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On a quest to settle a score with the man who destroyed his life, Boyd Halverson robs a bank and takes a hostage, in the new novel from the author of The Things They Carried.
"At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in Northern California. “How much is on hand, would you say?” he asked the teller. “I’ll want it all.” “You’re robbing me?” He revealed a Temptation .38 Special....
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Michael Bennett mysteries volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Detective Michael Bennett and FBI Abduction Specialist Emily Parker reluctantly team up to stop a killer targeting not only the children of New York's wealthiest families--but the entire city of New York.
4) Shock wave
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Crimson Forest
Pub. Date
[2018]
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中文(繁體)
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When a terrorist who specializes in explosives takes hold of an underground tunnel, he threatens to kill hostages if his demands are not met.
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"#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan is "one of the best storytellers around" (RT Book Reviews). Find out why as two lovers surrounded by greed and corruption discover there's no telling whom you can trust--or who will come out on top... When members of a United Nations joint security force are taken hostage by radical terrorists in Indonesia, Captain Ezekiel Fortunes is called to lead the rescue team. Part of a classified government...
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Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their unexpected common traits.
Looking at real estate isn't usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives...
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Gideon Crew volume 2
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English
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After a standoff between a top nuclear scientist from Los Alamos and an innocent family taken hostage turns violent, Gideon Crew must track down a rogue nuclear device.
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Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"The Hostages Daughter is an intimate look at the effect of the Lebanese Hostage Crisis on Andersons family, the United States, and the Middle East today. Sulome tells moving stories from her experiences as a reporter in the region and challenges our understanding of global politics, the forces that spawn terrorism and especially Lebanon, the beautiful, devastated, and vitally important country she came to love. Powerful and eye-opening The Hostages...
9) The siege
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As a lovely weekend approaches on the Yale campus it appears that a number of students--including the sons of both the Secretary of the Army and newest Supreme Court justice--may have gone missing. Attention quickly focuses on the fortress-like tomb of one of Yale's secret societies. Suspended Boulder police detective Sam Purdy soon finds himself in New Haven, where he joins FBI agent Christopher Poe and CIA analyst Deirdre Drake to solve the riddle...
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Emma Caldridge thrillers volume 1
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English
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Emma Caldridge, a chemist for a cosmetics company, is en route from Miami to Bogotá when her plane is hijacked and spins out of control into the mountains near the Venezuelan border. Thrown unhurt from the wreckage, she can do nothing but watch as guerrillas take the other passengers hostage.
An endurance marathon runner, Emma silently trails the guerrillas and their captives, using her athletic prowess and scientific knowledge to stay alive....
An endurance marathon runner, Emma silently trails the guerrillas and their captives, using her athletic prowess and scientific knowledge to stay alive....
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Knopf
Pub. Date
1997
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English
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Details the 1990 kidnappings of ten Columbian men and women by Medellin drug boss Pablo Escobar who planned to use the hostages as bargaining chips in negotiations with the government; focusing on the experiences of journalist Maruja Pachon who was held captive for six months.
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Publisher
Warner Classics
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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'They're killing him bit by bit!' Flamboyant, flame-haired 70-plus Augusta Bertram has opened a package containing a finger that recently belonged to her years-ago lover. The victim's kidnappers continue mailing expendable body parts, and Augusta enlists the aid of her stuffy nephew in a mad to-the-rescue adventure across Europe in pursuit of $100,000 in ransom money. The scramble to save a life just might also liberate the nephew's life-starved soul....
13) Deadlock
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[2009]
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English
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CIA and MI6 operative John Garret is called on a desperate mission to save Emily Hudson, an archeologist and the only survivor of a ruthless massacre. But their may be more to this job than he is being told.
14) Plane
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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In the white-knuckle action movie PLANE, pilot Brodie Torrance saves his passengers from a lightning strike by making a risky landing on a war-torn island only to find that surviving the landing was just the beginning. When most of the passengers are taken hostage by dangerous rebels, the only person Torrance can count on for help is Louis Gaspare, an accused murderer who was being transported by the FBI. To rescue the passengers, Torrance will need...
15) Word of honor
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Newpointe 911 volume 3
Publisher
Zondervan Pub. House
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Attorney Jill Clark, taken hostage by a suspect in the bombing of the Newpointe post office, begins to believe the man's claims that he did not commit the crime, but her attempts to prove his innocence are hindered by his misplaced sense of loyalty that keeps him from naming the real killer.
16) Constant fear
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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A doomsday prepper and private school custodian must rescue his genius hacker son, who is caught by a brutal drug cartel for electronically siphoning off their funds.
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MacLerie series volume 7
Publisher
Harlequin Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
To regain control of his fractured clan Robert Matheson must take Lilidh MacLerie hostage as a bargaining tool. But Lilidh is no ordinary captive. She's the woman he once loved--and rejected. Rob's touch is etched permanently into her memory and, unaware that he was forced to repudiate their love, Lilidh has never forgotten the man who broke her heart all those years ago. Now, looking into the eyes of her captor, she no longer recognizes this fearsome...
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Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
c2013
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English
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Thurlow Dan is the founder of the Helix, a cult that promises to cure loneliness. With its communes and speed-dating, mixers and confession sessions, the Helix has become a national phenomenon, and attracted the attention of governments worldwide. But Thurlow, camped out in his Cincinnati headquarters, is lonely, for his ex-wife, Esme, and their daughter, whom he hasn't seen in ten years. Esme is a covert agent who has spent her life spying on Thurlow,...
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Paul Janson novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Ex-covert-ops soldier Paul Janson and his sharpshooting partner, Jessica Kincaid, set out to rescue the wife of an oil executive who has been kidnapped by Somali pirates.
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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"Daniel and Vanessa Parker are an American success story. He is a Washington, D.C. power broker, and she is a physician with a thriving practice. But behind the gilded fac̦ade, their marriage is a shambles, and their teenage son, Quentin, is self-destructing. In desperation, Daniel dusts off a long-delayed dream of theirs--a sailing trip around the world. Little does he know, the voyage he hopes will save them may destroy them instead. Half a world...
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