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61) Harbor nocturne
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
v, 320 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the southernmost Los Angeles district of San Pedro, one of the world's busiest harbors, an unlikely pair of lovers are unwittingly caught between the two warring sides of the law amid the investigation of a horrifying human-trafficking ring. When Dinko Babich, a young longshoreman, delivers Lita Medina, a young Mexican dancer, from the harbor to a Hollywood nightclub, theirs lives are forever changed as the two are caught in the crosshairs of...
62) Cold in hand
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
It's Valentine's Day, and a dispute between rival gangs leaves a teenage girl dead. Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick, nearing retirement, is hauled back to the front line to help deal with the fallout. But when the dead girl's father seeks to lay the blame on Resnick's partner, DI Lynn Kellogg, Resnick finds the line between the personal and the professional dangerously blurred. Meanwhile, the Serious and Organised Crime Agency starts to show a...
63) Priceless
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A widower who loses custody of his daughter finds himself unable to hold down a job. He agrees to drive a truck across the country, no questions asked. When he discovers what he is delivering, he is faced with a life-changing choice.
64) Disappeared
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Four months ago Sara Zapata's best friend, Linda, disappeared from the streets of Juarez, and ever since Sara has been using her job as a reporter to draw attention to the girls who have been kidnapped by the criminals who control the city, but now she and her family are being threatened--meanwhile her younger brother, Emiliano, is being lured into the narcotics business by the promise of big money, and soon the only way for both of them to escape...
65) Nothing to lose
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Lexile measure
HL 570L
Physical Desc
191 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After weeks apart Robyn is excited to hang out with Nick, but while on a trip to Chinatown she notices Nick acting suspiciously.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in container
Language
English
Description
"Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself. Over the years that follow, she is forced to keep reinventing herself to survive. From a calligraphy school, to a San Francisco brothel, to a shop tucked into the Idaho mountains,...
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lex was taken-trafficked-and now she's Poppy. Kept in a hotel with other girls, her old life is a distant memory. But when the girls are rescued, she doesn't quite know how to be Lex again. After she moves in with her aunt and uncle, for the first time in a long time, she knows what it is to feel truly safe. Except, she doesn't trust it. Doesn't trust her new home. Doesn't trust her new friend. Doesn't trust her new life. Instead she trusts what...
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
338 pages : 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Wealthy businessman Meric Toledan holds others at a distance, keeping his dark past and his secrets to himself. But when he meets Liliana Vela, a victim of human trafficking in need of asylum, he finds himself ready to protect her at all costs--including asking for her hand in marriage." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
Told in separate voices, Kat and Robin leave Boston on a church mission to help combat human trafficking in India while Kat recovers from a sexual assault and Robin seeks his birth mother.
You can't rewind life; sometimes you just have to push play. Katina King is the reigning teen jiu-jitsu champion of Northern California, but she's having trouble fighting off the secrets in her past. Robin Thornton was adopted from an orphanage in India and is...
70) The life I'm in
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 510L
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Charlese Jones, with her raw, blistering voice speaks the truths many girls face, offering insight to some of the causes and conditions that make a bully. Turned out of the only home she has known, Char boards a bus to nowhere where she is lured into the dangerous web of human trafficking. Much is revealed behind the complex system of men who take advantage of vulnerable teens in the underbelly of society. While Char might be frightened, she remains...
71) Paradise highway
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Juliette Binoche and Morgan Freeman lead this riveting thriller set in the trucking industry and its seamy underbelly of human trafficking. To save the life of her brother, Sally, a truck driver, reluctantly agrees to smuggle illicit cargo: a girl named Leila. As Sally and Leila begin a danger-fraught journey across state lines, a dogged FBI operative sets out on their trail, determined to do whatever it takes to terminate a human-trafficking operation,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1907. On the eve of her fifth birthday, Poppy Pendleton is tucked safely in her bed, listening to her parents entertain New York's gilded society in their Thousand Islands castle; the next morning, she is gone, and her father is found dead in his smoking room. 1992. Though Chloe Ridell lives in the shadows of Poppy's castle, now in ruins, she has little interest in the mystery that still captivates tourists and locals alike. She is focused on preserving...
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired Suspense
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A dangerous organization is kidnapping and trafficking newborns--and Officer Justin Leacock's nephew is their latest victim. To save the stolen baby, Justin will have to go undercover as a married couple with his former fiancée, Detective Violet Jones. Except finding the boy isn't enough. Now they must outwit the kidnappers on their tail and survive the ruthless icy wilderness, too..." -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Intrigue
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Former Delta Force soldier Parker Shaw won't be sidelined by his horrific war experiences. Now he's an Outrider security agent dedicated to safeguarding those in need. Having escaped abduction and imprisonment, Abby Gibson is hell-bent on rescuing the other captives. Trusting Parker is her only option. As they get closer to the dangerous truth, their attraction grows. Their choice may come down to saving themselves...or risking everything to save...
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired Suspense
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When domestic violence counselor Dulcie Parker uncovers evidence of a human trafficking ring in the Four Corners area, she's determined to stop it or die trying. With corruption all around her and killers on her trail, Deputy Sheriff Austin Turner's the one person she can trust. But can they work together to expose the crime ring before she becomes the next victim?" -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A Mexican girl on the run from human traffickers brings fifth-generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong to the sleepy border town where her legendary grandfather once worked, a region that hides a deadly weapon with a potential to give a new enemy the means to terrorize the United States.
77) Resolute justice
Author
Series
Harlequin intrigue volume 2054
Publisher
Harlequin Intrigue
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Between hunting human traffickers and solving her father's murder, Sheriff Cassie Reed's hands are full. So, despite her attraction to Tyler Bishop, finding his runaway missing niece isn't a priority. Besides, the charming PI's penchant for bending rules exasperates the by-the-book cop. But when a leak in her department brings Cassie under suspicion, joining forces with the tantalizing rebel is her only option." -- Page [4] cover.
78) The cellar
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2016, c2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
177 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally bestselling, award-winning crime writer Minette Walters, The Cellar is a harrowing, compulsively readable novel about a family of African immigrants, the Songolis, and the dark secret they keep hidden in the depths of their seemingly respectable British house. On the day Mr. and Mrs. Songoli's adolescent son fails to come home from school, fourteen-year-old Muna's fortunes change for the better. Until then, her bedroom was...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Intrigue
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's been eight years since Liam Goetz has seen his ex-fiance. Vanessa Epperson had everything: beauty, brains and a family fortune. He chose her, while she chose a life of luxury and never imagined their paths would cross again. An unexpected phone call from Vanessa--desperate for his help in a human trafficking case--resurrects old longings. As they work together to save hostages and catch a predator, Liam begins to learn some shocking truths--about...
Author
Series
Emma Djan mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xiv, 342 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Just as things at work are slowing down for PI Emma Djan, an old friend of her boss's asks for help locating his missing daughter. According to her father, Ngozi was just months shy of graduating high school when she became secretive and withdrawn. Suddenly, all she wanted to do was be with her handsome new beau, Femi, instead of attending law school in the fall. So when she disappears from her parents' house in Nigeria the middle of a summer night,...