Brodkorb, Michael
Summary: "On the evening of April 19, 2013, Samantha and Gianna Rucki disappeared. Two of five children born to David Rucki and Sandra Grazzini-Rucki, the teenage sisters vanished in the midst of their parents divorce. The girls father, David Rucki, worked tirelessly with law enforcement to search day and night for his two missing daughters, following every lead while raising three remaining children at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wise Ink Creative Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.8297 BROAhmed, Badeeah Hassan
Summary: "Captured by ISIS, her bravery and faith became her pathway to freedom. Badeeah Hassan was just 18 when she witnessed firsthand the horrors of the 2014 genocide of the Ezidi people by ISIS forces. Captured by ISIS, known locally as Daesh, Badeeah was among hundreds forced into a brutal human trafficking network made up of women and girls of Ezidi ethnicity, a much-persecuted minority culture of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2019
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Summary: "With echoes of Catch-22 and Black Hawk Down, author and former hostage Michael Scott Moore masterfully walks a fine line between personal narrative and journalistic distance in this page-turning and novelistic account of 977 days held captive by Somali pirates. Moore set off for Somalia in January 2012 after reporting on a historic trial of ten Somali pirates in Germany. He went with an open...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave,, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.15 MOOTaseer, Shahbaz
Summary: "In late August 2011, Shahbaz Taseer was driving to his office in Lahore when he was dragged from his car at gunpoint and kidnapped by members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), a Taliban-affiliated Uzbek terrorist group. Shahbaz's father, the late Pakistani governor, had recently been assassinated. His crime: speaking in support of a Christian woman who had been accused of blasphemy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TASEER, SHAHBAZ TASCross, Kim (Kimberly Hisako)
Summary: "Paced like a thriller and full of insider information on the history and science of Crime Scene Investigation, In Light of All Darkness embeds readers in one of the most famous true-crime stories of our generation--the kidnapping of Polly Klaas--a case as pivotal in the history of the FBI as the Unabomber or Oklahoma City bombing. On October 1, 1993, a 12-year-old girl was kidnapped at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 CROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 CROBetancourt, Ingrid
Summary: Ingrid Betancourt tells the story of her captivity in the Colombian jungle, sharing teachings of resilience, resistance, and faith. Born in Bogota, raised in France, Betancourt at age 32 gave up a life of comfort and safety to return to Colombia to become a political leader in a country that was being slowly destroyed by terrorism, violence, fear, and hopelessness. In 2002, while a candidate in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 986.106 BETKnight, Michelle
Summary: Describes the details of the abduction and decade-long captivity of one of the three survivors of notorious Cleveland kidnaper Ariel Castro, and how she found the courage to endure unimaginable circumstances and never lose hope for the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KNIGHT, MICHELLE KNICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B KNIGHT KNIAlpert, Stanley N.
Summary: On January 21, 1998, federal prosecutor Stanley Alpert was kidnapped off the streets of Manhattan by a carful of thugs looking to use his ATM card, but when they learned his bank balance, the plan changed. They took him, blindfolded, to a Brooklyn apartment. But the later it got, the more the plan changed, as his captors held guns to his head, threatened his family, engaged him in discussions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.154 ALPBuchanan, Jessica.
Summary: An account of the aid worker co-author's dramatic January 2012 rescue from kidnappers in Somalia by members of a Navy SEAL Team Six unit offers insight into the effective use of targeted U.S. military missions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 BUCSmart, Ed.
Summary: The parents of kidnapping victim Elizabeth Smart offer their perspective on the abduction of their daughter, discussing their long ordeal, the faith that kept them going, and their joy over the ultimate rescue of their daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.154 SMADugard, Jaycee Lee
Summary: The memoir of Jaycee Dugard who was kidnapped on June 10, 1991, when she was 11 years old, and was missing for over 18 years before her reappearance in 2009.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B DUGARD DUGFischer, Paul
Summary: "A nonfiction thriller packed with tension, passion, and politics, [this book] offers a rare glimpse into a secretive world, illuminating a fascinating chapter of North Korea's history that helps explain how it became the hermetically sealed, intensely stage-managed country it remains today"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.4 FISFleming, Candace
Summary: How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child ... and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLEVarley, Dax
Summary: In the four months since his mother was taken by demons, Max has been studying and perfecting a means of killing them with a slingshot, witch hazel, and an arcade token with a sunburst emblem--but now other women have been disappearing and finding out what the demons are up to has become a matter of increasing urgency.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2016
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC VARWells, Jonathan Daniel
Summary: "Although slavery was outlawed in the northern states in 1827, the illegal slave trade continued in the one place modern readers would least expect, the streets and ports of America's great northern metropolis: New York City. In 'The Kidnapping Club,' historian Jonathan Daniel Wells takes readers to a rapidly changing city rife with contradiction, where social hierarchy clashed with a rising...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 WELBerry, Amanda
Summary: Two victims of an infamous Cleveland kidnapper share the story of their abductions, their decade in captivity and their dramatic escape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BERKnight, Michelle
Summary: "Michelle Knight-now known as Lily Rose Lee-captured the world's attention in May 2013, when she and two fellow kidnapping victims were found and freed after being held for more than a decade by notorious Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro. But many people are still asking: What happened after her escape? How do you re-enter society after years of abuse and isolation? How do you get past the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KNIGHT, MICHELLE KNIKumanomata, Kagiji
Summary: "Accompanied by an entourage of demon guards, Princess Syalis takes a field trip to the human world to acquire a special pillow. Then she receives several invitations from her demon captors: first, to replace the cooks who have succumbed to heat exhaustion in the Demon Castle Kitchen. Second, to attend a pajama party. And third, to design a new area for the hero to explore"-- Provided by...
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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 SLESmart, Tom
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.154 SMAVernon, Ursula
Summary: It's Little Red Riding Hood as you've never seen her before in this funny, feminist spin on the fairy tale, from award-winning author Ursula Vernon Most monsters know better than to mess with Princess Harriet Hamsterbone. She's a fearsome warrior, an accomplished jouster, and is so convincing that she once converted a beastly Ogrecat to vegetarianism. So why would a pack of weasel-wolf monsters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD VERAndersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
Summary: The Snow Queen is the most magical and profound of all Hans Andersen’s fairy tales. It is a quest full of mystery, humour and adventure, and its uplifting theme is the power of innocence and enduring love. When Kay’s heart turns to ice and he falls under the spell of the beautiful Snow Queen, little Gerda leaves home to search for him. On her way she encounters many dangers, but she never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Armadillo 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ANDColfer, Eoin.
Summary: "A full-color graphic novel adaptation of the internationally best-selling book about a twelve-year-old criminal mastermind and the world of fairies. The world's youngest, brightest, and most dangerous criminal mastermind is back. Artemis Fowl receives an urgent e-mail from Russia. In it is a plea from a man who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya: his father. As Artemis rushes to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC ARTGlatt, John.
Summary: "The Lost Girls tells the truly amazing story of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, who were kidnapped, imprisoned, and repeatedly raped and beaten in a Cleveland house for over a decade by Ariel Castro, and their amazing escape in May 2013,which made headlines all over the world. The book has an exclusive interview and photographs of Ariel Castro's secret fiance who spent many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.8 GLAIoka, 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