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61) Rise the dark
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Drawn to the scene of his wife's murder when the man responsible is released from prison, investigator Mark Novak races against time to save the life of a woman who has been abducted by the same fanatical killer.
63) Map of fates
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Heiress to the powerful secret society known as the Circle, Avery West crosses continents following a trail of clues she hopes will lead to Alexander the Great's Tomb--and the earth shattering secret it holds--before it's too late"--
65) 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.
Author
Language
English
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Description
The Face on the Milk Carton meets The Impossible Knife of Memory in this ripped-from-the-headlines novel that explores the power of being an ally—and a friend—when a kidnapped boy returns to his hometown.
Sam Walsh had been missing for three years. His older sister, Beth, thought he was dead. His childhood friend Josh thought it was all his fault. They were the last two people to see him alive.
Until now....
Sam Walsh had been missing for three years. His older sister, Beth, thought he was dead. His childhood friend Josh thought it was all his fault. They were the last two people to see him alive.
Until now....
Author
Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former government operative Cotton Malone teams with old heartthrob Cassiopeia Vitt on a dangerous mission to retrieve a priceless third century B.C.E. Chinese lamp.
68) Once a scoundrel
Author
Series
Rogues redeemed volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The disgraced son of a proud naval dynasty embarks on a dangerous mission in hostile waters to rescue an earl's kidnapped daughter from life as a harem slave.
69) Blaze: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stephen King fans know Richard Bachman is the pen name King used for some of his earliest fiction. What even diehard King devotees will be surprised to learn, however, is that a lost Bachman book from the '70s entitled Blaze has been discovered.This wrenching novel of a mentally retarded recluse with giantism goaded into a kidnapping plot by his evil-minded friend will shock listeners with its pitch-black sequence of events.
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 8
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
A yacht bearing a young American couple is attacked by Somali pirates, leading to bloodshed and the violent kidnapping of the pregnant woman on board. To aid in her rescue from the lawless and war-torn jungles of coastal Africa, Sigma Force enlists the aid of a unique search team.
71) A Catskill eagle
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spenser and Hawk, in an uneasy undercover alliance with federal law-enforcement agents, search for Susan Silverman, who is somehow involved with the son of a man the government wants dead.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1977, aging comedian Koo Davis, friend to generals and presidents, and veteran of countless USO tours to boost morale, is kidnapped by the five remaining members of the self-proclaimed People's Revolutionary Army who want to bring their cause back to life.
73) The hunt
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Detective Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus return to Los Angeles when a kidnapping hits close to home--in this breathtaking new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman. Peter and his partner, Detective Tyler McAdams, are thrown into an unsolved case and propelled into action when a body is found in the very woods where a man previously went missing in upstate New York. But that's not the only crisis that Peter has to deal with....
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
The murder of John Li, a South L.A. liquour store owner, hits LAPD Detective Harry Bosch hard, and he promises Li's family that he'll find the killer. As he uncovers a link to a Hong Kong triad--a lethal and far-reaching crime ring that follows many immigrants to their new lives in the U.S.--his world instantly explodes and the person he holds most dear is taken from him.
75) Red country
Author
Series
First Law World volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Resolving to avenge the murders of her siblings, Shy South embarks on a dangerous journey with a pair of oxen and her cowardly stepfather to a frontier town gripped by gold fever and feuds before forging a precarious alliance with an infamous soldier of fortune and his feckless lawyer.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Emory Charbonneau, a pediatrician and marathon runner, disappears on a mountain road in North Carolina. By the time her husband Jeff, miffed over a recent argument, reports her missing, the trail has grown cold. Literally. Fog and ice encapsulate the mountainous wilderness and paralyze the search for her. While police suspect Jeff of "instant divorce," Emory, suffering from an unexplained head injury, regains consciousness and finds herself the...
78) Back spin
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
When veteran golfer Jack Coldren, staging a comeback at the U.S. Open, is found dead in a sand trap, sports agent Myron Bolitar investigates, digging through twenty years of secrets to find a killer who is closer to him than he imagined.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kathy and Kelly Frawley are twin three-year-olds kidnapped and held ransom for eight million dollars. Even when their parents comply with the kidnapper's demands, only Kelly is returned--along with a note that Kathy has died. But when Kelly receives telepathic messages from her sister, their mother refuses to give up hope.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. Kim Stanley Robinson is one of contemporary science fiction's most acclaimed writers, and with this new novel, he once again turns his eye to themes of climate change, technology, politics, and the human behaviors that drive these forces. But his setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world--rather, he imagines a more hopeful...
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