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Greenwood, T. (Tammy)

Summary: Camden, NJ, 1948. When 11 year-old Sally Horner steals a notebook from the local Woolworth's, she has no way of knowing that Frank LaSalle, fresh out of prison, is watching her, preparing to make his move. Accosting her outside the store, Frank convinces Sally that he's an FBI agent who can have her arrested unless she does as he says. Over the next two years Frank mentally and physically...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRE

Yuma, Midori

Summary: "Aoi wasn't the only orphan her grandfather Shiro took in. Before she went to live with him, he rescued the spider demons Akatsuki and Suzuran and put them to work as unpaid servants. Now Aoi is questioning everything she thought she knew about her upbringing. What was Shiro up to? And more importantly--does that make the spider demons family?"--Page 4 of cover

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 KAK

Ioka, Waco

Summary: "Aoi Tsubaki inherited her grandfather's ability to see spirits--and his massive debt to them! Now she's been kidnapped and taken to Kakuriyo, the spirit world, to make good on his bill. Her options: marry the head of the inn her grandfather trashed, or get eaten by demons. But Aoi isn't the type to let spirits push her around, and she's determined to redeem her grandfather's IOU on her own ...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media, LLC 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 KAK

Johnson, Maureen

Summary: Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham, an early twentieth century tycoon, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. Shortly after the school opened, his wife and daughter were kidnapped. The only real clue was a mocking riddle listing methods of...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOH

Ferrell, Carolyn

Summary: "Dear Miss Metropolitan tells the fragmented story of Fern, Gwinnie, and Jesenia, three girls abducted by a monster who calls himself Boss Man and held captive in a decaying house in Queens for a decade. Inspired by real events, the tale is inventively revealed by multiple narrators before, during and after their ordeal. Documents, newspapers, excerpts from books, photographs, interviews, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FER

Kumanomata, Kagiji

Summary: "The mysteries of the missing member of the Ten Guardians and the castle-wide gender swap are simultaneously solved. Bean-based holidays are mixed up and celebrated by Agave and Syalis. Emotions run high as the Demon King and hero run into each other--and the secret of Twilight's first love is finally revealed (to him). There's also Teddy Demon transformations, concerning commentary about...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media LLC 2024

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Angoe, Yasmin

Summary: "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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2021

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANG

Barnett, S. K.

Summary: "A kidnapped girl returns home after twelve years away--but coming home may not be as easy as she thought in this roller coaster ride of lies, betrayal, and secrets that just might be the twistiest thriller you'll read all year. Jenny Kristal was six years old when she was snatched off the sidewalk from her quiet suburban neighborhood. Twelve years later, she's miraculously returned home after...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BAR

Kumanomata, Kagiji

Summary: "Kidnapped by the Demon King and imprisoned in his castle, Princess Syalis is bored. Another milestone for the Demon Castle is (unintentionally) celebrated with surf, sand, and sun. Quilladillo discovers the hidden costs of fame, while Vampire discovers the incredible power of normalcy. A quest for a free pillow goes awry when a brief trip to the home of the Divinities results in Princess...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media LLC 2024

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Michallon, Clémence

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Summary: "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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIC

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIC

Brosgol, Vera

Summary: "Jane is incredibly plain. Everyone says so: her parents, the villagers, and her horrible cousin who kicks her out of her own house. Determined to get some semblance of independence, Jane prepares to propose to the princely Peter, who might just say yes to get away from his father. It's a good plan! Or it would've been, if he wasn't kidnapped by a mermaid. With her last shot at happiness lost...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press 2024

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 BRO

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BRO

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC BRO

Mitchell, Maggie

Summary: "When precocious Lois and pretty Carly May were twelve years old, they were kidnapped, driven across the country, and held in an Adirondack hunting lodge for two months. [This debut novel explores] the repercussions of that formative summer, when two girls who previously did not know each other shared an experience that would shape all their days to come"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIT

Stone, Kyla

3 holds on 1 copy

Summary: In the middle of the coldest winter on record, an EMP destroys the nation's power grid. No electricity. No cars or phones. Worst of all: No heat. The country is plunged into instant chaos. But for twenty-six-year-old Riley Sheridan, it's the best day of her life. For the last four years, she's been the captive of a sadistic psychopath--until the EMP releases the lock of her prison. Battered but...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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White, Christian

Summary: Kimberly Leamy is a photography teacher in Melbourne, Australia. Twenty-eight years earlier, Sammy Went, a two-year old girl vanished from her home in Manson, Kentucky. An American accountant who contacts Kim is convinced she was that child, kidnapped just after her birthday. She cannot believe the woman who raised her, a loving social worker who died of cancer four years ago, crossed...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION WHI

Harmel, Kristin

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "After being stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe, a young woman finds herself alone in 1941 after her kidnapper dies. Her solitary existence is interrupted, however, when she happens upon a group of Jews fleeing the Nazi terror. Stunned to learn what's happening in the outside world, she vows to teach the group all she can about...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HAR

Paris, B. A.

Summary: "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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAR

Copies Available at Woodmere

3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PAR

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Paris

Ioka, Waco

Summary: "Faced with the choice of being married to a strange spirit or being made into dinner, Aoi decides to create a third option for herself! Aoi Tsubaki inherited her grandfather's ability to see spirits--and his massive debt to them! Now she's been kidnapped and taken to Kakuriyo, the spirit world, to make good on his bill. Her options: marry the head of the inn her grandfather trashed, or get...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ media, LLC 2019

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 KAK

Jeffries, Sabrina.

Summary: Maximilian Cale, the Duke of Lyons, long ago buried his grief for his missing elder brother, Peter, who was presumed dead after being kidnapped. When a mysterious note arrives from Tristan Bonnaud asserting that the Duke's brother is alive, it leads Max straight to the winsome Lisette Bonnaud, illegitimate daughter of a viscount and Tristan's sister. Soon he and Lisette are traveling to Paris...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2013

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JEF

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Summary: A sixteen-year-old orphan is kidnapped by his villainous uncle, but later escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Stevenson 2012

Crouch, Blake

5 holds on 2 copies

Summary: One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is kidnapped at gunpoint by a masked man, driven to an abandoned industrial site and injected with a powerful drug. As he wakes, a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, "Welcome back, my friend." But this life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife; his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2016

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Daniels, B. J.

Summary: "When money goes missing from the family foundation she runs, Bo Hamilton rides into the Crazy Mountains to figure things out. But a killer hiding among the sawtooth ridges takes her captive and rescue will come from the one man she least expects"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DAN

Kumanomata, Kagiji

Summary: "When the Demon Castle collapses (unbelievably, not due to the actions of the usual suspect), its staff and "guest" go glamping in the surrounding environs. Rebuilding is taking too long, however, so Demon King Twilight resorts to drastic measures! Now everyone is afraid of him--except for one resident who still sees him as he truly is. Plus, the princess tries to unveil Fire Venom Dragon,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2022

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 SLE

McLain, Paula.

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Anna Hart is a seasoned missing persons detective in San Francisco with far too much knowledge of the darkest side of human nature. When overwhelming tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna, desperate and numb, flees to the Northern California village of Mendocino to grieve. She lived there as a child with her beloved foster parents, and now she believes it might be the only place left for her....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCL

Wright, Camron Steve

Summary: Seven-year-old Chellamuthu's life--and his destiny--is forever changed when he is kidnapped from his village in Southern India and sold to the Lincoln Home for Homeless Children. His family is desperate to find him, and Chellamuthu anxiously tells the Indian orphanage that he is not an orphan, he has a mother who loves him. But he is told not to worry, he will soon be adopted by a loving family...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2016

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WRI

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