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Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 17 cm.
Description
Lady Evina Maclean has heard much about Rory Buchanan's skill as a healer. What she hasn't heard is how good the brawny Highlander looks bathing in a waterfall. But Evina can't afford the distraction, for her ailing father urgently needs care. Only when she's rendered Buchanan unconscious and dragged him back to her family's castle does the truth emerge--it's not Rory she's kidnapped, but his brother Conran. Other ladies try to ensnare Conran with...
63) Scared stiff
Author
Description
Overview: Rick and Kenny's Pa was right -- troubles really do happen in threes. First Pa's truck was robbed, then Pa ran off, leaving Rick, Kenny, and Ma to fend for themselves, and now Ma has disappeared, too. Rick just knows Ma would never leave them on purpose -- but then, where is she? Waiting in Uncle Henry's trailer park doesn't seem like the best way to find out. Instead, the brothers, along with their new friends, Connie and Julie, decide...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
278 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"Shahbaz Taseer's memoir of his experience leading up to and throughout his kidnapping by Islamic extremists, one of Pakistan's highest-profile kidnapping incidents"--
65) 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,...
66) The edukators
Publisher
Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three radical activists like to make their point by breaking into the homes of the wealthy, re-arranging their belongings and leaving cryptic messages. When one such break-in goes wrong, they are forced to kidnap a wealthy businessman.
67) Spy school
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A boy known for telling lies discovers a plot to kidnap the President's daughter, and when no one believes his story, he creates a plan to rescue her himself.
69) Something wild
Series
Criterion collection volume 563
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
Description
A straitlaced businessman meets a quirky, free-spirited woman at a downtown New York greasy spoon. Her offer of a ride back to his office results in a lunchtime motel rendezvous, just the beginning of a capricious interstate road trip that brings the two face-to-face with their hidden selves. Featuring a killer soundtrack and electric performances from Jeff Daniels.
70) Cold weather
Publisher
Sundance Selects
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After abandoning a promising academic career in forensic science, self-styled detective Dough returns to Portland, Oregon to live with his more responsible sister Gail. He lands a dead-end job working in an ice factory, but soon finds an opportunity to use his passion and skill in detective work when his ex-girlfriend Rachel goes missing. Enlisting a team of ramshackle slacker-sleuths, Doug leads the way down a complex trail of clues that brings him...
71) That darn cat!
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A siamese cat helps an FBI agent solve a kidnapping.
Author
Series
Sunrise Suspense Society volume 2
Formats
Description
"Eliza Blake, host of the top-rated KEY News morning show, has witnessed tragedy and danger in her career. But nothing the accomplished professional has experienced has prepared her for when her seven-year-old daughter, Janie, is snatched from summer camp. She and the rest of the Sunrise Suspense Society--brilliant producer Annabelle Murphy, cameraman extraordinaire B.J. D'Elia, and psychiatrist Dr. Margo Gonzalez--will band together to outwit a cunning...
73) The protector
Series
Publisher
Weinstein Co
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (194 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Kham grew up with elephants in Thailand. To him elephants are majestic creatures, bred for peace, but prepared for war. When an evil Asian gang kidnap a bull and baby elephant during a festival, they are smuggled into Sydney, Australia. Kham must travel to a foreign land, and unravel a conspiracy that will reach into the highest levels of Australian law and business circles. With only his Muy Thai fighting techniques, and a disgraced Thai-descent...
74) Commando
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The ex-head of a special commando strike team is forced back into action when his daughter is kidnapped. With the help of a feisty stewardess, he has only a few hours to overcome his greatest challenge--finding his daughter before she is killed.
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
249 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Three ordinary men find themselves completely out of their element, holding a young girl hostage without the slightest idea of what to do next. They are already guilty of kidnapping and robbery. It is only a matter of time before they find out just what else they are capable of. For these four people, three days will decide their fate, between freedom and prison, innocence and guilt, and life and death.
76) Payoff
Author
Series
Simon Fisk novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Tapped to oversee a ransom exchange involving a movie mogul's abducted daughter, former U.S. Marshal Simon Fisk learns that the kidnappers have no intention of returning the girl, a discovery that prompts a quest through the most dangerous cities of South America.
77) Crash
Author
Publisher
Forge Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 25 cm
Description
With debt-burdened governments and businesses worldwide about to go bust, a cabal of Wall Street big shots plot to destroy the globe's stock exchanges. To provide that one thing that goes wrong. In 24 hours, a powerful computer worm will smash the exchanges and spark an international panic, pushing a debt-laden world into the abyss. The Wall Street gang's investment bank will be the last one standing, able to make a killing amid the ruins. But one...
78) Silence
Publisher
Indican Pictures
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A masked man takes a family hostage as he looks for the leader of a child prostituion and trafficking ring.
79) And hope to die
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
A French criminal on the run heads to Canada where he joins a group of men in planning out a kidnapping that goes wrong.
Antoine "Froggy" Cardot, a French criminal on the run, heads to Canada where he joins a gang of criminals, Charley, Mattone and Rizzio, who are plotting a complicated robbery. Their foolproof plan blows up in their faces when they end up kidnapping a crime lord's daughter and accidently killing her.
80) Lamb
Series
Publisher
Direct Source Special Products
Pub. Date
p1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lamb focuses on the relationship between Brother Michael Lamb, a teacher in a Roman Catholic-run institution for troubled boys on the Atrim Coast of Ireland, and 10-year old Owen Kane, the school's most unruly pupil.
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