Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Virginia

A creepy Victorian house, secretive aunties, and a great escape combine in this debut that is part Mysterious Benedict Society, part Roald Dahl, and all quirky, smart, hilarious storytelling. Join the League....

Anastasia is a completely average almost-eleven-year-old. That is, UNTIL her parents die in a tragic vacuum-cleaner accident. UNTIL she's rescued by two long-lost great-aunties. And UNTIL she's taken to their delightful and, er, "authentic" Victorian home, St. Agony's Asylum for the Criminally Insane.

But something strange is going on at the asylum. Anastasia soon begins to suspect that her aunties are not who they say they are. So when she meets Ollie and Quentin, two mysterious brothers, the three join together to plot their great escape!

The League of Beastly Dreadfuls Book 1

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large print for easier reading
ex-library book in good condition. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Maryland

A New York Times Bestselling AuthorCatherine Ling, a prized CIA operative, was raised on the unforgiving streets of Hong Kong. Life has taught her not to get attached, with two exceptions: her son Luke and her mentor Hu Chang, whom she relies on to safeguard Luke in her absence. Now an American journalist with ties to Hu Chang, has been kidnapped in Tibet. If Catherine doesn't spearhead the CIA rescue mission, she knows Hu Chang will go -- a possibility she can't risk.

Live to See Tomorrow

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#hardcover #catherinecoulter #fbi #fiction #kidnapping #labyrinth #murder 

Michigan

The #1 New York Times bestselling FBI Thriller series returns with another tour de force in which agents Savich and Sherlock stumble into a bizarre case that's more complicated and twisted than any they've ever encountered.

On a Tuesday afternoon, Agent Sherlock is driving in downtown Washington when her Volvo is suddenly T-boned at an intersection. As her car spins out of control, a man's body slams against her windshield and then--blackness. When she finally regains consciousness in the hospital, she's told about the accident and the man she struck. No one knows yet who he is or where he is because he ran away. From DNA, they discover his name is Justice Cummings and he's a CIA analyst at Langley...and he's still missing.

Meanwhile, in the small town of Gaffer's Ridge, Virginia, Special Agent Griffin Hammersmith rescues a kidnapped woman claiming her captor had probably murdered three missing teenage girls. However, the man she accuses is the local sheriff's nephew and a member of a very powerful family, reputed to have psychic powers. When the sheriff arrests Griffin and the rescued woman, Carson DaSilva, he calls Savich for help. Together they have to weave their way through a labyrinth of lies to find the truth of a terrible secret.

"If there's one thing that readers can count on in a Coulter novel it is that she always delivers amazingly eerie and complex thrillers" (RT Book Reviews), and Labyrinth is no different. With white-knuckled pacing and shocking twists and turns, this is another electrifying novel that will sink its teeth in you.

♻️ Labyrinth

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New York

The beguiling young sleuth Emma Graham returns.

Martha Grimes returns to her twelve-year-old heroine, Emma Graham, in this suspenseful sequel to the bestselling Belle Ruin. Emma continues her investigation into the strange disappearance of the four- month-old Slade baby from the Belle Ruin Hotel more than twenty years before. The sudden appearance in town of the baby's father, Morris Slade, makes her even more determined to learn the truth. Then a mysterious drifter named Ralph Diggs appears at the Hotel Paradise, looking for work, ingratiating himself with everyone there. Everyone, that is, except Emma.

The perceptive Emma is bound once again to delight fans of the previous books Hotel Paradise, Cold Flat Junction, and Belle Ruin, and certain to win new readers with her intuition and humor.

Fadeaway Girl

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{J3} **Summary - Based on his groundbreaking reporting for Vanity Fair, Hunting Season is award-winning journalist James Harkin's harrowing investigation into the abduction, captivity, and execution of James Foley, at the hands of the masked militant known as "Jihadi John" (Mohammed Emwazi), and the fate of more than two-dozen other ISIS hostages.

On August 19, 2014, the jihadist rebel group known as ISIS uploaded a video to YouTube. Entitled "Message to America," the clip depicted the final moments of American journalist James Foley's life--and the gruesome aftermath of his beheading at the hands of a masked executioner. Foley's murder--and the choreographed killings that would follow--captured the world's attention, and the Islamic State's kidnapping campaign exploded into war. Hunting Season is a riveting account of how the world's newest and most powerful terror franchise came to target Western hostages, who was behind it, and why almost no one knew about it until it was too late. #nonfiction #history #hardcover #jamesfoley #isis #iraq #war #kidnapping

Texas

James Foley, ISIS, and the kidnapping campaign that started a war

Hunting season

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The guilty Ones

The night thief

The patient man

#hardcover #nonfiction #elizabethsmart #biography #truecrime #crime #kidnapping #memoir #mystory #tellall

Illinois

The Elizabeth Smart Story

Speaking out for the first time, the daughter of a close-knit Mormon family, who was held captive and repeatedly raped, recounts the constant fear she endured, her courageous determination to maintain hope, her dramatic escape and her transformation from victim to advocate. 250,000 first printing.

My Story

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Arizona

A Novel

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling novel of North Korea: an epic journey into the heart of the world’s most mysterious dictatorship. “Imagine Charles Dickens paying a visit to Pyongyang, and you see the canvas on which [Adam] Johnson is painting here.”—The Washington Post Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother—a singer “stolen” to Pyongyang—and an influential father who runs a work camp for orphans. Superiors in the North Korean state soon recognize the boy’s loyalty and keen instincts. Considering himself “a humble citizen of the greatest nation in the world,” Jun Do rises in the ranks. He becomes a professional kidnapper who must navigate the shifting rules, arbitrary violence, and baffling demands of his overlords in order to stay alive. Driven to the absolute limit of what any human being could endure, he boldly takes on the treacherous role of rival to Kim Jong Il in an attempt to save the woman he loves, Sun Moon, a legendary actress “so pure, she didn’t know what starving people looked like.” Part breathless thriller, part story of innocence lost, part story of romantic love, The Orphan Master’s Son is also a riveting portrait of a world heretofore hidden from view: a North Korea rife with hunger, corruption, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie, stolen moments of beauty, and love. FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • WINNER OF THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE Named ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by more than a dozen publications, including The Washington Post • Entertainment Weekly • The Wall Street Journal • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle Praise for The Orphan Master’s Son “An exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome journey into the depths of totalitarian North Korea and into the most intimate spaces of the human heart.”—Pulitzer Prize citation “Mr. Johnson has written a daring and remarkable novel, a novel that not only opens a frightening window on the mysterious kingdom of North Korea, but one that also excavates the very meaning of love and sacrifice.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “Rich with a sense of discovery . . . The Orphan Master’s Son has an early lead on novel of [the year].”—The Daily Beast “This is a novel worth getting excited about.”—The Washington Post “[A] ripping piece of fiction that is also an astute commentary on the nature of freedom, sacrifice, and glory.”—Elle

The Orphan Master's Son

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#hardcover #nonfiction #elizabethsmart #biography #truecrime #crime #kidnapping #memoir 

New Jersey

#kidnapping #davidbaldacci #campdavid #action #suspense #fiction #hardcover #thriller 

Georgia

Summoned by First Lady Jane Cox to rescue her niece from kidnappers, investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are pushed to the limit in a search that is hampered by the highest levels of government security and Michelle's personal demons.

First Family

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i highly recommend this book, im even reading the second book because it truly moved me that much. this is one of the scariest kidnapping survivors stories ever, so sad, i couldn’t put this book down. book jacket is in “excellent” condition but the actual book is in brand new condition! #hardcover #autobiography #nonfiction #memoir #biography #kidnapping #popular #survivor #recommend #kidnap

A Memoir

The woman abducted at age 11 by a man and woman who subsequently held her hostage and sexually abused her for 18 years discusses her life.

A Stolen Life

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#hardcover #nonfiction #memoir #truecrime #kidnapping #survivor 

#hardcover #fiction #detective #suspensethrillers #mystery #exciting #murder #kidnapping #secrets #terrorism

Massachusetts

The new novel from Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author and creator of The Stranger on Netflix.

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#fiction #kidnapping #magicalpowers #murder #mystery 

Arkansas

People are disappearing in the mysterious bayous of Louisiana and it’s up to a local “water witch,” a woman with powers of divination, to try to find them before more people disappear.

Water Witch

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Tennessee

#hardcover #2010edgaraward #fiction #kidnapping

Thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon had the perfect life: a warm home and loving parents; a twin sister, Alyssa, with whom he shared an irreplaceable bond. He knew nothing of loss, until the day Alyssa vanished from the side of a lonely street. Now, a year later, Johnny finds himself isolated and alone, failed by the people he'd been taught since birth to trust. No one else believes that Alyssa is still alive, but Johnny is certain that she is—confident in a way that he can never fully explain.

Determined to find his sister, Johnny risks everything to explore the dark side of his hometown. It is a desperate, terrifying search, but Johnny is not as alone as he might think. Detective Clyde Hunt has never stopped looking for Alyssa either, and he has a soft spot for Johnny. He watches over the boy and tries to keep him safe, but when Johnny uncovers a dangerous lead and vows to follow it, Hunt has no choice but to intervene.

Then a second child goes missing...

Undeterred by Hunt's threats or his mother's pleas, Johnny enlists the help of his last friend, and together they plunge into the wild, to a forgotten place with a history of violence that goes back more than a hundred years. There, they meet a giant of a man, an escaped convict on his own tragic quest. What they learn from him will shatter every notion Johnny had about the fate of his sister; it will lead them to another far place, to a truth that will test both boys to the limit.

Traveling the wilderness between innocence and hard wisdom, between hopelessness and faith, The Last Child leaves all categories behind and establishes John Hart as a writer of unique power.


John Merrimon Book 1

After his twin sister Alyssa disappears, thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon is determined to find her. When a second girl disappears from his rural North Carolina town, Johnny makes a discovery that sends shock waves through the community in this multi-layered tale of broken families and deadly secrets.

The Last Child

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

In a novel of military intrigue, formidable ex-Navy SEAL John Clark takes on a world-threatening band of terrorists

Rainbow Six

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The Fourth Friend

Black Cats and White Rabbits - the History of Common Folk Beliefs

Superstitions have captured our imaginations for centuries but we are often unaware of where they came from and why. In her new book Superstition, Sally Coulthard explores the history and background of 50 of these fascinating cultural behaviours, how they affected our everyday, and how many of these beliefs still permeate modern life. From opening umbrellas indoors to not putting new shoes on the table, Sally gets under the skin of these peculiar pastimes and reveals how they started and why they became so popular.

Superstition

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Warrior tithe 

#hardcover #nonfiction #memoir #kidnapping 

Minnesota

A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: a Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

Michelle Knight, the first of the three women abducted by notorious Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro, recounts the full story of her years in captivity, her escape, and the powerful inner strength and capacity for hope that has helped her rebuild her life.

Finding Me

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#hardcover #nonfiction #autobiography #memoir #biography #kidnapping #survivor #truecrime 

Holly Grant

The League of Beastly Dreadfuls Book 1

Iris Johansen

Live to See Tomorrow

Catherine Coulter

♻️ Labyrinth

Martha Grimes

Fadeaway Girl

James Harkin

Hunting season

Joy Ellis

The guilty Ones

Joy Ellis

The night thief

joy Ellis

The patient man

Elizabeth Smart; Chris Stewart

My Story

Adam Johnson

The Orphan Master's Son

Elizabeth Smart; Chris Stewart

My Story

David Baldacci

First Family

Jaycee Dugard

A Stolen Life

Jaycee Dugard

A Stolen Life

Harlan Coben

Win

Deborah LeBlanc

Water Witch

Elizabeth Smart; Chris Stewart

My Story

John Hart

The Last Child

Tom Clancy

Rainbow Six

Joy Ellis

The Fourth Friend

Sally Coulthard

Superstition

T.J. Deschamps

Warrior tithe

Michelle Knight; Michelle Burford (As told to)

Finding Me

Jaycee Dugard

A Stolen Life