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Germany 1945: Miriam has travelled for over two weeks to reach safety. Exhausted and hungry, she knows she is still one of the fortunate ones. One of the few to survive the camps. Having lost her darling husband and son, the only thing that has kept her walking is the hope of finding her daughter, Rosa. As she arrives at the checkpoint, she is told it is closed for the day. But in her mind Miriam can hear her daughter's voice: Be strong, stand up...
665) NIGHT OF GLASS
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1938: and as the Munich Crisis unfolds on the few flickering television screens then available to the richest houses in London, four Cambridge undergraduates fired with righteous indignation at the evil growing inside Nazi Germany decide to engineer the escape of a prisoner from Dachau concentration camp. What begins almost as a Rag Week stunt and is undertaken as a foolhardy dare, becomes a desperate and deadly adventure with a grim foretaste of...
667) Renegade
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Silver Blackthorn trilogy volume 2
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Silver Blackthorn is on the run with the other eleven Offerings she helped to escape from Windsor Castle, trying to keep them all from the clutches of Minister Prime, King Victor, and the Kingsmen, when all she wants is to be reunited with family and friends.
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The Shawshank redemption (1994 ; 142 min.): In the 1940s, Andy Dufresne is a young and successful banker whose life changes drastically when he is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife and her lover. As the years progress, Andy, with the help of his friend Red, turns out to be a most unconventional prisoner.
The green mile (1999 ; 188 min.): Death Row guards at a penitentiary in the 1930's have a moral dilemma with...
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'I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.' Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her family stayed behind they would die - from starvation, or disease, or even execution. This book is the story of Park's struggle to survive in the darkest,...
673) The bones tunnel
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Based on a real event, this tells the story of the spectacular escape by seven prisoners in 1991 from the Villa Devoto prison in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the process of digging a tunnel to escape, they make a bizarre and frightening discovery just as they are about to break through to freedom. One escapee promises to report their findings when they are all free, and once out, he pays his debt to 'The tunnel of bones, ' sharing their macabre story...
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"The Greatest Escape: A True American Civil War Adventure tells the story of the largest prison breakout in U.S. history. It took place during the Civil War, when more than 1200 Yankee officers were jammed into Libby, a special prison considered escape-proof, in the Confederate capitol of Richmond, Virginia. A small group of men, obsessed with escape, mapped out an elaborate plan and one cold and clear night, 109 men dug their way to freedom. Freezing,...
676) Miasto cieni
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Kontynuacja Osobliwego domu pani Peregrine, który zachwycil nie tylko nastoletnich czytelników. Akcja powiesci rozpoczyna sie dokladnie tam, gdzie zakonczyla sie poprzednia. Jest rok 1940. Jacob i jego nowi przyjaciele opuszczaja wyspe, na której znajdowal sie dom pani Peregrine i udaja sie do Londynu. W czasie podrózy czekaja ich liczne niespodzianki i przygody. Hollow city to niepowtarzalna, magiczna powiesc, która przenosi czytelników w swiat...
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First blood: John Rambo is a former Green Beret and Medal of Honor recipient who is plagued by dreadful memories of his time served in Vietnam. Living as a drifter, Rambo is on his way to get some food when he is arrested by Will Teasle, a small town sheriff who is used to getting things his way. Once incarcerated, Rambo soon finds himself reliving the awful memories of his fighting days as he is tormented by the sheriff's deputy. Rambo escapes and...
678) Thieves like us
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Two convicts break out of Mississippi State Penitentiary in 1936 to join a third on a long spree of bank robbing. The youngest of the gang falls in love with a girl he has met at their hideout. Their last robbery in Yazoo City goes bad and all three become notorious men, who are wanted by the law.
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