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1) Obsession
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Teddy Fay novel volume 6
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English
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"While filming on location in scenic Santa Barbara, California, Peter Barrington and Ben Bacchetti look to expand Centurion Studios by making a deal with a Croatian tech billionaire's. But when the magnate's wife is kidnapped, Teddy Fay is brought in to assess the threat and recover the young woman. As Teddy unravels the threads of her disappearance, he quickly comes to find an old vendetta that seethes at the center, one that puts them all at risk....
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"Iris Walsh saw her twin sister, Piper, get kidnapped -- so why does no one believe her? Iris narrowly escaped her pretty, popular twin sister's fate as a teen: kidnapped, trafficked and long gone before the cops agreed to investigate. With no evidence to go on but a few scattered memories, the case quickly goes cold. Now an adult, Iris wants one thing -- proof. And if the police still won't help, she'll just have to find it her own way: by interning...
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"When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she's not only North Carolina's richest woman, she's also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family's estate high in the Blue Ridge mountains. In the aftermath of her death, that estate -- along with a nine-figure fortune and the complicated legacy of being a McTavish -- pass...
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"Best friends don't always have the best intentions. On a brisk fall night in a New York apartment, 35-year-old Billie West hears terrified screams. It's her lifelong best friend Cassie Barnwell, one floor above, and she's just realized her infant daughter has gone missing. Billie is shaken as she looks down into her own arms to see the baby, remembering--with a jolt of fear--that she is responsible for the kidnapping that has instantly shattered...
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"Los Angeles. August 4, 1962. The city broils through a mid-summer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker's looking for some getback. The Monroe deal looks like a moneymaker. He calls in Freddy Otash. The freewheeling Freddy O. Tainted ex-cop, defrocked private eye, dope fiend, and freelance extortionist. A man who lives by the maxim "Opportunity is Love." Freddy gets to work....
6) Nick of time
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1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Prepare for real terror filmed in "real-time." The moment accountant Gene Watson arrives at L.A.'s Union Station with his daughter, two shadowy strangers separate him from his little girl, slap a gun into his hand, and present a devil's bargain: kill a government official at a nearby political rally ... or never see his beloved child alive again. Hold on tight for a deadly race against time that plunges an ordinary man into an extraordinary nightmare...
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xv, 448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"On October 1, 1993, a 12-year-old girl was kidnapped at knifepoint from her bedroom in Petaluma, California, during a sleepover with two friends, while her mother slept soundly in the room next door. This rarest of all kidnappings -- a stranger abduction from the home -- triggered one of the largest manhunts in FBI history. Riddled with red herrings, grave mistakes, dead ends, and false leads, from fake ransom calls to junior high pranks to dramatic...
8) La civil
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1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Español
Description
The film unfolds with documentary-like precision as it details the human impact of drug cartels in Northern Mexico. Cielo learns her daughter Laura has been kidnapped when a baby-faced teenager orders her to pay 150,000 pesos if she wants to see Laura again. With no police support, Cielo embarks on her own investigation, peeling back layers of Mexico's societal corruption in an increasingly desperate effort to save her child.
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264 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"In 1996, sixteen-year-old Audre is having trouble fitting into her new town, where everyone seems to believe there's a secret Satanic cult doing rituals in the woods. But when the pastor's daughter -- and Audre's crush -- goes missing, she starts to wonder if the town's obsession with evil isn't covering up something far worse"--
1996. From the moment Audre arrives in rural Pennsylvania, she has trouble fitting into her new town. Everyone seems...
10) The quiet tenant
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303 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"A psychological thriller about trauma, power, and survival, which follows a young woman who has been captured and confined by a serial killer -- who is a father, widower, former Marine, and lineman for the local electric company -- as he hides the true nature of his double life from his daughter, neighbors, and the local bartender who could be his next victim, unless his captive manages to stop him"--
Aidan Thomas is a hard-working family man in...
11) No huyas
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462 pages ; 24 cm.
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Español
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Al regresar del instituto, Amala Cavalcante percibe que un hombre la está siguiendo y antes de abrir la puerta de su casa se desvanece. Al despertar, un agudo dolor en el hombro destapa el horror: tiene atornillado en su propia carne un cable que la une a la pared y le permite desplazarse por una habitación. A traves de un hoyo consigue pasar un mensaje al exterior, pero al poco tiempo recibe una respuesta: No Huyas. La tía de Amala, la celebre...
12) Big time
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275 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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" What if time could be taken from us-the minutes, the hours, the years of our lives, extracted like organs taken for transplant? What would it mean for the world? And what would it do to the person from whom it's taken? Grace Berney is a mid-level bureaucrat in the Food and Drug Administration, a woman who once brimmed with purpose but somehow turned into a middle-aged single mom with a dull government job and a melancholy sense that life has passed...
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330 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Three teen girls get caught up in a real estate battle between a commune and an exploitative megachurch in their small Montana town, and they devise a plot to exact revenge and make a profit by kidnapping the pastor's son and demanding ransom money.
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3 videodiscs (approximately 533 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Danny McNamara is a former FBI agent specializing in stolen arts and antiquities. Lexi Vaziri is a resourceful art thief who is haunted by the tragic loss of her father, which she blames on Danny. When terrorist Karim Farouk absconds with a priceless artifact and kidnaps Danny's mentor Dr. Anna Castillo, Danny recruits Lexi to help him bring Farouk to justice and rescue Anna. As they chase down Farouk, they encounter unscrupulous individuals who may...
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275 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Now, more than four decades since readers first met Nancy and her children, comes the thrilling sequel to the groundbreaking book that set the stage for future generations of psychological suspense novels. A lawyer turned successful podcaster, Melissa has recently married a man whose first wife died tragically, leaving him and their young daughter, Riley, behind. While Melissa and her brother, Mike, help their mom, Nancy, relocate from Cape Cod to...
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A to Z mysteries.Super edition volume 11
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136 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
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English
Description
The star of their favorite television show is kidnapped at the Grand Canyon, and it is up to Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose to find him.
17) The fourth enemy
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Series
Daniel Pitt novel volume 6
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English
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"Working his way up at London law firm fford Croft and Gibson, Daniel Pitt is named second prosecutor on a fraud case with the potential to make or break his -- and the firm's -- reputation. The trouble is, Malcolm Vayne, the man on trial, has deep pockets, and even deeper connections. Vayne's philanthropic efforts paint him a hero in the eyes of the public, but Daniel's friend Ian, a police officer, has evidence to suggest otherwise. Nervously working...
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"LankyBox duo Adam and Justin and their friends Foxy, Boxy, and Rocky love hanging out and playing games together. But when Justin gets hungry and decides to order donuts, he and Adam wind up kidnapped! An evil hacker has nabbed Adam and Justin, and he wants them to teach him the secret to online superstardom. If they can't, he's going to wipe out all the content in the world that's more popular than his videos are. In other words: everything! Now...
19) Lies we bury
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286 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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"It's only by confronting who she was then that she can understand who she is now. I was born in captivity ... Two decades ago Marissa Mo escaped a basement prison -- the only home she'd ever known. At twenty-seven, Marissa's moved beyond the trauma and is working under a new name as a freelance photographer. But when she accepts a job covering a string of macabre murders in Portland, it's impossible for Marissa not to remember. Everything is eerily...
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"1914, Fiji: 25-year-old police sergeant Akal Singh would rather be anywhere but this tropical paradise. After a promising start to his career in his native India and in Hong Kong, he got sent to work in Fiji as punishment for a professional mistake he's too embarrassed to talk about. Lonely and humiliated, Akal longs for the day he can finally solve a big case and win the inspector-general's favor, thereby redeeming himself and being permitted to...
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