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Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Language
English
Description
The never-before-told story of Laura Ling's capture by the North Koreans and the role her sister played in bringing about her rescue by President Bill Clinton. A piercing look inside the world's most secretive nation as well as a moving tale of sisterhood and love.
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Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin -- one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world. As she dwells on his estate, her feelings for Tamlin transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In "Out of Captivity," Gonsalves, Stansell, and Howes recount for the first time their amazing tale of survival, friendship, and, ultimately, rescue, tracing their five and a half years as hostages of the FARC--a Colombian terrorist and Marxist rebel organization.
5) Above
Author
Language
English
Description
I am a secret no one is able to tell. Blythe Hallowell is sixteen when she is abducted by a survivalist and locked away in an abandoned missile silo in Eudora, Kansas. At first, she focuses frantically on finding a way out, until the harrowing truth of her new existence settles inthe crushing loneliness, the terrifying madness of a captor who believes he is saving her from the end of the world, and the persistent temptation to give up. But nothing...
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Series
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Edition
Book club ed.
Language
English
Description
Tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America. Orphaned when her family was brutally killed by Yavapai Indians, Oatman lived as a slave to her captors for a year before being traded to the Mohave, who tattooed her face and raised her as their own. She was fully assimilated and perfectly happy when, at nineteen, she was ransomed back to white society.
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Edition
Special movie edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1755, in the Blue Mountains of Pennsylvania, sisters Barbara and Regina Leininger are carried away from their family by Allegheny warriors, but hold onto their faith in God and belief that they will one day be reunited.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In 1948, Sally Horner was just eleven years old when she was kidnapped by a man claiming to be an FBI agent. Seven years later, Vladimir Nabokov published Lolita, perhaps the most seminal novel of the twentieth century. Sarah Weinman's investigation into how the two are connected is a thrilling, heartbreaking mix of literary scholarship and true-crime writing."--back cover.
10) Alive
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Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A young woman awakes trapped in an enclosed space. She has no idea who she is or how she got there. With only her instincts to guide her, she escapes her own confinement -- and finds she's not alone. She frees the others in the room and leads them into a corridor filled with the remains of a war long past. The farther these survivors travel, the worse are the horrors they confront. And as they slowly come to understand what this prison is, they realize...
Author
Series
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Edition
First Grove Atlantic edition.
Language
English
Description
"On a deserted road in Calabria, Greek aid worker Anastasia Cristakos is driving alone to visit one of the new refugee centers funded by billionaire Denis Hisami, whom she has recently married. She slows down to greet two African migrants she recognizes. Too late she realizes they are not her friends. This is an ambush. She manages a desperate phone call to Hisami before her Mafia kidnappers silence her with a powerful drug. Hours later she wakes...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Language
עברית
Description
Arnav is a graffiti artist and bartender, who lives near the Old City of Jerusalem. Wearing a mask, he paints walls at night and hopes that Vax, his former girlfriend, will come back to him. But when Arnav sees a mysterious stranger forced into an abandoned apartment, he becomes involved with a hard-boiled investigator and the mysterious captive himself.
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Edition
North American edition.
Language
English
Description
After being banished to the island of St. Helena, Napoleon Bonaparte learns about Gracie, a compassionate, eleven-year-old island resident, whose life is forever altered for the better by the ruler's unexpected concern for her well-being.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
In February 1865, the end was clearly in sight for the Confederate government. Lee's defeat at Gettysburg had dashed the hopes of the Confederate army, and Grant's victory at Vicksburg had cut the South in two. An Honorable Defeat is the story of the four months that saw the surrender of the South and the assassination of Lincoln by Southern partisans. It is also the story of two men, antagonists yet political partners, who struggled during this time...
16) The wall
Publisher
Music Box Films
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A woman inexplicably finds herself cut off from the rest of the world when an invisible, unyielding wall suddenly surrounds the Austrian countryside around the lodge in which she was staying. Assuming some cataclysmic event has killed everyone outside the wall, she is forced to find a way to survive alone with only her dog Lynx, a cat and a cow. When a lone man finally appears and kills her dog for no apparent reason, she is forced to kill him, perhaps...
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
This LIFETIME film chronicles the true story of the June 2002 abduction of 14-year-old Elizabeth Ann Smart from her home in Salt Lake City by religious fanatic Brian David Mitchel. Over the course of her nine-month captivity, Elizabeth was starved, drugged, raped, and subjected to biz
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Language
English
Description
"May 1945. Hitler is dead, and the Third Reich little more than smoking rubble. No GI wants to be the last man killed in action against the Nazis. But for cigar-chewing, rough-talking, hard-drinking, hard-charging Captain Jack Lee and his men, there is one more mission: rescue fourteen prominent French prisoners held in an SS-guarded castle high in the Austrian Alps. It's a dangerous mission, but Lee has help from a decorated German Wehrmacht officer...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Language
English
Description
"In this companion to the series, Feyre, Tamlin, Rhysand, and all of the characters fall in love, wage war, and explore the haunting and deadly world of the Fae while they navigate the lush beauty of the Spring Court and the vibrancy of the Night Court"--Page 4 of the cover.
Author
Series
Corte de rosas y espinas volume 1
Publisher
Crossbooks
Edition
1 ed.
Language
Español
Description
Feyre, una cazadora de diecinueve años, mata a un lobo en el bosque. Como consecuencia, una criatura monstruosa llega buscando venganza y la arrastra a una tierra encantada que solo conoce a través de las leyendas. Allí descubre que su captor no es un animal, sino Tamlin, uno de los letales fae. En su cautiverio, se dará cuenta de que lo que siente por él pasa de la fría hostilidad a una pasión que arderá a pesar de las advertencias que ha...
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