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2021.
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"From New York Times bestselling author Clare Mackintosh comes a claustrophobic thriller set over 20 hours on-board the inaugural nonstop flight from London to Sydney. Mina is trying to focus on her job as a flight attendant, not the problems with her five-year-old daughter back home, or the fissures in her marriage. But the plane has barely taken off when Mina receives a chilling note from an anonymous passenger, someone intent on ensuring the plane...
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On a quest to settle a score with the man who destroyed his life, Boyd Halverson robs a bank and takes a hostage.
At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in northern California. “How much is on hand, would you say?” he asked the teller. “I’ll want it all.” “You’re robbing me?” “Not you,” Boyd replied, revealing a Temptation .38 Special. Angie Bing, the teller, scraped...
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St. Kilda Consulting volume 1
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New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell returns with a chilling tale of the law gone wrong and a kidnapping that threatens more than one life. Orphaned at thirteen, Grace Silva clawed her way out of poverty and violence to become one of the most respected judges on the federal bench. Grace believes in the rule of law -- lives it, breathes it. She has always been buttoned up and buttoned down. Except once. Joe Faroe has learned that laws...
5) Normal
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Pub. Date
c2015
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294 pages ; 22 cm.
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He shops at your local supermarket. He drives beside you, waving to let you into the lane ahead of him. He also has an elaborate cage in a secret basement under his garage. The food he's carefully shopping for is to feed a young woman he's holding there against her will -- one in a string of many, unaware of the fate that awaits her. This is how it's been for a long time. It's normal... and it works. Perfectly. But this time it's different...
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A doomsday prepper and private school custodian must rescue his genius hacker son, who is caught by a brutal drug cartel for electronically siphoning off their funds.
When a drunk-driving accident ruined his life, only a popular survivalist blog helped to restore Jake's sense of control. He's become an avid Doomsday Prepper, raising his diabetic son, Andy, to be ready for any sudden catastrophe. Jake works as a custodian at isolated Pepperell Academy...
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Penric and Desdemona volume 6
Pub. Date
2019.
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256 pages ; 22 cm
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Penric and Nikys receive a letter from a friend warning them that Nikys's mother has been taken hostage, and the pair set out to rescue her --
Penric, a Temple sorcerer and learned divine, and the widow Nikys receive a letter from a friend warning them that Niky's mother has been taken hostage by her brother's enemies, and confined in an island sanctuary. The pair must put their romance on hold and set out to the rescue. They soon find that family...
8) Die trying
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Jack Reacher novels volume 2
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In a plot to overthrow the U.S. government, Montana neo-Nazis abduct the daughter of the nation's top general and her male companion. The companion is Jack Reacher, a former military policeman and he turns the tables on the captors.
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[2017]
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1 videodisc (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Paul, a down-on-his-luck screenwriter picks up a drifter and offers him a place to stay. However, when the stranger takes Paul hostage and forces him to write, their unhinged relationship brings buried secrets to light.
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Prisoners of Peace volume 1
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The teenage princess of a future-world Canadian superpower, where royal children are held hostage to keep their countries from waging war, falls in love with an American prince who rebels against the brutal rules governing their existences.
Pub. Date
2018.
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1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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As a massive hurricane builds, criminals infiltrate a U.S. Mint facility. Their plan: to steal $600 million and escape using a Category Five hurricane as cover. But a treasury agent and a storm chaser have a plan of their own, desperately racing against time, and the hurricane, to save the hostages and stop the thieves before their town is reduced to rubble.
13) Amber morn
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The whole thing couldn't have taken more than sixty seconds. Bailey hung on to the counter, dazed. If she let go, she'd collapse - and the twitching fingers of one of the gunmen would pull a trigger. The rest of her group huddled in frozen shock. Dear God, tell me this is a dream... The shooter's teeth clenched. "Anybody who moves is dead." On a beautiful Saturday morning the nationally read "Scenes and Beans" bloggers gather at Java Joint for a special...
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c2010
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2 videodiscs (359 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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The Petrified Forest: A rundown diner bakes in the Arizona heat. Inside, fugitive killer Duke Mantee sweats out a manhunt, holding disillusioned writer Alan Squier, young Gabby Maple, and a handful of others hostage.
Marked woman: When a hostess's innocent sister vanishes from a party given by a racketeering boss, she threatens the boss, and is then herself in danger.
Kid Galahad: A fight promoter pushes a bellhop as future champ but has second...
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"With echoes of Catch-22 and Black Hawk Down, author and former hostage Michael Scott Moore masterfully walks a fine line between personal narrative and journalistic distance in this page-turning and novelistic account of 977 days held captive by Somali pirates. Moore set off for Somalia in January 2012 after reporting on a historic trial of ten Somali pirates in Germany. He went with an open mind and a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting....
16) Grand piano
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2014
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1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Tom Selznick, the most talented pianist of his generation, stopped performing in public because of his stage fright. Years after a catastrophic performance, he reappears in public in a long awaited concert in Chicago. In a packed theater, in front of the expectant audience, Tom finds a message written on the score: Play one wrong note and you die. Without leaving the piano, Tom must discover the anonymous sniper's motives and look for help without...
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2016.
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397 pages ; 23 cm.
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On the rolling Missouri River, a riverboat carrying fur traders, a U.S. Senator, and Prussian royalty is heading to the Yellowstone. Preacher is onboard because the nation's fate depends on the passengers landing safe and sound. But it won't be easy. Because someone wants to change the course of American history.
18) Power game
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"#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan is "one of the best storytellers around" (RT Book Reviews). Find out why as two lovers surrounded by greed and corruption discover there's no telling whom you can trust--or who will come out on top ... When members of a United Nations joint security force are taken hostage by radical terrorists in Indonesia, Captain Ezekiel Fortunes is called to lead the rescue team. Part of a classified government...
19) Power play
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2007
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An off-site corporate event gone disastrously wrong. The largest ransom in history. The price-tag: dead or alive. Now, in Joseph Finder's explosive thriller Power Play, it's up to Jake Landry-a modest, steady guy with a dark, hidden past-to save them all...
It was the perfect retreat for a troubled company. No cell phones. No BlackBerrys. No cars. Just a deluxe lodge surrounded by thousands of miles of wilderness and a desolate
20) Word of honor
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Newpointe 911 volume 3
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There were four people at the Newpointe post office when the bomb went off. Three were killed instantly. The fourth, a five-year-old boy, lies comatose. Who would do such a thing? The answer seems to come in the form of a gunman crashing through the door of Jill Clark's hotel room. The young attorney finds it hard to question that her desperate captor - who has a rifle pointed at her head - is guilty of the bombing. Until later, when he's behind bars......
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