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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.
5) Deadlock
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
374 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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.
7) Hideout
Author
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) Die trying
Author
Series
Jack Reacher volume 2
Language
English
Formats
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.
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) 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.
12) 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) Lethal
Author
Language
English
Formats
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.
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) 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.
16) 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"--
17) Deadlock
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
595 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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.