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1) The new girl
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Series
Language
English
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At an exclusive private school in Switzerland, mystery surrounds the identity of the beautiful girl who arrives each morning and leaves each afternoon in a heavily protected motorcade fit for a head of state. She is said to be the daughter of a wealthy international businessman. She is not. And when she is brutally kidnapped across the border in the Haute-Savoie region of France, Gabriel Allon, the legendary chief of Israeli intelligence, is thrust...
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Series
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestseller Iris Johansen is back with another high octane thriller that will leave your mind racing and your heart pounding. Despite her tragic childhood, violin prodigy Cara Delaney has finally found peace in her career as a professional musician and stability in her relationship with her guardians, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan and ex-Navy SEAL Joe Quinn. If only Jock Gavin, Cara's lifelong friend and a man with his own twisted history,...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A harrowing and heart-wrenching memoir of humanitarian aid worker Buchanan's kidnapping by Somali land pirates, her three months in captivity, her rescue by the Navy SEALs, and her husband's extraordinary efforts to help bring her home.
In 2006, 27-year-old Jessica Buchanan arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, with long-held dreams of helping to educate African children. By 2009, she had met and married a Swede named Erik Landemalm, who worked to coordinate...
4) Windswept
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Publisher
Amulet Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Years after her sisters venture Outside and vanish in a snow squall, thirteen-year-old Tag sets out to rescue the lost Youngers, accompanied by an unlikely crew--Boots, who can climb anything; Ant, who will eat anything; and Ren, who will say anything. Includes author's note.
5) Oliver Twist
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
"An orphan living on the dangerous London streets, Oliver has no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, however hard he tries to escape" -- Amazon.com
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2002
Language
Español
Description
A novelist in a limousine around Mexico City is kidnapped after receiving a literary prize. As of that moment, the writer spends all his time tied to a chair blindfolded; his only company in order not to lose his mind is the obsessive voice he hears in his mind. All he does is think; he remembers deaths, blindness, and darkness in Literature. The questions: who, how, why and when are left floating in the air. The narration comes from his mind and...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped by an intruder, Claire, a sufferer of acute panic disorder, finds herself imprisoned in a hotel with her abductor as her only companion, a trauma that forces her to reevaluate her life and threatens to shatter her sense of sanity.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Stephen Coonts presents the seventh installment of the Deep Black series. When the Russian mafia kidnaps two U.S. Intelligence agents in the Arctic, ex-Marine Charlie Dean and his Deep Black team head south to recover the hostages. Meanwhile, Lia Francesca discovers a volatile connection between Russia and the Arctic oil supply.
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Superspy middle schoolers Ben and Erica must embark on mission to rescue Erica's grandfather, who was abducted from a remote Alaskan training facility.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Paul Janson, an ex-assassin for the United States government, teams up with an accomplished sharpshooter, Jessica Kincaid, to rescue a doctor abducted by African pirates in international waters and realizes there are larger forces at work when their liberation mission goes awry.
11) The captive
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
At a beach resort in the Philippines, twenty guests are kidnapped by an Islamic separatist group fighting for the independence of Mindanao. French social worker Therese Bourgoine is among those taken to a jungle island, with the Filipino army in hot pursuit. Over weeks and then months, a strange bond grows between the kidnappers and hostages, and things are not as straightforward as they seem.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"After a harrowing, otherworldly confrontation on the shores of Exmouth, Massachusetts, Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast is missing, presumed dead. Sick with grief, his ward, Constance, retreats to her chambers beneath the family mansion at 891 Riverside Drive -- only to be taken captive by a shadowy figure from the past. Proctor, Pendergast's longtime bodyguard, springs to action, chasing Constance's kidnapper through cities, across oceans, and into...
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