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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!
62) 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...
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In a small town where everyone knows everyone, a peculiar incident starts a chain of events that leads to the disappearance of a child - which begins to tear at the fabric of an otherwise peaceful community. Dark government agencies and seemingly malevolent supernatural forces converge on the town while a few locals begin to understand that there's more going on than meets the eye. When a young boy disappears, his mother, a police chief, and his friends...
65) Good as gone
Author
Series
Simon Fisk novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 25 cm
Description
A former U.S. Marshal, haunted by the unsolved disappearance of his daughter, reluctantly investigates a terrifying international child abduction case.
Author
Series
Mistmantle chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion Paperbacks for Children/Miramax
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
316 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
"King Crispin and Queen Cedar have just had a baby daughter--Princess Catkin--and everyone on Mistmantle Island gathers for the joyful celebration of the Naming Ceremony. But the day after, the princess suddenly disappears. Urchin and all the brave captains are dispatched to bring back the princess, but come back empty-handed. All clues point to Linty, an older squirrel who had gone mad with grief when two of her children had been culled during evil...
67) The woods
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Formats
Description
Twenty years ago, four teenagers at summer camp walked into the woods at night. Two were found murdered, and the others were never seen again. Four families had their lives changed forever. Now, two decades later, they are about to change again. For Paul Copeland, the county prosecutor of Essex, New Jersey, mourning the loss of his sister has only recently begun to subside. Cope, as he is known, is now dealing with raising his six-year-old daughter...
68) Reservoir 13
Author
Series
Reservoir novels volume 1
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 21 cm
Description
A teenage girl has gone missing and everyone is called upon to join the search. The villagers fan out across the English moors as the police set up roadblocks and news reporters descend. Meanwhile, there is still work that must be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed. As the seasons unfold and the search for the missing girl goes on, there are those who leave the village and those who...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A lyrical and heart-breaking exploration of love, loss, and the power of things unseen, based on the award-winning novel by Ian McEwan and adapted by Stephen Butchard. With tenderness and insight, the movie explores a marriage devastated, the loss of childhood, the fluidity of time, grief, hope, and acceptance.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
498 pages ; 24 cm
Description
When a woman is beheaded in a park outside Rome and her six-year-old son goes missing, Deputy Captain Colomba Caselli and Dante Torre, both still recovering from personal catastrophes, team up to solve the series of killings and abductions that ensues. As they follow the ever-more-bizarre trail of clues, one thing becomes clear: what's really going on is much darker than anyone imagined. -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Jonathan Stride novels volume 5
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Description
In the quiet town of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, a baby vanishes from her bedroom in an opulent lakeside home. Was she abducted, or does her father have a terrible secret to hide? That same night, a young policewoman gets lost in the fog and stumbles into the middle of a horrific crime. Now a sadistic killer wants her to play his deadly game.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 23 cm
Description
Tangiers. Harry is preparing his wife's birthday dinner while she is still at work and their son, Dillon, is upstairs asleep in bed. Harry suddenly remembers that he's left Robin's gift at the caf? in town. It's only a five minute walk away and Dillon's so tricky to put down for the night, so Harry decides to run out on his own and fetch the present. Disaster strikes. An earthquake hits, buildings crumble, people scream and run. Harry fights his way...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Formats
Description
The Hon. Phryne Fisher, languid and slightly bored at the start of 1929, is engaged to find out if the antique-shop-owning son of a Pre-Raphaelite model has died by homicide or suicide. At the same time she is asked to discover the fate of the lost illegitimate child of a rich old lady, to the evident dislike of the remaining relatives.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
294 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Description
After moving to a new town for her father's job, Clara learns that kids go missing from Pender every October and that a monster named the Mumbler may be responsible.
78) The shack
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
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Description
After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips spirals into a deep depression causing him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious letter urging him to an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness.
79) Hard eight
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Description
This time Stephanie, Morelli, Ranger. Lula, Valerie, and Grandma Mazur are strapped in for the ride of their lives. Stephanie is hired to find a missing child. But things aren't always as they seem and Stephanie must determine if she's working for the right side of the law. Plus, there's the Morelli question: can a Jersey girl keep her head on straight when more than just bullets are aimed for her heart? And with the Plum and Morelli relationship...
80) Home
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Series
Description
A decade ago, kidnappers grabbed two boys from wealthy families and demanded ransom, then went silent. No trace of the boys ever surfaced. For ten years their families have been left with nothing but painful memories and a quiet desperation for the day that has finally, miraculously arrived: Myron Bolitar and his friend Win believe they have located one of the boys, now a teenager. Where has he been for ten years, and what does he know about the day,...
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