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Author
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"The Foundling tells the incredible and inspiring true story of Paul Fronczak, a man who recently discovered via a DNA test that he was not who he thought he was?and set out to solve two fifty-year-old mysteries at once. Along the way he upturned the genealogy industry, unearthed his family?s deepest secrets, and broke open the second longest cold-case in US history, all in a desperate bid to find out who he really is."--Amazon.com.
42) Man on fire
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hard-drinking, burnt-out ex-CIA operative John Creasy has given up on life. That is until his friend Rayburn gets him a job as a bodyguard to nine-year-old Pita Ramos. Bit by bit, Creasy begins to reclaim his soul, but when Pita is kidnapped, and ultimately presumed to be dead, Creasy unleashes a firestorm of apocalyptic vengeance against everyone responsible.
Publisher
Family Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (75 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 CD.
Description
Tells the story of a princess and a pauper who were worlds apart in lifestyles, yet identical in looks. When chance brings them together, it becomes the beginning of a great adventure and a friendship that will last a lifetime. When Anneliese is captured, Erika must pretend to be the princess to help find out what has happened and to save the real princess. In the end, the magic of love and friendship triumphs and the kingdom is saved.
44) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Description
Deals with the adventures of a young orphan boy trying to survive amid greed and poverty in 19th-century London.
45) Freedomland
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As a housing project cop who's respected for keeping the peace and being fair with the residents, Lorenzo Council stumbles onto the case of an apparent carjacking and child abduction one night that throws the projects into turmoil. But there's something strange in the details Brenda Martin slowly brings to light regarding her abductor and her missing child. The criminal investigation into the alleged kidnapping ignites long-simmering racial tension...
46) Gone
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
When his partner and lover, Rainie Connor, vanishes during her investigation into the case of a missing foster child, private detective Pierce Quincy enlists the aid of his daughter Kimberly, a rookie FBI agent, to uncover the truth.
47) Hardcore Henry
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 37 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
He remembers nothing. Mainly because he's just been brought back from the dead by his wife. She tells him that his name is Henry. Five minutes later, he's being shot at, his wife has been kidnapped, and he should probably go get her back. Who's got her? His name's Akan; he's a powerful warlord with an army of mercenaries, and a plan for world domination. Henry's also in an unfamiliar city of Moscow and everyone wants him dead. Everyone except for...
48) Girl
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
240 pages ; cm
Description
"I was a girl once, but not anymore. So begins Girl, Edna O?Brien?s harrowing portrayal of the young women abducted by Boko Haram. Set in the deep countryside of northeast Nigeria, this is a brutal story of incarceration, horror, and hunger; a hair-raising escape into the manifold terrors of the forest; and a descent into the labyrinthine bureaucracy and hostility awaiting a victim who returns home with a child blighted by enemy blood. From one of...
49) Stolen children
Author
Formats
Description
When armed thugs crash into the house and take them away to a cabin in the woods, babysitter Amy realizes she and little Kendra have become pawns in a dangerous ransom plot and so must find a way for the two of them to escape safely before their captors make their next move.
Author
Series
Max Mingus thriller volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
434 pages, 9 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Hired by a powerful white Haitian family to find their young son, who has been missing for two years, Max Mingus struggles to set aside painful memories and tackles a web of local corruption that threatens his tenacious hold on sanity.
Author
Description
After being stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe, a young woman finds herself alone in 1941 after her kidnapper dies. Her solitary existence is interrupted, however, when she happens upon a group of Jews fleeing the Nazi terror. Stunned to learn what's happening in the outside world, she vows to teach the group all she can about surviving in the forest--and in turn, they teach her some surprising...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (198 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The whole nine yards: Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski is a mob hitman-turned-informant who ratted on the mob and put his life in jeopardy. He has relocated to suburban Montreal to make a new start. Nick 'Oz' Oseranskiy is Jimmy's next-door neighbor. Nick is a mild-mannered and unhappily married dentist. Nick recognizes Jimmy from the newspaper stories about his mob testimony, and that's when Nick's simple, but boring world turns upside down.
The whole...
Author
Formats
Description
"When precocious Lois and pretty Carly May were twelve years old, they were kidnapped, driven across the country, and held in an Adirondack hunting lodge for two months. [This debut novel explores] the repercussions of that formative summer, when two girls who previously did not know each other shared an experience that would shape all their days to come"--
Precocious Lois. Pretty Carly May. At twelve years old, they were kidnapped, driven across...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xvi, 221 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"In Life After Darkness, published on the fifth anniversary of her liberation, Lily describes how she managed to heal the wounds to her body, mind, and soul-wounds, she reveals, that were first inflicted even before her kidnapping. With the help of good friends and anchored by her own inner strength, she takes us with her step by step on her journey out of darkness into the light."--Amazon.com.
57) The crying game
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A compassionate Irish terrorist risks his own life to seek out the girlfriend of the hostage he held.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; cm
Description
"In this book, Elizabeth returns to the horrific experiences she endured, and the hard-won lessons she learned, to provide answers. She also calls upon others who have dealt with adversityvictims of violence, disease, war, and lossto explore the pathways toward hope. Through conversations with such well-known voices as Anne Romney, Diane Von Furstenburg, and Mandy Patinkin to spiritual leaders Archbishop John C. Wester and Elder Richard Hinckley to...
59) Beast of burden
Publisher
Momentum Pictures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sean Haggerty only has an hour to deliver his illegal cargo. An hour to reassure a drug cartel, a hitman, and the DEA that nothing is wrong. An hour to make sure his wife survives. And he must do it all from the cockpit of his Cessna.
60) Berlin syndrome
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A passionate holiday romance takes an unexpected and sinister turn when Australian photojournalist Clare wakes up locked in Andi's Berlin apartment. And he has no intention of letting her go again.
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