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Jake Paynter novels volume 3
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English
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Jake Paynter escaped the noose, but the price of salvation is pain. Since reluctantly accepting the marshal's job at South Pass City, Jake's life has become an unending run of solving other people's problems. When outlaw boss Dutch van Zandt and his ruthless band mount a campaign of mayhem in Jake's corner of the Wyoming Territory, Jake learns that Lucien Ashley, his persistent adversary, may be aiding the criminals to expand his burgeoning cattle...
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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Directed by Enzo G. Castellari (The inglorious bastards), Cold eyes of fear is a stylish giallo in the form of a home invasion thriller, laced with hallucinatory imagery and backed with an edgy score by legendary composer Ennio Morricone. An ex-con abducts the nephew of the judge who put him behind bars, and holds the nephew and his beautiful companion (Giovanna Ralli) hostage in their home. But the criminal's carefully-planned revenge runs off the...
3) Abducted
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When the heiress of a luxury hotel chain is kidnapped at her dingy motel outside Detroit by a band of ruthless sex traffickers, her downtrodden assistant must figure out a way to rescue her.
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Nederlands
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Young Abu disappears suddenly together with at least ten other children, after a nightly and violent raid of his village by the rebel army. His best friend Thomas cannot be consoled. He wants Abu back, and Eduard, his father, decides to try to find Abu. Eduard persists in his plight towards finding and saving his son's friend, and discovers the tyrant of children is someone from his past.
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The breakout novel from the critically acclaimed author of the short story collections Who I Was Supposed to Be and Why They Run the Way They Do-when a middle school girl is abducted in broad daylight, a fellow student and witness to the crime copes with the tragedy in unforgettable ways.
What happens to the girl left behind?
A masked man with a gun enters a sandwich shop in broad daylight, and Meredith Oliver finds herself ordered to the filthy...
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Ash Henderson novels volume 1
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English
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The No.1 bestselling crime thriller from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. A bloody, brilliant and brutal story of murder, kidnap and revenge. Five years ago his daughter, Rebecca, went missing on the eve of her thirteenth birthday. A year later the first card arrived: home-made, with a Polaroid picture stuck to the front - Rebecca, strapped to a chair, gagged and terrified. Every year another card: each one worse than the last. The tabloids call...
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"When a band of merciless, murdering thieves raise hell across the territory, three men committed to justice descend upon them like angels of death. And when the guns fall silent and the smoke clears, the Jackals are always the last men standing. Comanchero Cullen Brice has escaped from a Huntsville, Alabama, prison, where he was sentenced to hang. And he has sworn revenge against the man who killed his brother and put him behind bars, Texas Ranger...
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English
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When Karen and her adoring niece Ashlee are caught in the middle of a robbery, Ashlee ends up in the hospital. Karen tells police that she recognized one of the men involved, a guy named Ray Martinez. When they are unable to break his alibi, Karen decides to deal with him herself. But when Ray pulls a gun on her, she's forced to kill him in self-defense. Now Karen finds herself locked in a desperate struggle for her life-and justice for her family....
10) Blue Velvet
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English
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A sensual mystery thriller about strange happenings in a small North Carolina town. A college student stumbles across a bizarre mystery and wants to know more, perhaps too much more. The strange world he's found lurking beneath his hometown's picture-postcard veneer is about to become much stranger, becoming an unforgettably fascinating and forboding world.
12) Betrayed
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English
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While vacationing in Cape Cod, Julie and her boyfriend Trent get caught up in a scandal when Trent is kidnapped by a mysterious man and Julie must turn to Jonathan – her husband - to pay the ransom.
14) Descent: a novel
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English
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"Descent, the story of a family undone by the disappearance of a daughter who went out for a morning run and didn't come back, marks the adult fiction debut of a remarkable young writer. Stunning in its emotional impact, Descent is a compulsively readable page-turner with a strong literary sensibility. The girl's vanishing--on a sunny, late-summer vacation morning--all the more devastating for its mystery, is the beginning the family's harrowing journey...
15) Caught
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English
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The bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama The Stranger delivers a twisted #1 New York Times bestseller about a man who—with the best of intentions—opens the wrong door...
Reporter Wendy Tynes is making a name for herself, bringing down sexual offenders on nationally televised sting operations. But when social worker Dan Mercer walks into her trap, Wendy gets thrown into a story more complicated...
Reporter Wendy Tynes is making a name for herself, bringing down sexual offenders on nationally televised sting operations. But when social worker Dan Mercer walks into her trap, Wendy gets thrown into a story more complicated...
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Going wild volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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After breaking into a secret lab to find answers, Charlie Wilde and her friends find three more bracelets, but her hopes of rescuing her father are complicated when she has to keep her friends from going completely wild with their powers.
17) Carjacked
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English
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Lorraine (Maria Bello of TV's TOUCH, PRISONERS), a vulnerable single mom, is struggling to make ends meet, and to gain custody of her 5 year-old son. One night on the way to a mother-son dinner, they are carjacked by Roy (Stephen Dorff of SOMEWHERE, BLADE), a vicious bank robber on the run. He forces Lorraine to drive to meet up with his accomplice who still has money from their most recent heist. Roy's directives are reminiscent of the emotional...
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When investigator Tessa Leone arrives at the crime scene in the foyer of the Denbes' home, she finds scuff marks on the floor and a million tiny pieces of bright green Taser confetti. The family appears to have been abducted, with only a pile of their cell phones and electronic devices remaining. No witnesses, no ransom demands, no motive. Who would want to kidnap such a perfect little family? And how far would such a person be willing to go?
20) The Gauntlet
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The cage (Megan Shepherd) volume 3
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English
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Perfect for fans of Scott Westerfeld and The Maze Runner, The Gauntlet is the gripping finale to the thrilling and addictive Cage series about teens abducted from Earth by an otherworldly race-from Megan Shepherd, the New York Times bestselling author of the Madman's Daughter series. Cora and her friends have escaped the Kindred station and landed at Armstrong-a supposed safe haven on a small moon-where they plan to regroup and figure out how to win...
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