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1) Kidnapped
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
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'Originally written as a boys' adventure novel, Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped has received praise from a range of writers, including Henry James and Jorge Luis Borges. Set around events in eighteenth century Scotland, such as the "Appin Murder" that happened in the wake of the Jacobite Rising, it skillfully and sympathetically portrays the political situation of the time. A sequel, titled Catriona, was published in 1893.'-From Amazon
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Raylan Givens thrillers volume 2
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Ever-elusive bookie Harry Arno has disappeared once again, and U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens embarks on a search for the missing man--Novelist.
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Janie Johnson volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
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No one ever really paid close attention to the faces of the missing children on the milk cartons. But as Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the ordinary little girl with her hair in tight pigtails wearing a dress with a narrow white collar a three-year-old who had been kidnapped twelve years before from a shopping mall in New Jersey-she felt overcome with shock. She recognized that little girl-it was she. How could it possibly be true. Janie can't...
5) Hope to die
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Alex Cross novels volume 22
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
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Detective Alex Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius, forced to play the deadliest game of his career. Cross's family -- his loving wife Bree, the wise and lively Nana Mama, and his precious children -- have been ripped away. Terrified and desperate, Cross must give this mad man what he wants if he has any chance of saving the most important people in his life. The stakes have never been higher: What will Cross sacrifice to save the ones he...
6) The prisoner
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"With Behind Closed Doors, New York Times bestselling author B. A. Paris took the psychological thriller to shocking new heights. Now she'll hold you captive with THE PRISONER-a stunning new thriller about one woman wed into a family with deadly intentions. Amelie has always been a survivor, from losing her parents as a child in Paris to making it on her own in London. As she builds a life for herself, she is swept up into a glamorous lifestyle where...
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St. Kilda Consulting volume 1
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When federal judge Grace Silva's son is kidnapped by a violent killer, she turns to ruthless Joe Faroe, an ex-kidnapping specialist and a man from her past, to help save her son from an underground world Joe is trying to leave behind.
8) The mist
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When Lizzie Rush uncovers evidence that thrill-seeking billionaire Norman Estabrook may be at the center of an international criminal network, she finds herself playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse. When someone sets off a bomb in Boston, Lizzie discovers that Estabrook as well as the FBI director's daughter have disappeared. Together with intelligence officer Will Davenport, Lizzie sets out to track down Estabrook.
9) Sting
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When Jordie Bennet and Shaw Kinnard lock eyes across a disreputable backwater bar, something definitely sparks. Shaw gives off a dangerous vibe that makes men wary and inspires women to sit up and take notice. None feel that undercurrent more strongly than savvy businesswoman Jordie, who doesn't belong in a seedy dive on the banks of a bayou. But here she is ... and Shaw Kinnard is here to kill her. As Shaw and his partner take aim, Jordie is certain...
10) Kill Alex Cross
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Alex Cross novels volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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Detective Alex Cross is thwarted at every turn while he attempts to investigate the abduction of the president's son and daughter and also discovers a deadly contagion released in the capital's water supply that foreshadows a larger, more devastating attack.
11) The husband
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Bantam Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
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When Mitchell Rafferty receives a phone call that his wife has been kidnapped and there is a two million dollar ransom, his extraordinary commitment to his wife will take him on a seventy-two-hour journey of sacrifice and redemption.
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John Henry Cole novels volume 6
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John Henry Cole's life has quieted down from what it had always been, and he can now settle down and make improvements on his small ranch. But everything changes when an old rancher named Wilson rides in with his two sons. Wilson is willing to pay Cole $5,000 to help get back his wife, Lenora, who has been taken hostage by Lucky Jack Dancer, an outlaw who had robbed the train on which she was a passenger. She is being held prisoner in Gun Town, a...
13) Falling
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Thirty minutes before a flight to New York, the family of the pilot is kidnapped and in order for them to live, all 143 passengers onboard must die.
14) Alex
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Commandant Camille Verhoeven trilogy volume 2
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"Alex Prevost - kidnapped and suspended from the ceiling of an abandoned warehouse in a tiny cage - is running out of time. Her abductor appears to want only to watch her die. Will hunger, thirst, or the rats get her first? As diminutive Police Commandant Camille Verhoeven and his band of talented, eccentric detectives uncover the details of the young woman's singular history, they are forced to acknowledge that she is no ordinary victim. She is beautiful,...
15) The abduction
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God has a plan for Ben Brice, or so his mother had always said and so he had always believed, right up until that dark night in Vietnam. Now, thirty-eight years later, Ben Brice is a drunk. He lives alone with a dog in the New Mexico wilderness, where he drowns his dark memories of war in whiskey and wonders what God's plan had been and why it had gone so wrong. His only connection to the outside world is Gracie, his ten-year-old granddaughter.
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"...Stacy Willingham delivers a totally gripping thriller about a desperate mother with a troubled past in All the Dangerous Things. One year ago, Isabelle Drake's life changed forever: her toddler son, Mason, was taken out of his crib in the middle of the night while she and her husband were asleep in the next room. With little evidence and few leads for the police to chase, the case quickly went cold. However, Isabelle cannot rest until Mason is...
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Last Mountain Man series volume 36
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Deal With The Devil Smoke Jensen has seen the worst that men can do on the lawless frontier. But even the mountain man is not prepared for the outlaw band that strikes Smoke's ranch, kidnapping Sally and the daughter of Smoke's neighbor. Now, the women are gone and a ranch hand and his young daughter are dead. And Pay The Price In Blood... Outlaw Reece Van Arndt is mastermind behind the attack, and he thinks he has Smoke where he wants him: Van Arndt...
18) Little secrets
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"Overwhelmed by tragedy, a woman desperately tries to save her marriage in award-winning author Jennifer Hillier's Little Secrets, a riveting novel of psychological suspense. "Suspenseful and compelling-Hillier is a masterful storyteller." -Chevy Stevens All it takes to unravel a life is one little secret... Marin had the perfect life. Married to her college sweetheart, she owns a chain of upscale hair salons, and Derek runs his own company. They're...
19) Slow horses
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Slough House is Jackson Lamb's kingdom; a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service who've screwed up: left a secret file on a train, blown a surveillance, or become drunkenly unreliable. They're the service's poor relations - the slow horses - and bitterest among them is River Cartwright, whose days are spent transcribing mobile phone conversations. But when a young man is abducted, and it's threatened that he'll be beheaded live on...
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Daniel X volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
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The greatest superpower of all isn't to be part spider, part man, or to cast magic spells, the greatest power is the power to create. Daniel has that power. Daniel's secret abilities, like being able to manipulate objects and animals with his mind or to recreate himself in any shape he chooses, have helped him survive. But Daniel doesn't have a normal life. He is the protector of the earth, the Alien Hunter, with a mission beyond what anyone could...
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