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Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
English
Description
"The award-winning More, by one of Turkey's leading underground writers, is the world's first novel about the refugee crisis. "The illegals climbed into the truck, and, after a journey of two hundred miles, they boarded ships and were lost in the night." Gaza lives on the shores of the Aegean Sea. At the age of nine he becomes a human trafficker, like his father. Together with his father and local boat owners Gaza helps smuggle desperate "illegals,"...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
There are more slaves in the world today than at any time in history. In this account of contemporary slavery, journalist Skinner travels around the globe to personally tell stories that need to be told--and heard. With years of reporting in such places as Haiti, Sudan, India, Eastern Europe, The Netherlands, and, yes, even suburban America, Skinner has produced a moving reportage on one of the great evils of our time. After spending four years infiltrating...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
On the eve of publisher Mikael Blomkvist's story about sex trafficking between Eastern Europe and Sweden, two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Mikael Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander--the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who came to his aid years before.
Author
Series
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Pro bono lawyer Jenny Parker is the only true innocent in her family. The daughter of a New Orleans crime lord, she's tried for years to make her own way, but family ties always manage to pull her back in line. When her youngest brother gets involved in human trafficking, Jenny wants to believe him innocent and tries to protect him, even though it means covering for his crimes. Matthew Ryder knows Jenny is hiding something, and he couldn't care less...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Sarah Ransome was recruited into Jeffrey Epstein's network when she was 22, during her first months in Manhattan, and in America. Her desire to network in hopes of getting into the Fashion Institute of Technology were destroyed overnight and Sarah found herself imprisoned by a web of co-conspirators on an island ... after enduring unimaginable trauma, Sarah bravely pulls back the curtain on a hell that only those who entered it can truly testify...
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Patience Portefeux, fifty-three, is an underpaid Franco-Arab judicial interpreter for the Ministry of Justice who specializes in telephone tapping. Widowed, wedged between university fees for her two grown-up daughters and nursing home costs for her aging mother, she's laboring to keep everyone's heads above water. Happening upon an especially revealing set of police wiretaps, Patience makes a life-altering decision that sees her intervening in--...
8) Las elegidas
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
septiembre de 2015.
Language
Español
Description
De Jorge Volpi, autor de En busca de Klingsor y Memorial del engaño. El universo de la trata de mujeres en Tijuana descrito en esta novela ha inspirado la ópera Cuatro corridos, con música de Hilda Paredes, Lei Liang, Hebert Vázquez y Arlene Sierra (2013), así como la película Las elegidas, de David Pablos. "Los hombres son perros sin bozal, perros sin sesos, perros a los que domeñan sus instintos." La leyenda sostiene que, desde épocas prehispánicas,...
10) Furious
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Faith McMann comes home to a nightmare: her husband is killed and her son and daughter are taken. Although the intruders leave her for dead, she survives. Crippling grief and fear for her children make life unbearable. Until her anguish turns to anger…and she trades victimhood for vengeance.
Frustrated with the law’s efforts, she takes action to rescue her children—and wreaks havoc on the brutal criminals
...Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Jessie Archer is a member of the Athena Protocol, an elite organization of female spies who enact vigilante justice around the world. Athena operatives are never supposed to shoot to kill--so when Jessie can't stop herself from pulling the trigger, she gets kicked out of the organization, right before a huge mission to take down a human trafficker in Belgrade. Jessie needs to right her wrong and prove herself, so she starts her own investigation into...
12) Steel trap
Author
Series
Publisher
Geoffrey Saign
Pub. Date
©2021
Language
English
Description
"When Steel picks up a CIA asset with classified intel in the Bahamas, his team is hit hard and the mission blows up. A Russian oligarch, a KGB operative, and a twisted mercenary will stop at nothing to prevent Steel from delivering intel that will expose the criminality of a hundred powerful men."
13) Change agent
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"On a crowded train platform, Interpol agent Kenneth Durand feels the sting of a needle-- and his transformation begins. In 2045 Kenneth Durand leads Interpol's most effective team against genetic crime, hunting down black market labs that perform "vanity edits" on human embryos for a price. These illegal procedures augment embryos in ways that are rapidly accelerating human evolution--preying on human-trafficking victims to experiment and advance...
15) Sound of freedom
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Is based on an incredible true story, and shines a light on even the darkest of places. After rescuing a young boy from ruthless child traffickers, a federal agent learns the boy's sister is still captive and decides to embark on a dangerous mission to save her. With time running out, he quits his job and journeys deep into the Colombian jungle, putting his life on the line to free himself from a fate worse than death.
16) The missing
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
A frontier woman forms an uneasy alliance with her estranged father after her daughter is kidnapped by an Apache medicine man.
17) The life I'm in
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
January 2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Turned out of the only home she has known, Charlese Jones is lured into the dangerous web of human trafficking, and while she is frightened, she remains determined to bring herself and her fellow victims out of danger.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"While exploring her grandmother's past at an ashram in India with her cousin Anandi, seventeen-year-old Raya finds herself and, perhaps, true love in this modern retelling of the legend of Dushyanta and Shakuntala." --
"After getting into UCLA, Raya Liston begins questioning the future laid out for her. When her beloved grandmother dies, she escapes to the ashram in India where her grandparents fell in love. While exploring her family's past with...
Publisher
Poh Kim Video Pte Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Korean
Description
A once legendary gangster Dong-chul (Ma Dong-seok) cleans up his past and tries to settle down to enjoy an ordinary life with his angelic wife Ji-soo (Song Ji-hyo). However, due to his naive and reckless nature, he continuously gets tricked into making bad business decisions. Then one day, he returns home to find the place cluttered with signs of struggle and his wife nowhere to be found. Soon after, he realises that his wife is kidnapped, he receives...
20) Taken
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Kim is seventeen years-old and the pride and joy of her father, the ex-CIA agent Bryan Mills. Bryan left the agency to stay near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim convinces the reluctant Bryan to sign an authorization form so she can travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When they arrive, they share a cab with a stranger named Peter. Amanda tells him that they are alone in Paris. While Bryan...
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