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Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
William Kent Krueger offers "one of his most puzzling mysteries to date" (Publishers Weekly) as a disappearance and a dead body put Cork O'Connor's family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twentieth book in the New York Times bestselling series.
The disappearance of a local politician's teenage daughter is major news in Minnesota. As a huge manhunt is launched to...
William Kent Krueger offers "one of his most puzzling mysteries to date" (Publishers Weekly) as a disappearance and a dead body put Cork O'Connor's family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twentieth book in the New York Times bestselling series.
The disappearance of a local politician's teenage daughter is major news in Minnesota. As a huge manhunt is launched to...
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis' parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents - telekinesis and telepathy - who got to this place the same...
Author
Publisher
Weinstein Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Describes the details of the abduction and decade-long captivity of one of the three survivors of notorious Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro, and how she found the courage to endure unimaginable circumstances and never lose hope for the future.
4) Room
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The award-winning bestseller that became one of the most talked about and memorable novels of the decade, Room is "utterly gripping...a heart-stopping novel" (San Francisco Chronicle). Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their freedom, and the boy experiences the outside world for the first time.
To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. It's where...
To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. It's where...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author Tracie Peterson continues her saga of life and love in the rugged Alaskan Territory with the second volume of the ALASKAN QUEST series. When Pinkerton agent Helaina Beecham's obsession with capturing a dangerous fugitive dulls her judgment, she is kidnapped and carried off into the wilderness just as an early winter is approaching. Now her only hope is that Jacob Barringer--the man who has captured her heart--will find her before...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When his beloved mentor and friend disappears without a trace, Murphy Shepherd, who lives by the mantra that love always shows up, engages in a cat-and-mouse game that tests him both physically and mentally at each turn.
7) Hideaway
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Caitlyn Sullivan had come from a long line of Hollywood royalty, stretching back to her Irish immigrant great-grandfather. At nine, she was already a star- yet still an innocent child who loved to play hide and seek with her cousins at the family home in Big Sur. It was during one of those games that she disappeared. Some may have considered her a pampered princess, but Cate was in fact a smart, scrappy fighter, and she managed to escape her abductors....
Author
Series
Walt Longmire mystery volume 14
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Walt Longmire's worst nightmare. Winter is creeping closer, but for Sheriff Longmire this one is looking to be harsh in a way to which he is wholly unaccustomed. He has found himself in the remotest parts of the north Mexican desert, a lawless place where no horse or car can travel, where no one speaks his language or trusts an outsider, far from his friends and his home back in Wyoming. An international hit man and the head of one of...
9) Artemis Fowl
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In 2001, audiences first met and fell in love with a twelve-year-old criminal mastermind named Artemis Fowl. Since then, the series has sold over seven million copies in the United States alone. Now, this phenomenally successful series is being translated into a graphic novel format. Eoin Colfer has teamed up with established comic writer Andrew Donkin to adapt the text. For the first time, rabid fans will be able to see what Foaly's tin hat looks...
10) Sting
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Jordie Bennet and Shaw Kinnard lock eyes across a disreputable backwater bar, something definitely sparks. Shaw gives off a dangerous vibe that makes men wary and inspires women to sit up and take notice. None feel that undercurrent more strongly than savvy businesswoman Jordie, who doesn't belong in a seedy dive on the banks of a bayou. But here she is . . . and Shaw Kinnard is here to kill her. As Shaw and his partner take aim, Jordie is certain...
11) Loyalty
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"#1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline presents Loyalty, an emotional, action-packed epic of love and justice, set during the rise of the Mafia in Sicily"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"When Smoke Jensen sees a gang of outlaws holding up a stagecoach, he storms in with guns blazing, killing one of the gunmen. The dead man is the brother of the notorious outlaw Gabe Briggs and Briggs will want revenge. Tired of the savagery of the lawless countryside, Smoke's wife Sally heads back east for a spell, only to find the big city choking in filth, violence and corruption. Before Sally can head back home, though, she's snatched right off...
Author
Series
Publisher
Laurel-Leaf Books
Pub. Date
[1996], c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The members of two families have their lives disrupted when a teenage girl who had been kidnapped twelve years earlier discovers that the people who raised her are not her biological parents.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Queen of Suspense and #1 New York Times bestselling writer Mary Higgins Clark brilliantly weaves the mystery of twin telepathy into a mother's search for a kidnapped child, presumed dead in this "riveting...suspense thriller [that] is certain to send terror into the heart of any parent" (Publishers Weekly).
Hours after throwing a third birthday party for their twins Kathy and Kelly in their Connecticut home, Margaret and Steve...
Hours after throwing a third birthday party for their twins Kathy and Kelly in their Connecticut home, Margaret and Steve...
15) A king's ransom
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
The author of five bestselling novels, including Under Cover of Darkness and The Pardon, James Grippando writes compulsively readable thrillers that could be drawn from today's headlines, only better. Now his trademark gifts are wonderfully demonstrated in a taut new tale of intrigue that will keep you guessing to the final, breathtaking scene.
Just two years out of law school, Nick Rey is on the career fast track at a hot Miami law firm
...Author
Series
Gabriel Allon volume 19
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
At an exclusive private school in Switzerland, mystery surrounds the identity of the beautiful girl who arrives each morning and leaves each afternoon in a heavily protected motorcade fit for a head of state. She is said to be the daughter of a wealthy international businessman. She is not. And when she is brutally kidnapped across the border in the Haute-Savoie region of France, Gabriel Allon, the legendary chief of Israeli intelligence, is thrust...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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, named one of the Best True Crime Books by Marie Claire.
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...
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...
Author
Series
Tessa Leoni volume 2
Pub. Date
19uu
Language
English
Description
#1 New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner, author of Catch Me and Love You More, returns with a heart-thumping thriller about what lurks behind the facade of a perfect family. This is my family: Vanished without a trace. Justin and Libby Denbe have the kind of life that looks good in the pages of a glossy magazine. A beautiful fifteen-year old daughter, Ashlyn. A gorgeous brownstone on a tree-lined street in Bostons elite Back Bay neighborhood. A...
19) In Too Deep
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child
Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had gotten there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure.
Jack Reacher wakes up alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a makeshift bed. His right arm...
Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had gotten there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure.
Jack Reacher wakes up alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a makeshift bed. His right arm...
20) Stolen children
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When armed thugs crash into the house and take them away to a cabin in the woods, babysitter Amy realizes she and little Kendra have become pawns in a dangerous ransom plot and so must find a way for the two of them to escape safely before their captors make their next move.
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