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Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In fifteenth-century England, commoner Nell and her best friend since infancy, Prince Ned, the future king, try to escape after being wrongfully imprisoned in the Tower of London. Includes historical notes and timeline.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Wright puts newly unclassified documents to use in recounting how Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor hid six Americans who had slipped out a side door and gathered intelligence for the U.S. government during the Iran Hostage Crisis.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
viii, 280 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In June 2015, two vicious convicted murderers broke out of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, in New York's North Country, launching the most extensive manhunt in state history. Aided by prison employee Joyce Mitchell, double murderer Richard Matt and cop-killer David Sweat slipped out of their cells, followed a network of tunnels and pipes under the thirty-foot prison wall, and climbed out of a manhole to freedom. For three weeks, the...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
598 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Davies draws from years of meticulous research to recount the compelling story of this unit, the Polish II Corps or 'Anders Army', and their exceptional journey from the Gulag of Siberia through Iran, the Middle East and North Africa to the battlefields of Italy to fight shoulder-to-shoulder with Allied forces"--Amazon.com
226) Shipwrecked: a true Civil War story of mutinies, jailbreaks, blockade-running, and the slave trade
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xvii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-nineteenth century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, and Cuban liberation to the Civil War and Reconstruction"--
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
viii, 355 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"'Maria Toorpakai is a true inspiration, a pioneer for millions of other women struggling to pave their own paths to autonomy, fulfillment, and genuine personhood'--Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed. Maria Toorpakai hails from Pakistan's violently oppressive northwest tribal region, where the idea of women playing sports is considered haram--un-Islamic, forbidden--and girls rarely leave...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Discusses children and teens on the run during the Holocaust in Europe, including the different ways young people escaped the Nazis, places of refuge in Europe, and hiding and resistance"--Provided by publisher.
229) The middle ground
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
119 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Missy Turner thinks of herself as the most ordinary woman in the world. She has a lot to be thankful for-a great kid, a loving husband, a job she enjoys and the security of living in the small town where she was born. Then one day everything gets turned upside down-she loses her job, catches her husband making out with the neighbor and is briefly taken hostage by a young man who robs the local cafe. With her world rapidly falling apart, Missy finds...
230) The last escaper
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
viii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Peter Tunstall's memoir of his days in the British Royal Air Force and as one of the most celebrated British POWs of World War II. Tunstall was an infamous tormentor of his German captors. Dubbed the "cooler king" on account of his long spells in solitary, he once dropped a water "bomb" directly in the lap of a high-ranking German officer. He also devised an ingenious method for smuggling coded messages back to London. But above all he was a highly...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
xii, 282 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In a converted tobacco warehouse, Libby's 1,200 Union officers survived on cornbread and bug-infested soup, and slept without blankets on the bare floor. With prisoner exchanges suspended, escape and death were the only ways out. Libby Prison Breakout recounts the largely unknown story of the escape of 109 steel-nerved officers through a 55-foot tunnel, and their flight in winter through the heart of the enemy homeland, amid an all-out Rebel manhunt....
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
While her father leads her toward Canada and away from the plantation where they have been slaves, a young girl thinks of the quilt her mother used to teach her a code that will help guide them to freedom.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
356 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In October 1969, William Albracht, the youngest Green Beret captain in Vietnam, took command of a remote hilltop outpost called Fire Base Kate, held by only 27 American soldiers and 150 Montagnard militiamen. He found their defenses woefully unprepared. At dawn the next morning, three North Vietnamese Army regiments--some 6,000 men--crossed the Cambodian border and attacked. Outnumbered three dozen to one, Albracht's men held off repeated ground...
234) Z. Rex
Author
Series
Hunting volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
From Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Edinburgh, Scotland, thirteen-year-old Adam Adlar must elude police while being hunted by a dinosaur come-to-life from a virtual reality game invented by his father, who has gone missing.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
x, 384 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In September 1970, ex-Harvard professor and 'High Priest of LSD' Dr. Timothy Leary escaped from prison with the aid of the radical Weather Underground. Spanning twenty-eight months, President Nixon's careening, global manhunt for Dr. Timothy Leary winds its way among homegrown radicals, European aristocrats, a Black Panther outpost in Algeria, an international arms dealer, hash-smuggling hippies from the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, and secret agents...
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