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Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An innocent man, Edmond Dantes, is imprisoned for years on a godforsaken island while the friend who betrayed him takes Dantes ravishing fiance for himself. Dantes eventually escapes, recovers a fortune in buried pirate treasure, transforms himself into the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo, and methodically goes about exacting his revenge.
2) Out of sight
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Elmore Leonard is an awfully good writer of the sneaky sort; he is so good you don't even notice what he's up to." —New York Times Book Review
Before there was Raylan, there was Sisco... U.S. Marshal Karen Sisco is on the hunt for world-class gentleman felon Jack Foley in Out of Sight, New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard's sexy thriller that moves from Miami to the Motor City.
Based on Miami, Florida's
...3) The escape
Author
Series
US Marshals novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
US Marshals Madison James and Jonas Quinn are transporting two prisoners across the country on a private plane. When the plane experiences engine trouble en route from the Pacific Northwest to Colorado, the pilots crash-land the aircraft deep in the heart of the sprawling Salmon-Challis National Forest. When Madison and Jonas regain consciousness, they find both pilots and one prisoner dead-- and one fugitive on the run. They'll have to negotiate...
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey", this is the story of three convicts-- escapees from a prison farm in Mississippi-- and their adventure as they travel home in hopes of recovering buried loot before it's lost forever in a flood.
5) Escape goat
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Farmer family has a big problem! Every day their goat escapes, and every day, Mr. Farmer brings him back. So when things start to go awry on the farm, it must be the goat's fault. Who's to blame when Mrs. Farmer's petunias are trampled? Or when all the cupcakes for Archie's party disappear? And when the whole bucket of paint is spilled? Of course, everyone blames the goat! But is it really his fault?
Author
Series
Maze runner trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The last thing Jacob Portman saw before the world went dark was a terrible, familiar face. Suddenly, he and Noor are back in his grandfather's house. Jacob doesn't know how they escaped from V's loop, but he does know one thing for certain: Caul has returned. Risen from the Library of Souls, Caul and his apocalyptic agenda seem unstoppable. Only one hope remains--deliver Noor to the meeting place of the seven prophesied ones, if they can decipher...
8) The ascent
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Kurt Argento, an ex-Detroit street cop who can't let injustice go--and who has the fighting skills to back up his idealism. If he sees a young girl being dragged into an alley, he's going to rescue her and cause some damage. When he does just that in a small corrupt Missouri town, he's brutally beaten and thrown into a maximum-security prison. Julie Wakefield, a grad student who happens to be the governor's daughter, is about to take a tour of the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After fleeing an army of terrible monsters, Jacob Portman and his peculiar friends find themselves lost at sea, and the only person who might be able to get them ashore safely, their illustrious headmistress Miss Peregrine, is stuck in the form of a bird! Hoping to find a way to get Miss Peregrine back to normal -- or as normal as a peculiar can get -- the children journey to London. But no matter where they go, trouble follows after them.
10) Library of souls
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 3
Language
English
Description
Time is running out for the Peculiar Children. With a dangerous madman on the loose and their beloved Miss Peregrine still in danger, Jacob Portman and Emma Bloom are forced to stage the most daring of rescue missions. They'll travel through a war-torn landscape, meet new allies, and face greater dangers than ever. Will Jacob come into his own as the hero his fellow Peculiars know him to be? (Features more than 50 all-new Peculiar photographs.)
11) Papillon
Language
English
Formats
Description
A criminal, sent to prison on Devil's Island, begins at once to engineer his escape in this portrayal of prison life.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bascomb recounts the dramatic escape of British POWs from a German prison camp during World War I. The Holzminden POW camp was established to manage escape-prone prisoners, but escapees tunneled their way out of the compound before a harrowing journey to safety. Most of them were pilots, and Bascomb attributes their daring exploits to the daredevil nature of the airmen. He eschews a linear narrative to tell how the men ended up in Holzminden, sometimes...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
[Blu-ray/DVD combo].
Physical Desc
3 DVDs + 3 Blu-rays (386 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
The maze runner: A teenager named Thomas is trapped in a massive, ever-changing labyrinth with a group of boys who have no memory of their past.
The Scorch trials: After escaping from the Maze, Thomas and his fellow Gladers now face a greater challenge: crossing a desolate wasteland, filled with hidden dangers, to search for clues about the secret organization known as WCKD.
The death cure: Thomas leads the Gladers on their final mission. To save...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the midst of the bloody U.S. Civil War, an enslaved man named Robert Smalls carried out a dangerous plan. Smalls secretly took control of a Confederate steamboat, the Planter, and sailed the ship toward a Union fleet. A little known story of courage, hope, and peril during the Civil War, this true account celebrates an unsung American hero.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three escaped convicts from the 1920s are led on an odyssey through the Old South in search of loot stashed at one of their homes. The house is scheduled to be flooded out by a new dam, so time is of the essence.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
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
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Nine follows the true story of the author's great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back to Paris. The nine women were all under thirty when they joined the resistance. They smuggled arms through Europe, harbored parachuting agents, coordinated communications between regional sectors, trekked...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
9 Blu-rays (approximately 1,237 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Flyboys: The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.
Battle of Britain: In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U.K.
The horse soldiers: In 1863, a Union outfit...
19) The way back
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by an incredible true story beginning in 1940 when seven prisoners attempt the impossible: escape from a brutal Siberian gulag. Thus begins a treacherous 4,500-mile trek to freedom across the world's most merciless landscapes. They have little food and few supplies. They don't know or trust each other. But together, they must withstand nature at its most extreme. Their humanity is further tested when they meet a teenage runaway who begs to...
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