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41) The hostage
Author
Series
Presidential Agent novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
W. E. B. Griffin’s #1 New York Times bestselling series finds Presidential Agent Charley Castillo in the middle of an investigation into kidnapping, assassination, and even political scandal in this action-packed thriller.
U.S. Army Special Forces Major Charley Castillo is tasked with a discreet mission by the President himself: to investigate the death of an American diplomat in Argentina and the kidnapping of...
U.S. Army Special Forces Major Charley Castillo is tasked with a discreet mission by the President himself: to investigate the death of an American diplomat in Argentina and the kidnapping of...
42) Room
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After five-year old Jack and his Mom escape from the enclosed environment that Jack has known his entire life, the boy makes a miraculous discovery: the outside world.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed by Gina DeJesus in 2004. Their escape on May 6, 2013, made headlines around the world. Barely out of her own tumultuous childhood, Michelle was estranged from her family and fighting for custody...
44) Tear me apart
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Language
English
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Description
The follow-up to her critically acclaimed Lie to Me, J.T. Ellisons Tear Me Apart is the powerful story of a mother willing to do anything to protect her daughter even as their carefully constructed world unravels around them. One moment will change their lives forever Competitive skier Mindy Wright is a superstar in the making until a spectacular downhill crash threatens not just her racing career but her life. During surgery, doctors discover shes...
45) Hush
Author
Series
Lodestone trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When he and his brother Gideon are kidnapped in Venezuela, thrill seeker Zak Stark unlocks a baffling new sixth sense after a death-defying escape separates them both. And he must use this new skill to find his missing brother.
46) The royals
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
When a duke's daughter is kidnapped in London, private investigator Jack Morgan and his team have twenty-four hours to find her before she is executed in front of the Queen.
47) Sheik
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Taken prisoner by Sheik Jamal abd Thabit during a raid, Princess Zara was determined not to succumb to his wishes. Jamal struck a deal: if he couldn't seduce her within four weeks, he would set her free.
48) Gringo
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
While in Mexico, mild mannered businessman Harold Soyinka finds himself at the mercy of his back-stabbing business colleagues, local drug lords, and a morally conflicted black-ops mercenary. Crossing the line from law-abiding citizen to wanted criminal, Harold battles to survive his increasingly dangerous situation.
Author
Series
Reeve LeClaire novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Reeve LeClaire is a college student, dammit, not Daryl Wayne Flint's victim. Not anymore-not when Reeve is finally recovering a life of her own after four years of captivity. Flint is safely locked up in Olshaker Psychiatric Hospital, where he belongs. He is walking the grounds of the forensic unit, performing his strange but apparently harmless rituals. It seems that he is still suffering the effects of the head injury he suffered in the car crash...
50) Fatal strike
Author
Series
McCloud brothers volume 10
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Lara Kirk lives in a shadowy world where reality and fantasy are one. Her captors have poisoned her body with concoctions that enhance psychic abilities and they seem to be working. To escape, Lara has formed a deep attachment with a man whose virile, sensual presence in her mind is her only comfort. She's not even sure if he's real until the six-foot-five-inch powerhouse bursts in to rescue her. Once freed, Lara has no choice but to trust Miles...
Author
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The author recounts how after fifty years he discovered that the mother that he was given to in the mistaken belief that he was her kidnapped son was not his real mother and describes his search for his identity and the whereabouts of the mother's original kidnapped child.
54) Shoot to thrill
Author
Series
Passion for danger volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"A disillusioned black-ops hero is kidnapped by his ruthless former employers and forced to go on a suicide mission back to the scene of his worst betrayal--but an innocent woman is caught in the trap and sent with him, forcing him to choose: her life, or his vengeance. KYLE 'KICK' JACKSON is a bona fide bad-ass. The product of a rough childhood and a youth spent proving how tough he was, Kick was the perfect CIA black-ops operative. Right up until...
Author
Series
Vanessa Michael Munroe novels volume 2
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Eight years ago, a man walked five-year-old Hannah out the front doors of her school and spirited her over the Mexican border, taking her into the world of a cult known as The Chosen. For eight years, followers of The Prophet have hidden the child, moving her from country to country, shielding the man who stole her. Now, those who've searched the longest know where to find her. They are childhood survivors of The Chosen, thirty-somethings born and...
57) A mankind witch
Author
Series
Heirs of Alexandria volume 3
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Author
Series
Moon chasers volume 3
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Imprisoned and tortured by a lycan pack, half-breed Sebastian Santiago is determined not to break. But now they've come up with a cruel plan--starve Sebastian until he is half-mad with hunger, then force him to succumb to his werewolf instincts by giving him human prey to feed on. Snatched from the streets of Istanbul, American tourist Ruby Deveraux has already seen the horror of her companions torn apart. Now she is thrown into a dark cell with...
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...
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