Author: Judy Donnelly
Publisher: Aladdin
Keywords: shipwrecked, escape
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1994-02-01
List price: $2.99
ISBN-10: 0671678957
ISBN-13: 9780671678951
Recounts the struggle of Mary Bell and her family to survive when the ship they are sailing back to America is torpedoed by Nazi submarines and sunk, describing their experiences adrift on a fragile raft battling sharks, sun, sea, and storms.
Author: Penelope Fitzgerald
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: escape, means
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2001-09-20
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0618154507
ISBN-13: 9780618154500
In her final book of fiction--published, alas, posthumously--Penelope Fitzgerald allows us a present of several very strange pasts, her narratives ranging from the 17th century to the late 20th. The title tale, set in New Zealand in 1852, seems to resemble a cautionary fable about a spinster and an escaped con. But in Fitzgerald’s hands, it is infinitely more. When the prisoner ambushes the rector’s daughter, disputation and attraction soon surmount fear, and yet with each bit of information he reveals, Alice Godley is on shakier ground. "I’m not innocent," he asserts, "but I
Author: Daniel J. Mahoney
Publisher: Clarion Book
Keywords: escape, saturday
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2002-03-15
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0618133267
ISBN-13: 9780618133260
Saturday is Jack"s favorite day??story hour day! But Jack and his friends Angie and Melden can"t go to the library until they finish their chores, and it looks as if they might have to miss story hour altogether. Unless, of course, they can come up with a plan to get out of doing their work and sneak away . . . The power of a good story brings a mischievous Saturday to a satisfying conclusion in this playful picture book featuring amazingly fresh, captivating illustrations by a talented first-time author/illustrator.
Author: Paul Brickhill
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Keywords: escape
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2004-08-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0393325792
ISBN-13: 9780393325799
"A tense, thrilling, fabulous tale."—Philadelphia Inquirer They were American and British air force officers in a German prison camp. With only their bare hands and the crudest of homemade tools, they sank shafts, forged passports, faked weapons, and tailored German uniforms and civilian clothes. They developed a fantastic security system to protect themselves from German surveillance. It was a split-second operation as delicate and as deadly as a time bomb. It demanded the concentrated devotion and vigilance of more than six hundred men—every one of them, every minute, every hour, e
Author: Erich Fromm
Publisher: Holt Paperback
Keywords: freedom, escape
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1994-09-15
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0805031499
ISBN-13: 9780805031492
If humanity cannot live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it will probably turn to authoritarianism. This is the central idea of Escape from Freedom, a landmark work by one of the most distinguished thinkers of our time, and a book that is as timely now as when first published in 1941. Few books have thrown such light upon the forces that shape modern society or penetrated so deeply into the causes of authoritarian systems. If the rise of democracy set some people free, at the same time it gave birth to a society in which the individual feels alienated and dehumanized.
Author: J. Campbell Bruce
Publisher: Ten Speed Pre
Keywords: alcatraz, escape
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1580086780
ISBN-13: 9781580086783
In 1963, just weeks before the original publication of this book, the last prisoner was escorted off Devil?s Island and Alcatraz ceased to be a prison. Author J.Campbell Bruce chronicles in spellbinding detail the Rock?s transition from a Spanish fort to the maximum-security penitentiary that housed such infamous inmates as Robert Stroud, aka the Birdman of Alcatraz, and mobster Al Scarface Capone.The chapters describing the daring escape attempts by Frank Morris and two accomplices from this inescapable prison became the basis for the 1979 Clint Eastwood movie. Discover the intriguing and abs
Author: Ernest Becker
Publisher: Free Pre
Keywords: evil, escape
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 1985-03-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0029024501
ISBN-13: 9780029024508
