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"Running a small-town police force in the mountains of New Mexico should be a smooth, carefree kind of job. Sadly, full-time Sheriff--and even fuller-time coffee guzzler--Sunshine Vicram, didn't get that memo. All Sunshine really wants is one easy-going day. You know, the kind that starts with coffee and a donut (or three) and ends with take-out pizza and a glass of chardonnay (or seven). Turns out, that's about as easy as switching to decaf. (What...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"What happens to the girl left behind? When a masked man with a gun enters a sandwich shop in broad daylight, Meredith Oliver suddenly finds herself ordered to the filthy floor, cowering face-to-face with her nemesis, Lisa Bellow, the most popular girl in her eighth grade class. Lying there, Meredith is utterly convinced she is going to die. Then the man orders Lisa Bellow to stand and come with him, leaving Meredith the girl left behind. As the community...
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English
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Smoke Jensen has seen the worst that men can do on the lawless frontier. But even the mountain man isn't prepared for the outlaws that strike Smoke's ranch, kidnapping Sally and the daughter of Smoke's neighbor. Now the women are gone and a ranch hand and his child are dead. Outlaw Reece Van Arndt the mastermind behind the attack. He thinks he has Smoke where he wants him and tries to cut a deal. What Van Arndt doesn't know is how far Smoke will go...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
HL 600L
Physical Desc
215 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After something strange happens during a camping trip, twelve-year-old alien-obsessed Simon suspects he has been abducted, but was it real or just his overactive imagination?
25) Witch & wizard
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Series
Pub. Date
2009
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
When a dystopian government controls every aspect of society, siblings Wisty and Whit Allgood may be the world's only hope in this magical beginning of James Patterson's Witch & Wizard series.
The world is changing: the government has seized control of every aspect of society, and now, kids are disappearing. For 15-year-old Wisty and her older brother Whit, life turns upside down when they are torn from their parents...
The world is changing: the government has seized control of every aspect of society, and now, kids are disappearing. For 15-year-old Wisty and her older brother Whit, life turns upside down when they are torn from their parents...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When Justin and Libby Denbe, along with their beautiful 15-year-old daughter, disappear, investigator Tessa Leone must race against time to expose the Denbes' darkest secrets to discover who would want to kidnap such a perfect little family and just how far they are willing to go.
27) Shiver
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
That night, Samantha Jones was doing what she always did: just trying to get by. Left to make her own way on the mean streets of East St. Louis, the pretty twenty-three-year-old single mother supported herself and her son as best she could by repo-ing cars. When she hooked her junker of a tow truck up to the BMW she'd been sent to haul in, the last thing she expected was to find a beaten, bloody man in the trunk--or to be catapulted into a terrifying...
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Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Comanchero Cullen Brice has escaped from a Huntsville, Alabama, prison, where he was sentenced to hang. And he has sworn revenge against the man who killed his brother and put him behind bars, Texas Ranger Matt McCulloch. Freed from the hangman by his gang, Brice has kidnapped the lawman's daughter Cynthia along with other women and make tracks to the Texas Panhandle. Holing up in The Canyon of Weeping Women, the outlaws plan to sell their captives...
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"For the first time, James Malory and his Anderson in-laws agree on something: It's payback time for the culprit who kidnapped James and Georgina's beloved daughter Jack from her American ďbutante party and whisked her away to the Caribbean, no matter that she escaped unscathed. James figured out who masterminded the dastardly plot and is leading a fleet of ships to the West Indies to deliver some Malory-style retribution. More interested in revenge...
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English
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Carly Linton is newly divorced and ready to make a new life for herself running a bed and breakfast in her old hometown of Benton, Georgia. Her plans are interrupted when a dead body is unearthed on her property and her path crosses with an old high school fling who is now the town sheriff.
Author
Series
Malory novel volume 12
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Pocket Books paperback edition.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For the first time, James Malory and his Anderson in-laws agree on something: It's payback time for the culprit who kidnapped James and Georgina's beloved daughter Jack from her American debutante party and whisked her away to the Caribbean, no matter that she escaped unscathed. James figured out who masterminded the dastardly plot and is leading a fleet of ships to the West Indies to deliver some Malory-style retribution. More interested in revenge...
Author
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
431 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The son of a wealthy plantation owner and a doting mother, Augustus Mungo St John is accustomed to the wealth and luxuries his privilege has afforded him. That is until he returns from university to discover his family ruined, his inheritance stolen and his childhood sweetheart, Camilla, taken by the conniving Chester Marion. Fuelled by anger, and love, Mungo swears vengeance and devotes his life to saving Camilla--and destroying Chester. Camilla,...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"When misguided teenagers Jesse Crawford and Jenny Wheeler are forced to rob Emmett Brown to escape impossible circumstances, what starts as a home invasion quickly turns into a nightmare for the teens. What Jesse and Jenny don't know is that although Emmett is now old, severely obese, and in chronic pain, Emmett was responsible for the kidnapping and deaths of two young women almost twenty years ago, crimes that have never been solved. So Emmett...
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A woman--abducted and found in the trunk of a car after a high-speed chase--regains consciousness in the ICU to reveal two crucial pieces of information: the man who kidnapped her is not the same as the man who left her in the woods, and she's not the first victim--in fact, she is number eight. Magnus 'Steps' Craig is part of the elite three-man Special Tracking Unit of the FBI. Known for his ability to find and follow trails over any surface, Steps...
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Series
Publisher
Love Inspired Suspense
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"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?" -- Page [4] cover.
37) Code of the west
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English
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"Hot-blooded Georgiana Stockwell will break a man's heart while he's eating out of her hand. Moving from the East to join her schoolteacher sister in the rugged wilds of Tonto Basin, Arizona, Georgiana makes quite an impression. Despite her sister's best efforts, Georgiana creates a culture clash as her modern, free-spirited personality comes up against the code of the West, the unwritten law of the range that everyone is expected to follow. Georgiana's...
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English
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"New York, 2061: The place called the Pleasure Academy is a living nightmare where abducted girls are trapped, trained for a life of abject service while their souls are slowly but surely destroyed. Dorian, a thirteen-year-old runaway who'd been imprisoned there, might never have made it out if not for her fellow inmate Mina, who'd hatched the escape plan. Mina was the more daring of the two--but they'd been equally desperate. Unfortunately, they...
39) Dash of peril
Author
Publisher
Harlequin HQN
Pub. Date
[2014].
Physical Desc
475 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
A no-nonsense female cop reluctantly teams up with the one man who makes her lose control in a deliciously sensual new novel from New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster To bring down a sleazy abduction ring, Lieutenant Margaret "Margo" Peterson has set herself up as bait. But recruiting Dashiel Riske as her unofficial partner is a whole other kind of danger. Dash is six feet four inches of laid-back masculine charm, a man who loves life, and...