{"id":36128,"date":"2025-07-31T05:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/36128\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T05:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:10:08","slug":"escape-in-books-cai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/36128\/","title":{"rendered":"Escape in books | CAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our theme for this month&#8217;s book show is escape. All kinds of escapes exist, and books are full of them! Thoreau escaped to Walden, The Great Houdini escaping, and stories of trying to escape from jail or captors. Our book experts share their lists of picks on The Point.<br \/>Jill Erickson&#8217;s picks:<br \/>ESCAPE: ES-CAPE (VERB): TO AVOID A THREATENING EVIL by Wah Chen<br \/>THE ESCAPE MOTIF IN THE AMERICAN NOVEL by Sam Bluefarb<br \/>ESCAPE FROM MR. LEMONCELLO\u2019S LIBRARY\u00a0\u00a0by Chris Grabenstein<br \/>THE DECAMERON \u00a0by Giovanni Boccacio, translated by Wayne A. Rebhorn<br \/>HOUDINI by Muriel Rukeyser<br \/>ESCAPE!\u00a0By Sid Fleischman<br \/>THE LIFE AND AFTERLIFE OF HARRY HOUDINI by Joe Posnanski<br \/>BREAKOUT by Richard Stark<br \/>THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ by L. Frank Baum<br \/>HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON by Crockett Johnson<br \/>Rae Titcomb&#8217;s pics:<br \/>( will be added soon)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our theme for this month&#8217;s book show is escape. All kinds of escapes exist, and books are full&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[353,49,48,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-36128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}