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Tessa Leoni novels volume 2
Description
When Justin and Libby Denbe, along with their beautiful 15-year-old daughter, disappear, investigator Tessa Leone must race against time to expose the Denbes' darkest secrets to discover who would want to kidnap such a perfect little family and just how far they are willing to go.
22) 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...
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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...
26) Still missing
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Captured by a psychopath posing as an interested house buyer, realtor Annie spends a brutally traumatic year in captivity in a remote mountain cabin and recounts her experiences and dramatic escape to her therapist while agonizing over the ongoing police search for her captor.
27) The gaps
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When sixteen-year-old Yin Mitchell is abducted, the news reverberates through the whole Year Ten class at Balmoral Ladies College. As the hours tick by, the girls know the chance of Yin being found alive is becoming smaller and smaller. Everyone is affected by Yin's disappearance--even scholarship student Chloe, who usually stays out of Balmoral dramas, is drawn into the maelstrom. And when she begins to form an uneasy alliance with Natalia, the queen...
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Publisher
Llewellyn Worldwide
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xx, 313 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
Explore the realm of the unknown with more than three dozen true stories of unexplained phenomena. Join ufologist and paranormal researcher Nomar Slevik as he shares fascinating tales of sightings and abductions centered in the Northeast's UFO hotspots. Discover the truth about lights in the sky and aliens on the ground from firsthand witnesses and experiencers.
29) In the dark
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A strong-willed detective in her mid-thirties Helen Weeks is drawn into the two most testing and personal cases of her career, just as she begins her journey towards motherhood. Helen is never fazed by a challenge, but her tough exterior conceals a complex inner conflict. When the husband of an estranged school friend is accused of abduction, Helen must return to her hometown and confront her painful past.
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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...
31) Altered
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A group of friends play a terrifying game of hide and seek with an alien lifeform hell-bent on destroying them.
33) 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.
34) Alex
Author
Series
Commandant Camille Verhoeven trilogy volume 2
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Pub. Date
2013, c2011.
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Alex Prevost -- kidnapped, savagely beaten, suspended from the ceiling of an abandoned warehouse in a tiny wooden cage -- is running out of time. Her abductor appears to want only to watch her die. Will hunger, thirst, or the rats get her first? Apart from a shaky eyewitness report of the abduction, Police Commandant Camille Verhoeven has nothing to go on: no suspect, no leads, and no family or friends anxious to find a missing loved one. The diminutive...
35) 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.
36) Proximity
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After a NASA scientist is abducted by aliens while exploring a meteor crash site, he sets out to prove that his encounter was real.
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Publisher
High Road Books, an imprint of the University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"The Believer is the weird and chilling true story of Dr. John Mack. This eminent Harvard psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer risked his career to investigate the phenomenon of human encounters with aliens and to give credibility to the stupefying tales shared by people who were utterly convinced they had happened. Nothing in Mack's four decades of psychiatry had prepared him for the otherworldly accounts of those who reported being...
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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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After a hectic morning involving two rather irritating cases of mistaken identity, Inspector Montalbano finally arrives in his office ready find out what's troubling Vigàta this week. What he discovers is unnerving. A woman on her way home from work has been held up at gunpoint, chloroformed and kidnapped, but then released just hours later - unharmed and with all her possessions - into the open countryside. Later that day, Montalbano hears from...
40) Perfect days
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A twisted young medical student kidnaps the girl of his dreams and embarks on a dark and delirious road trip across Brazil in the English-language debut of one of Brazil's most celebrated young crime writers. Teo Avelar is a loner. He lives with his paraplegic mother and her dog in Rio de Janeiro, he doesn't have many friends, and the only time he feels honest human emotion is in the presence of his medical school cadaver--that is, until he meets...
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