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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...

When friends Lamar and Lexie are abducted by an alien that confuses them for chickens, the two prove that they are human by solving a tricky math problem. "Best friends Lexie and Lamar love math--and in this first book in the Alien Math series, their skills come in handy when they're abducted by a six-legged extraterrestrial named Fooz. Then they find themselves trapped on an alien planet! They'll need to solve problems that require finding patterns,...

Charlie Wilde's dad has been abducted by masked figures who might not even be completely human. And it will take more than her incredible bracelet--which gives her powers from the animal kingdom--to rescue him. Luckily, Charlie's friends now have bracelets of their own with all-new abilities ... they just have to work through a few issues first. Maria's device has hair-raising side effects. Mac can't wait to hack into his. And their frenemy, Kelly,...

After years on the run, sixteen-year-old Phoenix and mom Nina travel back to Nina's hometown to get revenge on the man she says ruined her life.

"In A Moonless, Starless Sky, Okeowo weaves together four narratives that form a powerful tapestry of modern Africa: a young couple, kidnap victims of Joseph Kony's LRA; a Mauritanian waging a lonely campaign against modern-day slavery; a women's basketball team flourishing amid war-torn Somalia; and a vigilante who takes up arms against the extremist group Boko Haram. This debut book by one of America's most acclaimed young journalists illuminates...

"French Investigator Elise Wassermann (Clemence Poesy, Birdsong) and British Detective Karl Roebuck (Stephen Dillane, Game of Thrones) are reunited again to solve a thrilling new case. A couple are abducted from the Channel Tunnel, leaving their traumatized young daughter behind, but the detectives find themselves with bigger questions to answer after a plane carrying British and French passengers crashes into the Channel, killing everyone on board."--...

Investigates several well-known accounts of alien abduction as well as theories aimed at explaining why such reports cannot be true.

When thirteen-year-old Adriana is kidnapped by sex traffickers in Mexico City, her seventeen-year-old brother Jorge sets off on a desperate mission to save her. A thrilling story of courage and a devastating exposure of one of the world's most heinous crimes. When 13-year-old Adriana is kidnapped by sex traffickers in Mexico, her 17-year-old brother, Jorge, sets off on a desperate mission to save her. As Jorge dodges overwhelming obstacles to track...

"From the author of the Pearls Before Swine comic strip and New York Times bestselling Timmy Failure series comes the second book in a laugh-out-loud, heartwarming, full-color graphic novel series about a quirky town—perfect for readers of all ages, and just right for young readers starting to read longer books! Just when you thought things could not get any wackier in Trubble Town, the adult residents are abducted by aliens, leaving the town in...