Greenwood, T. (Tammy)
Summary: Camden, NJ, 1948. When 11 year-old Sally Horner steals a notebook from the local Woolworth's, she has no way of knowing that Frank LaSalle, fresh out of prison, is watching her, preparing to make his move. Accosting her outside the store, Frank convinces Sally that he's an FBI agent who can have her arrested unless she does as he says. Over the next two years Frank mentally and physically...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GREYuma, Midori
Summary: "Aoi wasn't the only orphan her grandfather Shiro took in. Before she went to live with him, he rescued the spider demons Akatsuki and Suzuran and put them to work as unpaid servants. Now Aoi is questioning everything she thought she knew about her upbringing. What was Shiro up to? And more importantly--does that make the spider demons family?"--Page 4 of cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: "Aoi Tsubaki inherited her grandfather's ability to see spirits--and his massive debt to them! Now she's been kidnapped and taken to Kakuriyo, the spirit world, to make good on his bill. Her options: marry the head of the inn her grandfather trashed, or get eaten by demons. But Aoi isn't the type to let spirits push her around, and she's determined to redeem her grandfather's IOU on her own ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media, LLC 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 KAKJohnson, Maureen
Summary: Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham, an early twentieth century tycoon, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. Shortly after the school opened, his wife and daughter were kidnapped. The only real clue was a mocking riddle listing methods of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOHFerrell, Carolyn
Summary: "Dear Miss Metropolitan tells the fragmented story of Fern, Gwinnie, and Jesenia, three girls abducted by a monster who calls himself Boss Man and held captive in a decaying house in Queens for a decade. Inspired by real events, the tale is inventively revealed by multiple narrators before, during and after their ordeal. Documents, newspapers, excerpts from books, photographs, interviews, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERAngoe, Yasmin
Summary: "Stolen from her Ghanaian village as a child, Nena Knight has plenty of motives to kill. Now an elite assassin for a powerful business syndicate called the Tribe, she gets plenty of chances. But while on assignment in Miami, Nena ends up saving a life, not taking one. She emerges from the experience a changed woman, finally hopeful for a life beyond rage and revenge. Tasked with killing a man...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANGBarnett, S. K.
Summary: "A kidnapped girl returns home after twelve years away--but coming home may not be as easy as she thought in this roller coaster ride of lies, betrayal, and secrets that just might be the twistiest thriller you'll read all year. Jenny Kristal was six years old when she was snatched off the sidewalk from her quiet suburban neighborhood. Twelve years later, she's miraculously returned home after...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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Summary: "A psychological thriller about trauma, power, and survival, which follows a young woman who has been captured and confined by a serial killer--who is a father, widower, former Marine, and lineman for the local electric company--as he hides the true nature of his double life from his daughter, neighbors, and the local bartender who could be his next victim, unless his captive manages to stop...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MICMitchell, Maggie
Summary: "When precocious Lois and pretty Carly May were twelve years old, they were kidnapped, driven across the country, and held in an Adirondack hunting lodge for two months. [This debut novel explores] the repercussions of that formative summer, when two girls who previously did not know each other shared an experience that would shape all their days to come"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MITWhite, Christian
Summary: Kimberly Leamy is a photography teacher in Melbourne, Australia. Twenty-eight years earlier, Sammy Went, a two-year old girl vanished from her home in Manson, Kentucky. An American accountant who contacts Kim is convinced she was that child, kidnapped just after her birthday. She cannot believe the woman who raised her, a loving social worker who died of cancer four years ago, crossed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION WHIHarmel, Kristin
Summary: "After being stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe, a young woman finds herself alone in 1941 after her kidnapper dies. Her solitary existence is interrupted, however, when she happens upon a group of Jews fleeing the Nazi terror. Stunned to learn what's happening in the outside world, she vows to teach the group all she can about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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Summary: "With Behind Closed Doors, New York Times bestselling author B. A. Paris took the psychological thriller to shocking new heights. Now she'll hold you captive with THE PRISONER-a stunning new thriller about one woman wed into a family with deadly intentions. Amelie has always been a survivor, from losing her parents as a child in Paris to making it on her own in London. As she builds a life for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ParisIoka, Waco
Summary: "Faced with the choice of being married to a strange spirit or being made into dinner, Aoi decides to create a third option for herself! Aoi Tsubaki inherited her grandfather's ability to see spirits--and his massive debt to them! Now she's been kidnapped and taken to Kakuriyo, the spirit world, to make good on his bill. Her options: marry the head of the inn her grandfather trashed, or get...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ media, LLC 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 KAKJeffries, Sabrina.
Summary: Maximilian Cale, the Duke of Lyons, long ago buried his grief for his missing elder brother, Peter, who was presumed dead after being kidnapped. When a mysterious note arrives from Tristan Bonnaud asserting that the Duke's brother is alive, it leads Max straight to the winsome Lisette Bonnaud, illegitimate daughter of a viscount and Tristan's sister. Soon he and Lisette are traveling to Paris...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JEFStevenson, Robert Louis
Summary: A sixteen-year-old orphan is kidnapped by his villainous uncle, but later escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Stevenson 2012Crouch, Blake
Summary: One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is kidnapped at gunpoint by a masked man, driven to an abandoned industrial site and injected with a powerful drug. As he wakes, a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, "Welcome back, my friend." But this life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife; his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2016
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Summary: "When money goes missing from the family foundation she runs, Bo Hamilton rides into the Crazy Mountains to figure things out. But a killer hiding among the sawtooth ridges takes her captive and rescue will come from the one man she least expects"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DANKumanomata, Kagiji
Summary: "When the Demon Castle collapses (unbelievably, not due to the actions of the usual suspect), its staff and "guest" go glamping in the surrounding environs. Rebuilding is taking too long, however, so Demon King Twilight resorts to drastic measures! Now everyone is afraid of him--except for one resident who still sees him as he truly is. Plus, the princess tries to unveil Fire Venom Dragon,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2022
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 SLEMcLain, Paula.
Summary: Anna Hart is a seasoned missing persons detective in San Francisco with far too much knowledge of the darkest side of human nature. When overwhelming tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna, desperate and numb, flees to the Northern California village of Mendocino to grieve. She lived there as a child with her beloved foster parents, and now she believes it might be the only place left for her....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2021
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Summary: Seven-year-old Chellamuthu's life--and his destiny--is forever changed when he is kidnapped from his village in Southern India and sold to the Lincoln Home for Homeless Children. His family is desperate to find him, and Chellamuthu anxiously tells the Indian orphanage that he is not an orphan, he has a mother who loves him. But he is told not to worry, he will soon be adopted by a loving family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WRIHenry, Christina
Summary: "A woman trapped on a mountain attempts to survive more than one kind of monster, in a dread-inducing horror novel from the national bestselling author Christina Henry. Mattie can't remember a time before she and William lived alone on a mountain together. She must never make him upset. But when Mattie discovers the mutilated body of a fox in the woods, she realizes that they're not alone after...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HENJohansen, Iris
Summary: 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 is determined to rescue school children kidnapped from their African boarding school, in a ripped-from-the-headlines story. But Alisa is hiding her personal stake in the rescue from Korgan, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOHKumanomata, Kagiji
Summary: "This time it's the princess who gets shrunk to the size of a child, and with dire consequences...instigated by her, naturally. The mystery of why the Ten Guardians number only nine individuals is investigated...with mixed results. The search for a spy in the castle ends in...confusion. But at least the story of Demon Cleric's transformation into a gentler, kinder demon is clarified. Plus,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SLEPatterson, James
Summary: In her career as an Army intelligence officer, Amy Cornwall has seen haunting sights half a world away. None compare to the chilling scene at her Virginia home. A phone rings with a terrifying ultimatum, locate and liberate an unnamed captive in 48 hours, or her kidnapped husband and ten year old daughter are dead. In open defiance of Army Command, Amy must employ every lethal tactic she has to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2019