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1) Look again
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When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a "Have You Seen This Child?" flyer in the mail, she almost throws it away. But something makes her look again, and her heart stops--the child in the photo is identical to her adopted son, Will. Her every instinct tells her to deny the similarity between the boys, because she knows her adoption was legal. But she's a journalist, and she won't be able to stop thinking about the photo until she figures out the truth....
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Where are the children? volume 2
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A lawyer turned successful podcaster, Melissa has recently married a man whose first wife died tragically, leaving him and their young daughter, Riley, behind. While Melissa and her brother, Mike, help their mom, Nancy, relocate from Cape Cod to the equally idyllic Hamptons, Melissa's new stepdaughter goes missing. Drawing on the experience of their own abduction, Melissa and Mike race to find Riley to save her from the trauma they still struggle...
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Series
Buddy files volume 1
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
123 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
While searching for his mysteriously lost human family, Buddy the dog is adopted by another family and helps solve the mystery of their missing boy.
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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
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
369 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Shattered when their autistic son disappears during a family vacation to the California desert, Jaz and Lisa Matharu organize searches from a remote town near the Pinnacles rock formation and bond with a sequence of eccentric locals.
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Pub. Date
2019.
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One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two girls--sisters, eight and eleven--go missing. In the ensuing weeks, then months, the police investigation turns up nothing. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women. Taking us through a year in Kamchatka, Disappearing Earth enters with astonishing emotional...
7) Zoo girl
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Publisher
Distributed [in the USA] by Trafalgar Square Pub
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
Feeling lost and alone in the children's home where she lives, a little girl is accidentally left behind during a field trip to the zoo and enjoys snuggling in the tiger cage so much that she does not want to return.
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BBC Video
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (360 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A pregnant 12 year-old girl who won't reveal who the father is, walks chest deep into the freezing waters of a New Zealand lake and disappears. Robin Griffin is called in to investigate and becomes more and more obsessed. As she searches, she slowly begins to realize that finding the girl is tantamount to finding herself, a self she has kept well hidden. A powerful and haunting story about our search for happiness, where the dream of paradise attracts...
10) Dirt Creek
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"In Hayley Scrivenor's Dirt Creek, a small-town debut mystery described as The Dry meets Everything I Never Told You, a girl goes missing and a community falls apart and comes together. When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school ina small town in rural Australia, the community is thrown into a maelstrom of suspicion and grief. As Detective Sergeant Sarah Michaels arrives in town during the hottest spring in decades and begins...
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Naomi Cottle novels volume 1
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Three years ago Madison Culver went missing at the age of five while looking for a Christmas tree with her family. Private investigator Naomi Cottle continues the investigation and believes that Madison's disappearance can only be the result of an abduction. Naomi's personal journey from foster child to adulthood parallels her search for Madison, and as her fears and sources of determination come to light, the narrative also dips into Madison's mind,...
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Wilde (Harlan Coben) volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"The man known as Wilde is a mystery to everyone, including himself. Decades ago, he was found as a boy living feral in the woods, with no memory of his past. After the police concluded an exhaustive hunt for the child's family, which was never found, he was turned over to the foster system. Now, thirty years later, Wilde still doesn't know where he comes from, and he's back living in the woods on the outskirts of town, content to be an outcast, comfortable...
14) Lost dog
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Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
A walrus, a whale, penguins, and others help Pete the dog get to Grandma's house.
15) Blood harvest
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
425 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Description
Something isn't quite right in Heptonclough, including the mysterious accidental deaths of three toddlers over the last ten years. It is not until Tom Fletcher's siblings, two-year-old Milly and five-year-old Joe Fletcher, go missing in turn that the little village's evil secret turns his family's dreams of an English paradise into a nightmare.
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
357 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Fifty-year-old Marcy Taggart's husband has left her for another woman. Devastating as that may be, it hardly compares to the death of her 21-year-old daughter, Devon, in a canoeing accident. Her body was never found in the icy waters of Georgian Bay, and as a result Marcy has never fully accepted her death. Now, in Ireland, Marcy yet again thinks she sees her daughter casually strolling past her on the sidewalk, which will lead to a desperate search...
17) Keane
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
William Keane is barely able to cope. It has been six months since his six-year-old daughter was abducted from New York City's Port Authority Bus Terminal while traveling with him. Repeatedly drawn to the site of the abduction, Keane wanders the bus station, compulsively replaying the events of that fateful day, as if hoping to change the outcome. One day he meets a financially strapped woman, Lynn Bedik, and her seven-year-old daughter, Kira, at...
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Dark star trilogy (Marlon James) volume 2
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"From Marlon James, author of the bestselling National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf, the second book in the Dark Star trilogy, his African Game of Thrones. In Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Sogolon the Moon Witch proved a worthy adversary to Tracker as they clashed across a mythical African landscape in search of a mysterious boy who disappeared. In Moon Witch, Spider King, Sogolon takes center stage and gives her own account of what happened...
19) Dear child
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A woman held captive finally escapes-but can she ever really get away? A windowless shack in the woods. A dash to safety. But when a woman finally escapes her captor, the end of the story is only the beginning of her nightmare. She says her name is Lena. Lena, who disappeared without a trace 14 years prior. She fits the profile. She has the distinctive scar. But her family swears that she isn't their Lena. The little girl who escaped the woods with...
Publisher
BFS Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 49 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This effective self-defense guide empowers children with the skills they need to keep from becoming the next victim of predators. Youngsters will learn to spot the tricks predators use, the most effective ways to fight back, and much more!
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