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Series
Publisher
BookShots, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
115, 15 pages ; 18 cm
Description
"Rejected by the Navy SEALs, Mitchum is content to be his small town's unofficial private eye, until his beloved 14-year-old cousin is abducted. Now he'll call on every lethal skill to track her down--but nothing is what it seems...."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
251 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
A collection of stories includes "Home," a wryly whimsical account of a soldier's return from war; "Victory Lap," a tale about an inventive abduction attempt; and the title story, in which a suicidal cancer patient saves the life of a young misfit.
3) Lucy
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An action-thriller that tracks a woman accidentally caught in a dark deal who turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
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Pub. Date
2015.
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The Rocky Mountains have cast their spell over the Courtlands, a young family from the plains taking a last summer vacation before their daughter begins college. For eighteen-year-old Caitlin, the mountains loom as the ultimate test of her runner's heart, while her parents hope that so much beauty, so much grandeur, will somehow repair a damaged marriage. But when Caitlin and her younger brother, Sean, go out for an early morning run and only Sean...
5) Difret
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From executive producer Angelina Jolie Pitt comes the award-winning drama based on the inspirational true story of a young Ethiopian girl and a tenacious lawyer embroiled in a life-or-death clash between cultural traditions and their country's advancement of equal rights. When 14-year-old Hirut is abducted in her rural village's tradition of kidnapping women for marriage, she fights back, accidentally killing her captor and intended husband.
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In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders, her children clinging to her legs. They never saw her again. Her abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible. But in a climate of fear and paranoia, no one would speak of it. In 2003, five years after an accord...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (12 hr., 35 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The most amazing encounters of alien abductions, UFO visitations and government cover-ups are explored in this out-of-this-world documentary collection! With dozens of interviews with renowned researchers and experts from across the globe, discover the secrets of all ages and enter a domain where strange is normal! What do they want? Where are they from? These questions and more are finally answered. Hear about first hand accounts from leading experts...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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In the early morning of April 14, 2014, the militant Islamic group Boko Haram violently burst into the small town of Chibok, Nigeria, and abducted 276 girls from their school dorm rooms. From poor families, these girls were determined to make better lives for themselves, but pursuing an education made them targets, resulting in one of the most high-profile abductions in modern history. While the Chibok kidnapping made international headlines, and...
11) We are the ants
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
451 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Abducted by aliens periodically throughout his youth, Henry Denton is informed by his erstwhile captors that they will end the world in 144 days unless he stops them by deciding that humanity is worth saving.
12) Home
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A lovable misfit from another planet meets a girl named Tip. The two unlikely friends embark on the greatest journey of all time.
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Sent to Lisbon and Morocco, where a British studio is creating a silent film version of "The Pirates of Penzance," Mary Russell investigates a series of crimes targeting the production and confronts a high-stakes situation when actual pirates orchestrate a hostage situation.
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Publisher
XulonElite
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
235 pages ; 22 cm
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"Opal Singleton is President and CEO of Million Kids and Training and Outreach Coordinator for Riverside County Anti Human Trafficking Task Force. Opal trains thousands of government agencies, school administrators, corporations, civic groups and faith based organizations about how to prevent human trafficking. She sits with parents of missing kids and talks with teens who are being "Sextorted" with a naked photo. Sometimes the young people are coerced...
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Series
Murphy Shepherd novels volume 3
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Murphy Shepherd’s last rescue mission very nearly cost him his life. He’d like nothing more than to stay close to his wife and daughters for a while. But Bones’s nemesis must be stopped, and there are so many who still need to know they are worth rescuing. As the cat-and-mouse game moves into the open, Murphy is tested at every turn—both physically and mentally. Then the unthinkable happens: his beloved mentor and friend is taken. Gone without...
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"A provocative love story between a tough Kansas woman on a crooked path to redemption and the unlikeliest of champions, from the New York Times bestselling author of All the Ugly and Wonderful Things Zee is nobody's fairy tale princess. Almost six-foot, with a redhead's temper and a shattered hip, she has a long list of worries: never-ending bills, her beautiful, gullible sister, her five-year-old nephew, her housebound mother, and her drug-dealing...
18) Find her
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"Flora Dane is a victim. Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora was kidnapped while on spring break. For 472 days, Flora learned just how much one person can endure. Flora Dane is a survivor. Miraculously alive after her ordeal, Flora has spent the past five years reacquainting herself with the rhythms of normal life, working with her FBI victim advocate, Samuel Keynes. She has a mother who's never stopped loving her, a brother who is scared...
19) You belong to me
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Pub. Date
2017.
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A story "about a man who collects ancient maps of New York and his beautiful, married neighbor whose old lover returns from the past"--
Immigration lawyer Paul Reeves's passion is collecting old New York City maps, tangible records of the city where he's spent his life. At an auction with his neighbor Jennifer Mehraz, the young wife of an Iranian-American financier-lawyer, a man in fatigues appears and whisks Jennifer away. Desperate to figure out...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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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 didn't...
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