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1) Incarceron
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Series
Language
English
Description
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 3
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After his failed attempt to escape from Furnace Penitentiary, Alex struggles to survive the bloodstained laboratories beneath where monsters are manufactured, with a death sentence--or worse--hanging over his head.
3) Lockdown
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 1
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
English
Description
Alex is framed for murder and becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign, boys disappear in the middle of the night and return weirdly altered, and escape might just be possible.
4) Solitary
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, fourteen-year-old Alex Sawyer thinks that he has escaped the hellish Furnace Penitentiary, but instead he winds up in solitary confinement, where new horrors await him.
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Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: In 1865, the Civil War was winding down and the country was reeling from Lincoln?s assassination. Thousands of Union soldiers, released from Confederate POW camps, were to be transported home on the steamboat Sultana. With a profit to be made, the captain rushed repairs to the boat so the soldiers wouldn?t find transportation elsewhere. More than 2,000 passengers boarded in Vicksburg, Mississippi . . . on a boat with a capacity...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Description
Thomas Buergenthal, now a Judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, tells his astonishing experiences as a young boy in his memoir A Lucky Child. He arrived at Auschwitz at age 10 after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp. Separated first from his mother and then his father, Buergenthal managed by his wits and some remarkable strokes of luck to survive on his own. Almost two years after his liberation, Buergenthal...
8) Nightshade
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 13
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teen spy Alex Rider is sent to a maximum security facility in Gibraltar to impersonate Julius Grief while seeking information about a new criminal organization called Nightshade.
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