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Gold seer trilogy volume 2
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English
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Having arrived in California, Lee Westfall's magical power is growing and changing every day and may be enough, with help from her true friends, to stop her villainous Uncle Hiram when he kidnaps her and sends her deep into his gold mine.
83) Transporter 3
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
Description
Valentina is the kidnapped daughter of a Ukranian government official. Frank Martin is given an offer he cannot refuse and ends up putting on his driving gloves to deliver Valentina from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea. En route, he has to deal with the thugs who want to intercept Valentina's safe delivery. On top of that, he cannot let his personal feelings get in the way of his dangerous objective.
84) Taken
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When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son has faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike-and Cole soon determines that it was no fake. The boy and his secret girlfriend have been taken, and are now lost in the gray and changing world of the professional border kidnappers who prey not only on innocent victims but also on one another-buying, selling, and stealing victims like commodities. Fortunately, the kidnappers...
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2013.
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English
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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 humanitarian aid with authorities in Africa. They moved to Somalia with hopes of starting a family. Then on October 25, 2011, Jessica and a colleague were kidnapped and held for ransom by a band of Somali pirates. For the next three months,...
87) Last night
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"A fierce blizzard is burying the eastern seaboard, but on the icy Rhode Island shore renowned artist Maddie Morrison finds warm sanctuary from a contentious divorce at the legendary Ocean House. Hours later, her body is found buried under a blanket of snow and her little daughter, CeCe, has disappeared without a trace. For Detective Conor Reid; his brother, Tom, a coast guard commander; and Maddie's grieving sister, Hadley, the posh hotel becomes...
88) The clearing
Pub. Date
2004.
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English
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When a wealthy Pittsburgh executive is kidnapped by an unemployed criminal, he must make the negotiation of a lifetime, as his wife desperately works with the FBI to secure his release.
89) Obsession
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Teddy Fay novels volume 6
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English
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"While filming on location in scenic Santa Barbara, California, Peter Barrington and Ben Bacchetti look to expand Centurion Studios by making a deal with a Croatian tech billionaire's. But when the magnate's wife is kidnapped, Teddy Fay is brought in to assess the threat and recover the young woman. As Teddy unravels the threads of her disappearance, he quickly comes to find an old vendetta that seethes at the center, one that puts them all at risk....
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Monday mornings aren’t supposed to be fun, but they should be predictable. However, on this particular Monday, Stephanie Plum knows that something is amiss when she turns up for work at Vinnie’s Bail Bonds to find that longtime office manager Connie Rosolli, who is as reliable as the tides in Atlantic City, hasn’t shown up. Stephanie’s worst fears are confirmed when she gets a call from Connie’s abductor. He says he will only release her...
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"One night three years ago, the Tanner sisters disappeared: fifteen-year-old Cass and seventeen-year-old Emma. Three years later, Cass returns, without her sister Emma. Her story is one of kidnapping and betrayal, of a mysterious island where the two were held. But to forensic psychiatrist Dr. Abby Winter, something doesn't add up. Looking deep within this dysfunctional family Dr. Winter uncovers a life where boundaries were violated and a narcissistic...
92) Mirage
Author
Series
Mirage (Daud) volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"In a world dominated by the brutal Vathek empire, eighteen-year-old Amani is a dreamer. She dreams of what life was like before the occupation; she dreams of writing poetry; she dreams of having adventures, and travelling beyond her isolated home. But when adventure comes for Amani, it is not what she expects: she is kidnapped and brought to the royal palace, where she discovers that she is to become a body double for the hated princess Maram"--
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[2009]
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English
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Jesse Stone is shot while moonlighting on a Boston stakeout, leaving his friend fighting for his life and Stone out for justice. His rogue investigation to find the shooter leads him into Boston's shady underworld. This leads him right into the bed of a Boston PD investigator, who wants his head on a platter if he continues to pursue the case. Meanwhile, Stone is approached by a broken-hearted mother who is convnced her kidnapped son is still alive....
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"The New York Times bestselling author of the "heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism" (People) The Book of Lost Names returns with an evocative coming-of-age World War II story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis-until a secret from her past threatens everything"--
96) Kiss the dead
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Anita Blake: vampire hunter volume 21
Anita Blake vampire hunter volume 21
Anita Blake Vampire Hunter volume 22
Anita Blake vampire hunter volume 21
Anita Blake Vampire Hunter volume 22
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English
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"When a fifteen-year-old girl is abducted by vampires, it's up to U.S. Marshal Anita Blake to find her. And when she does, she's faced with something she's never seen before: a terrifyingly ordinary group of people--kids, grandparents, soccer moms--all recently turned and willing to die to avoid serving a master. And where there's one martyr, there will be more... But even vampires have monsters that they're afraid of. And Anita is one of them." --...
97) Materia oscura
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
"Jason Dessen es secuestrado y despierta atado a una camilla, rodeado de extraños en trajes especiales. 'Bienvenido de nuevo', le dicen. Pero este mundo no es el mismo que él conoce. Su esposa no es la misma. Su hijo no ha nacido. Y Jason no es un profesor de física de la universidad...¿Es este mundo un sueño? ¿O su vida anterior era un sueño? Para saber quién es realmente, Jason deberá enfrentarse a las partes más oscuras de sí mismo,...
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365 days volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
Description
Laura Biel's new life in Sicily looks like the perfect fairy tale of wealth and luxury. But with a threat of her kidnapping, Laura is about to discover what it means to be married to the most dangerous man in Italy.
99) Pasión
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Español
Description
Una historia de amor y traición que conjuga el presente y el pasado y que narra la intrigante historia de Santiago y Camila. En su alcoba nupcial ambos son atacados por los hombres de Don Jorge Mancera y Ruiz. Tras una fuerte pelea Santiago es herido y Camila secuestrada. Al día siguiente Camila logra escapar pero es raptada por unos piratas quienes la venden a Don Timoteo de Salamanca y Almonte, un rencoroso millonario que desprecia a su familia....
100) Truly devious
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Truly Devious volume 1
Language
English
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When Stevie Bell, an amateur detective, begins her first year at a famous private school in Vermont, she sets a plan to solve the cold case involving the kidnapping of the founder's wife and daughter shortly after the school opened.
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