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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Emmy just wants to be in charge of her own life. She wants to stay out late, surf her favorite beach?go anywhere without her parents? relentless worrying. But Emmy?s parents can?t seem to let her grow up?not since the day Oliver disappeared. Oliver needs a moment to figure out his heart. He?d thought, all these years, that his dad was the good guy. He never knew that it was his father who kidnapped him and kept him on the run. Discovering it, and...
2) Southernmost
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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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"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When we first meet seven-year-old Dolly, she immediately grabs us with a voice that is both precocious and effervescent. It has been a while since her dad has spent time with her, just the two of them, and so when he scoops her up and promises to take her on the adventure of a lifetime, Dolly is thrilled. The first days on the road are incredibly exciting. Every pit stop promises a new delight for Dolly and her favorite plastic horse, Clemesta, who...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When enemies from his time in prison put a bounty on his head and target his family, Nate McClusky takes his eleven-year-old daughter Polly from in front of her school into a world of robbery, violence, and the constant threat of capture, or death.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Liz Daniels has every reason to be happy about setting off on a rare family vacation, leaving behind her remote home in the Adirondack Mountains for a while. Instead, she feels uneasy. Her children, eight-year-old Reid and six-year-old Ally, have met their paternal grandparents only a handful of times. But Liz{u2019}s husband, Paul, has decided that, despite a strained relationship with his mother and father, they should visit the farm in western...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Haley and Ben live with their mother. When their dad is convinced there's a new, much deadlier pandemic coming, he kidnaps them. Confined in his prepper hideaway far off the grid, he believes they will be safe from other people. Haley and Ben have no contact with the outside world, and are worried about their mother. Is the threat even real -- or is this all just a dark fantasy brought on by their conspiracy obsessed father's warped imagination? --...
7) Second sight
Author
Series
Jigsaw files volume 2
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When Charlie Dodge gets a phone call from a frantic woman stating her daughter has been kidnapped by her ex-husband and taken into a cult called Fourth Dimension, he takes the case without hesitation. The cult's rumored purpose is to gather men with psychic abilities with the goal of breeding a race of people who have supernatural powers. Once accepted into the cult, men are given a young girl to marry in exchange for one of their own daughters....
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Language
English
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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
Language
English
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Description
Melanie was kidnapped at the age of three. Six years later she is found wandering the streets of L.A. with blank eyes. What terrible secret keeps her from talking and telling people how they can fight the evil that is terrorizing not only Melanie, but everyone around her?
10) Falling glass
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Language
English
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Description
Richard Coulter is a man who has everything. His beautiful new wife is pregnant, his upstart airline is undercutting the competition and moving from strength to strength, his diversification into the casino business in Macau has been successful, and his fabulous Art Deco house on an Irish cliff top has just been featured in Architectural Digest. But then, for some reason, his ex-wife Rachel doesn't keep her side of the custody agreement and vanishes...
Author
Language
English
Description
Barbara is at a loss. The daughter of her friend Taymullah Azhar has been taken by her mother, and Barbara can't really help -- Azhar had never married Angelina, and his name isn't on Hadiyyah's, their daughter's, birth certificate. He has no legal claim. Azhar and Barbara hire a private detective, but the trail goes cold. Azhar is just beginning to accept his soul-crushing loss when Angelina reappears with shocking news: Hadiyyah is missing, kidnapped...
Author
Publisher
Nelson Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Two decades ago, Not Without My Daughter (a global phenomenon made into a film starring Sally Field) told of the daring escape of an American mother and her six-year-old child from an abusive and fanatical Iranian husband and father. Now the daughter tells the whole story, not only of her imprisonment and escape but of life after fleeing Iran: living in fear of re-abduction, battling recurring nightmares and panic attacks, taking on an assumed name,...
Author
Publisher
al-Dār al-ʻArabīyah lil-ʻUlūm Nāshirūn
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Arabic
Description
During a snowy Cleveland February, newlyweds Muneer and Saeedah are starting their lives in America and expecting their first child. But Muneer harbors a secret: the word divorce has begun whispering itself in his ear. Soon, their marriage will end, and Muneer will return to Saudi Arabia, while Saeedah remains in Cleveland with their daughter, Hanadi. The more time she shares with her daughter, the more Saeedah wants to keep her close, and before...
14) Vanishing acts
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
Life is going well for Delia Hopkins. She has a daughter and a fiancé, and with her search-and-rescue bloodhound, she helps find missing persons. But as she plans for her wedding, she is haunted by inexplicable flashbacks to a devastating time she cannot recall.
15) In a dark house
Author
Series
Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James mysteries volume 10
Language
English
Formats
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