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1) Ravens
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English
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The Boatwrights just won $318 million in the Georgia State Lottery. It's going to be the worst day of their lives.
2) Bel Canto
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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When terrorists seize hostages at an embassy party, an unlikely assortment of people thrown together, including American opera star Roxane Coss, and Mr. Hosokawa, a Japanese CEO and her biggest fan. From the bestselling author of "The Magician's Assistant" comes a marvelous novel of love, opera, and terrorism set in South America. Two couples, complete opposites, fall in love; sexual identities become confused; and a horrific imprisonment is transformed...
3) Power play
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If Jake Landry, a tough guy with an understanding of airplane engineering and an innate grasp of corporate politics, is too good to be true, he's still fun to watch in this sleek thriller from bestseller Finder (Killer Instinct). A junior executive at California's Hammond Aerospace, Landry possesses a remarkably flexible intelligence, which lands him on a high-end corporate weekend at a lodge called Rivers Inlet, where the new CEO, Cheryl Tobin, discreetly...
4) Hostage
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From Elie Wiesel, Nobel laureate and author of Night, a charged, deeply moving novel about the legacy of the Holocaust in todays troubled world and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Its 1975, and Shaltiel Feigenberg-professional storyteller, writer and beloved husband-has been taken hostage: abducted from his home in Brooklyn, blindfolded and tied to a chair in a dark basement. His captors, an Arab and an Italian, dont explain why the innocent...
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and writer of astonishing depth (The Washington Times) comes a poignant comedy about a crime that never took place, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have more in common than they ever imagined.
Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a...
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Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"After the President closes Guantanamo Bay, some terrorists are relocated to Hell’s Gate Prison in West Texas—where a sleeper-cell of shock troops launch an assault to “liberate” their jailed comrades. Soon after going free, they take the high school football team hostage. The team will be executed, one by one, if the terrorists’ demands aren’t met. Army Ranger Lucas Kincaid assembles a ragtag band of survivors and aging cons into a lethal...
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O'Malley series (Dee Henderson) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Kate O'Malley, a hostage specialist, is a target. Someone is sending her black roses. Maybe it is the same person who just blew up an airplane and blamed Kate. The investigation brings up the one name Kate hoped never to hear again, and she's faced with the shocking evidence that the bomber could be someone she knows. Now she has to decide if Dave is all he is supposed to be, along with the God he trusts implicitly. Dave is about to discover that...
10) Hostage: a novel
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2021.
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English
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"From New York Times bestselling author Clare Mackintosh comes a claustrophobic thriller set over 20 hours on-board the inaugural nonstop flight from London to Sydney. Mina is trying to focus on her job as a flight attendant, not the problems with her five-year-old daughter back home, or the fissures in her marriage. But the plane has barely taken off when Mina receives a chilling note from an anonymous passenger, someone intent on ensuring the plane...
11) Bad signs
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Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Orphaned by an act of senseless violence that took their mother from them, half-brothers Clarence Luckman and Elliott Danziger have been raised in state institutions, unaware of any world beyond its walls. But their lives take a sudden turn when they are seized as hostages by a convicted killer en route to death row. Earl Sheridan is a psychopath of the worst kind, and as he and his two hostages set off on a frenetic path through California down...
12) Deadlock
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Emily Hudson is an archeologist who, along with best friend and partner Joel Levy, travels the world in search of priceless artifacts. When her entire crew is massacred, Joel and Emily are held captive, victims of one of the most ruthless and evil human beings on earth. For two weeks they try to survive, until Emily is the unwitting instrument in Joel's demise. John Garrett has worked for the CIA, MI6, and whoever else needed his services. Now, the...
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Dey Street Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"The Hostages Daughter is an intimate look at the effect of the Lebanese Hostage Crisis on Andersons family, the United States, and the Middle East today. Sulome tells moving stories from her experiences as a reporter in the region and challenges our understanding of global politics, the forces that spawn terrorism and especially Lebanon, the beautiful, devastated, and vitally important country she came to love. Powerful and eye-opening The...
14) Heist
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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When their attempt to rob a casino goes awry and a shootout ensues, Vaughn and Cox are forced to flee on foot and hijack city Bus 657 and take passengers hostage. Now, in a high speed chase, Vaughn will not only have to outwit the police, but he will have to contend with Pope's maniacal right hand man, Dog, in order to make it through the day alive.
15) Word of honor
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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There were four people at the Newpointe post office when the bomb went off. Three were killed instantly. The fourth, a five-year-old boy, lies comatose. Who would do such a thing? The answer seems to come in the form of a gunman crashing through the door of Jill Clark's hotel room. The young attorney finds it hard to question that her desperate captor - who has a rifle pointed at her head - is guilty of the bombing. Until later, when he's behind bars......
16) Reconstruction
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Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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When a gunman breaks into South Oxford Nursery School and takes a group of hostages, teacher Louise Kennedy fears the worst. But Jaime Segura isnt there on a homicidal mission, and hes just as scared as those whose lives he holds as collateral. As an armed police presence builds outside the schools gates, the only person Jaime will talk to is Ben Whistler, an MI6 accountant who worked with Jaimes lover, Miro. Miros gone missing, along with a quarter...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Young lawyer Michael Brock's investigation into the motives of a homeless gunman who was killed by police after taking Brock and eight of his fellow attorneys hostage, leads him to the discovery of a dirty little secret that changes the course of his life and career.
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Amy Cornwall novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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In her career as an Army intelligence officer, Amy Cornwall has seen haunting sights half a world away. None compare to the chilling scene at her Virginia home. It is empty. A phone rings with a terrifying ultimatum: locate and liberate an unnamed captive in forty-eight hours, or her kidnapped husband and ten-year-old daughter are dead. Now, and in open defiance of Army Command, Amy must employ every lethal tactic she has to save them. To succeed,...
19) Worst case
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Detective Michael Bennett is forced to investigate the abductions of New York City's richest socialites. The culprit doesn't want money, he only wants his captives to apologize for the pain they have caused society. Running out of time, Bennett must locate the victims before they are killed off, one by one.
20) Die trying
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In a plot to overthrow the U.S. government, Montana neo-Nazis abduct the daughter of the nation's top general and her male companion. The companion is Jack Reacher, a former military policeman and he turns the tables on the captors.