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Hidden in Alaska's vast wilderness, a ruthless murderer holds two ladies hostage: one a newlywed, the other a detective. With Leah ravaged by despair and Helaina disabled by fever, the captives have little chance of escape--unless God provides the healing they so desperately need. Fearing for the safety of the women they love, Jayce and Jacob pray they can save Leah and Helaina before winter's icy blast freezes all hope of rescue.
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Heirs of Alexandria volume 3
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
c2005
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344 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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English
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This is the only critical edition of this perennially popular story. Sally Shuttleworth's introduction finds, beneath the idyllic evocation of rural bliss and a tale of love and high adventure, a startling sub-text which rigidly defends Victorian values, and portrays a manly' hero constantly having to prove his masculinity to himself. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature...
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Every year on March 26th, Verity Peterson visits Ogunquit Beach, where she puts a handwritten message into a bottle and launches it into the waves. It's a ritual of remembrance for the daughter she hasn't seen in sixteen years--not since her baby's father, Alan, took two-month-old Gemma and disappeared. Verity keeps searching and hoping, sustained by the thought that someday she might get to be a mother to her own child. And finally, one phone call...
6) Unspoken
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Charlotte Graham is at the center of the most famous kidnapping in Chicago history. A task force of FBI and local cops found her two abductors, killed them, rescued her, but it took four very long years. The fact she was found less than three miles from her home, and had been there the entire time, haunts them. She's changed her identity, found a profession she loves, and rebuilt her life. She's never said a word -- to the cops, to her doctors, to...
7) The hostage
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Presidential Agent novels volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
465 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Department of Homeland Security agent Charley Castillo conducts a discreet investigation involving a murdered diplomat's brother-in-law, a man possessing key information about the scandalous United Nations oil-for-food program in Iraq.
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Warner Books
Pub. Date
2006
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1st ed.
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373 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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When Katherine Tyler is kidnapped by a band of outlaws while on a cross-country trip, cowboy T. C. Castle rescues Katherine and hides her at a remote ranch where he lives with his five-year-old disabled daughter.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Stolen by changelings from his family, Henry Day is given the name Aniday by the ageless and magical beings, who replace him with another child who takes his place with his parents, a young boy who possesses an extraordinary gift of music.
10) Please tell me
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Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
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369 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Connecting with an eight-year-old kidnapping victim named Kathy, child therapist Robin Hart is unsettled when it seems Kathy is playacting real unsolved murders and must unlock the secrets in Kathy's brain and stop a serial killer before he strikes again.
11) Dragon clan
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Order of the dolphin volume 3
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English
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"A dragon will kill her creator to protect her family. Dr. Eva Paz wants only a peaceful life on Roatan for herself and her dolphins, continuing their research in dolphin communication and educating children on the importance of caring for the reef. But when the Navy reactivates Taffy and Finn for exercises in Pearl Harbor, that all changes. For she finds Julian is there as well, and he is armed with yet another genetically modified creature. This...
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Emma Ruskin, disillusioned with life and love, takes a position as governess to ten-year-old Poppy Ackroyd at a large country home. Despite the Ackroyd family's contempt for her, she soon begins to develop a rapport with Gavin, their effortlessly superior eldest son. Then disaster strikes when Emma and Poppy are snatched and imprisoned by kidnappers. Emma knows they'll be killed if the ransom money isn't forthcoming, unless Gavin can get to them first....
13) The prisoner
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"With Behind Closed Doors, New York Times bestselling author B. A. Paris took the psychological thriller to shocking new heights. Now she'll hold you captive with THE PRISONER-a stunning new thriller about one woman wed into a family with deadly intentions. Amelie has always been a survivor, from losing her parents as a child in Paris to making it on her own in London. As she builds a life for herself, she is swept up into a glamorous lifestyle where...
14) Dragon gold
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Order of the dolphin volume 2
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English
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"A dragon will kill any who dare to take its gold. After her dangerous adventures earlier in the year, everything is finally going well for Dr. Eva Paz. Her breakthroughs in dolphin communication are changing the world. Her discoveries could save the reef she loves. And now her mother has found love again. But then a madman returns to claim what's his. Eva's old nemesis, Julian Gulliver, kidnaps Eva's mother, and he demands an exorbitant ransom. It's...
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"When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she's not only North Carolina's richest woman, she's also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family's estate high in the Blue Ridge mountains. In the aftermath of her death, that estate--along with a nine-figure fortune and the complicated legacy of being a McTavish--pass...
16) One Kick
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Kick Lannigan volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Kick Lannigan, abducted at age six, goes into a tailspin when a second Amber Alert in a month signals the disappearance of a child in the Portland area.That's when the enigmatic Bishop approaches her with a proposition. He made a fortune as a weapons dealer and now wants to make good by using his resources to rescue abducted children. And he is convinced Kick's experiences and expertise can be mined to help rescue the abductees. Little does Kick know...
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Kimberly Leamy is a photography teacher in Melbourne, Australia. Twenty-eight years earlier, Sammy Went, a two-year old girl vanished from her home in Manson, Kentucky. An American accountant who contacts Kim is convinced she was that child, kidnapped just after her birthday. She cannot believe the woman who raised her, a loving social worker who died of cancer four years ago, crossed international lines to steal a toddler. On April 3rd, 1990, Jack...
18) Dear child
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"A windowless shack in the woods. A dash to safety. But when a woman finally escapes her captor, the end of the story is only the beginning of her nightmare. She says her name is Lena. Lena, who disappeared without a trace 14 years prior. She fits the profile. She has the distinctive scar. But her family swears that she isn't their Lena. The little girl who escaped the woods with her knows things she isn't sharing, and Lena's devastated father is...
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Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Based on the remarkable true story of Taj Rowland. Seven-year-old Chellamuthu's life is forever changed when he is kidnapped from his village in India, sold to a Christian orphanage, and then adopted by an unsuspecting couple in the United States. It takes months before the boy can speak enough English to tell his parents that he already has a family back in India. Horrified, they try their best to track down his Indian family, but all avenues lead...
20) Safe: a novel
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Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"A kidnapped girl returns home after twelve years away--but coming home may not be as easy as she thought in this roller coaster ride of lies, betrayal, and secrets that just might be the twistiest thriller you'll read all year. Jenny Kristal was six years old when she was snatched off the sidewalk from her quiet suburban neighborhood. Twelve years later, she's miraculously returned home after escaping her kidnappers--but as her parents and younger...
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