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Now a major motion picture: A boy's abduction reawakens a haunted past for British detective Jack Caffery.
In a quiet residential area in London, a couple is discovered bound and imprisoned in their own home. Savagely battered and severely dehydrated, the worst revelation is yet to come: Their eight-year-old son has been abducted.
When the boy's body is found, forensic evidence reveals disturbing parallels to events in Det. Jack Caffery's own...
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Oliver Goldsmith's hugely successful novel of 1766 remained for generations one of the most highly regarded and beloved works of eighteenth-century fiction. It depicts the fall and rise of the Primrose family, presided over by the benevolent vicar, the narrator of a fairy-tale plot of impersonation and deception, the abduction of a beautiful heroine and the machinations of an aristocratic villain. By turns comic and sentimental, the novel's popularity...
11) Guilty as sin
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1996
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English
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Attorney Ellen North prepares for the case of her career when she is assigned to prosecute the man charged with kidnapping a young boy, but there are still many questions to be answered and Ellen is plagued by the sure knowledge that her prime suspect was not working alone.
12) Shiver
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Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Samantha Jones finds a nearly dead man in the trunk of a car that she had been hired to reposes. The man who she saved then takes her as a hostage and forces her to help protect him from the ruthless killers.
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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Divorce solution It wasn't that Nicky hadn't loved her husband--quite the opposite. By leaving, Nicky had hoped to provoke some kind of reaction. Blake Chandler was the strong and silent type. He didn't show much emotion behind those impassive gray eyes. Of course, Nicky's plan had misfired--Blake had been only too happy to sign the divorce papers. Now, four years later, Nicky is abducted by her ex, and this time Blake is far from silent about his...
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Their only job is to keep a baby safe,
no matter what…
After the attempted abduction of a newborn baby girl from the NICU, US marshal Grayson Thorpe must move fast. He can't let a vicious criminal kingpin get to the child—even if she is the man’s daughter. Now Grayson and pediatric nurse Lauren Beck are risking their lives for the tiny innocent. But will it be enough to withstand one of the country's most dangerous criminals?
From Love Inspired...
15) Little green men
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Random House
Pub. Date
c1999
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English
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Washington talk-show host Oliver Banion, having been abducted twice by aliens, believes he has been chosen to lead the campaign to force the government to seriously investigate UFOs, but Oliver's friends and family, thinking he is having a mid-life crisis, try to force him to choose between his establishment status and his new-found mission.
16) Caught
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Reporter Wendy Tynes has made it her mission to bring down sexual prediators on national television, but she begins to doubt her instincts after exposing social worker Dan Mercer until she discovers a link between Mercer and Haley McWaid, a seventeen-year-old girl from suburban New Jersey who has been missing for three months.
17) Cold Case Trail
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Following the clues
could be the last thing they do…
Temporarily working in the cold case division was supposed to mean less danger for state trooper Trey Jackson and his injured K-9 partner, Magnum—until they thwart an abduction. Now he must protect profiler Justine Stark, even as she blames him for her friend’s death ten years ago. Can he right past wrongs by finally solving the murder…and making sure Justine lives to find closure?
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It was 1970 when thirteen-year-old runaway Kit Walker was abducted by Manny Romero, a smooth-talking, low-level criminal, who first coddled her and then groomed her into his partner-in-crime. Before long, Kit and Manny were infamous for their string of gas station robberies throughout Texas, making a name for themselves as the Texaco Twosome. Fourteen years later, Kit has scraped together a life for herself and her daughter amongst the pecan trees...
19) Descent: a novel
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English
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"Descent, the story of a family undone by the disappearance of a daughter who went out for a morning run and didn't come back, marks the adult fiction debut of a remarkable young writer. Stunning in its emotional impact, Descent is a compulsively readable page-turner with a strong literary sensibility. The girl's vanishing--on a sunny, late-summer vacation morning--all the more devastating for its mystery, is the beginning the family's harrowing journey...
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Adventures of Arnie the Doughnut volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014
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IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Arnie is shocked when he hears his neighbor Loretta Schmoretta tell news reporters that she was the victim of an alien abduction. And not just any aliens--alien doughnuts from outer spastry. Arnie thinks this is a ridiculous story, that is, until he gets abducted. Arnie must think fast in order to rescue his fellow doughnuts and the townspeople from the alien invaders"--
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