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The traitor's daughter : captured by Nazis, pursued by the KGB, my mother's odyssey to freedom from her secret past / by Spicer, Roxana,author.;
"The masterful narration of a daughter's decades-long quest to understand her extraordinary mother, who was born in Lenin's Soviet Union, served as a combat soldier in the Red Army, and endured three years of Nazi captivity -- but never revealed her darkest secrets. As a child, Roxana Spicer would sometimes wake to the sound of the Red Army choir. She would tip-toe downstairs to find her mother, cigarette in one hand and Black Russian in the other, singing along. Roxana would keep her company, and wonder ... Everyone in their village knew Agnes Spicer was Russian, that she had been a captive of the Nazis. And that was all they knew, because Agnes kept her secrets close: how she managed to escape Germany, what the tattoo on her arm meant, even her real name. Discovering the truth about her beloved, charismatic, volatile mother became Roxana's obsession. Throughout her career as a journalist and documentarian, between investigations across Canada and around the world, she always went home to ask her mother more questions, often while filming. Roxana also took every chance to visit the few places that she did know played a role in her mother's story: Bad Salzuflen, Germany, home to POW slave labourers during the war; notorious concentration camps; and Russia. Under Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and the early years of Putin, she was able to find people, places, and documents that are now -- perhaps forever -- lost again. The Traitor's Daughter is intimate and exhaustively researched, vividly conversational, and shot through with Agnes Spicer's irrepressible, fiery personality. It is a true labour of love as well as a triumph of blending personal biography with sweeping history."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Spicer, Agnes.; Spicer, Roxana; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Ex-Nazi concentration camp inmates; Family secrets.; Mothers and daughters.; World War, 1939-1945; Russian Canadians;

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;

Ronan Boyle and the swamp of certain death / by Lennon, Thomas,1970-; Hendrix, John,1976-;
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Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Adventure fiction.; Police; Fairies; Magic; Prisoners' families;

Refugee 87 / by Fountain, Ele.; Fountain, Ele.Boy 87.;
In the Middle East, fourteen-year-old Shif and his best friend Bini embark on a continent-crossing journey of survival after they are imprisoned and become refugees.LSC
Subjects: Prisoners; Refugees; Survival; Best friends; Friendship;

Ebb & flow / by Smith, Heather,1968-;
"After a bad year on the mainland, eleven-year-old Jett returns to Newfoundland to spend the summer with his sprightly Grandma Jo. He weathers the ebb and flow of his sometimes tumultuous life and learns to come to terms with his past decisions.LSC
Subjects: Novels in verse.; Friendship; Children of prisoners; Grandmothers;

I will find you / by Coben, Harlan,1962-author.;
"An innocent father serving life for the murder of his own son receives evidence that his child may still be alive, and must break out of prison to find out the truth"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Escaped prisoners; Fathers; Judicial error; Murder; Truth;

I will find you [text (large print)] / by Coben, Harlan,1962-author.;
"An innocent father serving life for the murder of his own son receives evidence that his child may still be alive, and must break out of prison to find out the truth"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Large print books.; Novels.; Escaped prisoners; Fathers; Judicial error; Murder; Truth;

I will find you [sound recording] / by Coben, Harlan,1962-author.; Weber, Steven,1961 March 4-narrator.; Brilliance Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Steven Weber."An innocent father serving life for the murder of his own son receives evidence that his child may still be alive, and must break out of prison to find out the truth"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Novels.; Thrillers (Fiction); Escaped prisoners; Fathers; Judicial error; Murder; Truth;

Empire of the vampire / by Kristoff, Jay,author.; Orthwick, Bon,illustrator.; Allyn, Virginia,illustrator.;
"From holy cup comes holy light; The faithful hands sets world aright. And in the Seven Martyrs' sight, Mere man shall end this endless night. It has been twenty-seven long years since the last sunrise. For nearly three decades, vampires have waged war against humanity; building their eternal empire even as they tear down our own. Now, only a few tiny sparks of light endure in a sea of darkness. Gabriel de León is a silversaint: a member of a holy brotherhood dedicated to defending realm and church from the creatures of the night. But even the Silver Order couldn't stem the tide once daylight failed us, and now, only Gabriel remains. Imprisoned by the very monsters he vowed to destroy, the last silversaint is forced to tell his story. A story of legendary battles and forbidden love, of faith lost and friendships won, of the Wars of the Blood and the Forever King and the quest for humanity's last remaining hope: The Holy Grail"--
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Epic fiction.; Action and adventure fiction.; Vampire fiction.; Vampires; Prisoners; Brotherhoods; Quests (Expeditions); Imaginary wars and battles;

The Lincoln Highway [sound recording] / by Towles, Amor,author.; Penguin Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Edoardo Ballerini, Marin Ireland, Dion Graham."The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America. 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 discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction-to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Brothers; Escaped prisoners; Ex-convicts;

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