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81) Kill For Me
Author
Series
Vartanian family thrillers volume 3
Pub. Date
2009
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For years District Attorney Susannah Vartanian has refused to allow anyone close to her. Her life changed overnight when as a teenager she was brutally raped by a vicious gang of youths.Detective Luke Papadopoulus is fast approaching burn-out. As a detective working on sex-crimes against children, he will do anything to find those responsible for such evil atrocities.Monica Cassidy is terrified. Kidnapped and held in a bunker with eleven other girls,...
82) Sunburst
Author
Series
Sky King Ranch volume 2
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"When former Navy Seal and lifelong bachelor Ranger Kingston is called upon to take part in a rescue mission to save his brother Colt, who has been kidnapped by terrorists in Nigeria, he is shocked to find among the hostages a woman he knows and could never forget. Noemi Sutton was attempting to return a young girl to her family in Boko Haram territory when she and the girl found themselves taken hostage, along with several others. And while Ranger...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Description
"Dear Miss Metropolitan tells the fragmented story of Fern, Gwinnie, and Jesenia, three girls abducted by a monster who calls himself Boss Man and held captive in a decaying house in Queens for a decade. Inspired by real events, the tale is inventively revealed by multiple narrators before, during and after their ordeal. Documents, newspapers, excerpts from books, photographs, interviews, and other forms of media piece together the larger story. By...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"For readers of Educated and The Glass Castle, a harrowing, redemptive and profoundly inspiring memoir of childhood trauma and its long reach into adulthood. One Omaha winter day in November 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knifepoint from a church parking lot. She was thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and then left to die as an ice storm descended over the city. Debora survived. She identified her attacker...
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Pub. Date
2015.
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Two victims of infamous Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro share the stories of their abductions, their captivity, and their dramatic escape. Drawing on their recollections and the diary kept by Amanda Berry, she and Gina DeJesus describe a decade of unimaginable torment as Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan interweave accounts of the efforts to find the missing girls. Hope is a harrowing yet inspiring chronicle of two women...
86) The Missing
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
In 19th century New Mexico, a father comes home hoping to reconcile with his daughter, Maggie. Maggie's daughter is kidnapped, forcing father and daughter to work together to get her back.
87) Private London
Author
Series
Private Detective Agency novels volume 4
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For Hannah Shapiro, a beautiful young American student, this particular nightmare began eight years ago in Los Angeles, when Jack Morgan, owner of Private--the world's most exclusive detective agency--saved her from a horrific death. She has fled her country, but can't flee her past. The terror has followed her to London, and now it is down to former Royal Military Police Sergeant Dan Carter, head of Private London, to save her all over again. In...
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Skye's West volume 13
Publisher
Forge
Description
Barnaby Skye, the earthy deserter from the Royal Navy who has carved out a career in the Rocky Mountains as a trapper, guide, and magnet for adventure, frits south to Mexican territory with his Crow Indian wife, Many Quills Woman.
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Pub. Date
[2009]
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Fife, Scotland, 1985: Heiress Catriona Maclennan Grant and her baby son are kidnapped. The ransom payoff goes horribly wrong and Grant is killed. Her son disappears without a trace--until 2008, when a tourist in Tuscany stumbles upon dramatic new evidence that reopens the investigation. Fife, 1984: At the height of the politically charged national miners' strike, Mick Prentice abandons his family to join the strikebreakers down south. Labeled...
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"Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself. Over the years that follow, she is forced to keep reinventing herself to survive. From a calligraphy school, to a San Francisco brothel, to a shop tucked into the Idaho mountains,...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Michelle Knight-now known as Lily Rose Lee-captured the world's attention in May 2013, when she and two fellow kidnapping victims were found and freed after being held for more than a decade by notorious Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro. But many people are still asking: What happened after her escape? How do you re-enter society after years of abuse and isolation? How do you get past the trauma and live a happy and joy filled life? How do you learn...
93) Darkness falls
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004
Description
"Clara Pascal had everything: a high-flying lawyer and devoted mother, she was envied and admired by her peers. Now, robbed of everything that gives her life meaning, she lies chained to the stone wall of a dark cellar - without food, without warmth, without sleep, without even the most basic communication - for her kidnapper will not even tell her what he wants from her." "As Clara passes from fear to anger to despair in her dark prison, Detective...
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
�2017.
Description
Emma Ruskin, disillusioned with life and love, takes a position as governess to ten-year-old Poppy Ackroyd at a large coutry 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....
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"When Fern Douglas sees the news about Astrid Sullivan, a thirty-four-year-old missing woman from Maine, she is positive that she knows her. Fern's husband is sure it's because of Astrid's famous kidnapping--and equally famous return--twenty years ago, but Fern has no memory of that, even though it happened an hour outside her New Hampshire hometown. And when Astrid appears in Fern's recurring nightmare, one in which a girl reaches out to her, pleading,...
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Series
Publisher
Penguin/Grove Press
Pub. Date
2009, c1998
Description
"In a small village at the foot of the Italian Dolomites, not far from Venice, the gardens of a deserted farmhouse have lain untouched for decades. But the new owner, anxious for renovations to begin, is summoned to the house when his workmen disturb a macabre grave...Then a valuable signet ring is found nearby. It is the first clue to reignite an infamous cold case of kidnapping and disappearance involving one of Venice's oldest families. Only Commissioner...
Author
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Truly Devious volume 1
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Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham, an early 20th century tycoon, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. A place, he said, where learning is a game. Shortly after the school opened, his wife and daughter were kidnapped. The only real clue was a mocking riddle listing methods of murder, signed with...
100) My story
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Pub. Date
2013.
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"For the first time, ten years after her abduction from her Salt Lake City bedroom, Elizabeth Smart reveals how she survived and the secret to forging a new life in the wake of a brutal crime On June 5, 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart, the daughter of a close-knit Mormon family, was taken from her home in the middle of the night by religious fanatic, Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee. She was kept chained, dressed in disguise,...
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