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Treehouse series volume 10
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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New York Times-bestselling team Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton invite readers to come hang out with them in their 130-Story Treehouse-the tenth book in the illustrated chapter book series filled with Andy and Terry's signature slapstick humor! Andy and Terry live in a 130-story treehouse. (It used to be a 117-story treehouse, but they added another 13 stories.) It has a soap bubble blaster, a time-wasting level, a 13-story igloo, the GRABINATOR (it...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Educated and The Glass Castle, a harrowing, redemptive and profoundly inspiring memoir of childhood trauma and its long reach into adulthood. One Omaha winter day in November 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knifepoint from a church parking lot. She was thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and then left to die as an ice storm descended over the city. Debora survived. She identified her attacker...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"This is the never-before-told, riveting true story about a teenage Christian girl who was seduced online by a charming young Muslim man from Kosovo, and her father who ultimately worked with the FBI to save her from disappearing forever. The Baldwins were a strong Christian family, living in Plano, Texas. When their seventeen-year-old daughter, Mackenzie, met Aadam in a random-match online chat room, she fell for his good looks, his charm, and his...
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Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
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"In Brixton, south London , a husband and wife are found tied up and imprisoned in their house. Badly dehydrated after suffering beatings and days without food or water, they are in bad shape. The husband is clinging to life. But worse is to come. Their young son is missing. Detective Inspector Jack Caffery of AMIT is called in to investigate the abduction of the little boy. When the child's body is found Caffery knows from the nature of the attack...
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
The Susan Smith kidnapping and murder case in South Carolina significantly raised awareness about child abduction. Although most kidnappings are committed by relatives, say the experts, children and their parents have a lot to learn when it comes to keeping themselves safe. This program examines a police investigation into the disappearance of a preschooler and visits a school to test how easily youngsters can be lured by a stranger. The program also...
Author
Series
Eve Rossi volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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"Edgar Award-winning author Stefanie Pintoff shoots to thrill in her gripping new novel of suspense. ON THE DAY AMERICANS GIVE THANKS, A MADMAN GIVES THEM HELL. The night before the Thanksgiving Day Parade, a crowd gathers on Manhattan's Upper West Side to watch the giant balloons fill with helium and rise toward the sky. Then the festive ritual takes a terrifying turn--a gunshot rings out, police commissioner Logan Donovan falls, and panic erupts....
11) Barbarian lover
Author
Series
Ice planet barbarians volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The third novel in the international publishing phenomenon the Ice Planet Barbarians series, now in a special print edition with bonus materials and an exclusive epilogue! Kira has been fine being alone in this strange alien planet--she doesn't want a mate, anyway. At least that's what she tells herself. But when Aehako comes along, everything changes... As one of the few humans stranded on the ice planet, I should be happy that I have a new home....
12) Night hunter
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A weathered lieutenant, his police force, and a local vigilante are all caught up in a dangerous scheme involving a recently arrested, troubled man who's linked to years of female abductions and murders.
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"When misguided teenagers Jesse Crawford and Jenny Wheeler are forced to rob Emmett Brown to escape impossible circumstances, what starts as a home invasion quickly turns into a nightmare for the teens. What Jesse and Jenny don't know is that although Emmett is now old, severely obese, and in chronic pain, Emmett was responsible for the kidnapping and deaths of two young women almost twenty years ago, crimes that have never been solved. So Emmett...
15) The cage
Author
Series
The cage (Megan Shepherd) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
Cora wakes up in a cage on an alien planet where she meets the Kindred, her mysterious alien captors, and along with other teenager abductees must find a way to escape back to Earth.
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Are we being taken by beings from outer space or another dimension? A troubling phenomenon has been occurring for centuries, countless individuals have very real memories of being taken secretly by nonhuman entities, many being subjected to complex physical and psychological procedures. A large number of experiences tell tragic tales of being taken against their will, which is frightening enough, but what if our own government is aware of abductions...
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Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Kit Philipson has always felt like stranger in his family. An only child in Glasgow, Scotland, his mother was a teacher; his father, a journalist, escaped from Nazi Germany at the age of three on one of the 1939 Kindertransports. On her deathbed, Kit's mother tells him he was adopted and his birth name was Novello. A search of old newspaper files reveals that a three-year-old boy named Peter Novello was abducted from his parents' holiday hotel in...
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