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BE NOT AFRAID OF ANY MAN, NO MATTER WHAT HIS SIZE -- WHEN DANGER THREATENS, CALL ON ME -- I WILL EQUALIZE. Those words -- etched on the long barrel of the Colt they called The Redeemer -- would ring as loud and true as the gun itself in the ears of those who dared to challenge the McCalisters. When a pack of Confederate renegades came thundering in looking for captives, they made easy prey of the McCalister women. But they hadn't reckoned on Bubba,...
64) Venom
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Ad agency intern Samantha Edwards volunteers to work on location in Mexico City as a personal assistant to the beautiful and driven creative director Katrina Edwards when she is abducted and comes face-to-face with the venomous evil of the South American crime boss known as "The Serpent." Now Samantha must not only fight for her life, but she must also discover if she can trust the man she's come to love--David Ayala, a mysterious and moody photographer....
65) Difret
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Amharic
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"The practice of abduction into marriage is one of Ethiopia's oldest traditions. Hirut, a bright 14-year-old girl is on her way home from school when she is kidnapped. She tries to escape but, in an attempt to protect herself, mortally wounds her would-be husband. Difret tells the inspirational true story of Hirut and Meaza, the female lawyer who fought her case."--Container.
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Francie is in Roswell, New Mexico, for her college roommate's UFO-themed wedding-- complete with a true-believer bridegroom. Aliens obviously don't exist. Imagine her surprise, then, when she is abducted by one. She's not the only victim of the alien's abduction spree. He has acquired a con man named Wade, a sweet little old lady with a casino addiction, a retiree with a huge RV and a love for old Westerns, and a UFO-chasing nutjob who is thoroughly...
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Hidden: After being rejected by the Navy SEALS, Mitchum becomes his small town's unofficial private eye. But his investigation skills are put to the test when he searches for his missing teenage cousin--and uncovers a government conspiracy in the process.
Malicious: Mitchum's brother has been charged with murder. Nathaniel swears he didn't kill anyone, but word on the street is that he was involved with the victim's wife. Now, Mitchum will break...
68) Home
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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A lovable misfit from another planet meets a girl named Tip. The two unlikely friends embark on the greatest journey of all time.
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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Having been adopted as a boy, Kit Philpson of Glasgow, Scotland, sets out to discover the true events behind his transfer to a new family, which may have something to do with a three-year-old boy being abducted from his parents' holiday hotel in Sicily in 1989.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Minutes after eighteen-year-old Bennett Bardo of Gordo, New Mexico, asks Sophie Gilkey, his dream girl, to prom and she says yes, she is abducted by aliens and Bennett catches a ride across the galaxy with a band of misfit musicians to find her.
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I was a sixth grade alien volume 8
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Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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When Tim Tompkins dreamed of visiting other galaxies, he didn't think he would do it as a captive of an alien, and now he must try to survive and find his way back home.
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2022.
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English
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"Some people greet the day with open arms. Sheriff Sunshine Vicram would rather give it a hearty shove and get back into bed, because there's just too much going on right now. There's a series of women going missing, and Sunny feels powerless to stop it. There's her persistent and awesomely-rebellious daughter Auri, who's out to singlehandedly become Del Sol's youngest and fiercest investigator. And then there's drama with Levi Ravinder--the guy she's...
74) Taken
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DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
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English
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Ten episodes from the television miniseries "Taken" presented by Steven Spielberg. An epic event spanning three families, four generations and 50 years of unearthly secrets. "Taken" launches into a realm of alien abductions and deadly conspiracies reaching from World War II to the present.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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A definitive account of the rescue mission to free hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls after their kidnapping by Boko Haram describes how a global social media campaign initiated with the Twitter hashtag #BringBackOurGirls prompted a dramatic worldwide intervention.
Spring, 2014 millions of Twitter users unwittingly helped turn a group of 276 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram, a little-known Islamist sect, into a central prize in the global War on...
76) Trade
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2008.
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English
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When 13-year-old Adriana is kidnapped by sex traffickers in Mexico, her 17-year-old brother, Jorge, sets off on a desperate mission to save her. As Jorge dodges overwhelming obstacles to track the girl's abductors, he meets Ray, a Texas cop whose own family loss leads him to become an ally.
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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When sixteen-year-old Sara Parcell goes missing, it's an utter tragedy . . . and an entertaining national obsession in this thoughtful and addictively readable novel that offers a fresh and provocative take on whodunits and true crime. Sixteen-year-old Sara Parcell disappeared without a trace on a crisp April morning in Frederick, Maryland. Her tragic story was a national obsession and the centerpiece of a controversial TV docu-series that followed...
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English
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Jack and Joan have their yacht and an easy life. They gradually get bored with each other and their current way of life. Joan accepts an invitation to go trek through the North African desert as a guest of the sheik. Once there, she is abducted and she finds herself involved with the 'jewel.' Jack decides to rescue her with his new partner Ralph. Not even treacherous tribes, deadly dungeons and dangerous villains can stop them from finding, once and...
79) Patty Hearst
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of the newspaper heiress' abduction and subsequent brainwashing by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
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Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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In a mothership full of entertaining and informative chapters, authors Stephen Spignesi and William Birnes, writers of many books dealing with the intriguing, weird, and unexplained, shed a revealing beam of light on the UFO phenomenon. From inexplicable cattle mutilations and modern astronauts who have seen UFOs, to close encounters of the third and fourth kind, and, it's all here. The Big Book of UFO Facts, Figures & Truth is at once a valuable...
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