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Rough weather [sound recording] / by Parker, Robert B.,1932-; Mantegna, Joe.;
Read by Joe Mantegna.A hurricane-level storm hinders a kidnapping, and Spenser goes on a search for the man responsible - the infamous Gray Man, who has both helped and hunted Spenser in the past.
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Audiobooks.; Hurricanes; Kidnapping; Private investigators; Spenser (Fictitious character);
© p2008., Random House Audio,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Perfect kill / by Fields, Helen,1969-author.;
"Alone, trapped in the darkness and with no way out, Bart Campbell knows that his chances of being found alive are slim. Drugged and kidnapped from his Edinburgh home, the realisation soon dawns that he's been locked inside a shipping container - but what Bart doesn't know is that he's now heading for France, where his unspeakable fate is already sealed. DCI Ava Turner and DI Luc Callanach are working on separate cases that soon collide as it becomes clear that the men and women being shipped to France are being traded for women trafficked into Scotland. With so many lives at stake, it seems an impossible task - but there's no option of failure when Bart and so many others will soon be dead"--Publisher.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Police; Kidnapping victims; Human trafficking; Criminal investigation;
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Four treasures of the sky / by Zhang, Jenny,author.;
"Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself. Over the years that follow, she is forced to keep reinventing herself to survive. From a calligraphy school, to a San Francisco brothel, to a shop tucked into the Idaho mountains, we follow Daiyu on a desperate quest to outrun the tragedy that chases her. As anti-Chinese sentiment sweeps across the country in a wave of unimaginable violence, Daiyu must draw on each of the selves she has been-including the ones she most wants to leave behind-in order to finally claim her own name and story. At once a literary tour de force and a groundbreaking work of historical fiction, Four Treasures of the Sky announces Jenny Tinghui Zhang as an indelible new voice. Steeped in untold history and Chinese folklore, this novel is a spellbinding feat"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; United States.; Chinese; Kidnapping victims; Frontier and pioneer life;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Four treasures of the sky [sound recording] / by Zhang, Jenny,author,narrator.; Chin, Katharine,narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Katharine Chin ; author's note read by the author."Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself. Over the years that follow, she is forced to keep reinventing herself to survive. From a calligraphy school, to a San Francisco brothel, to a shop tucked into the Idaho mountains, we follow Daiyu on a desperate quest to outrun the tragedy that chases her. As anti-Chinese sentiment sweeps across the country in a wave of unimaginable violence, Daiyu must draw on each of the selves she has been-including the ones she most wants to leave behind-in order to finally claim her own name and story. At once a literary tour de force and a groundbreaking work of historical fiction, Four Treasures of the Sky announces Jenny Tinghui Zhang as an indelible new voice. Steeped in untold history and Chinese folklore, this novel is a spellbinding feat"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Audiobooks.; Novels.; United States.; Chinese; Frontier and pioneer life; Kidnapping victims;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Cult / by Läckberg, Camilla,1974-author.; Fexeus, Henrik,1971-author.; Giles, Ian(Translator),translator.; translation of:Läckberg, Camilla,1974-Kult.English.;
PREVIOUS BOOK IN SERIES: TRAPPED, ISBN 9780008464189. In this second 'Detective Mina Dabiri' novel, a young child is snatched in broad daylight outside his nursery and Detective Mina Dabiri calls on her close friend Vincent to untangle the puzzle that surrounds the kidnapped boy. As he finds a link between the boy and others who have gone missing, it becomes clear that time is running out for everyone involved.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Kidnapping; Magicians; Missing children; Police; Women detectives;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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My name is Mahtob / by Mahmoody, Mahtob.;
Subjects: Mahmoody, Betty.; Mahmoody, Mahtob.; Children of abused wives; Christian life; Mothers and daughters; Parental kidnapping;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Forsaken country / by Eskens, Allen,1963-author.;
Max Rupert has left his position as a Minneapolis homicide detective to live in solitude. Mourning the tragic death of his wife, he's also racked by guilt--he alone knows what happened to her killer. But then the former local sheriff, Lyle Voight, arrives with a desperate plea: Lyle's daughter Sandy and his six-year-old grandson Pip have disappeared. Lyle's certain Sandy's ex-husband Reed is behind it, but the new sheriff is refusing to investigate. When Max reluctantly looks into their disappearance, he too becomes convinced something has gone very wrong. But the closer Max and Lyle get to finding proof, the more slippery Reed becomes, until he makes a break for the beautiful but formidable Boundary Waters wilderness with vulnerable Pip in tow. Racing after the most dangerous kind of criminal--a desperate father--and with the ghosts of their own pasts never far behind, Max and Lyle go on the hunt within a treacherous landscape, determined to bring an evil man to justice, and to bring a terrified child home alive --
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Ex-police officers; Kidnapping victims; Missing persons; Widowers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Black ransom / by Wallace, Stone,1957-;
Subjects: Western stories.; False imprisonment; Judicial error; Kidnapping; Revenge;
© c2014., Berkley,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Tom Clancy chain of command / by Cameron, Marc,author.; Clancy, Tom,1947-2013,creator.;
To implement his most ambitious plan of all, a ruthless billionaire must get President Jack Ryan out of the way and assembles the most ruthless mercenaries alive to kidnap the First Lady.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Spy fiction.; Ryan, Jack, Sr. (Fictitious character); Billionaires; Kidnapping; Pharmaceutical industry; Presidents;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Tom Clancy chain of command [sound recording] / by Cameron, Marc,author.; Brick, Scott,narrator.; Clancy, Tom,1947-2013,creator.; Random House Audio Publishing,publisher.;
Read by Scott Brick.To implement his most ambitious plan of all, a ruthless billionaire must get President Jack Ryan out of the way and assembles the most ruthless mercenaries alive to kidnap the First Lady.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Spy fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Ryan, Jack, Sr. (Fictitious character); Billionaires; Kidnapping; Pharmaceutical industry; Presidents;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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