To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It's where he was born, where he and his Ma eat and play and learn. There are endless wonders that let loose Jack's imagination—the snake under Bed that he constructs out of eggshells,...
Kidnapping
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Author:Donoghue, EmmaSummary: - Author:Checketts, CamiSummary:
A world-renowned extreme athlete. A motivational speaker and philanthropist. He thinks they're a match destined for heaven. She's convinced they're polar opposites.
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Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she'll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she's not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. She sets off in pursuit with only a...
- Author:Lilja SigurðardóttirSummary:
When entrepreneur Flosi arrives home for dinner one night, he discovers that his house has been ransacked, and his wife Gudrun missing. A letter on the kitchen table confirms that she has been kidnapped. If Flosi doesn't agree to...
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Author:Hanson, Ed, Doman, Mary KateSummary:These traditional reads are brimming with spirited characters and positive values—but with a little extra excitement and bite, so hold on to your hats! Written expressly for the middle grade struggling reader, the series does not...
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Author:Diamand, EmilySummary:In 22nd-century Great Britain, where climate change has caused vast flooding, the piratical Reavers kidnap the Prime Minister's daughter and thirteen-year-old Lilly Melkun, an English fisher-girl, takes her seacat on a daring rescue...
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Author:Grant, VickiSummary:Quid Pro Quo is a high-stakes, fast-moving legal thriller about real people, and funny people at that. Cyril MacIntyre's mother is a twenty-eight-year-old ex-street kid who drags her son to all her law school classes, then proceeds to...
- Author:Banks, MayaSummary:
Voici l’histoire torride d’une femme qui risquera sa vie et son coeur pour retrouver la soeur disparue d’un homme riche. Découvrez le premier tome d’une nouvelle série de suspense romantique de l’auteure à succès du New York Times, Maya...
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Author:Standiford, LesSummary:John Deal is no hero–he just happens to be in the right place at the right time, cruising in the Gulf of Mexico when a group of Cuban refugees are tossed overboard in a smuggling operation gone awry. Then, presidential politics,...
- Author:NICOLE, ChristopherSummary:
When an attempt is made to kidnap the only daughter of the Sultan of Kharram and his English wife, Jessica Jones of Special Branch is appointed to protect the girl. JJ soon finds her charge is not the innocent "poor darling"...
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Author:Grant, VickiSummary:Dan is not sure he'll survive the boring field trip to a remote heritage farm. How could a place with no running water, telephone or electricity be anything but dull? The farmer knows nothing about farming and is angry about having to...
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Author:MICHAELS, FernSummary:Lorrie looks forward to taking her young nephew Davey on a camping trip even though it's been arranged for the sole purpose of keeping him out of harm's way while his father testifies. But Davey vanishes while fishing.
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Author:Sciuto, JosephSummary:Hollywood. Las Vegas. Beverly Hills. A world of corrupt movie moguls, heartless kidnappers, and innocent girls sold into slavery by their own families. When wounded Kentucky-born beauty Nicole Tyler ditches her handlers in Las Vegas...
- Author:Heaberlin, JuliaSummary:
"A gripping thriller about a man who may or may not have dementia--and who may or may not be a serial killer--from a master of twists and turns, in the tradition of Laura Lippman and Gillian Flynn An obsessive young woman has been...
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Author:André K. BabySummary:Le Vatican, Les membres de la Curia, réunis d'urgence par le secrétaire d'État, sont sous le choc : au petit matin, en véritable coup de théâtre, des ravisseurs ont enlevé Sa Sainteté le pape Clément XXI de ses...
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Author:Anderle, Michael, Carr, Martha, Berens, JudithSummary:Raine Campbell has survived her first semester at the School of Necessary Magic, but only just. Time to throw herself into her studies and get a better grasp on magic. No more close calls with spells...especially if she wants to follow...
- Author:Kirby, PeterSummary:
A Guatemalan journalist is kidnapped, and the only message from her kidnappers is the murder of her lawyer. In a race against time, Luc Vanier sets about reconstructing her life, through the sordid world of human trafficking, the...
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Author:Rhodes, DevonSummary:Benny Oshiro is having the time of his life at a private gig for his band, One Wish, until he’s assaulted and kidnapped by their former manager. When his rescue—or more accurately, his rescuer—gets a little hairy, Benny knows he should...
- Author:Markin, WesSummary:
School should be the safest place in the world. Not this winter. DCI Michael Yorke faces his most harrowing case yet. When 12-year-old Paul disappears from school, Yorke's only clue is a pool of animal blood. Fearing the worst, he...
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Author:Stewart, LorindaSummary:On August 23, 2008, Amanda Lindhout was kidnapped outside Mogadishu in Somalia. The kidnappers’ demand was simple: pay millions or Amanda would be killed. For the next 460 days, Amanda’s mother, Lorinda Stewart, did everything in her...
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