Summary: It has been called 'the most audacious, difficult, complicated rescue mission ever attempted.' This account uniquely blends emotion and bravado to tell the incredible tale of America's secret mission to free the hostages of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Anderson, Sulome

Summary: The author shares an intimate portrait of her father's captivity during the Lebanese Hostage Crisis and the effect of the surrounding political firestorm on both her family and the United States, sharing additional views about the role of the crisis in Middle East politics today.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St. 2016

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Garen, Micah.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005

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Moore, Michael Scott

Summary: "With echoes of Catch-22 and Black Hawk Down, author and former hostage Michael Scott Moore masterfully walks a fine line between personal narrative and journalistic distance in this page-turning and novelistic account of 977 days held captive by Somali pirates. Moore set off for Somalia in January 2012 after reporting on a historic trial of ten Somali pirates in Germany. He went with an open...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave,, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

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Summary: From dusk till dawn (107 min.): The notorious Gekko Brothers, Seth and Richard, are on the run and headed for Mexico to meet with the mysterious "Carlos." Their simple bank robbery ended up killing multiple Texas Rangers. They hijack the mobile home of Minister Jacob Fuller and his family to ensure their safe passage. Their appointed destination is a neon-covered topless bar catering to bikers...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2000

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Bowden, Mark

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2006

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García Márquez, Gabriel

Summary: This astonishing book by the Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez chronicles the 1990 kidnappings of ten Colombian men and women - all journalists but one - by the Medellin drug boss Pablo Escobar.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1996

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Payne, Thymaya

Summary: Using audio recordings and found footage, depicts the capture of the crew of the Danish-owned merchant ship, the CEC Future, who were held hostage for two months by Somali pirates in 2008.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films 2013

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Whitcomb, Christopher

Summary: Of the hundreds of thousands of U.S. law enforcement officers, only 150 have ever been in Christopher Whitcomb's elite branch of the FBI. The Hostage Rescue Team is the FBI's most specialized, elite squadron, equivalent to the Navy's Seals & the Army's Delta Force, & is responsible for terrorist capture, hostage situations, & other large-scale emergencies in the U.S. And around the world....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2001

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King, David

Summary: "The definitive account of the bizarre hostage drama that gave rise to the term "Stockholm Syndrome." On the morning of August 23, 1973, a man wearing a wig, makeup, and a pair of sunglasses walked into the main branch of Sveriges Kreditbank, a prominentbank in central Stockholm. He ripped out a submachine gun, fired it into the ceiling, and shouted, "The party starts!" This was the beginning...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020

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Whitcomb, Christopher

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2002

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Cameron, Graeme.

Summary: He shops at your local supermarket. He drives beside you, waving to let you into the lane ahead of him. He also has an elaborate cage in a secret basement under his garage. The food he's carefully shopping for is to feed a young woman he's holding there against her will -- one in a string of many, unaware of the fate that awaits her. This is how it's been for a long time. It's normal... and it...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2015

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McConville, Rory

Summary: "On the eve of their retirement, two hitmen - Cosmo and Arthur Pryce - drive through the Texas countryside with a hostage in the trunk of their car. The brothers are meant to deliver the infamous Little Harkness to their boss, but matters become complicated when Arthur's recklessness jeopardizes Cosmo's retirement plans and puts a target on their backs."--Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2021

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Burnham, Gracia.

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House 2003

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Ling, Laura

Summary: The never-before-told story of Laura Ling's capture by the North Koreans and the role her sister played in bringing about her rescue with the help of President Bill Clinton. A piercing look inside the world's most secretive nation as well as a moving tale of sisterhood and love.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2010

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Rohde, David

Summary: A "New York Times" journalist and his wife share the story of his 2008 abduction by the Taliban, a seven-month imprisonment marked by jihadist fervor, shifting alliances, and frantic negotiations for his release.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010

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Rohde, David

Summary: Invited to an interview by a Taliban commander, New York Times reporter David Rohde and two Afghan colleagues were kidnapped in November 2008 and spirited to the tribal areas of Pakistan. For seven months, they lived in an alternate reality, ruled by jihadists, in which paranoia, conspiracy theories, and shifting alliances abounded. Held in bustling towns, they found that Pakistan's powerful...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010

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Betancourt, Ingrid

Summary: Ingrid Betancourt tells the story of her captivity in the Colombian jungle, sharing teachings of resilience, resistance, and faith. Born in Bogota, raised in France, Betancourt at age 32 gave up a life of comfort and safety to return to Colombia to become a political leader in a country that was being slowly destroyed by terrorism, violence, fear, and hopelessness. In 2002, while a candidate in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2010

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Farran, Sam

Summary: This gripping and inspiring memoir of heroic strength, courage, survival and commitment to country follows a Lebanese-Muslim-American and 30-year U.S. Marine veteran as he, suffering a six-month ordeal at the hands of a brutal regime in Yemen, remained loyal to America.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021

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Gudenkauf, Heather.

Summary: In the midst of a sudden spring snowstorm, an unknown man armed with a gun walks into an elementary school classroom. Outside the school, the town of Broken Branch watches and waits. Officer Meg Barrett holds the responsibility for the town's children in her hands. Will Thwaite, reluctantly entrusted with the care of his two grandchildren by the daughter who left home years earlier, stands by...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin MIRA Books 2012

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Lindhout, Amanda.

Summary: "The spectacularly dramatic memoir of a woman whose curiosity about the world led her from rural Canada to imperiled and dangerous countries on every continent, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity in Somalia--a story of courage, resilience, and extraordinary grace.At the age of eighteen, Amanda Lindhout moved from her hardscrabble Alberta hometown to the big city--Calgary--and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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