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The Escape Artist

Author : Brad Meltzer
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455559512
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book The Escape Artist written by Brad Meltzer and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nola Brown, the U.S. Army's artist-in-residence--a painter and trained soldier--sees something nobody was supposed to see and earns a dangerous enemy in this novel as powerful as "a launched torpedo slashing through 400 pages of deep water before reaching impact...one of the best thrill rides ever" (David Baldacci). Who is Nola Brown? Nola is a mystery Nola is trouble. And Nola is supposed to be dead. Her body was found on a plane that mysteriously fell from the sky as it left a secret military base in the Alaskan wilderness. Her commanding officer verifies she's dead. The US government confirms it. But Jim "Zig" Zigarowski has just found out the truth: Nola is still alive. And on the run. Zig works at Dover Air Force Base, helping put to rest the bodies of those who die on top-secret missions. Nola was a childhood friend of Zig's daughter and someone who once saved his daughter's life. So when Zig realizes Nola is still alive, he's determined to find her. Yet as Zig digs into Nola's past, he learns that trouble follows Nola everywhere she goes. Together, Nola and Zig will either reveal a sleight of hand being played at the highest levels of power or die trying to uncover the US Army's most mysterious secret--a centuries-old conspiracy that traces back through history to the greatest escape artist of all: Harry Houdini. "Meltzer is a master and this is his best. Not since The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo have you seen a character like this. Get ready to meet Nola. If you've never tried Meltzer, this is the one." -- Harlan Coben

The Escape Artist

Author : Jonathan Freedland
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006311237X
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book The Escape Artist written by Jonathan Freedland and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Jewish Book Award · New York Times Bestseller "A brilliant and heart-wrenching book, with universal and timely lessons about the power of information—and misinformation. Is it possible to stop mass murder by telling the truth?" — Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow A complex hero. A forgotten story. The first witness to reveal the full truth of the Holocaust . . . Award-winning journalist and bestselling novelist Jonathan Freedland tells the astonishing true story of Rudolf Vrba, the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world of a truth too few were willing to hear. In April 1944, Rudolf Vrba became one of the very first Jews to escape from Auschwitz and make his way to freedom—among only a tiny handful who ever pulled off that near-impossible feat. He did it to reveal the truth of the death camp to the world—and to warn the last Jews of Europe what fate awaited them. Against all odds, Vrba and his fellow escapee, Fred Wetzler, climbed mountains, crossed rivers, and narrowly missed German bullets until they had smuggled out the first full account of Auschwitz the world had ever seen—a forensically detailed report that eventually reached Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and the Pope. And yet too few heeded the warning that Vrba had risked everything to deliver. Though Vrba helped save two hundred thousand Jewish lives, he never stopped believing it could have been so many more. This is the story of a brilliant yet troubled man—a gifted “escape artist” who, even as a teenager, understood that the difference between truth and lies can be the difference between life and death. Rudolf Vrba deserves to take his place alongside Anne Frank, Oskar Schindler, and Primo Levi as one of the handful of individuals whose stories define our understanding of the Holocaust.

The Escape Artist

Author : Helen Fremont
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982113626
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Escape Artist written by Helen Fremont and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A luminous new memoir from the author of the critically acclaimed national bestseller After Long Silence, The Escape Artist has been lauded by New York Times bestselling author Mary Karr as “beautifully written, honest, and psychologically astute. A must-read.” In the tradition of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and George Hodgman’s Bettyville, Fremont writes with wit and candor about growing up in a household held together by a powerful glue: secrets. Her parents, profoundly affected by their memories of the Holocaust, pass on to both Helen and her older sister a zealous determination to protect themselves from what they see as danger from the outside world. Fremont delves deeply into the family dynamic that produced such a startling devotion to secret keeping, beginning with the painful and unexpected discovery that she has been disinherited in her father’s will. In scenes that are frank, moving, and often surprisingly funny, She writes about growing up in such an intemperate household, with parents who pretended to be Catholics but were really Jews—and survivors of Nazi-occupied Poland. She shares tales of family therapy sessions, disordered eating, her sister’s frequently unhinged meltdowns, and her own romantic misadventures as she tries to sort out her sexual identity. Searching, poignant, and ultimately redemptive, The Escape Artist is a powerful contribution to the memoir shelf.

J.D. Salinger

Author : Thomas Beller
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544261992
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book J.D. Salinger written by Thomas Beller and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal inquiry into the near-mythic life and canonical work of the late author of The Catcher in the Rye draws on in-depth interviews to discuss his Park Avenue childhood, work with the New Yorker and decision to live in isolation. 10,000 first printing.

Lily Renée, Escape Artist

Author : Trina Robbins
Publisher : Graphic Universe ™
ISBN 13 : 0761379622
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book Lily Renée, Escape Artist written by Trina Robbins and published by Graphic Universe ™. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1938, Lily Ren e Wilheim is a 14-year-old Jewish girl living in Vienna. Her days are filled with art and ballet. Then the Nazis march into Austria, and Lily's life is shattered overnight. Suddenly, her own country is no longer safe for her or her family. To survive, Lily leaves her parents behind and travels alone to England. Escaping the Nazis is only the start of Lily's journey. She must escape many more times-from servitude, hardship, and danger. Will she find a way to have her own sort of revenge on the Nazis? Follow the story of a brave girl who becomes an artist of heroes and a true pioneer in comic books.

The Escape Artists

Author : Neal Bascomb
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544936906
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (449 download)

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Download or read book The Escape Artists written by Neal Bascomb and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “fast-paced account” of WWI airmen who escaped Germany’s most notorious POW camp is “expertly narrated” by the New York Times bestselling author (Kirkus, starred review). During World War I, Allied soldiers might avoid death only to find themselves in the abominable conditions of Germany’s many prison camps. The most infamous was Holzminden, a land-locked Alcatraz that housed the most escape-prone officers. Its commandant was a boorish tyrant named Karl Niemeyer, who swore that none should ever leave. Desperate to break out of “Hellminden”, a group of Allied prisoners hatch an audacious escape plan that requires a risky feat of engineering as well as a bevy of disguises, forged documents, and fake walls—not to mention steely resolve and total secrecy. Once beyond the watchtowers and round-the-clock patrols, they are then faced with a 150-mile dash through enemy-occupied territory toward free Holland. Drawing on never-before-seen memoirs and letters, historian Neal Bascomb “has unearthed a remarkable piece of hidden history, and told it perfectly. The story brims with adventure, suspense, daring, and heroism” (David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon).

Escape Artist

Author : William A. Noguera
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609807987
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Escape Artist written by William A. Noguera and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ABA Indies Introduce Top Ten Title for Winter 2018 William A. Noguera has spent thirty-four years at the notorious San Quentin Prison, home to the nation’s largest and deadliest death row. Each day, men plot against you and your life rests on a razor’s edge. In Escape Artist, he describes his personal growth as a man and artist and shares his insights into daily life and the fight to survive in the underworld of prison culture. After being sentenced to death, he arrived at San Quentin Prison and was thrown into a rat-infested cell—it was there that he discovered the key to his escape: art. Over the next three decades, Noguera rebelled against conventional prison behavior, and instead forged the code he lives by today—accepting responsibility for his actions, and a self-imposed discipline of rehabilitation. In the process, he has explored his capacity to bring focus and clarity to his artistic vision. Escape Artist exposes the violence, politics and everyday existence within the underbelly of society that is prison life. In an unprecedented narrative, Noguera reveals the emotional and heart-wrenching loss that landed him on death row and the journey he has taken to become an award-winning artist, speaker, and author—a tale of one man’s transformation through tragedy.

Escape Artist

Author : Glenn Lovell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Escape Artist written by Glenn Lovell and published by . This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escape Artist—based on Glenn Lovell’s extensive interviews with John Sturges, his wife and children, and numerous stars including Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, and Jane Russell—is the first biography of the director of such acclaimed films as The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, and Bad Day at Black Rock. Lovell examines Sturges’s childhood in California during the Great Depression; his apprenticeship in the editing department of RKO Pictures, where he worked on such films as Gunga Din and Of Human Bondage; his service in the Army Air Corps in World War II; and his emergence as one of the first independent producer-directors in Hollywood. Chronicling the filmmaker’s relationships with such luminaries as Spencer Tracy, James Garner, Yul Brynner, and Frank Sinatra, Escape Artist interweaves biography with critical analyses of Sturges’s hits and misses. Along the way, Lovell addresses the reasons why Sturges has been overlooked in the ongoing discussion of postwar Hollywood and explores the director’s focus on masculinity, machismo, and male-bonding in big-budget, ensemble action films. Lovell also examines Sturges’s aesthetic sensibility, his talent for composing widescreen images, and his uncanny ability to judge raw talent—including that of Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, and James Coburn, all of whom began their careers in Sturges’s movies. This long overdue study of a major Hollywood director will find a welcome home in the libraries of film scholars, action movie buffs, and anyone interested in the popular culture of the twentieth century. Best Books for Special Interests, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Association "Pick up a copy of film critic and scholar Glenn Lovell's terrific new Sturges biography, Escape Artist. . . . I can't urge you enough to check out this interview-rich, aesthetically and culturally perceptive look at the filmmaker and his work."—Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Daily News “Lovell’s list of interviewees reads like a who’s who of Hollywood and they obviously provided rich source material for this full-scale biography and career survey.”— Leonard Maltin “This long overdue study of a major Hollywood director will find a welcome home in the libraries of film scholars, action movie buffs, and anyone interested in the popular culture of the twentieth century.”—Turner Classic Movies (TCM.com)

Harry Houdini

Author : Patricia Lakin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689848153
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Harry Houdini written by Patricia Lakin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple text describes how Harry Houdini, born Ehrich Weiss, worked hard to become a great magician.

The Escape Artists

Author : Noam Scheiber
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439172412
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Escape Artists written by Noam Scheiber and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A book by Noam Scheiber"--

The Escape Artist

Author : Diane Chamberlain
Publisher : Diane Chamberlain
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Escape Artist written by Diane Chamberlain and published by Diane Chamberlain. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A runaway mother's dilemma. Susanna Miller of Colorado loses custody of her baby daughter because of a stint in a mental home. She absconds with her to Maryland and resumes life under an assumed name. The dilemma comes when she learns of a serial killer's next move. If she goes to the police she risks losing her daughter.

After Long Silence

Author : Helen Fremont
Publisher : Delta
ISBN 13 : 0307804658
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book After Long Silence written by Helen Fremont and published by Delta. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fascinating . . . A tragic saga, but at the same time it often reads like a thriller filled with acts of extraordinary courage, descriptions of dangerous journeys and a series of secret identities.”—Chicago Tribune “To this day, I don't even know what my mother's real name is.” Helen Fremont was raised as a Roman Catholic. It wasn't until she was an adult, practicing law in Boston, that she discovered her parents were Jewish—Holocaust survivors living invented lives. Not even their names were their own. In this powerful memoir, Helen Fremont delves into the secrets that held her family in a bond of silence for more than four decades, recounting with heartbreaking clarity a remarkable tale of survival, as vivid as fiction but with the resonance of truth. Driven to uncover their roots, Fremont and her sister pieced together an astonishing story: of Siberian Gulags and Italian royalty, of concentration camps and buried lives. After Long Silence is about the devastating price of hiding the truth; about families; about the steps we take, foolish or wise, to protect ourselves and our loved ones. No one who reads this book can be unmoved, or fail to understand the seductive, damaging power of secrets. Praise for After Long Silence “Poignant . . . affecting . . . part detective story, part literary memoir, part imagined past.”—The New York Times Book Review “Riveting . . . painfully authentic . . . a poignant memoir, a labor of love for the parents she never really knew.”—The Boston Globe “Mesmerizing . . . Fremont has accomplished something that seems close to impossible. She has made a fresh and worthy contribution to the vast literature of the Holocaust.”—The Washington Post Book World

I, Houdini

Author : Lynne Reid Banks
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 0307786803
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book I, Houdini written by Lynne Reid Banks and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One family’s household has been in a state of disarray because of one small furry problem. Meet Houdini, an extraordinarily brilliant escapologist. No, not that Houdini. This one is a hamster. Once you meet him, you will understand that his owners just couldn’t name him anything else, for his name is quite fitting. He can escape from anything—a cage or the clutches of a mean cat. While on his escapades, he causes all kinds of trouble from chewing through wires to causing a flood. But Houdini thinks it’s all worth it, because he is desperate to explore the great Outdoors. But once he gets out, will he ever come back? Or will this be his final escape?

Harry Houdini

Author : Janice Weaver
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781419700149
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Harry Houdini written by Janice Weaver and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of Harry Houdini and his less famous partner, his brother Dash, includes details of his well-known career as a magician, as well as his interest in exposing fake mediums and other frauds. Sidebars highlight topics related to the early 20th century, such as child labor, the dime museums, and early aviation, an interest of Houdini's.

The Escape Artist

Author : Matt Seaton
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 1841151041
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Escape Artist written by Matt Seaton and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a time there were four bikes in Matt Seaton's life, a training bike, a track bike, a mountain bike and a racing bike. His evenings were spent doing the miles on the roads between South London and the North Downs. Weekends were taken up with Club meetings, road races and time trials - rides that took him to cold village halls at dawn and out onto the empty bypasses of Southern England.

The Escape Artist

Author : Judith Katz
Publisher : Bywater Books
ISBN 13 : 1612940374
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Escape Artist written by Judith Katz and published by Bywater Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sofia Teitelbaum is a young Jewish girl when her poor parents decide to marry her off to Tutsik Goldenberg, a successful, charming, traveling Jewish businessman. But there is no marriage. Instead, Sofia is put to work as a prostitute to cater to the lusts of Jewish immigrants fleeing pogroms and World War I. Later, Tutsik spots the talented juggler and acrobat Hankus, and anticipates success as the boy's manager. But Hankus is really a young woman. When Sofia meets Hankus, he is already working as a magician. It is through their love that they find an escape.

The Great Houdini

Author : Monica Kulling
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0553536710
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book The Great Houdini written by Monica Kulling and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Houdini was a great escape artist, but perhaps his greatest trick was becoming the famous magician that we have come to know. As a child, Houdini worked hard--and even quit school--to help support his family. But his dream always was to become a great magician and performer. He practiced day and night, thinking up new tricks and more and more dangerous stunts. His intense ambition paid off, and soon Harry Houdini became known worldwide! This kid-appealing Step 3 traces Houdini's life from his poor beginnings to his eventual success as the most famous mystical magician and escape artist of all time.