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1) First family
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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A daring kidnapping turns a children's birthday party at Camp David into a national security nightmare, pushing agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell to their limits.
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Paris Gibson, having moved to Austin, Texas to escape past mistakes, is forced out of her life of self-imposed solitude when a listener to her late-night radio show calls to inform her that he has abducted and plans to kill his ex-girlfriend, a woman he claims left him on Paris's advice, and that Paris will be his second victim.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
Description
A tragic kidnapping... the mystery of twin telepathy... a mother's search for a child, presumed dead. Hours after throwing a third birthday party for their twins Kathy and Kelly in their Connecticut home, Margaret and Steve Frawley return home from a dinner in New York to discover the police in the house, their daughters missing, and an eight million dollar ransom note. The Frawleys meet the kidnapper's demands, but the abandoned car they're led to...
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Alex Cross novels volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Michael Bennett mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
Description
During a state funeral for a beloved former First Lady in New York City's largest cathedral, the unthinkable occurs. Armed men disguised as monks seize the church and seal themselves inside, along with more than one hundred of the most powerful people in America. The captives include world leaders, actors, TV stars, athletes, and politicians, and the kidnappers are armed with enough C4 explosives to blow a crater in the middle of Manhattan.
NYPD officer...
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Alex Cross novels volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
Description
Alex Cross' first case after joining the FBI has him battling the most ruthless and powerful killer he has ever encountered. The predator known only as the Wolf has brought a new reign of terror to organized crime, one in which ordinary men and women
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English
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Police Chief Jesse Stone is shocked when Wilson "Crow" Cromartie, an Apache hit man who escaped Stone's grasp ten years ago, arrives in his office warning Jesse to stay out of his way as he searches for a missing woman whose father wants her back and is willing to risk anything to help her escape from the violent gang she's involved with.
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Women's Murder Club volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
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English
Description
The members of the Women's Murder Club are thrown into turmoil when one of them is injured in a shooting incident on a crowded ferry, and homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer has her hands full trying to find out who tried to kill her friend while at the same time investigating the kidnappings of children from well-to-do families, along with their nannies.
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Alex Delaware novels volume 20
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English
Description
"The abduction of two art students turns out to have been faked, but the murder that follows is very real"--Library journal.
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Wilde (Harlan Coben) volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The man known as Wilde is a mystery to everyone, including himself. Decades ago, he was found as a boy living feral in the woods, with no memory of his past. After the police concluded an exhaustive hunt for the child's family, which was never found, he was turned over to the foster system. Now, thirty years later, Wilde still doesn't know where he comes from, and he's back living in the woods on the outskirts of town, content to be an outcast, comfortable...
13) Kill Alex Cross
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
Description
Detective Alex Cross is thwarted at every turn while he attempts to investigate the abduction of the president's son and daughter and also discovers a deadly contagion released in the capital's water supply that foreshadows a larger, more devastating attack.
14) Mean streak
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"Dr. Emory Charbonneau, a pediatrician and marathon runner, disappears on a mountain road in North Carolina. By the time her husband Jeff, miffed over a recent argument, reports her missing, the trail has grown cold. Literally. Fog and ice encapsulate the mountainous wilderness and paralyze the search for her. While police suspect Jeff of "instant divorce," Emory, suffering from an unexplained head injury, regains consciousness and finds herself...
15) Taken
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When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son has faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike--and Cole soon determines that it was no fake. The boy and his secret girlfriend have been taken, and are now lost in the gray and changing world of the professional border kidnappers who prey not only on innocent victims but also on one another--buying, selling, and stealing victims like commodities. Fortunately, the kidnappers...
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In the irresistible second installment of the New York Times bestselling Chet and Bernie mystery series, which has been hailed as "enchanting [and] one-of-a-kind" (Stephen King), Chet gets a glimpse of the show dog world turned deadly. What first seems like a walk in the park to wise and lovable canine narrator Chet and his human companion Bernie-to investigate threats made against a pretty, pampered show dog-turns into a serious case when Princess...
17) Vanishing acts
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Delia Hopkins was six years old when her father allowed her to be his assistant in the amateur magic act he performed at the local senior center's annual Christmas pageant. I learned a lot that night, recalls Delia, who is now 32. That people don't vanish into thin air. She has come to know this even better as an adult: she makes her living finding missing people with her own search-and-rescue bloodhound. As she prepares for her wedding, however,...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
Description
Rebecca and Brian Unsworth appear to have it all. A nice house in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Two well-behaved, healthy teenage children. Important government jobs--Rebecca working in counterterrorism for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Brian serving as a coder for the National Security Agency. Their lives stand to improve even more as Brian, in his off-hours, has just developed and sold a highly profitable app. However, the Unsworths' marriage...
19) Blink of an eye
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Kendra Michaels volume 8
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Kendra Michaels was blind for the first twenty years of her life. Then she gained her sight through a revolutionary surgical procedure. Her former disability has left her incredibly observant and insightful -- able to detect what other investigators may not. So when a world-famous pop star is kidnapped mid-show, investigator Kendra leads a pulse-pounding race to rescue the young woman from a deadly foe. This time Kendra gets assistance from recurring...
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"Janet Evanovich, author of the blockbuster Stephanie Plum novels, and Lee Goldberg, writer for the Monk television show, team up once again in their rollicking, New York Times bestselling Fox and O'Hare series! Nicolas Fox, international con man, thief, and one of the top ten fugitives on the FBI's most-wanted list, has been kidnapped from a beachfront retreat in Hawaii. What the kidnapper doesn't know is that Nick Fox has been secretly working...
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