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81) Show me a sign
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mama and little Elsa are kidnapped by Indians. As his father lies dying, fourteen-year-old Ryker Landstad promises to take the nine-year-old twins to safety and rescue Mama and Elsa. It takes all Ryker's gumption, to reach the fort, only to discover that Fort Abercrombie is besieged by 500 warriors" -- Provided by publisher.
83) Fatal strike
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lara Kirk lives in a shadowy world where reality and fantasy are one. Her captors have poisoned her body with concoctions that enhance psychic abilities and they seem to be working. To escape, Lara has formed a deep attachment with a man whose virile, sensual presence in her mind is her only comfort. She's not even sure if he's real until the six-foot-five-inch powerhouse bursts in to rescue her. Once freed, Lara has no choice but to trust Miles...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 105 min., that is, 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Arthur Bishop returns as the Mechanic in the sequel to the 2011 action thriller. When the deceitful actions of a cunning but beautiful woman force him to return to the life he left behind, Bishop's life is once again in danger as he has to complete an impossible list of assassinations of the most dangerous men in the world.
85) Gringo
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Harold Soyinka finds himself at the mercy of his back-stabbing business colleagues back home, local drug lords and a morally conflicted black-ops mercenary. Crossing the line from law-abiding citizen to wanted criminal, Harold battles to survive his increasingly dangerous situation.
86) The hostage
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
465 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An American diplomat's wife is kidnapped in Argentina, and her husband murdered before her eyes. Her children will be next, if she doesn't tell the kidnappers where her brother is--a brother who may know quite a bit about the burgeoning UN/Iraq oil-for-food scandal. There is an awful lot of money flying around, an awful lot of hands reaching out to grab it--and some of those hands don't mind shedding as much blood as it takes. It's up to Charley Castillo...
Author
Series
Alaska wild volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A year after arriving in Benedict, Beth Rivers is feeling very at home in Alaska, even as outsiders are starting to return to enjoy the brief summer perfection. Beth feels like she's finally let go of most of her demons. She's even found her father, Eddy Rivers--or, rather, he found her--and she's trying to find the middle ground between anger and forgiveness. One sunny July day, Beth boards a tourist ship to see the glaciers, the main reason visitors...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"As a child, Alice was stolen from her backyard in a tiny Indiana community, but against the odds, her policeman father tracked her down within twenty-four hours and rescued her from harm. In the aftermath of the crime, her family decided to move to Chicago... Yet Alice hasn't forgotten. She devotes her spare time volunteering for a website called The Doe Pages, scrolling through pages upon pages of unidentified people, searching for clues that could...
89) The call
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a veteran 911 operator takes a life-altering call from a teenage girl who has just been abducted, she realizes that she must confront a killer from her past in order to save the girl's life.
90) First kill
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In order to reconnect with his son, a Wall Street broker takes his family to the cabin where he grew up for a hunting trip. But the trip takes a deadly turn when they become entangled in a heist gone bad that results in the broker's son Danny being kidnapped, forcing his father to recover the stolen loot in exchange for Danny's life.
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jaguar night. When a U.S. general's daughter is kidnapped, Marine staff sergeant Josh Patterson is handpicked to rescue her. While they trek through the jungle to safety, her strength and a surprise kiss change everything.
Amazon gold. U.S. Navy chief Charlene Dawson deftly commands the Riverine patrol boat taking an arrogant U.S. Delta Force Army sergeant on a very personal op. As she and Jack Halliday penetrate deeper into the Amazon after a rogue...
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
1885: Sent to recover goods her father pirated on the Great Lakes during the war, Adria Fontaine arrives at Foxglove Manor, a stone house on a cliff overlooking Lake Superior. The mistress of Foxglove is an eccentric and seemingly cruel old woman who has filled her house with dangerous secrets, ones that may cost Adria her life. Present day: Kailey Gibson is a new nurse's aide at a senior home in a renovated old stone manor. Kidnapped as a child,...
93) Thin ice
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jesse Stone is shot while moonlighting on a Boston stakeout, leaving his friend fighting for his life and Stone out for justice. His rogue investigation to find the shooter leads him into Boston's shady underworld. This leads him right into the bed of a Boston PD investigator, who wants his head on a platter if he continues to pursue the case. Meanwhile, Stone is approached by a broken-hearted mother who is convinced her kidnapped son is still alive....
94) Lone rider
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
384 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When money goes missing from the family foundation she runs, Bo Hamilton rides into the Crazy Mountains to figure things out. But a killer hiding among the sawtooth ridges takes her captive and rescue will come from the one man she least expects"--
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jacob is a 14-year-old Ugandan who is sent away to a boys' school. Once there, he assures his friend Tony that they need not be afraid -- they will be safe. But not long after, in the shadow of the night, the boys are abducted. Marched into the jungle, they are brought to an encampment of the feared rebel soldiers. Told that they must kill or be killed, the boys are thrust into a terrifying struggle to endure and survive. In time, the boys escape....
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
While parked at a gas station, Rhonda sees something so incongruously surreal that at first she hardly recognizes it as a crime in progress. She watches, unmoving, as someone dressed in a rabbit costume kidnaps a young girl. Devastated over having done nothing, Rhonda joins the investigation. But the closer she comes to identifying the abductor, the nearer she gets to the troubling truth about another missing child: her best friend, Lizzy, who vanished...
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Emily Bestler books/Atria books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1850s London, the Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and, among the crowd watching the dazzling spectacle, two people meet by happenstance. For Iris, an arrestingly attractive aspiring artist, it is a brief and forgettable moment but for Silas, a curiosity collector enchanted by all things strange and beautiful, the meeting marks a new beginning. When Iris is asked to model for Pre-Raphaelite artist Louis Frost, she agrees on the condition...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 133 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother, Gail, to convince his billionaire grandfather to pay the ransom. When Getty Sr. refuses, Gail attempts to sway him as her son's captors become increasingly volatile and brutal. With her son's life in the balance, Gail and Getty Sr.'s adviser become unlikely allies in the race against time that ultimately reveals the true and lasting value of...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
viii, 388 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"One night, Avery is awoken by a fire consuming her family's compound; she runs away with her cult brother Cole, hiding in the woods and then in a school gym for weeks. After police apprehend them for shoplifting, a horrific discovery is made-their entire lives have been a lie and they were actually kidnapped as children, taken by the cult leaders they knew as Mom and Dad. Cole is quickly reunited with his family and permanently separated from nineteen-year-old...