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81) An untamed state
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mireille Duval Jameson is a rich and self-assured Haitian woman who is kidnapped by a gang of heavily armed men. Held captive by a man who calls himself the Commander, Mireille must endure his torment until her unwilling father pays up.
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
185 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After the tragic death of their father, Emily and Navin move with their mother to the home of her deceased great-grandfather, but the strange house proves to be dangerous. Before long, a sinister creature lures the kids' mom through a door in the basement. Em and Navin, desperate not to lose her, follow her into an underground world inhabited by demons, robots, and talking animals. Eventually, they enlist the help of a small mechanical rabbit named...
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"At twelve years old, Kirra Mandarian's parents were murdered. She barely escaped with her life. Fourteen years later, Kirra is an attorney in Porte Franklyn, Virginia, and determined to find the killer. She contacts Dillon Savich, who brings in Special Agent Griffin Hammersmith to work with Lieutenant Jeter Thorpe, a young detective who'd saved Kirra years before. Emma Hunt, a twelve-year-old piano prodigy and granddaughter of crime boss Mason Lord,...
84) The lost metal
Author
Series
Mistborn novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"For years, frontier lawman turned big-city senator Waxillium Ladrian has hunted the shadowy organization the Set--with his late uncle and his sister among their leaders--since they started kidnapping people with the power of Allomancy in their bloodlines. When Detective Marasi Colms and her partner Wayne find stockpiled weapons bound for the Outer City of Bilming, this opens a new lead. Conflict between Elendel and the Outer Cities only favors the...
Author
Series
NERDS volume 5
Publisher
ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Miss Information kidnaps the president's daughter, it is up to twelve-year old Ruby, also known as Pufferfish, to use her super-nanobyte-enhanded allerigies in leading the NERDS' investigation.
86) Touch & go
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
423 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When investigator Tessa Leoni arrives at the crime scene in the Denbes' home, she finds scuff marks on the floor and Taser confetti in the foyer. The family appears to have been abducted, with only a pile of their most personal possessions remaining behind. No witnesses, no ransom demands, no motive. Just an entire family, vanished without a trace. Who would want to kidnap such a perfect little family? And how far would such a person be willing to...
87) The lioness
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Tanzania, 1964. When Katie Barstow, A-list actress, and her new husband, David Hill, decide to bring their Hollywood friends to the Serengeti for their honeymoon, they envision giraffes gently eating leaves from the tall acacia trees, great swarms of wildebeests crossing the Mara River, and herds of zebras storming the sandy plains. Their glamorous guests—including Katie’s best friend, Carmen Tedesco, and Terrance Dutton, the celebrated Black...
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
301 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the fall of 1929, when Laura Cumming's mother was three years old, she was kidnapped from a beach on the Lincolnshire coast of England. There were no screams when she was taken, suggesting the culprit was someone familiar to her, and when she turned up again in a nearby village several days later, she was found in perfect health and happiness. No one was ever accused of a crime. The incident quickly faded from her memory, and her parents never...
89) Still missing
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On the day she was abducted, Annie O'Sullivan, a thirty-two year old realtor, had three goals—sell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mother, and be on time for dinner with her ever- patient boyfriend.
The open house is slow, but when her last visitor pulls up in a van as she's about to leave, Annie thinks it just might be her lucky day after all. Interwoven with the story of the year Annie spent as the captive of psychopath in a...
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Agatha is pregnant and works part-time stocking shelves at a grocery store in a ritzy London suburb, counting down the days until her baby is due. As the hours of her shifts creep by in increasing discomfort, the one thing she looks forward to at work is catching a glimpse of Meghan, the effortlessly chic customer whose elegant lifestyle dazzles her. Meghan has it all: two perfect children, a handsome husband, a happy marriage, a stylish group of...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"1978: At her renowned treatment center in picturesque Vermont, the brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. Helen Hildreth, is acclaimed for her compassionate work with the mentally ill. But when she's home with her cherished grandchildren, Vi and Eric, she's just Gran-teaching them how to take care of their pets, preparing them home-cooked meals, providing them with care and attention and love. Then one day Gran brings home a child to stay with the family. Iris...
92) The 6th target
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
When one member of the Women's Murder Club is brutally attacked, her three companions work to keep her attacker behind bars, while Lindsay Boxer investigates a series of kidnappings in which children and their nannies are being abducted without ransom demands.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of Eoin Colfer's novel in which a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold; but the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Charlotte has everything in life that she ever could have hoped for: a doting, artistic husband, a small-but-thriving flower shop, and her sweet, smart five-year-old daughter, Daisy. Her relationship with her mother might be strained, but the distance between them helps. And her younger brother Rocco may have horrible taste in women, but when he introduces his new girlfriend to Charlotte and her family, they are cautiously optimistic that she could...
95) Bone Gap
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Eighteen-year-old Finn, an outsider in his quiet Midwestern town, is the only witness to the abduction of town favorite Roza, but his inability to distinguish between faces makes it difficult for him to help with the investigation, and subjects him to even more ridicule and bullying.
96) Cobra
Author
Series
Benny Griessel novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At a guest house in the beautiful Franschhoek wine valley, a famous English mathematician is kidnapped and his two bodyguards are killed. It's clearly a professional hit, and the spent shell cases offer a chilling clue: Each is engraved with the head of a spitting cobra. Meanwhile, in Cape Town, a skilled young thief is using his talents to put his sister through college. Then one day he picks the wrong pocket, grabbing the wallet of a young American...
Author
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 6
Publisher
Phoenix Books
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
President Jake Cazalet no sooner learns that he has a daughter--the product of an affair he had while in Vietnam--than the girl is kidnapped by men whose demands leave Jake no recourse but to turn to former IRA enforcer and security specialist Sean Dillon and FBI agent Blake Johnson for help.
Author
Series
Rebel of the sands volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Desperate to uncover the Sultan's secrets by spying on his court, gunslinger Amani is taken captive by the forces of the Sultan, whose agenda seems less tyrannical than originally believed.
99) The subtle knife
Author
Language
English
Description
As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife.
100) Say nothing: a novel
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
440 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Judge Scott Sampson doesn't brag about having a perfect life, but the evidence is clear: A prestigious job. A beloved family. On an ordinary Wednesday afternoon, he is about to pick up his six-year-old twins to go swimming when his wife, Alison, texts him that she'll get the kids from school instead. It's not until she gets home later that Scott realizes she doesn't have the children. And she never sent the text. Then the phone rings, and every parent's...
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