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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When the bachelor party her husband is hosting goes wrong, Kristin finds her life spiraling into a nightmare of accusations and betrayal while a girl hired to provide entertainment at the party flees for her life from gangsters.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After discovering seven men murdered aboard their yacht--including two Senate rivals--Israel Pike is regarded as a prime suspect. A troubled man infamous on Salvation Point Island for killing his own father a decade before, Israel has few options, no friends, and a life-threatening secret. Elsewhere on the island, 12-year-old Lyman Rankin seeks shelter from his alcoholic father in an abandoned house only to discover that he is not alone. A mysterious...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"en years ago, Spenser helped a teenage girl named Mattie Sullivan find her mother's killer and take down an infamous Southie crime boss. Now Mattie--a college student with a side job working for the tough but tender private eye--dreams of being an investigator herself. Her first big case involves a fifteen-year-old girl assaulted by a much older man at one of Boston's most prestigious private clubs. The girl, Chloe Turner, only wants the safe return...
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan volume 16
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"The latest from Kathy Reichs finds Tempe Brennan investigating the connections between a long-dead business man, the smuggling of mummified dogs from Peru, and the death of a teenage girl killed in a hit and run. When she discovers a human trafficking enterprise at the center of it all, the scope of the case extends from South America to Afghanistan. And Tempe's soon-to-be ex might have connections that run to the very heart of the trafficking ring"--...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
294 p. : col. ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes how the author's three-month service as a volunteer at the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal became a commitment for advocacy and reform when he discovered that many of his young charges were victims rescued from human traffickers.
Author
Series
In death volume 55
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York, 2061: The place called the Pleasure Academy is a living nightmare where abducted girls are trapped, trained for a life of abject service while their souls are slowly but surely destroyed. Dorian, a thirteen-year-old runaway who'd been imprisoned there, might never have made it out if not for her fellow inmate Mina, who'd hatched the escape plan. Mina was the more daring of the two--but they'd been equally desperate. Unfortunately, they...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
She was a child caught in a riptide in the Caribbean Sea. He was a teenager from the East Coast on vacation with his family. He dove in to save her, and that single terrifying moment changed both of their lives forever.
Ten years later Jack Ryder is a daring undercover agent with the FBI and Eliza Lawrence still lives on that pristine island. She&;s an untainted princess in a kingdom of darkness and evil, on the brink of a forced marriage with a...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In a deserted area of a beach town, Leah Hampton is helpless against the stranger trying to drag her away at gunpoint. But a handsome man comes to her rescue, risking his life for her. Suddenly, she and Jon Wilson are being hunted by very powerful, dangerous people. Why? Could she have been a target for the human trafficking ring that Jon's mother suspects is taking over the tiny town? Leah and the brave, love-shy man who saved her are now being...
9) Taken
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hired along with Joe Pike to investigate the alleged kidnapping of a wealthy industrialist's son, Elvis Cole goes undercover to infiltrate a ring of professional border kidnappers only to be abducted himself.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
277 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Offers the story of a former prostitute's fight to free herself from the hardships of the street and her rise to become the founder of a nonprofit organization designed to help young girls escape the commercial sex industry.