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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from stories, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin, a High Lord of the faeries. As her feelings toward him transform from hostility to a firey passion, the threats against the faerie lands grow. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose Tamlin forever" -- !c Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America. Orphaned when her family was brutally killed by Yavapai Indians, Oatman lived as a slave to her captors for a year before being traded to the Mohave, who tattooed her face and raised her as their own. She was fully assimilated and perfectly happy when, at nineteen, she was ransomed back to white society.
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in a broken-down property in the middle of a desert. Strangers to each other, they have no idea where they are or how they came to be there with eight other girls....In each girl's past is a sexual scandal with a powerful man. The Natural Way of Things is a gripping, starkly imaginative exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control, and of what it means to hunt and be...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Océano de México
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
Español
Description
From an early age Ho Liang was fascinated by butterflies. Upon becoming emperor, wanted to take a glass cage at least one of every corner of his empire. However, butterflies in captivity lost their color to the rapt gaze of the emperor. A fable about freedom and the search for identity.
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Held captive in the barbarian kingdom of Venda, Princess Lia and Rafe have little chance of escape--and even less of being together--as the foundations of Lia's deeply-held beliefs crumble beneath her while she wrestles with her upbringing, her gift, and her very sense of self to make powerful choices that affect her country, her people, and her own destiny.
8) The taking of Jemima Boone: colonial settlers, tribal nations, and the kidnap that shaped America
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone, Daniel Boone's daughter, by a Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party and the ensuing battle with reverberations that nobody could predict.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In "Out of Captivity," Gonsalves, Stansell, and Howes recount for the first time their amazing tale of survival, friendship, and, ultimately, rescue, tracing their five and a half years as hostages of the FARC--a Colombian terrorist and Marxist rebel organization.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Ingrid Betancourt tells the story of her captivity in the Colombian jungle, sharing teachings of resilience, resistance, and faith. Born in Bogotá, raised in France, Betancourt at age 32 gave up a life of comfort and safety to return to Colombia to become a political leader in a country that was being slowly destroyed by terrorism, violence, fear, and hopelessness. In 2002, while a candidate in the Colombian presidential elections, she was abducted...
13) Cautiva
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Español
Description
Describes the author's experiences during her six-year captivity by FARC, her friendship with fellow hostage Ingrid Betancourt, how she gave birth to a son who was taken away from her, and their joyful reunion three years later.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Invited to an interview by a Taliban commander, New York Times reporter David Rohde and two Afghan colleagues were kidnapped in November 2008 and spirited to the tribal areas of Pakistan. For seven months, they lived in an alternate reality, ruled by jihadists, in which paranoia, conspiracy theories, and shifting alliances abounded. Held in bustling towns, they found that Pakistan's powerful military turned a blind eye to a sprawling Taliban mini-state...
Author
Publisher
Aguilar
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Español
Description
En 2002, Ingrid Betancourt, candidata a la presidencia de Colombia, fue secuestrada. Este libro es el relato de sus seis años y medio de cautiverio a manos de la FARC, Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia.
In 2002, Ingrid Betancourt, a candidate for the presidency of Colombia, was kidnapped. This book tells about the six and a half years that she was held hostage by the FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The never-before-told story of Laura Ling's capture by the North Koreans and the role her sister played in bringing about her rescue by President Bill Clinton. A piercing look inside the world's most secretive nation as well as a moving tale of sisterhood and love.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Adrienne Cahill cares about three things: getting into a great college; becoming a revered journalist like her idol, Sydney Declay; and making her late father proud of her. So when Adrienne is offered the chance to write an article that will get her into her dream school and debunk her foolish stepfather's belief that a legendary family of hermits is living in the Siberian wilderness, there's no question that she's going to fly across the world. But...
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
On the morning of April 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis received a telegram from General Robert E. Lee. There is no more time--the Yankees are coming, it warned. That night Davis fled Richmond, setting off an intense manhunt for the Confederate president. Two weeks later, President Lincoln was assassinated, and the nation was convinced that Davis was involved in the conspiracy that led to the crime. Lincoln's murder, autopsy, and White House funeral transfixed...
Author
Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The experiences, based on her own account, of Mary Jemison who was captured by a Shawnee war party when she was twelve and subsequently rescued and adopted by the Seneca with whom she chose to remain the rest of her long life.
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