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141) The longest silence
Author
Series
Shades of death volume 4
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Joanna Guthrie was free. She had been for eighteen years--or so she needed everyone to believe. What really happened during the longest fourteen days of her life, when she and two other women were held captive by a dangerous serial killer, wasn't something she could talk about. Not with him watching. Not unless she wanted to end up like the ones who didn't make it out. But when more women go missing in an eerily similar manner, Jo knows her prolonged...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
320 p. ; cm.
Language
English
Description
An account of the aid worker co-author's dramatic January 2012 rescue from kidnappers in Somalia by members of a Navy SEAL Team Six unit offers insight into the effective use of targeted U.S. military missions.
143) Defiance
Author
Series
Navy justice series volume 3
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The murder of an international attorney, the posturing of a power-hungry politician, the schemes of a psychotic stalker, and the high-stakes drama of a daring rescue mission: Navy JAG Lieutenant Commander Zack Brewer is in the spotlight and the danger zone.
144) Standing still
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Atria hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
263 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped by an intruder, Claire, a sufferer of acute panic disorder, finds herself imprisoned in a hotel with her abductor as her only companion, a trauma that forces her to reevaluate her life and threatens to shatter her sense of sanity.
Author
Publisher
Dey Street Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
382 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, portraits, photographs ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the early morning of April 14, 2014, the militant Islamic group Boko Haram violently burst into the small town of Chibok, Nigeria, and abducted 276 girls from their school dorm rooms. From poor families, these girls were determined to make better lives for themselves, but pursuing an education made them targets, resulting in one of the most high-profile abductions in modern history. While the Chibok kidnapping made international headlines, and...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
p2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Now much older, fifteen-year-old Ben Tennyson faces the wrath of the DNAliens, who have captured his Grandpa Max and are scheming a full-scale infiltration of Earth and the universe.
147) North by Northwest
Language
English
Description
Roger Thornhill is a New York advertising executive who is kidnapped by a gang of spies led by Philip Vandamm, who believes Thornhill is CIA agent George Kaplan. Thornhill escapes, but must find Kaplan in order to clear himself of a murder that Kaplan is accused of committing. Following Kaplan to Chicago as a fugitive from justice, Thornhill is helped by beautiful Eve Kendall. In Chicago, she delivers a message to Kaplan that almost costs Thornhill...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Shane McCrae was three years old, his grandparents kidnapped him and took him to suburban Texas. His mom was white and his dad was Black, and to hide his Blackness from him, his maternal grandparents stole him from his father. In the years that followed, they manipulated and controlled him, refusing to acknowledge his heritage—all the while believing they were doing what was best for him. For their own safety and to ensure the kidnapping remained...
149) El infierno tan temido: el secuestro en México : testimonios de sobrevivientes y secuestradores
Author
Publisher
Aguilar
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
293 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
El libro ofrece una contraparte no menos amarga con la voz de las víctimas para develar cómo fue su día a día durante el secuestro, qué secuelas físicas y mentales quedaron en su vida, cómo fue la relación con sus captores y cómo reaccionaron ante las torturas y violaciones, entre muchas otras confesiones estremecedoras. El infierno tan temido: el secuestro en México es un documento único que devela la entraña del delito, no para juzgar...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xxiii, 258 p. : ill., maps, ports., geneal. tables ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Richly evoking the volatile world of Georgian Ireland, this recounts the saga of James Annesley, the presumptive heir of five aristocratic titles and scion of the mighty house of Annesley. Kidnapped at twelve years of age by his uncle, James was shipped from Dublin to America in 1728 as an indentured servant. He finally managed to escape after thirteen years, returning to Ireland to bring his nemesis, the Earl of Anglesea, to justice in one of the...
151) Forsaken country
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Max Rupert has left his position as a Minneapolis homicide detective to live in solitude. Mourning the tragic death of his wife, he's also racked by guilt--he alone knows what happened to her killer. But then the former local sheriff, Lyle Voight, arrives with a desperate plea: Lyle's daughter Sandy and his six-year-old grandson Pip have disappeared. Lyle's certain Sandy's ex-husband Reed is behind it, but the new sheriff is refusing to investigate....
152) The first 48
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
318 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
GCP, Grand Central
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Paced like a thriller and full of insider information on the history and science of Crime Scene Investigation, In Light of All Darkness embeds readers in one of the most famous true-crime stories of our generation--the kidnapping of Polly Klaas--a case as pivotal in the history of the FBI as the Unabomber or Oklahoma City bombing. On October 1, 1993, a 12-year-old girl was kidnapped at knifepoint from her bedroom in Petaluma, California, during a...
154) Yesterday's spy
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
From British journalist and bestselling author Tom Bradby, Yesterday's Spy is a brilliantly plotted historical espionage novel about a father searching for his disappeared son against the backdrop of the 1953 coup in Tehran. London, 1953. Harry Tower is a recently widowed and world-weary British spy, out of favor and down on his luck. After a night spent drinking away his sorrows, he is awakened by a phone call with chilling news. His estranged son...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Paris, 1806. The renowned botanist Michel Adanson lies on his deathbed, the masterwork to which he dedicated his life still incomplete. As he expires, the last word to escape his lips is a woman’s name: Maram. The key to this mysterious woman’s identity is Adanson’s unpublished memoir of the years he spent in Senegal, concealed in a secret compartment in a chest of drawers. Therein lies a story as fantastical as it is tragic: Maram, it turns...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 533 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by actual events, Trust delves into the trials and triumphs of one of Americas wealthiest and unhappiest families, the Gettys. Equal parts family history, dynastic saga and an examination of the power of money, the show explores the complexities at the heart of every family, rich or poor. Told over multiple seasons and spanning the twentieth century, the series begins in 1973 with the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, an heir to the Getty...
157) Elephant white
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mercenary Curtie Church (Djimon Hounsou) is hired to take out a notorious Thai sex-trafficking gang by a father whose daughter was kidnapped and murdered by the gang. With the help of a ruthless weapons dealer (Kevin Bacon, Mystic River), he finds the men he is hired to kill. But what starts as a paying job turns into an outright war between two rival gangs and he finds himself caught between the corrupt world that surrounds him and the truth behind...
158) My mother's house
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A literary thriller about the complex underbelly of the immigrant American dream and the dangerous ripple effect one person's damages can have on the lives of others--told unexpectedly by a house that has held unspeakable horrors." -- p. 4 of Cover.
Author
Publisher
Beaufort Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
279 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Buried Memories: Katie Beers' Story is a never-before-told true story of survival, memory and recovery. Beers was a profoundly neglected and abused child even before she was kidnapped on Long Island in 1992. Abducted by a family friend, she was held captive in an underground cell for 17 days and sexually abused. With smarts and strength, she slipped the bonds of captivity and began a new life.--Publisher.
160) Ghostcloud
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing Company Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Kidnapped and forced to shovel coal underground, in a half-bombed power station, 12-year-old Luke Smith-Sharma keeps his head down and hopes he can earn his freedom from the evil Tabitha Margate. Then one day he discovers he can see things that others can’t. Ghostly things. A ghostly girl named Alma, who can bend the shape of clouds to her will and rides them through the night sky. With Alma’s help, Luke discovers his own innate powers and uncovers...
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