Picoult, Jodi
Summary: "In late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts into a center of a women's reproductive health services clinic and opens fire, taking all inside hostage. After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. As his phone vibrates with incoming text messages he glances at it and, to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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Summary: The teenage princess of a future-world Canadian superpower, where royal children are held hostage to keep their countries from waging war, falls in love with an American prince who rebels against the brutal rules governing their existences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2015
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Summary: "Willow is alone, confined to a bed with restraints. She can't remember how she got there...or how long she's been there. An old lady appears in her room to feed her twice a day. Granny doesn't talk, but Willow can hear thumping from somewhere beyond her door. It's not Granny's shuffling steps. It's too loud to be Granny's cat. Is it someone? Something? Then Granny's cat dies in Willow's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire, an imprint of Sourcebooks 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BALVictoire, Camila
Summary: "At the end of the twenty-first century, climate change and famine almost ended humanity--until the discovery of the Klujns, a barbaric, humanoid species with strangely colored eyes and even stranger abilities. Their crystal claws and bones fertilize barren soil, and their tender meat is a super-protein. Klujns are both humans' saviors and natural-born enemies, meant to be hunted and used. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC VICTamura, Yumi.
Summary: Rescue workers Rei and Uozumi were looking for earthquake survivors when they uncovered man-made violence. Then their squad was attacked and murdered. Some secret lurks in those ruins. To find it, Rei and Uozumi join a privately funded hostage rescue organization run out of a Tokyo bar called Chicago. They help people while they look for their own salvation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz 2002
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Summary: When rescue workers try to help Tokyo after a great earthquake, Rei discovers that the team's members are murdered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz 2003
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CHIO'Brien, Tim
Summary: On a quest to settle a score with the man who destroyed his life, Boyd Halverson robs a bank and takes a hostage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLERobb, J. D.
Summary: "Homicide detective Eve Dallas races to untangle a twisted family history while a hostage's life hangs in the balance-in the new novel in the New York Times bestselling series"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1995
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Summary: "Since reluctantly accepting the marshal's job at South Pass City, Jake Paynter's life has become an unending run of solving other people's problems. When outlaw boss Dutch van Zandt and his ruthless band mount a campaign of mayhem in Jake's corner of the Wyoming Territory, Jake learns that Lucien Ashley, his persistent adversary, may be aiding the criminals to expand his burgeoning cattle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC NIXMilchman, Jenny
Summary: "Sandy has no idea that tonight her life will be forever changed. As a late autumn sky darkens over the Adirondack mountains ... the mood in the Tremont house is already charged with tension ... But when her husband Ben, a wilderness guide, arrives home, the troubled atmosphere immediately lightens ... Nearby, two desperate men on the run make their way through the fading light ... After nearly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015
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Summary: "Daniel and Vanessa Parker are an American success story. He is a Washington, D.C. power broker, and she is a physician with a thriving practice. But behind the gilded fac̦ade, their marriage is a shambles, and their teenage son, Quentin, is self-destructing. In desperation, Daniel dusts off a long-delayed dream of theirs--a sailing trip around the world. Little does he know, the voyage he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2015
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMGraham, Heather.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2007
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Summary: Somali pirates hijack a sailboat in the Indian Ocean and take Americans Daniel Parker and his teenaged son, Quentin, as hostages. A tense standoff orchestrated by top US negotiator Paul Derrick ends in tragedy. The pirates are captured and extradited to stand trial in the United States, and a young man named Ismail is identified by his cohorts as the leader. Paul begins to suspect there is more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ADDJohansen, Iris
Summary: "Iris Johansen introduces a new kickass female protagonist, Alisa Flynn, a CIA agent who may be willing to go rogue if it means catching the most heartless band of criminals she's ever encountered. Alisa is aided by mysterious billionaire-genius-inventor Gabe Korgan and recurring character Margaret Douglas, an animal whisperer who brings along her beloved dog Juno to fight alongside them. Alisa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing Large Print 2020
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Summary: "Looking at real estate isn't usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can't fix their own marriage. There's a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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Summary: Laurel Shields, thirty-five and mother of two, is married to Warren, a prominent local physician under investigation for suspected fraud. But Laurel has problems of her own. She's pregnant, and the father may not be her husband. When Warren finds evidence of her affair, her day becomes a terrifying ordeal and her home the vortex of a nerve-wracking siege.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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Summary: "Iris Johansen introduces a new kickass female protagonist, Alisa Flynn, a CIA agent who may be willing to go rogue if it means catching the most heartless band of criminals she's ever encountered. Alisa is aided by mysterious billionaire-genius-inventorGabe Korgan and recurring character Margaret Douglas, an animal whisperer who brings along her beloved dog Juno to fight alongside them. Alisa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020
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Summary: Intelligence officer Amy Cornwall must use lethal tactics in open defiance of Army Command when a mysterious adversary kidnaps her family and gives her forty-eight hours to commit an unspeakable crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Patterson 2019Lake, Jay.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2012
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Summary: "Prison-guard-in-training Kenzie is taken hostage by the superpowered criminals of the Sanctuary space station--only to have to band together with them when the station is attacked by mysterious creatures"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2018
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Summary: "There aren't many girls who can say they've gone into the realm of death and lived to tell the tale. But to restore her lover Zayvion's soul, Allison Beckstrom had to pay a bitter price--and things are about to get worse... It turns out the leader of the Authority, the council that decides what can--and can't--be done with magic, is being held hostage. But when the trail leads Allie and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roc 2011
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Summary: Former military policeman Jack Reacher is abducted on the streets of a Chicago suburb, along with a woman and a dentist, by two mysterious men.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove Books 2008