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Pub. Date
2005
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English
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Warden Ben Skerrit of the Arizona Territorial Penitentiary is having an "open door" day at the prison to show off his facility. However, convict Rufe Houston took this opportunity to liberate himself by killing a guard and two inmates in the process . His escape is followed by a bloodbath of killings of innocent people and the kidnapping of a young girl. Sheriff Ben vows that he will track Rufe down and shoot him dead, like the dog he is.
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So I'm a spider, so what? (Light novels) volume 12
Kumo desuga nanika volume Vol. 12
Kumo desuga nanika volume Vol. 11
So I'm a spider so what? volume 12
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Kumo desuga nanika volume Vol. 12
Kumo desuga nanika volume Vol. 11
So I'm a spider so what? volume 12
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Pub. Date
2017-
Language
English
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A girl wakes up to realize she has been turned into a spider and needs to escape a dungeon full of monsters.
I-i-it's not like a spider needs friends!
I did it! I'm finally an Arachne!...Aaand things already aren't going the way I thought they would. I'm inexplicably on a road trip with the Demon Lord, a reincarnated baby, and her troubled vampire guardian. I don't really interact with them much, besides subjecting my reborn classmate to insane training,...
3) Hollow City
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Miss Peregrine volume 2
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English
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In 1940, Jacob and his new friends escape from Miss Peregrine's island and travel to London where they encounter new allies, a menagerie of peculiar animals, and other unexpected surprises.
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Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.
6) Escape
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"New York Times bestselling detective Billy Harney of The Black Book is chasing down a billionaire crime boss and a prison escape artist while a young girl's life hangs in the balance. As Chicago PD's special-ops leader, Detective Billy Harney knows well that money is not the only valuable currency. The filthy rich man he's investigating is down to his last twenty million. He's also being held in jail. For now. Billy's unit is called in when an escape...
7) The viper
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Horribly injured after saving one of his fellow inmates, Kane can't help but fall in love with the nurse overseeing his convalescence. But with both of them trapped in the notorious prison camp and his health hanging in the balance, Kane knows he's not going to survive much longer. When a chance for liberation comes from an unexpected source, however, he vows to free his love no matter the cost, even if he can't make it out alive.
8) Echoes
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English
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Against a vivid backdrop of history, Danielle Steel tells a compelling story of love and war, acts of faith and acts of betrayal…and of three generations of women as they journey though years of loss and survival, linked by an indomitable devotion that echoes across time.
For the Wittgenstein family, the summer of 1915 was a time of both prosperity and unease, as the guns of war sound in the distance. But for eldest daughter Beata, it was...
For the Wittgenstein family, the summer of 1915 was a time of both prosperity and unease, as the guns of war sound in the distance. But for eldest daughter Beata, it was...
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Grey Sommers, Lord Wyndham, never met a predicament he couldn't charm his way out of. Then a tryst with a government official's wife during a bit of casual espionage in France condemns him to a decade in a dungeon, leaving him a shadow of his former self. Yet his greatest challenge may be the enigmatic spy sent to free his body, the only woman who might heal his soul. Cassie Fox lost everything in the chaos of revolution, leaving only a determination...
11) Out of sight
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Jack Foley volume Bk. 1
Pub. Date
1996.
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English
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A bank robber in Florida commandeers a car belonging to a woman U.S. marshall, climbs with her into the trunk, while an accomplice drives. So begins a novel about two people who really wish the ride had gone forever. As it is, she escapes to lead a manhunt for him.
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So I'm a spider, so what? (Light novels) volume 1
Kumo desuga nanika volume Vol. 2
So I'm a spider so what? volume 1
Kumo desuga nanika volume Vol. 2
So I'm a spider so what? volume 1
Pub. Date
2017-
Language
English
Description
A girl wakes up to realize she has been turned into a spider and needs to escape a dungeon full of monsters.
After many trials and challenges, our reborn spider has become very good at fighting (and eating!) monsters. Getting a little full of herself, she's rushed headlong into some unexplored area and now, she's facing her worst enemy...a huge dragon!
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"The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon...
14) The awakening
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Darkest powers volume 2
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English
Description
Fifteen-year-old necromancer Chloe, having escaped from Lyle House with Derek, Simon, and Rae, finds herself imprisoned in a laboratory run by a sinister organization determined to control her and her supernatural friends.
15) The Reckoning
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Darkest powers volume 3
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English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Chloe, a necromancer, struggles to understand her feelings for werewolf Derek and his sorcerer brother, Simon, while seeking a way to enter the headquarters of the sinister Edison Group and rescue her aunt Lauren and friend Rachelle.
16) The missing
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Shadow House volume 4
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Five children have been lured into Shadow House, all for different reasons, and they must determine if someone is trying to help them escape or trap them there forever.
17) Jack's run
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Pub. Date
2007, c2005
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped by drug czar Alonzo Asnar and held hostage in Argentina, Jack and his sister Joanne attempt a daring escape while their parents, aided by some old friends, set out to rescue them.
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Trailblazer books volume 32
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
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While held hostage on a pirate ship in 1700, thirteen-year-old Theo escapes with his sister and enlists the help of William Penn to rescue their mother.
20) The keeper
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Vega Jane volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Vega Jane and her friend Delph have taken the map that Quentin Harris left them and set out from the town of Wormwood, determined to brave the Quag and find freedom on the other side--but the Quag was designed to keep the town people in, and it is filled with bloodthirsty creatures and sinister magic, and it is not going to let them escape unscathed.
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