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Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Description
Polly McClusky is eleven years old - too old for the teddy bear she carries with her everywhere - when she is unexpectedly reunited with her father, Nate, fresh out of jail. He takes her from the front of her school into a world of robbery, violence, and the constant threat of death. And he does it to save her life. Nate made dangerous enemies in prison: a gang called Aryan Steel has put out a bounty on his head, counting on its members on the outside...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Josie and her husband have split up, she's been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice, and she's grieving the death of a young man senselessly killed. When her ex asks to take the children to meet his new fiancée's family, Josie makes a run for it, figuring Alaska is about as far as she can get without a passport. Josie and her kids, Paul and Ana, rent a rattling old RV named the Chateau, and at first their trip feels like a vacation:...
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.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"When an evangelical preacher in Tennessee offers shelter to two gay men after a catastrophic flood, he's met with resistance by his wife and congregation, and eventually loses custody of his son. He decides to kidnap his son and flee to Key West, where he suspects his estranged gay brother is living"--
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Allah Rakhi kidnaps her ten-year-old daughter Zainab to save her from a child marriage to a tribal leader. Their escape is a damning loss of honor for the two families, and a deadly hunt begins for them. Desperate for help, Allah Rakhi strikes an unlikely deal with a cynical ex-Mujahid truck driver to take them to Lahore. What follows is an epic journey through the sweeping landscape of Pakistan where the search for freedom and love comes with a price....
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Formats
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
Series
Young Spencer novels volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
169 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Spenser reflects back to when he was fourteen-years-old and how he helped his best friend Jeannie when she was abducted by her abusive father.
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Max Rupert has left his position as a Minneapolis homicide detective to live in solitude. Mourning the tragic death of his wife, he's also racked by guilt--he alone knows what happened to her killer. But then the former local sheriff, Lyle Voight, arrives with a desperate plea: Lyle's daughter Sandy and his six-year-old grandson Pip have disappeared. Lyle's certain Sandy's ex-husband Reed is behind it, but the new sheriff is refusing to investigate....
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
463 p. (lg. print) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
The founder of the Bring Sean Home Foundation advocacy group for parents of internationally abducted children describes how his Brazilian wife unexpectedly returned to her native country and refused to share custody of their son, triggering an international controversy.
12) The watcher
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Kidnapped by her own mother, a Nazi spy, teenaged Wendy is transported from Maine to wartime Berlin, where she secretly supports the resistance movement and learns a family secret.
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