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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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Massachusetts

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

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Catherine Coulter

21st installment of the author’s FBI thriller series … and this one is as good as the 1st!

Maryland

Enigma

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Robert Crais

Texas

Originally published: New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2017.

The Wanted *large print*

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#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 #joycecaroloates #kidnapping #fiction this is a discarded library edition 

Michigan

A Novel

A young girl's disappearance rocks a community and a family in this stirring examination of grief, faith, justice, and the atrocities of war from Joyce Carol Oates, "one of the great artistic forces of our time" (The Nation) Zeno Mayfield's daughter has disappeared into the night, gone missing in the wilds of the Adirondacks. But when the community of Carthage joins a father's frantic search for the girl, they discover the unlikeliest of suspects—a decorated Iraq War veteran with close ties to the Mayfield family. As grisly evidence mounts against the troubled war hero, the family must wrestle with the possibility of having lost a daughter forever. Carthage plunges us deep into the psyche of a wounded young corporal haunted by unspeakable acts of wartime aggression, while unraveling the story of a disaffected young girl whose exile from her family may have come long before her disappearance. Dark and riveting, Carthage is a powerful addition to the Joyce Carol Oates canon, one that explores the human capacity for violence, love, and forgiveness, and asks if it's ever truly possible to come home again.

Carthage

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

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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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Soon to be a major motion picture from Sony Pictures Entertainment. Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist return in this ripped-from-the-headlines, high-octane follow-up to Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. Trade paperback movie tie-in edition. A genius hacker who has always been an outsider. A journalist with a penchant for danger. She is Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo. He is Mikael Blomkvist, crusading editor of Millennium. One night, Blomkvist receives a call from a source who claims to have been given information vital to the U.S. by a young female hacker. Blomkvist, always on the lookout for a story, reaches out to Salander for help. The duo find themselves working together again--each with their own agenda. Their search for the truth leads them into an underworld of spies, cybercriminals, and government operatives willing to kill to protect their secrets.

The Girl in the Spider's Web 

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Book 6 of the New York Times bestselling series Power Plays.

 Africa becomes the battle ground in 21st-century war. As fiberoptic cable is laid down around the continent, two entities fight to control it. One is UpLink Communications, headed by Roger Gordian. The pan-African fiberoptic ring is his most ambitious—and expensive—endeavor to date

Cutting Edge

#hardcover #nonfiction #memoir #kidnapping

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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Lisa Gardner

A Family Secrets Novel

When shy Maggie Ferringer reports for jury duty, she is abducted by escaped convict Cain Cannon, who reveals the circumstances of his wrongful arrest and who an increasingly enamored Maggie resolves to prove innocent.

Maggie's Man

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David Baldacci

Louisiana

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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{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

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

Hunting season

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

Georgia

#hardcover #youngadult #mystery #maine #kidnapping #detective 

North Carolina

"Quinnie's teacher has disappeared. Quinnie suspects a kidnapping but her mom, even though she's the sheriff of their small Maine town, disagrees. So Quinnie teams with her glamorous new neighbor to investigate the mystery"--

The Maypop Kidnapping

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David Lagercrantz

George Goulding

South Dakota

The Girl in the Spider's Web (Movie Tie-In)

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New York

A Bailey Ruth Ghost Novel

Susan Gilbert receives a $100,000 ransom demand for her younger sibling. When the caller wants Susan to pay a visit to her wealthy boss and take the cash from his safe, Bailey Ruth follows Susan to the home. But she finds herself in a quandary, knowing that robbery is hardly a Heavenly pursuit. Bailey Ruth is positive she can use her detective skills to figure out who arranged the kidnapping. But an unexpected twist in the case soon has Bailey Ruth seeking a murderer who has plans to send more victims to the great beyond. Print run 30,000.

Ghost on the Case

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Elizabeth Smart

Chris Stewart

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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For the first time, ten years after her abduction from her Salt Lake City bedroom, Elizabeth Smart reveals how she survived and the secret to forging a new life in the wake of a brutal crime On June 5, 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart, the daughter of a close-knit Mormon family, was taken from her home in the middle of the night by religious fanatic, Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee. She was kept chained, dressed in disguise, repeatedly raped, and told she and her family would be killed if she tried to escape. After her rescue on March 12, 2003, she rejoined her family and worked to pick up the pieces of her life. Now for the first time, in her memoir, MY STORY, she tells of the constant fear she endured every hour, her courageous determination to maintain hope, and how she devised a plan to manipulate her captors and convinced them to return to Utah, where she was rescued minutes after arriving. Smart explains how her faith helped her stay sane in the midst of a nightmare and how she found the strength to confront her captors at their trial and see that justice was served. In the nine years after her rescue, Smart transformed from victim to advocate, traveling the country and working to educate, inspire and foster change. She has created a foundation to help prevent crimes against children and is a frequent public speaker. In 2012, she married Matthew Gilmour, whom she met doing mission work in Paris for her church, in a fairy tale wedding that made the cover of People magazine.

Alabama

The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World

“The Real Lolita is a tour de force of literary detective work. Not only does it shed new light on the terrifying true saga that influenced Nabokov’s masterpiece, it restores the forgotten victim to our consciousness.” —David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita is one of the most beloved and notorious novels of all time. And yet, very few of its readers know that the subject of the novel was inspired by a real-life case: the 1948 abduction of eleven-year-old Sally Horner. Weaving together suspenseful crime narrative, cultural and social history, and literary investigation, The Real Lolita tells Sally Horner’s full story for the very first time. Drawing upon extensive investigations, legal documents, public records, and interviews with remaining relatives, Sarah Weinman uncovers how much Nabokov knew of the Sally Horner case and the efforts he took to disguise that knowledge during the process of writing and publishing Lolita. Sally Horner’s story echoes the stories of countless girls and women who never had the chance to speak for themselves. By diving deeper in the publication history of Lolita and restoring Sally to her rightful place in the lore of the novel’s creation, The Real Lolita casts a new light on the dark inspiration for a modern classic.

The Real Lolita

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Missouri

Praised as a "maestro of the sinister" by the New York Daily News, Mo Hayder delivers her most suspenseful novel to date. By turns thrilling and horrifying, Gone follows the investigation of a brilliant and twisted carjacker with a disturbing game to play.

Jack Caffery's newest case seems like a routine carjacking, a crime he's seen plenty of times before. But as the hours tick by and his investigation morphs into a nightmare, he realizes the sickening truth: the thief wasn't after the car, but the eleven-year-old girl in the backseat. Meanwhile police diver Sergeant Flea Marley is pursuing her own theory of the case, and what she finds in an abandoned, half-submerged tunnel could put her in grave danger. The carjacker is always a step ahead of the Major Crime Investigation Unit, toying with their minds in taunting letters and ready to strike again. As the chances for his victims grow slimmer, Jack and Flea race to fit the pieces together in time.

Gone is Mo Hayder at her terrifying best. Each dark and captivating twist reveals a new dimension to this tight-knight plot, burrowing deeper into the chilling and clever world Mo Hayder creates.


Gone

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Taken

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Angie Sage

First Edition hardcover 2014, with deckled pages. Spine is tight, no folded pages. Small stain on bottom of book, but not on pages. See all photos 

South Carolina

Introducing Alice TodHunter Moon, a Magykal addition to the world of Septimus Heap! Perfect for both established fans of the Septimus Heap series and readers coming to the world of Septimus Heap for the first time, PathFinder is the first book in the Septimus Heap spin-off series, TodHunter Moon.

Taking place seven years after the events of the original Septimus Heap series, PathFinder tells the story of Alice TodHunter Moon, a young PathFinder who leaves her seaside village in search of her friend Ferdie. Rumor has it that Ferdie has been taken by mysterious creatures called Garmin under orders from the malevolent Lady.

Full of Angie Sage's characteristic humor and heart, PathFinder introduces a new cast of young characters--and a new kind of Magyk. All the beloved characters from Septimus Heap are here, too--Tod receives help from ExtraOrdinary Wizard Septimus Heap, ex-ExtraOrdinary Wizard Marcia Overstrand, and Alchemist Simon Heap. A great addition to any fantasy reader's library!

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Holly Grant

The League of Beastly Dreadfuls Book 1

Harlan Coben

Win

Catherine Coulter

Enigma

Robert Crais

The Wanted *large print*

Michelle Knight; Michelle Burford (As told to)

Finding Me

Joyce Carol Oates

Carthage

Iris Johansen

Live to See Tomorrow

David Lagercrantz; George Goulding (Translator, Translator)

The Girl in the Spider's Web

Tom Clancy

Cutting Edge

Jaycee Dugard

A Stolen Life

Lisa Gardner

Maggie's Man

David Baldacci

First Family

James Harkin

Hunting season

David Baldacci

First Family

C. M. Surrisi

The Maypop Kidnapping

David Lagercrantz; George Goulding

The Girl in the Spider's Web (Movie Tie-In)

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Ghost on the Case

Elizabeth Smart; Chris Stewart

My Story

Elizabeth Smart; Chris Stewart

My Story

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The Real Lolita

Mo Hayder

Gone

Robert Crais

Taken

Angie Sage

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The Wanted large print