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61) 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...
62) The waking land
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
388 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young girl is kidnapped by the king to punish her father's rebellion against him. Years later, she returns home a fugitive, while grappling with a repressed magic that could, if mastered, make her the most powerful person in two kingdoms" --
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In this historical adventure for fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, the three youngest McAllister children are taken to Canada as British Home Children without their mother's knowledge or permission. The oldest McAllister sibling follows them across the Atlantic to search for them and bring them home. When Laura McAllister, a young lady's maid, learns her three siblings have been taken from their mother and emigrated to Canada...
64) Heartbreaker
Author
Series
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Ex-military man Thorn Grayson has debts to pay. So when a plane crashes in the mountains near his cabin, he's hired to find the wreckage--and the kidnapped woman believed to be the sole survivor. But when he locates Geneva, or 'JJ' as she insists on being called, she's not at all what he expected. JJ isn't sure she can trust the mysterious man who's come to her rescue. But she has secrets of her own--secrets she'll do anything to keep. So she'll...
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...
66) Air bound
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Jove mass-market ed.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Airiana has always been aware of her extraordinary gift. Her abilities led to her placement in a secret government training facility, but after her mother was murdered, she fled the program. Unable to outrun the members of a shadowy cabal, she ends up kidnapped and held aboard a ship. Her only chance for rescue is Maxim, who has reasons for helping her, but he isn't about to reveal them. Not when there are so many secrets that could shatter the town...
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.
68) 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...
69) 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
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,...
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...
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...
73) Taken 2
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills, an ex-CIA operative who finds himself taken hostage along with his wife. To survive, Bryan must enlist the help of an unlikely ally and use his brutally efficient skills to take out his kidnappers.
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....
75) Daddy Love
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Part-time preacher Chester Cash calls himself Daddy Love. He has abducted, tortured, and raped several young boys into being his lover and his 'son'. Kidnapping Robbie from his mother at a mall, he confines the child in a small box and gradually brainwashes him over subsequent years into believing that they are father and son. Dinah, the boy's mother, who was savagely injured during the abduction, clings to hope that her son is alive.
76) 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
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
Series
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kipp Brown, successful businessman and compulsive gambler, is having the worst run of luck of his life. He's beginning to lose big style. However, taking his teenage son, Mungo, to their club's big Saturday afternoon football match should have given him a welcome respite, if only for a few hours. But it's at the stadium where his nightmare begins. Within minutes of arriving at the game, Kipp bumps into a client. He takes his eye of Mungo for a few...
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...