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2) Caught
Author
Language
English
Description
Finding and exposing sexual predators on television, reporter Wendy Tynes prompts the arrest of a man who worked as an advocate for abused children and tackles the case of a missing girl before a group of vigilante fathers makes Wendy fear that she accused an innocent man.
5) The valiant
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The daughter of a proud Celtic king is captured and sold to a training school for women gladiators under the patronage of Julius Caesar, circumstances that put her survival in the hands of an enemy who was responsible for her sister's death.
6) The taking
Author
Series
Taking trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Waking up after a five-year absence with no memory of what happened, softball player Kyra Agnew is astonished to realize that she did not age while she was missing and teams up with her former boyfriend's now-teenaged younger brother to figure out what happened.
Author
Series
[Eschaton trilogy] volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Two Earthmen are captured by aliens, then cloned and subjected to experiments. They escape and after capturing some aliens return to Earth, using their new knowledge to defend Earth from an alien invasion.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Sent to Lisbon and Morocco, where a British studio is creating a silent film version of "The Pirates of Penzance," Mary Russell investigates a series of crimes targeting the production and confronts a high-stakes situation when actual pirates orchestrate a hostage situation.
10) Thirty girls
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forced to witness and commit unspeakable atrocities after being abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army, Ugandan teen Esther struggles to survive and escape before crossing paths with Jane, an American journalist who has traveled to Africa to advocate on behalf of children like Esther.
11) The gaps
Author
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Yin Mitchell is abducted, the news reverberates through the whole Year Ten class at Balmoral Ladies College. As the hours tick by, the girls know the chance of Yin being found alive is becoming smaller and smaller. Everyone is affected by Yin's disappearance--even scholarship student Chloe, who usually stays out of Balmoral dramas, is drawn into the maelstrom. And when she begins to form an uneasy alliance with Natalia, the queen...
14) Shiver
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Repossessing cars to support her small son after being abandoned on the harsh streets of East St. Louis, young single mother Samantha Jones discovers a dying man in the trunk of a car who takes her hostage and forces her to help him reach his protectors.
15) Blind tiger
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Thatcher Hutton, a war-weary soldier on the way back to his cowboy life, jumps from a moving freight train to avoid trouble . . . and lands in more than he bargained for"--
16) The replaced
Author
Series
Taking trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kyra hasn't been the same since she returned from her mysterious five-year disappearance. Now, on the run from the NSA, Kyra is forced to hide out with others who, like her, have been Returned. Yet she is determined to find Tyler, the boy she loves who was also abducted.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Minutes after eighteen-year-old Bennett Bardo of Gordo, New Mexico, asks Sophie Gilkey, his dream girl, to prom and she says yes, she is abducted by aliens and Bennett catches a ride across the galaxy with a band of misfit musicians to find her.
Author
Series
Lights of Lowell volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young and recently widowed, Jasmine Houston confronts the vital issues of freedom and slavery, love and hate, life and death. As Jasmine's opposition to slavery grows and her friendship with her bachelor brother-in-law Nolan deepens, her Massachusetts horse farm soon becomes a stop for the Underground Railroad. With both her mother and mammy dying, she and her young son rush to the family plantation in Mississippi--escorted by Nolan. Keeping a death-bed...
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