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Author
Series
Adventures of Arnie the Doughnut volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Arnie is shocked when he hears his neighbor Loretta Schmoretta tell news reporters that she was the victim of an alien abduction. And not just any aliens--alien doughnuts from outer spastry. Arnie thinks this is a ridiculous story, that is, until he gets abducted. Arnie must think fast in order to rescue his fellow doughnuts and the townspeople from the alien invaders"--
4) Touch & go
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Justin and Libby Denbe, along with their beautiful 15-year-old daughter, disappear, investigator Tessa Leone must race against time to expose the Denbes' darkest secrets to discover who would want to kidnap such a perfect little family and just how far they are willing to go.
Author
Publisher
Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"OMG . . . talk about keeping me on the edge of my seat! . . . This is one hell of an action-packed ride!' --Baker's Not So Secret Blog, five stars The action-packed first novel in the highly acclaimed and bestselling series of espionage thrillers featuring Carl Logan. Carl Logan was the perfect agent. A loner. No real friends or family. Trained to deal with any situation with cold efficiency, devoid of emotion. But Logan isn't the man he used to...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Oliver Goldsmith's hugely successful novel of 1766 remained for generations one of the most highly regarded and beloved works of eighteenth-century fiction. It depicts the fall and rise of the Primrose family, presided over by the benevolent vicar, the narrator of a fairy-tale plot of impersonation and deception, the abduction of a beautiful heroine and the machinations of an aristocratic villain. By turns comic and sentimental, the novel's popularity...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Divorce solution It wasn't that Nicky hadn't loved her husband--quite the opposite. By leaving, Nicky had hoped to provoke some kind of reaction. Blake Chandler was the strong and silent type. He didn't show much emotion behind those impassive gray eyes. Of course, Nicky's plan had misfired--Blake had been only too happy to sign the divorce papers. Now, four years later, Nicky is abducted by her ex, and this time Blake is far from silent about his...
11) Guilty as sin
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Attorney Ellen North prepares for the case of her career when she is assigned to prosecute the man charged with kidnapping a young boy, but there are still many questions to be answered and Ellen is plagued by the sure knowledge that her prime suspect was not working alone.
12) Long man
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1936, the TVA plans to build a dam in a Tennessee town at the same time a little girl goes missing--possibly stolen by a drifter determined to blow up the dam"--
13) Descent: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Descent, the story of a family undone by the disappearance of a daughter who went out for a morning run and didn't come back, marks the adult fiction debut of a remarkable young writer. Stunning in its emotional impact, Descent is a compulsively readable page-turner with a strong literary sensibility. The girl's vanishing--on a sunny, late-summer vacation morning--all the more devastating for its mystery, is the beginning the family's harrowing journey...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Directed by Enzo G. Castellari (The inglorious bastards), Cold eyes of fear is a stylish giallo in the form of a home invasion thriller, laced with hallucinatory imagery and backed with an edgy score by legendary composer Ennio Morricone. An ex-con abducts the nephew of the judge who put him behind bars, and holds the nephew and his beautiful companion (Giovanna Ralli) hostage in their home. But the criminal's carefully-planned revenge runs off the...
Author
Publisher
Vesuvian Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"IT HAS BEEN SEVENTEEN YEARS since the Nine Veils abducted half of the Nenets children and their bonded Huahuqui from Antarctica. Despite years of searching by Jonathan Teller and the NSA, no one has heard from the clandestine organization, or the abductees. KJ Nilsson, the remaining children, and their Huahuqui-collectively known as the Stratum-have grown up in relative safety at Alpha Base in Antarctica. Thanks to the work of Lucy Taylor, now President...
18) The husband trap
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Had me gasping and on the edge of my seat. Gripping from the start and took my breath away!" --Goodreads reviewer, five stars He's just proposed to his girlfriend--but another woman has him in her sights, in this terrifying thriller by the author of My Dead Husband . Liam finally popped the question, and Emily said yes. But that very same night, Liam gets abducted . . . and wakes up to a nightmare. On a large estate in the middle of nowhere, Liam...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It was 1970 when thirteen-year-old runaway Kit Walker was abducted by Manny Romero, a smooth-talking, low-level criminal, who first coddled her and then groomed her into his partner-in-crime. Before long, Kit and Manny were infamous for their string of gas station robberies throughout Texas, making a name for themselves as the Texaco Twosome. Fourteen years later, Kit has scraped together a life for herself and her daughter amongst the pecan trees...
20) The Silent Army
Author
Language
Nederlands
Description
Young Abu disappears suddenly together with at least ten other children, after a nightly and violent raid of his village by the rebel army. His best friend Thomas cannot be consoled. He wants Abu back, and Eduard, his father, decides to try to find Abu. Eduard persists in his plight towards finding and saving his son's friend, and discovers the tyrant of children is someone from his past.
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