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Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 29
Language
English
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Description
"Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had gotten there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure. Jack Reacher wakes up alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a makeshift bed. His right arm has suffered some major damage. His few possessions are gone. He has no memory of getting there. The last thing Reacher can recall is the car he hitched a ride...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Based on the actual kidnapping of Inuit Eskimos by European traders in the seventeenth century, this is a dramatic, suspenseful, and important novel, whose relevenace goes far beyond its historical setting.
5) Stolen heir
Author
Series
Brutal birthright romances volume 2
Publisher
Bloom Books, an imprint of Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Nessa Griffin leads a lonely life. Too compassionate and gentle for the underworld business she grew up in, she fills no role in her family’s mafia empire, struggling to prove herself both at home and in her highly competitive ballet corps. Mikolaj Wilk is the most vicious gangster in Chicago, and he’s hellbent on revenge. His adoptive father saved him from the streets of Warsaw only to die at the hands of the Griffins. As part of his vengeance,...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A CHILDS ABDUCTION SETS OFF A SHOWDOWN BETWEEN TWO TOUGH BOUNTY HUNTERS! Jace Coppersmith, a marshal in a Colorado Territory town, makes the tough decision to hand in his badge and leave his fiancée to help a friend, Travis Van Horn, in Kansas. Van Horn, who trained Coppersmith in the ways of the bounty hunter, is being forced to commit crimes by an outlaw who has abducted Van Horns five-year-old daughter, a child he has never really known. Coppersmith...
7) Saving Myles
Author
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When the FBI can't help, an unassuming banker takes matters into his own hands to bring his son home Wade, a respected banker in La Jolla, CA, and his estranged wife, Fiona, make the unbearable decision to send their teenage son, Myles, away to an expensive treatment center after a streak of harmful behavior. After a year of treatment, Myles comes home, seemingly rehabilitated. But soon, he sneaks off to Tijuana to buy drugs--and is kidnapped. ...
8) Cold revenge
Author
Publisher
Thornndike Press, a part of Gale Company
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"When Rand Colby's fiancee is killed by four escaping bank robbers, he takes up the mission of finding the men who killed her. During his search, Rand befriends Charles Holiday, owner of a hotel/saloon/brothel in Laramie. Charles is shot, and his dying wish is for Rand to go to St. Louis to find his niece, to whom he is leaving his business. Carrie Holiday lives at the New Life Orphanage where she works as a governess. When she reaches Laramie, she...
9) Killing time
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Beloved New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin-the star of her own hit T.V. series-is back on the case again. Agatha Raisin's private detective agency is working flat out on a series of shop burglaries. The break-ins seem to have taken a violent turn when a friend of Agatha's is murdered during a raid on his shop. Although determined to nail the villains, Agatha still makes time to help Sir Charles Fraith prepare to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"July, 1924. After nine months of living in Hollywood and working as a companion to her beautiful silent-movie star sister-in-law, young British widow Emma Blackstone is settling into her new role: doctoring film scenarios whenever the regular scenarist is overwhelmed with work, which seems to be most of the time. Shoots for the Western movie Our Tiny Miracle are in full swing, with little seven-year-old Susy Sweetchild playing the lead and acting...
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Mariel, the granddaughter of Robin Hood, tries to prove herself to her father while suspecting a mole in the Merry Men's ranks but mistakenly kidnaps cheerful healer Clem, and together they embark on a dangerous rescue mission and grow closer along the way.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises, ULC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A frantic call for backup brings Sheriff Duncan Holder to the home of his pregnant ex, a deputy haunted by her father's unsolved murder.Now Joelle McCullough is the target of a kidnapping plot that's only the beginning. When the twisting trail to the truth erupts in violence, Duncan will do whatever it takes to keep Joelle and their unborn baby safe. Even if that means going up against a killer leaving a string of dead bodies who won't stop until...