himself in jail. And yet, what other choice does Raina have?
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English
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"After ten years as a captive of kidnapper Henry Gemmerle, Joan Crimmins eludes the media and spurns the family who failed to search for her. Instead, she settles in the remote Maine town of Bearkill. But when Gemmerle flees a prison clinic and a 16-year-old Bearkill girl vanishes, Aroostook County Sheriff's deputy Lizzie Snow knows that Joan's painful past has just become another young woman's horrifying future"--
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Rose Sandigate is a Bethnal Green housewife whose Sunday is turned upside down by the reappearance of an old flame who is now an escaped convict seeking protection from the police.
15) Raw deal
Publisher
ClassicFlix.com, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 79 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm)
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English
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Trapped within the walls of a state penitentiary, Joe Sullivan lives for the chance to avenge himself upon the man who helped put him there: Rick Coyle, a pyromaniac mob boss with a taste for party-girl flambé. Rick helps spring Joe from prison in hopes that the police will gun him down during the escape, but he grossly underestimates Joe's resourcefulness. With the assistance of a world-weary moll and an innocent girl, Joe dodges roadblocks, hitmen...
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Series
Reeve LeClaire novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Reeve LeClaire is a college student, dammit, not Daryl Wayne Flint's victim. Not anymore-not when Reeve is finally recovering a life of her own after four years of captivity. Flint is safely locked up in Olshaker Psychiatric Hospital, where he belongs. He is walking the grounds of the forensic unit, performing his strange but apparently harmless rituals. It seems that he is still suffering the effects of the head injury he suffered in the car crash...
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Publisher
Sinister Grin Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
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"Will Burgess is used to hard knocks. Abandoned by his father, son of a drug-addicted mother, and charged with raising his six-year-old sister, Will has far more to worry about than most high school freshmen. To make matters worse, Mia Samuels, the girl of Will s dreams, is dating his worst enemy, the most sadistic upperclassman at Shadeland High. Will's troubles, however, are just beginning. Because one of the nation's most notorious criminals -...
18) Stand up and die
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Series
Jackals volume 2
Language
English
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Each of the Jackals has his own path to follow: Former Texas Ranger Matt McCulloch is trying to protect a young Commanche from scalphunters. Retired cavalry sergeant Sean Keegan is dodging bullets in a prison breakout planned by the notorious Benteen brothers. And bounty hunter Jed Breen is bringing in one of the bank-robbing Kruger twins, while the other one's out for his blood. Three Jackals. Three roads to justice. But when their paths cross near...
19) No good deed
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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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.
20) The quest
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English
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After receiving a tip from a dying priest, four unlikely partners begin a quest to find the Holy Grail in the jungles of Ethiopia.
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