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401) Gold rush girl
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Victoria (Tory) Blaisdell longs to live a life as adventurous and independent as that of her heroine, Jan Eyre. When Tory's father loses his job and decides to seek a share of the newly discovered gold in California, Tory stows away on the westbound ship carrying her father and younger brother, Jacob. Though San Francisco is mud-caked, frenzied, and full of wild and dangerous men, Tory quickly finds friends and independence until her father leaves...
402) Siddharth
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Language
Hindi
Formats
Description
A spellbinding and gorgeously wrought tale of one father's journey across India in search of his son. Mehendra is a chain-wallah, eking out a living fixing zippers on the bustling streets of New Delhi. To ease his financial woes, he sends twelve-year-old Siddharth to work in a distant factory. When the boy doesn't come home for the Diwali holiday, Mehendra and his wife Suman slowly begin to suspect that he was kidnapped by child traffickers. With...
403) Project Nought
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
329 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Ren Mittal's last memory in the year 1996 is getting on a bus to visit his mystery pen pal Georgia. When he wakes up in 2122, he thinks he might be hallucinating... he's not! Tech conglomerate Chronotech sponsors a time-travel program to help students in 2122 learn what history was really like... from real-life subjects who've been transported into the future... and Ren is one of them. In 2122, Ren's life in the 1990s is practically ancient history--and...
Author
Series
Addison Cooke volume 2
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
451 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When his aunt and uncle become pawns in a Chinese gang's plan to steal the Khan's most prized possession, junior archaeologist Addison and his friends are caught in the middle of a war between the gang and a band of Russian adversaries"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 401 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"They were five kids with five different fathers and an alcoholic mother who left them to fend for themselves for weeks at a time. Yet through it all they had each other. Rosie, the youngest, is fawned over and shielded by her older sister, Regina. Their mother, Cookie, blows in and out of their lives 'like a hurricane, blind and uncaring to everything in her path'. But when Regina discloses the truth about her abusive mother to her social worker,...
407) Agent of chaos
Author
Series
Publisher
Imprint, a part of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1979, seventeen-year-old Fox Mulder is the new senior in high school--his father's way of trying to help the family move on after the disappearance of Mulder's little sister. But when a local boy turns up dead and another child is abducted, Mulder can't stop himself from getting involved, and finds himself on the trail of a serial killer.--
408) Stowaway
Author
Series
Icarus chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When scientists discover a rare and mysterious mineral buried in the Earth's crust, they have no idea that it just happens to be the most valuable substance in the entire universe. It's not long before aliens show up . . . offering a promise of protection, some fabulous new technology, and entry into their intergalactic coalition--all in exchange for this precious resource. A material so precious that other alien forces are willing to start a war...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
389 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When midwife Sarah and detective Frank Malloy's friend and new partner Gino Donatelli is accused of murder, he and Sarah must catch the real killer to keep him alive. . . . A young woman is missing in the upper Manhattan neighborhood called Italian Harlem, and everyone knows who��s responsible--the Black Hand, a notorious group known for terrorizing their own community with violence and kidnappings. Gino and Frank set out to learn more about...
Author
Series
Where are the children? volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Now, more than four decades since readers first met Nancy and her children, comes the thrilling sequel to the groundbreaking book that set the stage for future generations of psychological suspense novels. A lawyer turned successful podcaster, Melissa has recently married a man whose first wife died tragically, leaving him and their young daughter, Riley, behind. While Melissa and her brother, Mike, help their mom, Nancy, relocate from Cape Cod to...
411) Knock at the cabin
Publisher
Studio Distribution Services
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While on vacation, a girl and her parents are taken hostage by armed strangers who demand that the family make a choice to prevent the apocalypse.
412) Fixit
Author
Series
IQ novels volume 6
Publisher
Mulholland Books/ Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Isaiah Quintabe's first love, Grace, has been kidnapped by his sworn enemy, the professional hitman Skip Hanson. Skip is savage and psychotic, determined to punish Isaiah for sending him to prison and destroying his life. Isaiah and his sometimes partner, ex-hustler Juanell Dodson, together again, must track scant clues through L.A.'s perilous landscape as Grace's predicament grows more uncertain. A complication arises in the form of Winnie Hando,...
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Madi returns to her hometown and reconnects with an ex from high school, now known locally for his refusal to give up looking for his infant son who has been missing for years. As Madi gets drawn into the search, she begins to see visions that lead to disturbing revelations about the real story of the boy's disappearance"--
After striking out on her own as a teen mom, Madi Price is forced to return to her hometown of Brandywine, Virginia, with her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nola Trenholm may not be psychic herself, but she's spent enough time around people who are to know when ghosts are present, and there are definitely a few lingering spirits in her recently purchased Creole cottage in New Orleans. Something, or someone, is keeping them tethered to this world. And not all of them are benign. But with the sudden return of Sunny Ryan, Beau Ryan's long-lost sister, Nola has plenty to distract her from her ghostly housemates....
415) State of siege
Series
Criterion collection volume 760
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Special edition ; widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Costa-Gavras puts the United States' involvement in South American politics under the microscope in this arresting thriller. An urban guerilla group, outraged at the counterinsurgency and torture training clandestinely organized by the CIA in their country (unnamed in the film), abducts a U.S. official to bargain for the release of political prisoners; soon the kidnapping becomes a media sensation, leading to violence.
416) Jump the cracks
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
On the way to visit her father in New York City, fifteen-year-old Victoria finds an apparently abused child in the train's bathroom and soon finds herself branded a kidnapper and on the run while trying to fulfill her promise to protect the boy at all costs.
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (554 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
1911 revolution: A historical action war drama based on the founding of the Republic of China, when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the last ruling Qing Dynasty, which held unquestioned power and rule for 250 years. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, no expense was spared in the production and no detail ignored in its quest for historical accuracy. 1911 is a true epic to be enjoyed for generations.
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418) Last night
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A fierce blizzard is burying the eastern seaboard, but on the icy Rhode Island shore renowned artist Maddie Morrison finds warm sanctuary from a contentious divorce at the legendary Ocean House. Hours later, her body is found buried under a blanket of snow and her little daughter, CeCe, has disappeared without a trace. For Detective Conor Reid; his brother, Tom, a coast guard commander; and Maddie's grieving sister, Hadley, the posh hotel becomes...
419) Bye, baby: a novel
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Best friends don't always have the best intentions. On a brisk fall night in a New York apartment, 35-year-old Billie West hears terrified screams. It's her lifelong best friend Cassie Barnwell, one floor above, and she's just realized her infant daughter has gone missing. Billie is shaken as she looks down into her own arms to see the baby, remembering - with a jolt of fear - that she is responsible for the kidnapping that has instantly shattered...
420) Her name is knight
Author
Series
Nena Knight novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
413 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Stolen from her Ghanaian village as a child, Nena Knight has plenty of motives to kill. Now an elite assassin for a powerful business syndicate called the Tribe, she gets plenty of chances. But while on assignment in Miami, Nena ends up saving a life, not taking one. She emerges from the experience a changed woman, finally hopeful for a life beyond rage and revenge. Tasked with killing a man she's come to respect, Nena struggles to reconcile her...
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