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"From award-winning New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders, her children clinging to her legs. They never saw her again. Her abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known...
5) Carjacked
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Lorraine, a vulnerable single mom, and her 5 year-old son are carjacked by Roy, a vicious bank robber on the run. He forces her to drive to meet up with his accomplice who still has money from the heist. Lorraine's fight for survival marks the beginning of her journey towards independence.
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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...
10) The call
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After receiving a call from a teenage girl who has just been abducted, a veteran 911 operator realizes that she must confront a killer from her past in order to save the girl.
11) Stranger danger
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Explains why it is necessary to be careful around strangers and offers advice on ways to stay safe.
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The day gets off to a bad start for Montalbano: while trying to break up a fight on Marinella beach, he hits the wrong man and is stopped by the Carabinieri. When he finally gets to the office, the inspector learns about a strange abduction: a woman was abducted, drugged, and then released unharmed a few hours later. A few days later, the same thing happens again, but this time the woman abducted is the niece of Enzo, the owner of Montalbano's favorite...
13) Chained
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When he was 9 years old, Tim and his mother were abducted by taxi-driving serial killer Bob. Tim's mother was murdered. Tim was kept as a chained slave, forced to bury the bodies of young women Bob drags home and keep scrapbooks of the crimes. Now a teenager, Tim and Bob share a depraved father/son/protege relationship. But who will ultimately sever the bond between 'family' and unimaginable horror?
15) Duel at Low Hawk
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"Boot Stoner spent twelve years of his life behind bars for stealing horses and rustling cattle. Upon release, he added murder and kidnapping to his criminal skills--slaughtering his own parents and abducting his "sister," a young Creek girl that his folks had adopted--before exacting revenge against the man responsible for his incarceration. U.S. Deputy Marshal John Ward is one of the West's best manhunters. He's the only one who stands a chance...
17) Good for nothing
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"In this gritty and entertaining Western, a young Englishwoman is kidnapped by a savage outlaw in a strange land. With a posse hot on their tail, the duo will have to attempt to survive the brutal landscape of the Old West together"--Container.
18) Still missing
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Captured by a psychopath posing as an interested house buyer, realtor Annie spends a brutally traumatic year in captivity in a remote mountain cabin and recounts her experiences and dramatic escape to her therapist while agonizing over the ongoing police search for her captor.
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Five teens, Finn, Philby, Willa, Charlene, and Maybeck, search to find Wayne, their mentor and head Imagineer, who has mysteriously gone missing. Concerned Wayne has been abducted by the Overtakers, the kids pick up a major clue from a close friend, Jez, whose dreams often accurately predict the future. Each clue seems tied to the last, and with the stakes growing ever higher, what starts out as a puzzle ends up as a fight for their lives.
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