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Author
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
No one ever really paid close attention to the faces of the missing children on the milk cartons. But as Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the ordinary little girl with her hair in tight pigtails wearing a dress with a narrow white collar a three-year-old who had been kidnapped twelve years before from a shopping mall in New Jersey-she felt overcome with shock. She recognized that little girl--it was she. How could it possibly be true. Janie can't...
Author
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
"Raised in rural New Hampshire by her beloved, widowed father, Delia Hopkins now has a young daughter of her own, a handsome fiancé, and her work -- tracking missing persons with her own search-and-rescue bloodhound. But as her wedding draws near, Delia experiences troubling flashbacks of a life she can't recall... until a police officer knocks on her door, revealing a secret to Delia that changes the world as she knows it -- and threatens to jeopardize...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Every year on March 26th, Verity Peterson visits Ogunquit Beach, where she puts a handwritten message into a bottle and launches it into the waves. It's a ritual of remembrance for the daughter she hasn't seen in sixteen years--not since her baby's father, Alan, took two-month-old Gemma and disappeared. Verity keeps searching and hoping, sustained by the thought that someday she might get to be a mother to her own child. And finally, one phone call...
4) Second sight
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When Charlie Dodge gets a phone call from a frantic woman stating her daughter has been kidnapped by her ex-husband and taken into a cult called Fourth Dimension, he takes the case without hesitation. The cult's rumored purpose is to gather men with psychic abilities with the goal of breeding a race of people who have supernatural powers. Once accepted into the cult, men are given a young girl to marry in exchange for one of their own daughters. The...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Formats
Description
Noelle Van Doren's world fell apart the day her estranged husband snatched her five-year-old daughter away from her. During the ensuing custody battle, Noelle-along with her divorced, distant mother and her aging, ailing grandmother-discovers just how far a mother will go for love of her child....
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a flood that washes away much of a small Tennessee town, evangelical preacher Asher Sharp offers shelter to two gay men. In doing so, he starts to see his life anew-- and risks losing everything: his wife, locked into her religious prejudices; his congregation, which shuns Asher after he delivers a passionate sermon in defense of tolerance; and his young son, Justin, caught in the middle of what turns into a bitter custody battle....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a suspenseful follow-up to her critically acclaimed Cover of Snow, Jenny Milchman ratchets up the tension with this edge-of-your-seat story of a mother determined to find her missing children.
Liz Daniels has every reason to be happy about setting off on a rare family vacation, leaving behind her remote home in the Adirondack Mountains for a while. Instead, she feels uneasy. Her children, eight-year-old Reid and...
Liz Daniels has every reason to be happy about setting off on a rare family vacation, leaving behind her remote home in the Adirondack Mountains for a while. Instead, she feels uneasy. Her children, eight-year-old Reid and...
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 382 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Superintendent Duncan Kincaid is called to investigate the shocking death of a woman found burned beyond recognition in a Victorian warehouse in south London. When his lover and partner, Gemma James, is asked to trace a friend's missing roommate, she and Duncan discover that their cases have several disturbing links. Set against a backdrop of Dickensian Southwark, repository of old secrets, the case plunges Duncan and Gemma into the dark recesses...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Violet and Finn were 'meant to be,' said everyone, always. They ended up together by the hands of fate aligning things just so. Three years into their marriage, they have a wonderful little boy, and as the three of them embark on their first vacation as a family, Violet can't help thinking that she can't believe her luck. Life is good. So no one is more surprised than she when Finn leaves her at the beach -- just packs up the hotel room and disappears....
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
11 audio discs (approximately 13 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A story of a mother who must save her daughter from a threat she can hardly understand. What happened to nine-year-old Melanie during the six years she was subjected to terrifying experiments? And what is the unstoppable power that she can unleash from behind the "Door to December"?
Author
Series
Janie Johnson volume 2
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
How could it possibly be true? But it is true. As Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the ordinary little girl on the milk carton, she was overcome by shock. She recognized that little girl--it was she... With the mystery of her kidnapping now unraveled, Janie's story continues and the nightmare is not over. No one can bring back or relive the twelve years gone by. The Spring family wants justice but who is really to blame? The Johnson's know that...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Haley and Ben live with their mother. When their dad is convinced there's a new, much deadlier pandemic coming, he kidnaps them. Confined in his prepper hideaway far off the grid, he believes they will be safe from other people. Haley and Ben have no contact with the outside world, and are worried about their mother. Is the threat even real-- or is this all just a dark fantasy brought on by their conspiracy obsessed father's warped imagination? --...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Enemies from his time in prison put a bounty on Nate McClusky's head and target his family. They've already murdered his ex-wife, so Nate takes his eleven-year-old daughter Polly from in front of her school, knowing she'll be the next target. With barely any time to mourn her mother, Polly is thrust into a world of robbery, violence, and the constant threat of capture, or death.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When we first meet seven-year-old Dolly, she immediately grabs us with a voice that is both precocious and effervescent. It has been a while since her dad has spent time with her, just the two of them, and so when he scoops her up and promises to take her on the adventure of a lifetime, Dolly is thrilled. The first days on the road are incredibly exciting. Every pit stop promises a new delight for Dolly and her favorite plastic horse, Clemesta,...
15) Six seconds
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
488 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
A vengeful woman who aches for her place in paradise...
In Iraq an aid worker who lost her husband and child in a brutal attack saves the life of an American contractor. Believing he can help her avenge her family's deaths, she follows him back home to the United States.
An anguished mother desperate to find her child...
In California a soccer mom arrives to pick up her son from school, only to discover that her husband has taken their child...
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Susanna Miller loses custody of her eleven-month-old son, Tyler, but rather than turning the little boy over to her ex-husband and his new wife, she goes on the run. She dyes her hair, changes her name, and escapes from Boulder, Colorado, leaving behind everyone she knows, including Linc Sebastian, the man who has been her best friend since childhood and who knows her better than anyone. Susanna lands in Annapolis, Maryland, alone, frightened, and...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Abducted at age five, Callie, now seventeen, has spent her life on the run but when her mother is finally arrested and she is returned to her father in small-town Florida, Callie must find a way to leave her past behind, become part of a family again, and learn that love is more than just a possibility.
19) Footsteps
Author
Publisher
Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
8 audio discs (9 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Every parent's nightmare comes true for Debra Patterson, whose children disappear from the entrance to a Houston mall when she dashes into the pouring rain to get their car. When Debra learns that her husband is also missing, apparently having taken the children with him, she feels her whole world is collapsing. Suddenly out from under her husband's iron fist, but very much alone, she must find new strength . . . and the path that will bring her children...
20) Clay
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
900L
Physical Desc
166 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
Language
English