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61) A king's ransom
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister Amy race against time to find an ancient map that has not been seen for half a century and use it to redeem their family members who have been kidnapped by a sinister organization called the Vespers.
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Series
(John Anthony).Ranger's apprentice volume 5
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Now a full-fledged Ranger responsible for a sleepy fief, Will finds a new adventure seeking the traitors who poisoned the king, investigating rumors of sorcery, and trying to rescue his friend Alyss, who is taken hostage.
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English
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Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone decides to help after hearing his old friend Cassiopeia Vitt is in trouble and soon finds himself caught up in a mystery involving an emperor's tomb, a secret society, and a battle for control of China and the world.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Six years ago Maddie lived in Washington D.C. with her father, a Secret Service agent assigned to the President's family, and her best friend was Logan, the President's son; but after her father was wounded in an attempted kidnapping the two of them moved to a remote cabin in Alaska and Logan never replied to her letters-- but now he has suddenly turned up on her doorstep, and, while she has no intention of forgiving him for his silence, she soon...
69) Southernmost
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English
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"When an evangelical preacher in Tennessee offers shelter to two gay men after a catastrophic flood, he's met with resistance by his wife and congregation, and eventually loses custody of his son. He decides to kidnap his son and flee to Key West, where he suspects his estranged gay brother is living"--
70) The new girl
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English
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#1 New York Times Bestseller • #1 USA Today Bestseller • #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller
Now you see her. Now you don’t. THE NEW GIRL. A thriller of deception, betrayal, and vengeance.
She was covered from head to toe in expensive wool and plaid, the sort of stuff one saw
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English
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Chet and his human companion Bernie are called in to investigate a series of threats made against a pampered show dog named Princess, and when Princess and her owner are abducted and Bernie's girlfriend, reporter Susie Sanchez, disappears, the detective team realizes the show dog world is more dangerous than they ever imagined.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Too bad former secret agent Cotton Malone knows how to unearth the lost contents of the Library of Alexandria; now his bookstore has been ransacked and his son kidnapped.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Investigator Arkady Renko looks into the body of a woman found in a construction trailer on the edge of Moscow's main rail hub, despite the fact that he has been suspended from the prosecution office, but while everyone seems content to declare her death a drug overdose, Renko is intrigued by the discovery of an invitation to an exclusive charity ball for billionaires.
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Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Jessie Arnold has decided to forego the Iditarod in favor of the more treacherous Yukon Quest, but she is distracted from the race by her faltering relationship with longtime friend and lover Alex Jensen, and the going really gets rough when her young competitor Debbie Todd is kidnapped off the trail.
76) Stolen
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Sixteen-year-old Gemma, a British city-dweller, is abducted while on vacation with her parents and taken to the Australian outback, where she soon realizes that escape attempts are futile, and in time she learns that her captor is not as despicable as she first believed.
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English
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Edward Lane runs a highly illegal, highly profitable soldiers-for-hire operation, so he will pay any amount to get his beautiful wife and child back from their kidnappers. And then he'll turn Jack Reacher loose with a vengeance because Reacher is the best man hunter in the world.
78) Rescuing Olivia
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Anders Erickson, feeling guilty after his live-in-girlfriend is put in a coma after a motorcycle accident, is informed by her estranged father that she has passed away, and, unable to accept she is gone, embarks on a journey to discover the truth about what happened on that fateful day and to his lover, while uncovering information about her traumatic past which leads him to believe she is still alive.
79) Boston cream
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English
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Jonah Geller private investigator, heads to Boston on the trail of a family friend's son, but it soon becomes clear that surgeon-in-training David Fine had a real reason to run as he had been forced to perform organ transplants by a Boston crime boss, and getting him back endangers Jonah's partner Jenn Raudsepp and requires help from a former hit man and two wise guys.
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English
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"You have a very lovely little girl," breathed the voice on the phone. And just like that, Susan Young is drawn into a living nightmare. A stranger has kidnapped Sue's daughter, Veda. But he doesn't want her money, only her suffering-and he will kill Veda if Sue doesn't follow his every command. With detailed instructions, the faceless abductor leads Sue into a blinding snowstorm on the longest night of the year, to a place she has not traveled to...
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