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Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox
Pub. Date
2005, c1983
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Six-year-old Alex Selky waved goodbye to his mother one morning and disappeared. During the search for her vanished son, Alex's mother is temporarily reunited with her estranged husband, but he then leaves her terrifyingly alone. Her faith and courage and a cop's devotion beyond the line of duty result in the finding of her son.
Author
Series
His dark materials volume 1
Description
Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
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Description
The memoir of Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped on June 10, 1991 from a school bus stop within sight of her home in Tahoe, California, when she was 11 years old. She was held prisoner by convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy Garrido. She was held captive by the Garridos for over eighteen years, all the while living in a tent on the Garrido property. During her captivity she gave birth to two children fathered by Garrido. She reappeared...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Jubilee Rathman is a straight-A student and star soccer goalie destined for Princeton&;until her family is brutally murdered. Twelve years later, she lives in a virtual fortress on Purgatory Bay near Bleak Harbor, plotting revenge on the people she considers responsible."--Amazon.com.
Publisher
Dimension Home Video
Pub. Date
c1996, 1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After kidnapping a father and his two kids, the Gecko brothers head south to a seedy Mexican bar to hide out in safety. But when they face the bar's truly notorious clientele, they are forced to team up with their hostages in order to make it out alive.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
240 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm
Description
"The city of Wichita, Kansas, is wracked with panic over the abduction of toddler pageant princess Lindy Bobo. However, the dealers at The Heart of America Antique Mall are too preoccupied by their own neurotic compulsions to take much notice. Postcards, perfume bottles, Barbies, vinyl records, kitschy neon beer signs-they collect and sell it all. Rather than focus on Lindy, this colorful cast of characters is consumed by another drama: the impending...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife comes an atmospheric novel of intertwined fate and heart-wrenching suspense: A detective hiding away from the world. A series of disappearances that reach into her past. Can solving them help her heal? Anna Hart is a seasoned missing persons detective in San Francisco with far too much knowledge of the darkest side of human nature. When unspeakable tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna,...
10) Split
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Description
Even though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him, as well as everyone around him, as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.--
Author
Series
Mapmakers trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
489 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Description
She has only seen the world through maps. She had no idea they were so dangerous. Boston, 1891. Sophia Tims comes from a family of explorers and cartologers who, for generations, have been traveling and mapping the New World -- a world changed by the Great Disruption of 1799, when all the continents were flung into different time periods. Eight years ago, her parents left her with her uncle Shadrack, the foremost cartologer in Boston, and went on...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 109 min.) : sd., col., stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A wife and mother is faced with rebuilding her life, and her family, after they have been shockingly torn apart. When their son disappears, the pain of a lost child ravages the Cappadora family for nearly a decade. But when he suddenly returns, the whole family must come to a painful reunion.
13) Frantic
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1998, c1988
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When the wife of an American cardiologist is kidnapped in Paris, he sets out to find her but encounters a web of language, locale, and bureaucracy.
Author
Series
Amy Cornwall novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Formats
Description
Intelligence officer Amy Cornwall must use lethal tactics in open defiance of Army Command when a mysterious adversary kidnaps her family and gives her forty-eight hours to commit an unspeakable crime.
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
When a joke about making illicit money escalates to a kidnapping scheme, four friends enjoy the proceeds of a low-risk operation until they abduct the wrong target and capture the attentions of the law and a vengeful organized-crime ring.
16) The big kahuna
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Series
Description
Straight arrow FBI Agent, Kate O'Hare, always plays by the rules. Charming Con Man Nicholas Fox makes them up as he goes along. She thinks he's nothing but a scoundrel. He thinks she just needs to lighten up. They're working together to tackle the out-of-bounds cases ordinary FBI agents can't touch. And, their relationship? Well, there hasn't been so much explosive chemistry since Nitro was introduced to Glycerin. Next on the docket: The mysterious...
Author
Series
Janie Johnson volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1996, c1990
Physical Desc
184 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.
18) Win
Author
Series
Windsor Horne Lockwood III novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Over twenty years ago, the heiress Patricia Lockwood was abducted during a robbery of her family's estate, then locked inside an isolated cabin for months. Patricia escaped, but so did her captors -- and the items stolen from her family were never recovered. Until now. On the Upper West Side, a recluse is found murdered in his penthouse apartment, alongside two objects of note: a stolen Vermeer painting and a leather suitcase bearing the initials...
19) The Mexican
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jerry has to do one last errand for the mob before they let him find employment elsewhere--he has to go to Mexico and recover a rare and very valuable pistol "The Mexican", which is said to be cursed. While his girlfriend, Samantha, objects to Jerry taking the assignment, he isn't in much of a position to argue. Once in Mexico, Jerry finds the pistol easily enough, but making his way back to the States proves to be an unexpected challenge. Meanwhile,...
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