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Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Berkley hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Her search begins with an ending.... The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come into effect. The cries of joy fall silent when he announces that they are no longer his slaves; they are now his apprentices. No one can leave. They must work for him for another six years. Freedom is just another name for the...
Author
Series
Harlequin intrigue volume 890
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Special Agent Jake Vanderpol swore he'd buried all tender feelings for Leigh Michaels. Until he learned that the arms dealer she'd testified against six years ago had escaped. Suddenly the memories were back ... memories of urgent kisses in hiding. But after what happened, would she trust him to save her? Danger just exploded from her past with the same raw male power that first drew Leigh to her former agent-protector. Then Jake used her as bait...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"To save a woman from being kidnapped, Officer Chris Fuller and his K-9 partner, Teddy, have no choice but to let the fugitive they're tracking get away. But when the escaped murderer returns to hunt tour pilot Lexie McDaniels again, Chris knows the attempted kidnapping wasn't a chance encounter. Lexie won't be safe until he catches the criminal...but are her secrets what is endangering them all?" -- Page [4] cover.
44) Man on a ledge
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ex-cop Nick Cassidy escapes from prison to plan the ultimate heist: steal a $40 million diamond from cutthroat businessman David Englander, and in the process prove his innocence. From the ledge of the famous Roosevelt Hotel, with the whole world watching, Cassidy plays a clever game of cat & mouse with the NYPD while his dutiful brother Joey works against the clock to extract the diamond and clear his brother's name.
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 170 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Escaping from a Confederate prison by balloon, the survivors land on an uncharted island in the Pacific. The island is home to carnivorous monsters, bloodthirsty pirates, and the mad genius Captain Nemo, who inhabits the island for his own strange ends.
47) Wrecked
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
LOST Agent Ana Young, whose mission is to find the missing, is on the hunt for an escaped convict with a dangerous obsession, which partners her with FBI Special Agent Cash Knox, the man with whom she had a one-night stand, and together they must put a serial killer behind bars.
Author
Series
Indian Lake trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Saga Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
457 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Momentum, The Child's World
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Engages readers with incredible stories of people who made daring escapes from prisoner of war camps. From the Revolutionary War to the Vietnam War, these soldiers who were captured behind enemy lines had to use their courage and wits to escape.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tom Fuller, a scrupulously honest fellow, a person of extraordinary physical strength and owner of a savage horse, Rusty, that he alone was able to tame, is generally regarded as a half-wit. He has been summarily fired from every job he has ever had and even comes to regard himself as a failure. He makes one more try when he is hired on as a blacksmith's assistant by Boston Charlie. Finally here is a job that Tom can perform successfully, and his...
51) Fugitive hunt
Author
Publisher
Love Inspired Suspense
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Surviving an attack by her serial killer cousin five years ago left police officer Morganne Kimball his number one target. But she refuses to be his next victim, even if he has now escaped prison and is seeking revenge. Her only choice is to team up with US deputy marshal Colt Nelson, who is determined to capture the fugitive before he's able to strike at Morganne again..." -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Series
Reeve LeClaire series) 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...
Author
Publisher
Love Inspired Suspense
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jennie Beiler's husband was supposed to be dead, so she's shocked when he rescues her from an attacker. Although Luke has no memories of his Englisch wife, it's up to him to protect her from someone who won't stop until she's dead. Can the peaceful Amish community he returned to after losing his memory shelter them and their son this Christmas when danger strikes again?" -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired Suspense
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With her husband's killer released from prison, former US Marshal Brianna Thomas's fake identity is no longer enough to protect her and her little girl. The man's dead set on killing anyone involved in his arrest, and the only person Brianna can trust is her late husband's partner, ex-marshal Gideon Stratham. Snowbound in the Rockies, she and Gideon must work together to survive the storm and a convict's vengeance." -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks edition.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"The oh-so-proper schoolteacher Lily Donovan has learned, the hard way, that men are not to be trusted. Period. Until Levi Roberts, the new cowboy working at her cousin's ranch, tempts her carefully built resolve and awakens an all-consuming passion she thought lay dormant. But when she discovers his deadly secret, and her own secrets come to light, Lily unwittingly joins the lethal cat-and-mouse race between Levi and the man he's been hunting for...
Author
Series
Publisher
Momentum, The Child's World
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Engages readers with incredible stories of people who made daring escapes from Alcatraz. This notorious island prison was home to hundreds of inmates, dozens of whom risked their lives to escape captivity.
57) Alpha tracker
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Intrigue
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After lawman Dillon Diaz spent one incredible weekend with a mysterious woman, he's shocked to encounter her months later...when he's assigned to rescue an injured hiker in the mountains. And stunning Roslyn Kern has news that will change his life. Now, battling a fiery blaze and an escaped fugitive, it's up to Dillon and his K-9, Bentley, to protect long-lost Rosie--and Dillon's unborn child." -- Page [4] cover.
58) Blood highway
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"When seventeen-year-old Rainy comes home late one evening and finds her mother dead of a suicide, she has no reason to suspect that her death is directly tied to the fact that her father, the notorious Sam Cain, has escaped from prison and is coming for her because he is convinced that both Rainy and her mother know where the stolen money is hidden" --
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Inspired by a true story, a daring deception plunges a courageous and desperate young woman deep into the horrors of a Nazi POW camp to be with the man she loves. Czechoslovakia, 1944 In the dead of night a farm girl and a British soldier creep through abandoned villages. Izabela and prisoner-of-war Bill have secretly married, and are on the run, searching for Izabela's brother and father, who are fighting the Nazis. The husband and wife have evaded...
Author
Series
Publisher
Raven Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's September in Brighton and the city is playing host to weeks of endless rain and lashings of villainy. A trusted member of a local gang has disappeared part way through planning a huge heist; a violent criminal obsessed with boiling the heads of policemen has escaped Broadmoor and is rumoured to be headed towards the city, while at Gosling's department store an American researcher has been found dead in the music section. Inspector Steine has...