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Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A girl vanishes 'on a sunny, late-summer vacation morning' and thus begins a 'family's harrowing journey down increasingly divergent and solitary paths, until all that continues to bind them to each other are the questions they can never bring themselves to ask: At what point does a family stop searching? At what point does a girl stop fighting for her life?'"--
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chew on this, says Melrose Plant to Richard Jury, who's in the hospital being driven crazy by Hannibal, a nurse who likes to speculate on his chances for survival. Jury could use a good story, preferably one not ending with his own demise. Plant tells Jury of something he overheard in The Grave Maurice, a pub near the hospital. A woman told an intriguing story about a girl named Nell Ryder, granddaughter to the owner of the Ryder Stud Farm in Cambridgeshire,...
Author
Series
Golden city novels volume 1
Publisher
Roc
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...
Author
Series
Ladies of Lantern Street novel volume 3
Language
English
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Description
On a London street in broad daylight, world traveler Amity Doncaster is trapped in a carriage with a blade-wielding man in a black silk mask who whispers the most vile taunts and threats into her ear. Thanks to quick thinking and her secret weapon, Amity escapes with her life. But the monster known as the Bridegroom, who has left a trail of female victims in his wake, has survived the wounds she inflicted and will soon be on his feet again.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Directed by Enzo G. Castellari (The inglorious bastards), Cold eyes of fear is a stylish giallo in the form of a home invasion thriller, laced with hallucinatory imagery and backed with an edgy score by legendary composer Ennio Morricone. An ex-con abducts the nephew of the judge who put him behind bars, and holds the nephew and his beautiful companion (Giovanna Ralli) hostage in their home. But the criminal's carefully-planned revenge runs off the...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Language
English
Description
When aliens arrive, what will you choose? Beamed Up: Decide Your Destiny lets you get cozy in close encounters with interstellar travelers when aliens touch down in a field in Texas. What would first contact look like if you were in charge? You control the story - and the fate of the planet - as you probe 35 different scenarios and 140+ unique endings. Flee in terror, welcome your new overlords, or boldly go anywhere you like in this funny, scary,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
Français
Description
Jean-Claude (Gerard Depardieu, in the role that made him an overnightstar) and Pierrot (Patrick Dewaere) are two crude drifters who travel theFrench countryside in pursuit of petty crimes and wanton sex. But when their abduction of a frigid young beautician (Miou-Miou) becomes an exercisein frustration, they find sordid solace in a sex-starved ex-convict (the legendary Jeanne Moreau). Can two lovable but amoral brutes survive anincreasingly strange...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Deeper Than the Dead introduced Tami Hoag's millions of fans to Oak Knoll, a small California town that, in the mid-eighties, seemed as idyllic as any . . . until the See-No-Evil killer shattered that notion. It took FBI agent Vince Leone and a new technique called "profiling" to put an end to the trauma. Secrets to the Grave brought Leone's teacher-turned-child- advocate wife, Anne, into a central role. Together with Vince and local sheriff 's deputy...
Publisher
Lifetime
Language
English
Description
At the urging of her mother Belzora, Tiffany seeks the counsel of Mark Miller and his charitable organization, the American Association for Lost Children. With Mark's help, Tiffany is able to travel to Korea to execute a high-stakes plan to bring home her six-year-old son, who was abducted by his biological father.
Publisher
IFC Films
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
While high up in the mountains, a group of climbers finds an eight-year-old girl who is terrified, dehydrated, and unable to speak a word of English. Alison, the leader of the group, convinces the others to help her rescue the girl. But when they attempt to bring her to safety they become involved in a kidnapping plot and soon must fight for their lives.
12) Blind tiger
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Thatcher Hutton, a war-weary soldier on the way back to his cowboy life, jumps from a moving freight train to avoid trouble . . . and lands in more than he bargained for"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hidden: "After being rejected by the Navy SEALS, Mitchum becomes his small town's unofficial private eye. But his investigation skills are put to the test when he searches for his missing teenage cousin - and uncovers a government conspiracy in the process"--Provided by publisher.
Malevolent: "Mitchum has never been more desperate. One by one, his loved ones have become victims of carefully staged attacks. There's only one way to stop the ruthless...
14) The valiant
Author
Series
Valiant volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The daughter of a proud Celtic king is captured and sold to a training school for women gladiators under the patronage of Julius Caesar, circumstances that put her survival in the hands of an enemy who was responsible for her sister's death.
15) Aftermath
Author
Publisher
Merit Press, F+W Media
Language
English
Description
Four years after being kidnapped, sixteen-year-old Charlotte returns home to find her family ripped apart, but before she can try to reunite them, or help find the body of her captor's first victim, she must come to terms with her past.
16) Whirlwind
Author
Series
Dreamhouse Kings volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
They've been to three worlds in less than a day. Time isn't just running out... it's running wild. David King is reeling from his travels through history-and the evil he's found there. The last thing he needs is his great-great-uncle Jesse's hospital-bed instructions: You can't simply do nothing. You must fix things. David and his brother Xander's search for their abducted mother has repeatedly led them on strange and terrifying journeys as they've...
17) Caught
Author
Language
English
Description
Dan Mercer stands accused of being a sexual predator thanks to the ambush journalism of Wendy Tynes, a tabloid TV reporter, who must cope with her husband's death caused by a drunken driver as well as reckon with the possibility of Mercer's innocence. When Tynes finds a link between a father of one of Mercer's alleged victims and others felled by scandal, she could become a killer's next victim.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
Description
"Se7en meets The Silence of the Lambs in this dark and twisting novel from the author Jeffery Deaver called, "A talented writer with a delightfully devious mind." For over five years, the Four Monkey Killer has terrorized the residents of Chicago. When his body is found, the police quickly realize he was on his way to deliver one final message, one which proves he has taken another victim who may still be alive. As the lead investigator on the 4MK...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Educated and The Glass Castle, a harrowing, redemptive and profoundly inspiring memoir of childhood trauma and its long reach into adulthood. One Omaha winter day in November 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knifepoint from a church parking lot. She was thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and then left to die as an ice storm descended over the city. Debora survived. She identified her attacker...
20) In her tracks
Author
Series
Tracy Crosswhite novels volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Returning from an extended leave in her hometown of Cedar Grove, Detective Tracy Crosswhite finds herself reassigned to the Seattle PD's cold case unit. As the protective mother of an infant daughter, Tracy is immediately drawn to her first file: the abduction of a five-year-old girl whose parents, embattled in a poisonous divorce, were once prime suspects. While reconstructing the days leading up to the girl's disappearance, Tracy is brought into...
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