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Barbara is at a loss: The daughter of her friend Taymullah Azhar has been taken by her mother, and Barbara cant really help-Azhar had never married Angelina, and his name isnt on Hadiyyahs, their daughters, birth certificate. Azhar and Barbara hire a private detective, but the trail goes cold. Azhar is just beginning to accept his soul-crushing loss when Angelina reappears with shocking news: Hadiyyah is missing, kidnapped from an Italian marketplace....
2) The prisoner
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English
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"With Behind Closed Doors, New York Times bestselling author B. A. Paris took the psychological thriller to shocking new heights. Now she'll hold you captive with THE PRISONER-a stunning new thriller about one woman wed into a family with deadly intentions. Amelie has always been a survivor, from losing her parents as a child in Paris to making it on her own in London. As she builds a life for herself, she is swept up into a glamorous lifestyle where...
3) Planesrunner
Author
Series
Everness volume 1
Publisher
Pyr
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-old Everett Singh's scientist father is kidnapped from the streets of London, he leaves a mysterious app on Everett's computer giving him access to the Infundibulum--a map of parallel earths--which is being sought by technologically advanced dark powers that Everett must somehow elude while he tries to rescue his father.
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English
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"Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things. Our Queen of Twists, bestselling author of Daisy Darker and Rock Paper Scissors Alice Feeney, returns with another thrilling mystery filled with drama and her trademark surprises. Twenty years after a baby is stolen from a stroller, a woman is murdered in a care home. The two crimes are somehow linked, and a good bad girl may be the key to discovering the truth. Edith...
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Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Finding a little boy in her kitchen is upsetting enough for Tessa Markham, but when her own past makes her a suspect in the child's kidnapping, Tessa must uncover the truth to prove her innocence to everyone, including herself."--Publisher's description.
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English
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"From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Secret Keeper and The Distant Hours, an intricately plotted, spellbinding new novel of heartstopping suspense and uncovered secrets. Living on her family's idyllic lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, inquisitive, innocent, and precociously talented sixteen-year-old who loves to write stories. But the mysteries she pens are no match for the one her...
7) Passenger
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Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Jack and Conner are drawn back to Marbury to rescue other friends and attempt to destroy the lens that transports them to the alternate world.
8) Blue Monday
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Series
Frieda Klein novels volume 1
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Frieda Klein is a solitary, incisive psychotherapist who spends her sleepless nights walking along the ancient rivers that have been forced underground in modern London. She believes that the world is a messy, uncontrollable place, but what we can control is what is inside our heads. This attitude is reflected in her own life, which is an austere one of refuge, personal integrity, and order. The abduction of five-year-old Matthew Farraday provokes...
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Daniel Pitt novels (Anne Perry) 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 junior counsel on a fraud case with the potential to make or break his reputation. The trouble is, Malcolm Vayne, the man on trial, has deep pockets, and even deeper connections. Working alongside Gideon Hunter, the new head of his firm, Daniel must find a way to prove that Vayne is guilty. Vayne's trial reveals his deep political ambitions, and it heats up further...
10) In a dark house
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English
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A serial arsonist is on the loose in London. When a nude, charred female corpse turns up in a burned warehouse, the police discover that the unidentified victim, one of four possible women, was murdered beforehand. Duncan and Gemma also look into the abduction of 10-year-old Harriet Novak, a pawn in her parents' ongoing acrimonious divorce. As the investigation by both fire officials and police evolves, it becomes clear that the abduction is connected...
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English
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"Anne Perry, that incomparable novelist of life in Victorian England, has once again surpassed herself, with this twenty-first installment of her New York Times bestselling William Monk series. In Corridors of the Night, nurse Hester Monk and her husband, William, commander of the Thames River Police, do desperate battle with two obsessed scientists who in the name of healing have turned to homicide. The monomaniacal Rand brothers--Magnus, a cunning...
12) Stolen lives
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Jade de Jong investigations volume 2
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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Jade de Jong gets sucked down into the dark world of human trafficking when she finds a connection between the attempted killings of a wealthy couple and the kidnapping of the son of her lover, police superintendent David Patel.
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Series
Desperate duchesses by the numbers volume 3
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Witty and elusive Eugenia Snowe has all society begging for one of her premiere governesses--except the powerful Edward Reeve, who bursts into her office with his arrogant demands. No question that Eugenia enjoys crossing wits with the brilliant inventor, but Ward wants far more than a governess. He wants Eugenia, and he'll stop at nothing to have her--including kidnapping"--Back cover.
15) The Marbury lens
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Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After being kidnapped and barely escaping, sixteen-year-old Jack goes to London with his best friend Connor, where someone gives him a pair of glasses that send him to an alternate universe where war is raging, he is responsible for the survival of two younger boys, and Connor is trying to kill them all.
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Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A mother's worst nightmare: the subway doors close with her baby son still on the train. In this suspenseful debut novel, a woman goes to unimaginable lengths to get her child back. A struggling, single mother, Emma sometimes wishes that her thirteen-month-old son Ritchie would just disappear. Then, one quiet Sunday evening, after a sinister encounter on the London Underground--Ritchie does just that. Emma immediately reports his abduction to the...
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Oakwing volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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When her mother is kidnapped by evil fairy Vulpes and his army of foxes, Rowan, her fairy friends, and a tiger from the London Zoo set out to save her and the fairy realms.
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Steampunk chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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English
Description
London, 1897. When mechanical genius Emily is kidnapped by rogue automatons, Finley Jayne and her fellow misfits fear the worst. To save those she cares about, Emily must confront The Machinist's ultimate creation -- an automaton more human than machine.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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When Clara vanishes after the puppeteer Grisini and two orphaned assistants were at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping chases the trio away from London and soon the two orphans are caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient rival, a witch with a deadly inheritance to shed before it is too late.
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Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Jade de Jong is hired as a bodyguard for Pamela Jordaan after her husband, Terrance, mysteriously disappears. Jade thought it would be the easiest job of her career. However, when both she and her client narrowly survive an assassination attempt and Terrance is found brutally tortured and clinging to life, Jade steps up her game. However, when her beau, David Patel, reveals his son has be kidnapped, Jade realizes that both cases connected her case...