Picoult, 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PICHealy, Erin M.
Summary: RELIGIOUS & SPIRITUAL FICTION. Before Audrey was the baker's wife, she was the pastor s wife. Then a scandalous lie cost her husband a pastoral career. Now the two work side-by-side running a bakery, serving coffee, and baking fresh bread. But the hurt still pulls at Audrey. Driving early one morning to the bakery, Audrey s car strikes something or someone at a fog-shrouded intersection. She...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC HEAPatchett, Ann
Summary: "Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gun-wielding terrorists breaks in, taking the entire party hostage. But what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ADDBackman, Fredrik
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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BACFinder, Joseph.
Summary: Cut off from the outside world at a remote resort for a corporate retreat, Jake Landry, a junior executive at the Hammond Aerospace Corporation, is forced to draw on the skills of his secret past when the executives are taken hostage.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FINRohde, 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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Summary: Three siblings searching for the truth about their family are about to find more than they bargained for. When shy and reserved Maggie Ferringer was called for jury duty, she never expected to be kidnapped by an escaped convict.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Detective Michael Bennett is forced to investigate the abductions of New York City's richest socialites. The culprit doesn't want money, he only wants his captives to apologize for the pain they have caused society. Running out of time, Bennett must locate the victims before they are killed off, one by one.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M PATRobb, J. D.
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: Twas the night before Christmas, and dozens of rich, influential hostages are trapped inside a sprawling lakefront mansion in New Orleans. The perp? Detective Reed Ware, model cop turned outlaw. After receiving a panicked call from Hollis "Holly" Bayard, a teenage street tough with a penchant for amateur sleuthing who stumbles upon the scene of a drug-deal-turned- murder, Ware finds his and his...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ROBBaldacci, David.
Summary: As a member of an elite FBI tactical squad, Web London is one of the most revered point men in the business. However, when his team walks into a deadly ambush, leaving him as the sole survivor, he is forever a changed man. To turn his life around, Web relies on psychiatrist Dr. Claire Daniels, who urges him to locate a ten-year-old boy who witnessed the ambush and has since disappeared.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BALFeehan, Christine
Summary: Leading a team to rescue hostages from radical terrorists, Zeke, a soldier with enhanced abilities, unexpectedly falls for genetically engineered spy Bellisia, who resists relationships to avoid being controlled.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017