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21) Don't back down
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"Army veteran Cameron Pope is back in Jubilee, Kentucky--the hometown he hasn't seen since he enlisted ten years ago. When his little niece is kidnapped, he and his bomb-sniffing dog, Ghost, race up Pope Mountain to find the little girl before it's too late. Cameron makes it back down the mountain and to the hospital in time to save her, but the ordeal reveals the threat of human traffickers within the mountain community, shattering the peace and...
22) One minute out
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"Is it ever the wrong time to do the right thing? That's the question the Gray Man faces in the latest explosive novel from New York Times bestselling author Mark Greaney. I am Court Gentry. In my time, I've seen plenty of bad stuff. Some things worse than others, but nothing that can match this horror show. I was on a simple mission in Bosnia. A bad guy needed to be put down; in and out, no problem. But then I stumbled across a nightmare-a room full...
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Murphy Shepherd novels volume 3
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"Murphy Shepherd's last rescue mission very nearly cost him his life. He'd like nothing more than to stay close to his wife and daughters for a while. But Bones's brother must be stopped, and there are so many who need to know that they are worth rescuing. As the cat-and-mouse game moves into the open, Murphy is tested at every turn--both physically and mentally. And then the unthinkable happens: his beloved mentor and friend is taken. Without a trace....
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Spenser novels volume 49
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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"When his apprentice Mattie's childhood friend from the South Boston housing projects is murdered, Spenser traces the victim's demise to an international sex-trafficking ring that has been operating with impunity under the protection of a well-connected billionaire"-- Publisher.
25) Lost
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Detective Tom Moon's new investigative team discovers that the opportunistic "Blood Brothers" - Russian nationals Roman and Emile Rostoff - have evaded federal and local authorities while building a vast, powerful, and deadly crime syndicate throughout metropolitan Miami. Moon and his multi-talented team face off against an international crime ring looking to seize control over America's most opulent city, Miami.
26) More: a novel
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Together with his father and local boat owners, nine-year-old Gaza helps smuggle desperate illegals, by giving them shelter, food, and water before they attempt the crossing to Greece. One night everything changes and Gaza is suddenly faced with the challenge of how he himself is going to survive. This is a heartbreaking work that examines the lives of refugees struggling to flee their homeland and the human traffickers who help them reach Europe...
27) An honest man
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Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
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"After discovering seven men murdered aboard their yacht--including two Senate rivals--Israel Pike is regarded as a prime suspect. A troubled man infamous on Salvation Point Island for killing his own father a decade before, Israel has few options, no friends, and a life-threatening secret. Elsewhere on the island, 12-year-old Lyman Rankin seeks shelter from his alcoholic father in an abandoned house only to discover that he is not alone. A mysterious...
28) Perfect kill
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Alone, trapped in the darkness and with no way out, Bart Campbell knows that his chances of being found alive are slim. Drugged and kidnapped from his Edinburgh home, the realisation soon dawns that he's been locked inside a shipping container-- but what Bart doesn't know is that he's now heading for France, where his unspeakable fate is already sealed. DCI Ava Turner and DI Luc Callanach are working on separate cases that soon collide as it becomes...
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Murphy Shepherd novels volume 2
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"He shows up when all hope is lost. Murphy Shepherd has made a career of finding those no one else could--survivors of human trafficking. His life's mission is helping others find freedom. Then the nightmare strikes too close to home. When his new wife, her daughter, and two other teenage girls are stolen, Murphy is left questioning all he has thought to be true. With more dead ends than leads, he has no idea how to find his loved ones. After everything...
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Sixty-four-year-old Joe has known violence his entire life. For forty years, he's worked as an enforcer for loan shark and close friend Maxie Smith, breaking more than a few bones along the way. When Maxie abruptly fires him, Joe isn't sure where to lay the blame-- on Maxie, the man he once considered his brother, or on the early-onset Alzheimer's that made Maxie lose faith in him in the first place. To keep his head above water, he begins to operate...
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Emily Bestler Books/Atria
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"On an isolated farm in the United Kingdom, a woman is trapped by the monster who kidnapped her seven years ago. When she discovers she is pregnant, she resolves to protect her child no matter the cost, and starts to meticulously plan her escape. But when another woman is brought into the fold on the farm, her plans go awry. Can she save herself, her child, and this innocent woman at the same time? Or is she doomed to spend the remainder of her life...
32) I am Justice
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Band of sisters volume 1
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Sourcebooks Casablanca
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English
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Justice Parish was rescued from a brutal childhood and adopted into a loving family. But the scars from her past cannot be forgotten, and she vows to protect and avenge others who haven't escaped the cruel hands of injustice. She becomes a skilled assassin, a vigilante. Her next target: a sex-trafficking ring in the war-torn Middle East. She just needs the perfect cover to get close and take them down ... After years of witnessing the destructive...
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Flatiron Books
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"Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself. Over the years that follow, she is forced to keep reinventing herself to survive. From a calligraphy school, to a San Francisco brothel, to a shop tucked into the Idaho mountains,...
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Aaron D McClelland
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"A love story with a little arson and murder ... Small time crooks Jackie and Angel are two marginalized ex-foster teens who can barely keep a roof over their heads and food on the table. Yet they share a love that is fresh and soul-deep Angel is Jackies personal miracle, and he is Angels sweet boy. All around them, girls are disappearing off the mean streets of East Vancouver and they soon discover an international...
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"She was a child caught in a riptide in the Caribbean Sea. He was a teenager from the East Coast on vacation with his family. He dove in to save her, and that single terrifying moment changed both their lives forever. Ten years later Jack Ryder is a daring secret agent with the FBI, and Eliza Lawrence still lives on that pristine island. She's an untainted princess in a kingdom of darkness and evil, on the brink of a forced marriage to a dangerous...
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Simon & Schuster
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A victim of sex trafficking, Dylan, when a new law is passed, allowing him to sue his abusers, is forced to look back on what happened to him, exploring a drug and sex-fueled world of bathhouses, clubs and strangers' apartments, emerging with a new purpose-extracting justice on his own terms.
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