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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their unexpected common traits.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Investigating a kidnapper who is murdering the children of wealthy New York families, Detective Michael Bennett and FBI agent Emily Parker discover that the killer has hatched an elaborate plot to decimate the entire city.
3) Lethal
Author
Language
English
Description
After Honor Gillette is visited by Lee Coburn, a suspected murderer seeking a valuable object that Honor's late husband left behind, they find themselves running from the FBI and untangling a web of corruption and depravity.
Author
Series
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The latest masterwork from one of the leading writers of suspense . . . New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell returns with a chilling tale of the law gone wrong and a kidnapping that threatens more than one life. The Wrong Hostage Orphaned at thirteen, Grace Silva clawed her way out of poverty and violence to become one of the most respected judges on the federal bench. Grace believes in the rule of law -- lives it, breathes it. She has...
6) Die trying
Author
Series
Jack Reacher volume 2
Language
English
Description
In a plot to overthrow the U.S. government, Montana neo-Nazis abduct the daughter of the nation's top general and her male companion. The companion is Jack Reacher, a former military policeman and he turns the tables on the captors.
7) Hideout
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fleeing to a summer lake community after causing the hit-and-run death of a young mother, desperately afraid brothers Jack and Ryan are pursued by detectives Colleen Greer and Richard Christie before creating a terrifying hostage situation.
8) Deadlock
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dedicating her life to save priceless artifacts from being destroyed by war, Emily Hudson is captured and tormented by a sadistic adversary, and the CIA calls on mercenary John Garrett for help in Emily's rescue.
10) The baker's wife
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her husband Geoff, a pastor, loses his job after a scandal in their congregation, Audrey works with Geoff to resurrect a failing bakery, but their troubles grow when Audrey hits a motor scooter whose rider has disappeared.
11) Inside out
Author
Publisher
HarperTempest
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
A sixteen-year-old with schizophrenia is caught up in the events surrounding an attempted robbery by two other teens who eventually hold him hostage.
13) Constant fear
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First Kingston Hardcover Edition.
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A doomsday prepper and private school custodian must rescue his genius hacker son, who is caught by a brutal drug cartel for electronically siphoning off their funds.
14) Kalimpura
Author
Series
Green volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
303 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Green returns to her service under the Lily Goddess in the city of Kalimpura, where she is hounded by gods that would render her a conduit for the supernatural while she attempts to rescue two Bittern Court hostages.
15) The hostage
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
443, [1] p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chicago, 1871
Deep within the quiet of the night, a city erupts into flames, and a spoiled heiress is soon whisked away.
Deborah Sinclair is a beautiful, accomplished young heiress with a staggering dowry. But her fortune does her no good when, one horrible night, Chicago is engulfed in flames.
Tom Silver will walk through fire to avenge a terrible injustice-and he may have to. But when he makes Deborah a pawn in his revenge, the heat of...
16) A Texan's honor
Author
Series
Heart of a hero volume 2
Publisher
Abingdon Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Will MacMillan, masquerading as a member of the notorious Walton Gang, falls in love with Jamie Ellis, but must protect her when she is caught in the middle of a hostage situation gone awry.
17) Girl on a Plane
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is a fictionalized story based on the amazing real life experiences of Miriam Moss, a fifteen year old English school girl who was held hostage on a plane hijacked by the Palestinian Liberation Front in 1970"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After his successful takedown of a dangerous terrorist, Bob Lee Swagger learns that no good deed goes unpunished. Summoned to court by the United States Congress, Swagger is accused of reckless endangerment by a hardheaded anti-gun congresswoman. But what begins as political posturing soon turns deadly when the auditorium where the committee is being held is attacked.
Swagger, the congresswoman, and numerous bystanders and reporters are taken hostage...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
241 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told from multiple viewpoints, holiday shoppers struggle to survive as three masked shooters open fire in a crowded mall and five teens form a plan to stop them.
Author
Series
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
374 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The teenage princess of a future-world Canadian superpower, where royal children are held hostage to keep their countries from waging war, falls in love with an American prince who rebels against the brutal rules governing their existences.