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  Girl, Stolen

  by April Henry

  Sixteen year-old Cheyenne Wilder is sleeping in the back of a car while her step-mom fills her prescription at the pharmacy. Before Cheyenne realizes what's happening, their car is being stolen -- with her inside! Griffin hadn’t meant to kidnap Cheyenne, all he wanted to do was steal a car to please his dad. But once Griffin's dad finds out that Cheyenne’s father is the president of a powerful corporation,... (more)
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  Bel Canto

  by Ann Patchett

  Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gunwielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening... (more)
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  Burn

  by Linda Howard

  It’s true what they say: Money changes everything. And in Linda Howard’s red-hot novel Burn , the changes come fast, furious, and filled with the kind of sexy suspense, heart-stopping romance, beautiful people, and risky business guaranteed to give you the most bang for your buck. Money certainly changes Jenner Redwine’s life when she wins a lottery jackpot. But it also costs her plenty: Her father rips her off... (more)
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  The Ranger's Apprentice: Book 7

  Erak's Ransom

  by John Flanagan

  What does it mean to earn the Silver Oakleaf? So few men have done so. For Will, a mere boy, that symbol of honor has long felt out of reach. Now, in the wake of Araluen’s uneasy truce with the raiding Skandians comes word that the Skandian leader has been captured by a dangerous desert tribe. The Rangers are sent to free him. But the desert is like nothing these warriors have seen before. Strangers in a strange... (more)
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  Rage

  by Richard Bachman, Stephen King

  Movie Summary After Latin immigrant Jose Maria loses his temper and kills his foreman he flees to hide in the mansion where his lover Rosa works as a housekeeper and must keep silent as he watches her boss mistreat her everyday. DVD Details * Actor(s): Guillermo Del Toro * Format: Color Widescreen * Subtitles: English * Rating: UN * MSRP: $24.99 * Run Time: 95 Minutes * Release Date: 3 8 2011 * Number of Discs: 1 (more)
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  Forensic Mystery: Book 3

  Circle of Blood

  by Alane Ferguson

  Cameryn Mahoney works as the assistant to her father, the county coroner of Silverton, Colorado. But if that’s not hard enough, her long-lost mother has made a surprise return to Cameryn’s life. When her mother picks up a mysterious young hitchhiker, Cameryn senses that the girl is running from something. But before she can find out more, the girl is found dead—with a gun in her hand. Is it suicide? Or something... (more)
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  Unlikely Angel : The Untold Story of the Atlanta Hostage Hero

  by Ashley Smith

  "He thought that I was an angel sent from God."—Ashley Smith In March 2005, Ashley Smith made headlines around the globe when she miraculously talked her way out of the hands of alleged courthouse killer Brian Nichols after he took her hostage for seven hours in her suburban Atlanta apartment. In this moving, inspirational account, the 27-year-old widowed mother of a six-year-old girl shares for the first... (more)
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  Stalling for Time

  My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator

  by Gary Noesner

  An enraged man abducts his estranged wife and child, holes up in a secluded mountain cabin, threatening to kill them both. A right wing survivalist amasses a cache of weapons and resists calls to surrender. A drug trafficker barricades himself and his family in a railroad car, and begins shooting. A cult leader in Waco, Texas faces the FBI in an armed stand-off that leaves many dead in a fiery blaze. A sniper,... (more)
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  Jack Swyteck: Book 6

  When Darkness Falls

  by James Grippando

  In the latest novel from this bestselling author, lawyer Jack Swyteck tackles a case in which the life of his best friend hangs in the balance - and in which nothing is as it seems. A Miami criminal defense attorney, Swyteck isn't looking for a new client, at least not one who is homeless and in jail for threatening to jump off a bridge. But from the moment Jack is called to defend the man, who goes by the name... (more)
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  Third Degree

  by Greg Iles

  Sometimes the gravest dangers -- and the darkest souls -- live right beside us.... In the span of twenty-four hours, every-thing Laurel Shields believes about her life and her marriage to a prominent doctor will be shattered -- if she survives a terrifying ordeal. The day begins with the jarring discovery that, soon after ending an affair, Laurel is pregnant. But when she returns home to find her husband ashen,... (more)
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  Guests of the Ayatollah

  The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam

  by Mark Bowden

  From the best-selling author of Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis, America's first battle with militant Islam. On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. They took fifty-two Americans hostage, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days. In ... (more)
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  Hello, Darkness

  by Sandra Brown

  Bestselling author Sandra Brown is the master of the knife-edge thriller. Her latest and most powerful novel to date, Hello, Darkness , is the gripping story of a woman haunted by her past and caught in a nightmare that threatens to destroy her future. It's a brilliant, fast-paced tale, electric with sexual tension, by one of America's most popular authors of sophisticated suspense. For Paris Gibson, her popular... (more)
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  Rizzoli & Isles: Book 5

  Vanish

  by Tess Gerritsen

  A blessed event becomes a nightmare for pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli when she finds herself on the wrong side of a hostage crisis in this timely and relentless new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Body Double. A nameless, beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. An apparent suicide, she lies on a gurney, awaiting the dissecting scalpel of medical examiner... (more)
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  Take Me to the River

  by Will Hobbs

  Deep in trouble, Deep in the canyons Fourteen-year-old Dylan Sands has come all the way from North Carolina to Big Bend National Park, on the Texas/Mexico border, to paddle the fabled Rio Grande. His partner in adventure is a local river rat, his cousin Rio. As the two are packing their boats for ten days in the canyons, six Black Hawk helicopters appear overhead and race across the river into Mexico. ... (more)
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  Jacked (Orca Soundings)

  by Carrie Mac

  AS FAR AS ZANE KNOWS,today is just another boring day at his lame gas-station job. Until he gets carjacked by a masked gunman. Zane has no idea where they're going,or what will happen when they get there. All he knows is that the lunatic in the passenger seat has a gun aimed at him. Zane tries to reason with the guy, and when that fails, he tries a couple of daring stunts to get free, but they backfire. Zane... (more)
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  Alpha Force: Book 4

  Hostage

  by Chris Ryan

  Alex, Li, Paulo, Hex, Amber. Five kids, who are a highly-skilled squad to help in the international fight against evil. Flying to Alaska to investigate reports of illegal dumping of toxic waste, they must dive into an icy river, cross the harsh landscape on snowmobiles and mobilise their caving skills to complete their mission. But most of all, they need courage and determination when they come face-to-face with a... (more)
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  Saving the World

  by Julia Alvarez

  Latina novelist Alma Huebner is suffering from writer's block and is years past the completion date for yet another of her bestselling family sagas. Her husband, Richard, works for a humanitarian organization dedicated to the health and prosperity of developing countries and wants her help on an extended AIDS assignment in the Dominican Republic. But Alma begs off joining him: the publisher is breathing down her... (more)
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  The Honorary Consul

  by Graham Greene

  Set in a provincial Argentinean town, The Honorary Consul takes place in that bleak country of exhausted passion, betrayal, and absurd hope that Graham Greene has explored so precisely in such novels as The Power and the Glory and The Comedians. On the far side of the great, muddy river that separates the two countries lies Paraguay, a brutal dictatorship shaken by sporadic revolutionary activity; on the... (more)
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  Misery

  by Stephen King

  A writer is held hostage by his number-one fan in the novel that "demands that we take King seriously as a writer with a deeply felt understanding of human psychology" ( Publishers Weekly ). His deeply felt understanding of what terrifies us doesn't hurt either.Audio cassette edition - isbn 0453009271 - 8 cassettes appx 12 hours
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  Plowing the Dark

  by Richard Powers

  In a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, a band of virtual reality researchers race to complete the Cavern, an empty white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral. In a war-torn Mediterranean city, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in another empty white room. What can possibly join two such remote places? Only the shared imagination, a room that these... (more)