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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...
62) A reason to kill
Author
Series
Jack Widow volume 3
Publisher
Black Lion Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Drifting along a sweltering Texas landscape, Jack Widow waits at a dusty bus station, when he meets Claire Hood, a grandmother, clearly in distress. Turns out, Claire is on a solo mission to rescue her abducted granddaughter. If that wasn't enough, the next thing that happens is unthinkable. Claire drops dead -- natural causes. Right there. Widow isn't the kind of guy to let wrongs go. He picks up her bus ticket and takes her place on a quest that...
Author
Series
Alien math volume 1
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
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,...
64) Alien abductions
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Author
Series
Going wild volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
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,...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Kit Philipson has always felt like stranger in his family. An only child in Glasgow, Scotland, his mother was a teacher; his father, a journalist, escaped from Nazi Germany at the age of three on one of the 1939 Kindertransports. On her deathbed, Kit's mother tells him he was adopted and his birth name was Novello. A search of old newspaper files reveals that a three-year-old boy named Peter Novello was abducted from his parents' holiday hotel in...
68) The taking
Author
Series
The Taking (Kimberly Derting) volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"The last thing Kyra Agnew remembers is a flash of bright light. She awakes to discover that five whole years have passed. Everyone in her life has moved on—her parents divorced, her boyfriend is in college and dating her best friend—but Kyra's still the sixteen-year-old she was when she vanished. She finds herself drawn to Tyler, her boyfriend's kid brother, despite her best efforts to ignore her growing attraction. In order to find...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
The royal trilogy volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Handsome Prince Nicholas of Petersbourg is an infamous ladies' man, but even he doesn't expect a flirtation at a masquerade ball to turn into abduction. Especially with a jailor as temptingly beautiful as the young woman on the other side of the locked door... Veronique Montagne was desperate when she agreed to kidnap a prince to settle her profligate father's gambling debts, and certainly didn't imagine that her prisoner might sweet-talk her into...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"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."--...
72) No digas nada
Author
Publisher
Reservoir Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Appears on list
Description
Documents the notorious abduction and murder of Jean McConville in 1972 Belfast, exploring how the case reflected the brutal conflicts of Northern Ireland and their ongoing repercussions.
73) Aliens
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Investigates several well-known accounts of alien abduction as well as theories aimed at explaining why such reports cannot be true.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Artemisia (Sia) Martinez's mother was deported to Mexico by ICE and disappeared in the Sonoran Desert trying to make it back to her American family; Sia believes that she was as-good-as murdered by ICE and the sheriff in their small Arizona town on the edge of the national park, and wants revenge against him and his son, Jeremy--but her search for the truth will uncover many more secrets than she counted on.
75) Trade
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Trubble town volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"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...
78) The fourth kind
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A psychotherapist investigates an ongoing series of mysterious disappearances in the town of Nome, Alaska, in which her patients appear to be the victims of alien abduction.
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