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Attending to his usual challenges as the head of security for the Miraflores Hilton in Lima, Michael Forsythe receives an impassioned summons from a dangerous ex-lover, Bridget, who threatens Michael's life if he fails to rescue her kidnapped daughter.
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"On Febrauary 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag group of self-styled revolutionaries calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. The already sensational story took the first of many incredible twists on April 3, when the group released a tape of Patty saying she had joined the SLA and had adopted the nom de guerre 'Tania'. The weird turns of the tale are truly astonishing...
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A victim of sex trafficking, Carly Smith had been at the mercy of merciless men, ignored by law enforcement officers who should have helped her, and seemingly rejected by her family. Though she escaped her captors and is working hard on building a new life, the past continues to haunt her when she discovers that the man she couldn't bring herself to report to police for fear of reliving her captivity is still out there, luring vulnerable girls under...
84) Close your eyes
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
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Hypnotherapist Dr. Michael Strother has a dangerous gift. He gets visions from the inside of his patient's minds. While trying to help a detective stop smoking, he sees in her subconscious an eerie image of a young girl floating below the surface of a stream. Soon he is caught up in the detective's pursuit of a ritualistic killer who had kidnapped a young girl, Heather. Although Heather escaped, she hasn't spoken a word since. Now, only Michael can...
85) Gringo
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
While in Mexico, mild mannered businessman Harold Soyinka finds himself at the mercy of his back-stabbing business colleagues, local drug lords, and a morally conflicted black-ops mercenary. Crossing the line from law-abiding citizen to wanted criminal, Harold battles to survive his increasingly dangerous situation.
86) Echoes: a novel
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Publisher
Covenant
Pub. Date
c2001.
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English
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Jon Kiersey awakes in a hospital to one of the most beautiful women he has ever seen, and the news that his brain tumor is benign. Funny... he doesn't remember having a brain tumor, and he has no idea who this woman is. As Jon tries to discover who he used to be and figure out his relationship with Paige O'Brianthe beautiful womanpeople from his past emerge to remind him bit by bit who he was, what he escaped from, and what dangers...
87) One kick
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Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Famously kidnapped at age six, Kick Lannigan captured America's hearts when she was rescued five years later. John Bishop uses his fortune and contacts to track down missing children. Not only is he convinced Kick, with her special talents, can help recover two missing children -- he won't take no for an answer. Little do they know that the answers they seek are hidden in the dark corners of Kick's own mind.
88) Transporter 3
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Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Frank Martin is presented an offer he can't refuse and ends up with a mysterious passenger and a dangerous destination, calling for a new machine and new rules.
89) Clarissa
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BBC Video
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
Description
The original tale of fatal attraction and dangerous liasons. A wealthy young heiress, famed for her virtue, is sought by a man wishing to seduce and destroy her reputation. For the first time in his life he becomes genuinely infatuated with his prey, and sows the seeds of his own fate.
90) Girl
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"I was a girl once, but not any more." So begins Girl, Edna O'Brien's harrowing portrayal of the young women abducted by Boko Haram. Set in the deep countryside of northeast Nigeria, this is a brutal story of incarceration, horror, and hunger; a hair-raising escape into the manifold terrors of the forest; and a descent into the labyrinthine bureaucracy and hostility awaiting a victim who returns home with a child blighted by enemy blood. From one...
91) Safe and sound
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Series
Jack Keller novel volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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Bounty hunter and Gulf War veteran Jack Keller is forced to confront his past when he is drawn into a case involving a kidnapped girl whose father, a member of the Army's elite Delta Force, has gone AWOL.
92) The crying game
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
An unlikely kind of friendship develops between Fergus, an Irish Republican Army volunteer, and Jody, a kidnapped British soldier lured into an IRA trap by another IRA member. When the hostage-taking ends up going horribly wrong, Fergus escapes and heads to London, where he seeks out Jody's lover, a hairdresser named Dil. Fergus changes his name and gets a job as a day laborer. His starts seeing Dil, who knows nothing about Fergus' real background....
93) Paradox
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
When his daughter goes missing, a police negotiator teams with local police to find her, but instead finds himself embroiled in a web of corruption and violence.
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2020
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English
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"As a child, Alice was stolen from her backyard in a tiny Indiana community, but against the odds, her policeman father tracked her down within twenty-four hours and rescued her from harm. In the aftermath of the crime, her family decided to move to Chicago and close the door on that horrible day. Yet Alice hasn't forgotten. She devotes her spare time volunteering for a website called The Doe Pages scrolling through pages upon pages of unidentified...
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Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"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 she's come to respect, Nena struggles to reconcile her...
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Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Chris Thomas is not yet 30 years old when he finds himself managing the immense pressure, eccentric personalities, and extenuating circumstances of an international story, where one small misstep could adversely impact the search for a missing teenager and the reputation of her family. Now, 20 years later, Thomas takes listeners behind the scenes, providing new details, perspectives, and commentary on finding Elizabeth Smart. In the process of reflecting...
97) Cabin gulch
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Publisher
Leisure
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Joan Randle, in a spirit of anger, sends Jim Cleve out into the lawless country of the mining frontier in Idaho Territory to test his mettle as a man. Then, regretting their quarrel, she goes in pursuit of him, in hope of turning him back, only to be taken captive by the notorious mining camp and stagecoach bandit, Jack Kells. Kells is so intent on having Joan to himself that he kills for it, even some of his own men. When a huge gold strike is made...
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Montana sky volume 3
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Schoolteacher Harriet Stanton has always believed in happily ever after. Only, the one she thinks she wants forever with is newly married ... just not to her. But when a mysterious stranger rescues Harriet from an accident, she discovers heroes can be found in the most unlikely places ... Newspaper reporter Anthony "Ant" Gordon is a man on a mission. He's determined to find the man who murdered his sister and kidnapped his young nephew David. The...
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Annick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"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 Iraq. Badeeah's story takes her to Syria where she is...
100) Captured
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Series
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Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c 2009.
Language
English
Description
When space pirates capture Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Count Dooku, they must work together to escape from their captors before their differences get the better of them.
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