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41) The cage
Author
Series
The cage (Megan Shepherd) volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Cora wakes up in a cage on an alien planet where she meets the Kindred, her mysterious alien captors, and along with other teenager abductees must find a way to escape back to Earth.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Lauren O'Neil vanished one sunny afternoon as she walked home from school. Six years later, her parents Rachel and Dan still tirelessly scour their Oregon hometown and beyond, always believing Lauren will be found. Then one day, the call comes. Lauren has been rescued from a secluded farm mere miles away, and her abductor has confessed. Yet her return is nothing like Rachel imagined. Though the revelations about what Lauren endured...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In London, 1892, a well-guarded young nobleman goes missing under distressing circumstances. The nobleman, one Baron Renfrew, is actually Prince Albert Victor, eldest grandson of Queen Victoria. He disappeared while he was visiting a house of ill repute, with bodyguards both inside and outside the building--with his inside bodyguard rendered unconscious and the trussed-up corpse of a brutally murdered young woman left behind. Hoping to find the missing...
44) The Golden City
Author
Series
Golden city novels volume 1
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
For two years, Oriana Paredes has been a spy among the social elite of the Golden City, reporting back to her people, the sereia, sea folk banned from the city's shores.... When her employer and only confidante decides to elope, Oriana agrees to accompany her to Paris. But before they can depart, the two women are abducted and left to drown. Trapped beneath the waves, Oriana's heritage allows her to survive while she is forced to watch her only friend...
Publisher
Starz Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In 2014, a young British woman stumbles through the streets of her German hometown and collapses. Her name is Alice Webster and she has been missing for eleven years. Alice's return sends shockwaves through the smalll community.
47) Difret
Publisher
Truth Aid Media
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
From executive producer Angelina Jolie Pitt comes the award-winning drama based on the inspirational true story of a young Ethiopian girl and a tenacious lawyed embroiled in a life-or-death clash between cultural traditions and their country's advancement of equal rights. When 14-year-old Hirut is abducted in her rural village's tradition of kidnapping women for marriage, she fights back, accidentally killing her captor and intended husband.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Architect David Vincent witnesses an alien spaceship landing. He crisscrosses the country trying to warn a skeptical public of the danger. As Vincent learns more about the aliens, he becomes their greatest threat. But now Vincent has met others who believe, including millionaire Edgar Scoville.
Author
Series
Desperate duchesses by the numbers volume 3
Publisher
AvonBooks, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Highly sought for her premiere governesses, witty and elusive Eugenia Snowe clashes with brilliant inventor Ward Reeve, who resorts to everything including kidnapping to claim her heart.
50) Badlands
Author
Publisher
Harlequin HQN
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Every day, bodyguard Owen Jackson puts his life on the line--and keeps his feelings for Penny Sandoval locked away. Assigned to protect Penny's father, a presidential candidate, Owen can't get emotionally involved. That is, until Penny and her young son, Cruz, are abducted and taken deep into the California badlands. Owen knows the bleak territory from his childhood. Worse, he knows the gang leader making ransom demands--his own brother, Shane. When...
51) The treatment
Author
Series
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"In a quiet residential area in London, a couple is discovered bound and imprisoned in their own home. Savagely battered and severely dehydrated, the worst revelation is yet to come: their eight-year-old son has been abducted. But when the body is found and forensic evidence turns the case on its head, revealing disturbing parallels to events in Detective Caffery's own past, he realizes he's dealing with much more sinister forces than he'd anticipated—and...
52) The power couple
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"When their college-aged daughter is abducted on a European family vacation, Brian and Rebecca Unsworth--both U.S. intelligence staffers--race to find the kidnappers and keep their fragile marriage intact"--
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
“It is no accident that the places in the world where we see the most instability are those in which the rights of women and girls are denied. Isha Sesays indispensable and gripping account of the brutal abduction of Nigerian schoolgirls by Boko Haram terrorists provides a stark reminder of the great unfinished business of the 21st century: equality for girls and women around the world.” Hillary Rodham Clinton. The first definitive account of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Bears in space! The bears from Breaking News: Bear Alert and Bears to the Rescue are back, and this time they're extraterrestrial. When a UFO beams up Baby Bear and abducts the family, the human world goes crazy. Hilarity and chaos ensue as scouts, scientists, street vendors, and the mayor try to put their own spin on the story. Intrepid but bumbling reporter Chad Newsworthy covers it all, searching for the truth: Why did aliens snatch up these animals?...
55) Shiver
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
That night, Samantha Jones was doing what she always did: just trying to get by. Left to make her own way on the mean streets of East St. Louis, the pretty twenty-three-year-old single mother supported herself and her son as best she could by repo-ing cars. When she hooked her junker of a tow truck up to the BMW she'd been sent to haul in, the last thing she expected was to find a beaten, bloody man in the trunk--or to be catapulted into a terrifying...
56) Alien hunter
Author
Series
Alien hunter volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When police detective Flynn Carroll's young wife vanishes in the middle of the night, his investigation reveals a string of similar disappearances and draws the attention of Special Agent Diana Glass, a member of the most secret police unit on the planet.
Author
Publisher
High Road Books, an imprint of the University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The Believer is the weird and chilling true story of Dr. John Mack. This eminent Harvard psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer risked his career to investigate the phenomenon of human encounters with aliens and to give credibility to the stupefying tales shared by people who were utterly convinced they had happened. Nothing in Mack's four decades of psychiatry had prepared him for the otherworldly accounts of those who reported being...
Author
Series
Adventures of Arnie the doughnut volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Arnie is shocked when he hears his neighbor Loretta Schmoretta tell news reporters that she was the victim of an alien abduction. And not just any aliens--alien doughnuts from outer spastry. Will Arnie be abducted? Will alien doughnuts take over the earth? What or who is at the heart of this "who-donut" mystery?
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In this gritty, riveting new novel, Detroit reporter Julia Gooden tracks down a serial killeronly to realize she has become his obsession . . . Crime writer Julia Gooden has just completed the most important story of her lifea book about her beloved brothers childhood abduction and how she found his killer after thirty years. But that hasnt taken her focus off her day jobespecially with what looks to be a serial killer terrorizing the city. Female...
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