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1) Hollow city
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English
Description
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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English
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"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 by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
Description
Clementine is a lab mouse and a genius, but she's lonely. Only with Rosie, a chimpanzee who visits late at night, does she find friendship. When a lab technician frees Clementine, she discovers an outside world and goes in search of a real home--and a way to free her old friends.
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Series
Adventurer's guide volume 1
Language
English
Description
"In a magickal world of floating tiers, mischievous dragons, and endless bureaucracy, Anne and her friends embark on a Rightful Heir Quest to claim her place in the Hierarchy and escape horrible consequences"--
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Skulduggery Pleasant volume 2
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English
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When the evil Baron Vengeous escapes from prison, Detective Skulduggery Pleasant and his apprentice, Valkyrie Cain, have two days to recapture him.
11) The rig
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
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"Fifteen-year-old Will Drake has made a career of breaking out from high-security prisons. His talents have landed him at the Rig, a specialist juvenile holding facility in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. No one can escape from the Rig. No one except for Drake"--
12) Escape
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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 plan results in officers...
13) The keeper
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Series
Vega Jane volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Description
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, designed to keep the town people in, it is filled with bloodthirsty creatures and sinister magic, and it is not going to let them escape unscathed.
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English
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The year is 1857, soon after the tragic Siege of Cawnpore. In the British garrison, a guard is killed and an Indian prisoner escapes. Cries for revenge ring out. Despite no evidence against him, British orderly John Tallis is arrested simply because he was unaccounted for at the time. Young lieutenant Victor Narraway is chosen to defend Tallis, and his superiors merely want a show trial. But a stubborn faith in justice inspires Narraway to search...
15) Dragon run
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
It is testing day, and twelve-year-old Al has scored a zero--but as he flees the cullers he begins to realize that being a zero actually means that he is a threat to the vicious dragons who rule his people.
17) Sunday love
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books For Children
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A burglar escapes from prison and sends police on a wild chase through town.
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English
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Broken free from a nightmarish distant-future prison by a mysterious woman who offers him his life back if he will complete the ultimate heist he left unfinished, con man Jean le Flambeur is pursued in worlds where people communicate through shared memories.
19) The capybaras
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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In this beautiful and simple book, hens and their chicks are living safe and secure in their coop, or at least it seems that way. They are happy with life as it is, and each hen knows her job. They dont even seem to notice when one of them is carried off from time to time. Until the day the capybaras appear. To the hens, they are too hair, too wet, and too big. They dont even follow the rules! But its hunting season, and the...
20) The glass arrow
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
Stolen from her home, and being groomed for auction, Aya is desperate to escape her fate and return to her family, but her only allies are a loyal wolf she's raised from a pup and a strange mute boy who may be her best hope for freedom ... if she can truly trust him.
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