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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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PICBalog, Cyn
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 BALRobb, 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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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 Adult, Call number: FIC OBRJohansen, 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: 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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Summary: "FBI special agent Julianna Jameson is a top-notch negotiator who has never lost a hostage. Surely she can manage to take care of her much younger sister, Dottie, who showed up unannounced to live with Julianna while she finished her senior year of high school.A former sniper with the 75th Ranger Regiment, Clay Fox left the army after a tragic incident that he can't get past. Now he's working...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: "When a mysterious former South African commando, Lucas Van Groot, begins taking wealthy hostages all over the world, it appears at first to be a typical ransom gambit. However, it soon becomes clear that his "Hostage Inc." venture is manipulating worldwide stock markets and threatening global economic collapse. Enter Black Box, the CIA's elite, secret special operations branch--so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: FIC ADEMartinson, T. J.
Summary: "Somewhere in Chicago, a roomful of people have been taken hostage. The hostages will be killed one by one, the masked gunman says on-screen, unless the police will admit that they faked the death of the legendary superhero called the Kingfisher and helped him to give up his defense of the city thirty years ago. Retired reporter Marcus Waters made his name as a journalist covering the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARMarrs, John
Summary: "They say every house has its secrets, and the house that Maggie and Nina have shared for so long is no different. Except that these secrets are not buried in the past. Every other night, Maggie and Nina have dinner together. When they are finished, Nina helps Maggie back to her room in the attic, and into the heavy chain that keeps her there. Because Maggie has done things to Nina that can't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2020
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MARPicoult, Jodi
Summary: "The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis. The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center a women's reproductive health services clinic its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PICCapri, Diane
Summary: FBI Special Agents Kim Otto and Carlos Gaspar's off-the-books assignment leads them to the surviving members of Jack Reacher's elite military unit. Five years ago, Reacher sorted and destroyed a team of arms dealers in Lee Child's Bad Luck & Trouble before he moved on. But he made mistakes. Now, his bad luck and trouble legacy plunges Otto and Gaspar into the minefield of a grudge war between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: August Books 2013
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Summary: A middle of the night arrival by unmarked helicopters with secret cargo from the Middle East places the facility on high alert. When the unspeakable happens and the mysterious Subject Alpha escapes with Dr. Kathryn Ryan as a hostage, the military is forced to work with Indian Affairs agent Frank Ironhorse Whitman and his team to track the dangerous creature through Crow territory. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shock Rock Publishing 2022
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Summary: "The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis. The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center a women's reproductive health services clinic its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2018
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Summary: The woman's body was found in the early morning, on a bench in a New York City playground. She was clean, her hair neatly arranged, her makeup carefully applied. But other things were very wrong, like the tattoo and piercings, clearly new. The fatal wound hidden beneath a ribbon around her neck. And the note: Bad Mommy, written in crayon as if by a child. Eve Dallas turns to the department's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Super thief Riley Wolfe can do it all. He is a master of disguise, can scale a wall, and can vanish into thin air (thick air, too). He uses these unique talents to rob the richest. But this time, it's the most powerful who have him in their grips. It's not just that the high-up, rogue government agent has abducted the only two people Riley loves: it's the fact that Riley has to do the man's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LINMackintosh, Clare
Summary: "A claustrophobic thriller set over twenty hours on one airplane flight, with the heart-stopping tension of The Last Flight and the wrenching emotional intensity of Room, Hostage takes us on board the inaugural nonstop flight from London to Sydney. Mina is trying to focus on her job as a flight attendant, not the problems of her five-year-old daughter back home, or the fissures in her marriage....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACPatterson, James
Summary: Sam Blue stands accused of the brutal murders of three young students, their bodies dumped near the Georges River. Only one person believes he is innocent: his sister, Detective Harriet Blue. And she's determined to prove it. But Harry's outburst at her brother's trial earns her a reassignment, to the outback. With no choice but to leave Sam's case alone, she relocates to Last Chance Valley,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATMagson, Adrian
Summary: Marc Portman, codename Watchman, is in Russia providing covert back-up to wealthy Russian businessman Leonid Tzorekov. A former KGB officer sympathetic to the West, Tzorekov has close links with Vladimir Putin and is planning to use his influence with the President to improve relations between Russia, the USA and the European Union. However, there are those with vested interests in maintaining...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAGShevelev, Mikhail
Summary: "One evening in 2015, the journalist Pavel Vladimirovich and his wife Tatyana are at home when the news breaks that there has been a terrorist attack. Over a hundred people have been taken hostage in the Church of the Epiphany in the village of Nikolskoye near Moscow. As they watch, on the TV screen appears the face of one of the terrorists: Vadim Petrovich Seryegin, an old friend of Pavel's....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2022