Hall, Leanne
Summary: When sixteen-year-old Yin Mitchell is abducted, the news reverberates through the whole Year Ten class at Balmoral Ladies College. As the hours tick by, the girls know the chance of Yin being found alive is becoming smaller and smaller. Everyone is affected by Yin's disappearance--even scholarship student Chloe, who usually stays out of Balmoral dramas, is drawn into the maelstrom. And when she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Text Publishing 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HALSummary: How do you convince the world that aliens have secretly come to Earth and taken human form in a plot to take over the planet? That's the daunting and dangerous task faced by architect David Vincent (Roy Thinnes) who accidentally sees a UFO land and now must convince others to fight the threat - unless THE INVADERS silence him first! Now all 43 original episodes of the popular TV cult classic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spelling Entertainment Inc., a CBS Studios Company 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV INVSummary: In season two, the onetime outsider finds himself fully a part of this eclectic group of misfits all the while struggling with the knowledge that life exists beyond our world. Special Agent Alex Foster, a smart, dedicated FBI investigator who's on a mission to Beacon to track down fugitive CEO Jonathan Walsh for white-collar crime, but soon learns he harbors even greater secrets. The arrival of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PEOGrimes, Martha.
Summary: "Chew on this, " says Melrose Plant to Richard Jury, who's in the hospital being driven crazy by Hannibal, a nurse who likes to speculate on his chances for survival. Jury could use a good story, preferably one not ending with his own demise. Plant tells Jury of something he overheard in The Grave Maurice, a pub near the hospital. A woman told an intriguing story about a girl named Nell Ryder,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIJohnston, Tim
Summary: "Descent, the story of a family undone by the disappearance of a daughter who went out for a morning run and didn't come back, marks the adult fiction debut of a remarkable young writer. Stunning in its emotional impact, Descent is a compulsively readable page-turner with a strong literary sensibility. The girl's vanishing--on a sunny, late-summer vacation morning--all the more devastating for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHMontes, Raphael
Summary: "A twisted young medical student kidnaps the girl of his dreams and embarks on a dark and delirious road trip across Brazil in the English-language debut of one of Brazil's most celebrated young crime writers. Teo Avelar is a loner. He lives with his paraplegic mother and her dog in Rio de Janeiro, he doesn't have many friends, and the only time he feels honest human emotion is in the presence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONPerabo, Susan
Summary: When a middle school girl is abducted in broad daylight, a fellow student and witness to the crime copes with the tragedy in an unforgettable way. What happens to the girl left behind? A masked man with a gun enters a sandwich shop in broad daylight, and Meredith Oliver suddenly finds herself ordered to the filthy floor, where she cowers face to face with her nemesis, Lisa Bellow, the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERSt. Crowe, Nikki
Summary: "The stories were all wrong - Hook was never the villain. For two centuries, all of the Darling women have disappeared on their 18th birthday. Sometimes they're gone for only a day, some a week or a month. but they always return broken. Now, on the afternoon of my 18th birthday, my mother is running around the house making sure all the windows are barred and the doors locked. But it's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackwell House 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ST.Sweren-Becker, Daniel
Summary: "When sixteen-year-old Sara Parcell goes missing, it's an utter tragedy . . . and an entertaining national obsession in this thoughtful and addictively readable novel that offers a fresh and provocative take on whodunits and true crime. Sixteen-year-old Sara Parcell disappeared without a trace on a crisp April morning in Frederick, Maryland. Her tragic story was a national obsession and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A lovable misfit from another planet meets a girl named Tip. The two unlikely friends embark on the greatest journey of all time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HoGrey, Zane
Summary: "Kidnapping a pretty woman for the sake of his own ruthless whims, desperado gang leader Jack Kells finds something changing inside of him in the face of Joan's loving spirit and finds his own gentler instincts emerging"--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walter J. Black 1944
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREOkeowo, Alexis
Summary: In A Moonless, Starless Sky Okeowo weaves together four narratives that form a powerful tapestry of modern Africa: a young couple, kidnap victims of Joseph Kony's LRA; a Mauritanian waging a lonely campaign against modern-day slavery; a women's basketball team flourishing amid war-torn Somalia; and a vigilante who takes up arms against the extremist group Boko Haram. This debut book by one of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 OKEWillis, Connie
Summary: Francie is in Roswell, New Mexico, for her college roommate's UFO-themed wedding-- complete with a true-believer bridegroom. Aliens obviously don't exist. Imagine her surprise, then, when she is abducted by one. She's not the only victim of the alien's abduction spree. He has acquired a con man named Wade, a sweet little old lady with a casino addiction, a retiree with a huge RV and a love for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILSummary: When 4400 missing people emerge from nowhere, the Department of Homeland Security wants to know why. But the answers aren't coming easy, and by the time they do ... it might be too late.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series 4400 2007Summary: "People of Earth centers on skeptical journalist Ozzie Graham, who investigates a support group to write about the members's supposed alien encounters. The more he digs into their oddball claims, however, the more he recognizes a semblance of truth to their stories and, possibly, even signs that point to his own alien abduction"--Containe
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PEOSummary: Jay is a man with a secret who travels from Britain to Pakistan to attend a wedding, armed with duct tape, a shotgun, and a plan to kidnap the bride-to-be. Despite his cool efficiency, the plot quickly spirals out of control, sending Jay and his hostage on the run across the border and through the railway stations, back alleys, and black markets of New Delhi, as all the while attractions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WEDBarneveld, Vanessa
Summary: Nothing ever happens in Dawson, Colorado... until high school senior Cassidy Roekiem's mom checks into a "wellness center" but nothing is wrong with her. Then people start seeing lights in the sky and missing chunks of time. But the town insists nothing is going on.... Now Hayden, the new boy at school who keeps to himself, starts to notice Cassidy. She's starting to fall for him: the boy with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Entangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing, L.L.C. 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BARLivingston, Lesley
Summary: The daughter of a proud Celtic king is captured and sold to a training school for women gladiators under the patronage of Julius Caesar, circumstances that put her survival in the hands of an enemy who was responsible for her sister's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RazorBill, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Lovelace, Terry
Summary: In early summer of 1977, a co-worker and Terry Lovelace camped in an Arkansas state park known as Devil's Den. The trip was to photograph wildlife. Rather than stay in the park's campground, they chose an isolated area to set up camp on a high meadow. It was late evening and our fire was nearly spent when something on the horizon caught the friend's eye. He pointed to three bright starts low in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Terry Lovelace] 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 001.942 LOVMcClellan, Ray.
Summary: "Engaging images accompany information about alien abductions. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 001.9 MCCMontes, Raphael
Summary: A twisted young medical student kidnaps the girl of his dreams and embarks on a dark and delirious road trip across Brazil in the English-language debut of Brazil's most celebrated young crime writer. Teo Avelar is a loner. He lives with his paraplegic mother and her dog in Rio de Janeiro, he doesn't have many friends, and the only time he feels honest human emotion is in the presence of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: A strong-willed detective in her mid-thirties Helen Weeks is drawn into the two most testing and personal cases of her career, just as she begins her journey towards motherhood. Helen is never fazed by a challenge, but her tough exterior conceals a complex inner conflict. When the husband of an estranged school friend is accused of abduction, Helen must return to her hometown and confront her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: It was supposed to be a simple birthday weekend in Southern California. But when sunrise arrives two hours early in the form of a haunting light from an unknown source, a group of friends watch in terror as people across the city are drawn outside and swept into massive alien ships that have blotted out the L.A. skyline. From tankers to drones and hydra-like extraterrestrials, the aliens are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2011