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21) The med
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1988
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
519 p., [1] p. of plates : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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.
23) 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.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Documents the author's backpacking tours through some of the world's most dangerous regions, describing her work as a fledgling television reporter and her brutal fifteen-month incarceration in Somalia.
25) 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.
27) 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"--
28) Taken 2
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills, an ex-CIA operative who finds himself taken hostage along with his wife. To survive, Bryan must enlist the help of an unlikely ally and use his brutally efficient skills to take out his kidnappers.
29) 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.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
When seventeen-year-old Nora O'Malley, the daughter of a con artist, is taken hostage in a bank heist, every secret she is keeping close begins to unravel.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
xvii, 307 p. : col. ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a firsthand account of the kidnapping of two American missionaries by the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group in the Philippines, a yearlong ordeal that ended with the death of the author's husband, Martin Burnham.
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.
35) Hostage
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When ex-LAPD officer Jeff Talley became chief of police in a sleepy town, he thought he'd left behind the traumas of his career as a big city hostage negotiator. But when a random crime escalates into a deadly standoff, Talley finds himself thrust into a situation far more volatile and terrifying than anything he could ever imagine.
36) 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.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
xii, 273 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the experiences of kidnapped documentary filmmaker Micah Garen, describing the constant threats of execution from his captors, and how his fiancee worked for his release through a network of journalists and Middle East contacts.
39) The bronzed hawk
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Kate McKenna is a photojournalist with a renegade reputation--and a fearless streak that lands her in an experimental hot air balloon, flying over the Rio Grande with the infamous Nick O'Brien. She wants to capture the real man behind the brilliant inventor, but to do that she needs to survive a crash landing in a lawless land and the ruthless bandits who take them hostage. As they conspire to escape their captors, Nick's fierce protective instinct...
40) 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...