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The Marsh King's daughter / by Dionne, Karen,author.;
At last, Helena Pelletier has the life she deserves. A loving husband, two beautiful daughters, a business that fills her days. Then she catches an emergency news announcement and realizes she was a fool to think she could ever leave her worst days behind her. Helena has a secret: she is the product of an abduction. Her mother was kidnapped as a teenager by her father and kept in a remote cabin in the marshlands of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. No electricity, no heat, no running water, not a single human beyond the three of them. Helena, born two years after the abduction, loved her home in nature--fishing, tracking, hunting. And despite her father's odd temperament and sometimes brutal behavior, she loved him, too ... until she learned precisely how savage a person he could be. More than twenty years later, she has buried her past so soundly that even her husband doesn't know the truth. But now her father has killed two guards, escaped from prison, and disappeared into the marshland he knows better than anyone else in the world. The police commence a manhunt, but Helena knows they don't stand a chance. She knows that only one person has the skills to find the survivalist the world calls the Marsh King--because only one person was ever trained by him: his daughter.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Escaped prisoners; Fathers and daughters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Sisters under the rising sun [sound recording] / by Morris, Heather(Screenwriter),author.; Carmichael, Laura,1986-narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Laura Carmichael."A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris. In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend to Allied troops. But as Singapore falls to the Japanese she joins the terrified cargo of people, including the heartbroken Norah, crammed aboard the Vyner Brooke merchant ship. Only two days later, they are bombarded from the air off the coast of Indonesia, and in a matter of hours, the Vyner Brooke lies broken on the seabed. After surviving a brutal 24 hours in the sea, Nesta and Norah reach the beaches of a remote island, only to be captured by the Japanese and held in one of their notorious POW camps. The camps are places of starvation and brutality, where disease runs rampant. Sisters in arms, Norah and Nesta fight side by side every day, helping whoever they can, and discovering in themselves and each other extraordinary reserves of courage, resourcefulness and determination. Sisters under the Rising Sun is a story of women in war: a novel of sisterhood, bravery and friendship in the darkest of circumstances, from the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Cilka's Journey and Three Sisters"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Female friendship; Hope; Musicians; Nurses; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Sisters under the rising sun / by Morris, Heather(Screenwriter),author.;
Includes bibliographical references."A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris. In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend to Allied troops. But as Singapore falls to the Japanese she joins the terrified cargo of people, including the heartbroken Norah, crammed aboard the Vyner Brooke merchant ship. Only two days later, they are bombarded from the air off the coast of Indonesia, and in a matter of hours, the Vyner Brooke lies broken on the seabed. After surviving a brutal 24 hours in the sea, Nesta and Norah reach the beaches of a remote island, only to be captured by the Japanese and held in one of their notorious POW camps. The camps are places of starvation and brutality, where disease runs rampant. Sisters in arms, Norah and Nesta fight side by side every day, helping whoever they can, and discovering in themselves and each other extraordinary reserves of courage, resourcefulness and determination. Sisters under the Rising Sun is a story of women in war: a novel of sisterhood, bravery and friendship in the darkest of circumstances, from the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Cilka's Journey and Three Sisters"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Female friendship; Hope; Musicians; Nurses; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Forgiveness : a gift from my grandparents / by Sakamoto, Mark,1977-author.;
Subjects: Biographies.; Sakamoto, Mitsue; MacLean, Ralph; Japanese Canadians; World War, 1939-1945; Japanese Canadians; Prisoners of war; Prisoners of war;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The escape artists : a band of daredevil pilots and the greatest prison break of the Great War / by Bascomb, Neal,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The story of three downed British airmen who mastermind an elaborate, rollicking escape from a WWI German POW camp"--
Subjects: Prisoner-of-war escapes; Escaped prisoners of war; Prisoner-of-war camps; World War, 1914-1918; Airmen;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The great escape : a Canadian story / by Barris, Ted,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Stalag Luft III.; Prisoner-of-war escapes; Prisoners of war; Prisoners of war; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Throne of glass / by Maas, Sarah J.;
After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Assassins; Princes; Courts and courtiers; Prisoners; Contests;
© 2013, c2012., Bloomsbury,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Rescue at Los Baños : the most daring prison camp raid of World War II / by Henderson, Bruce B.,1946-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The fall of Manila -- Prisoners of the Japanese -- Los Baños Internment Camp -- Sky soldiers -- "You'll be eating dirt" -- Return to the Philippines -- Freedom week -- Under the cover of darkness -- The killings -- "Do it right, joe" -- The escapes -- The Los Baños force -- "Rescue must come soon" -- "The world will be watching" -- The raid -- Rescue -- "God was with us" -- Epilogue: The fate of Sadaaki Konishi.
Subjects: Los Baños Internment Camp.; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The great escape [videorecording (DVD)] by Sturges, John,1911-1992.; McQueen, Steve,1930-1980; Garner, James.; Attenborough, Richard; Brickhill, Paul;
Director of photography: Daniel L. Fapp ; art director: Fernando Carrere ; film editor: Ferris Webster ; music by Elmer Bernstein.Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, James Coburn.The true story of 76 allied airmen who plot a massive escape from Stalag 3, a maximum security prison in World War II. They struggle against overwhelming odds to obtain freedom.Not rated.NTSC 1, DVD Dolby digital.
Subjects: Stalag Luft III; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Prisoners of war; War films; Feature films; Video recordings for the hearing impaired;
© c1998., MGM/UA Home Video,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The spitfire luck of Skeets Ogilvie : from the Battle of Britain to the great escape / by Ogilvie, Keith C.,1948-; Ogilvie, Keith C.,1948-You never know your luck.;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.A young Canadian spitfire pilot finds adventure, love, and a remarkable dose of luck on the frontlines of the Second World War.LSC
Subjects: Ogilvie, Keith, 1915-1998.; Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Squadron, 609.; Great Britain. Royal Air Force; Fighter pilots; Fighter pilots; World War, 1939-1945; Prisoners of war;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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