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Publisher
Knopf Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023
Description
"Los Angeles. August 4, 1962. The city broils through a mid-summer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker's looking for some getback. The Monroe deal looks like a moneymaker. He calls in Freddy Otash. The freewheeling Freddy O. Tainted ex-cop, defrocked private eye, dope fiend, and freelance extortionist. A man who lives by the maxim "Opportunity is Love." Freddy gets to work....
3) The guardian
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"As a member of the elite Air Force Pararescue, Travis Lane abides by the motto "These things we do, that others may live." After an injury forces him to consider retirement, he is blindsided when his brother-in-law is killed in the line of duty, leavingLane as the sole support for his sister and the family farm they can no longer afford. Desperate for something to help them keep the farm, Lane accepts an offer to join Broadside Solutions, a private...
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Paced like a thriller and full of insider information on the history and science of Crime Scene Investigation, In Light of All Darkness embeds readers in one of the most famous true-crime stories of our generation--the kidnapping of Polly Klaas--a case as pivotal in the history of the FBI as the Unabomber or Oklahoma City bombing. On October 1, 1993, a 12-year-old girl was kidnapped at knifepoint from her bedroom in Petaluma, California, during a...
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"After months of training, former Long Island homicide detective Maggie D'arcy is now officially a Garda. She's finally settling into life in Ireland and so is her teenage daughter, Lilly. Maggie may not be a detective yet, but she's happy with her community policing assignment in Dublin's Portobello neighborhood. When she and her partner find former model and reality tv star Jade Elliot murdered--days after responding to a possible domestic violence...
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"Summer, 1957. Atticus Turner and his father, Montrose, travel to North Carolina, where they plan to mark the centennial of their ancestor's escape from slavery by retracing the route he took into the Great Dismal Swamp. But an encounter with an old nemesis turns their historical reenactment into a real life-and-death pursuit. Back in Chicago, George Berry fights for his own life. Diagnosed with cancer, he strikes a devil's bargain with the ghost...
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Series
Nena Knight volume 3
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Until his untimely death, Nena's mentor was the backbone of the Tribe. With his leadership position unfilled and despite the Tribe's newfound misgivings about her, Nena has stepped into a new role she never wanted. Politics is an entirely new venture for her, and now one of the Tribe's own has been kidnapped, forcing her back to her origins as an assassin. But the only person qualified for such a rescue mission is Nena Knight and a new team whose...
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Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"The fourth book in the Sisters Ever After series of fairy tale retellings, this is the wild story of Mera, the only one who can save her beautiful older sister when she is kidnapped by the Beast who viciously rules over their small village"
Author
Series
Monsterious volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
When her small town is rocked by a series of baby kidnappings, Teo vows to spend her summer break solving the mystery, and convinces her friend Logan--who would much rather spend his vacation relaxing--to help. Their search for answers soon leads them to the woods at the edge of town, and Teo fears some kind of supernatural creature might be behind the snatchings. What else could explain the creepy figure they see moving through the trees, or the...
11) Friend or UFO
Author
Series
Area 51 files volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
When Sky's grandmother is kidnapped, Sky discovers her secret life as an undercover FBAI agent, and embarks on a mission filled with puzzles, codes, and risky adventures to save her.
12) Sun don't shine
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Publisher
Fitzroy Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Reece is an expert at keeping secrets. She has to be, since her father abducted her ten years ago. For as long as she can remember, she's been on the run, sneaking food out of the dumpster and sleeping in the woods. Every time she moves, the same rules apply-cut your hair, change your name, and, above all, don't let anybody get too close. Reece has no choice except to obey Dad's orders. When Reece meets her first real friend, a boy...
13) Obsession
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Series
Teddy Fay novel volume 6
Pub. Date
[2023]
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While filming on location in scenic Santa Barbara, California, Peter Barrington and Ben Bacchetti look to expand Centurion Studios's business by making a deal with a young Croatian billionaire. But when the magnate's wife is kidnapped, Teddy Fay is brought in to assess the threat and recover the young woman. As Teddy unravels the threads of her disappearance, he quickly comes to find that darker forces are at play and an old vendetta has been revived...
14) Super game book
Author
Series
Press start! volume 14
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"Meanie King Viking kidnaps Super Rabbit Boy's animal friends, and it is up to Super Rabbit Boy to save them. Each page offers a number of options readers to make this story unfold."
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Nicholas Sparks meets The Empty Man in this modern Southern Gothic horror about a palm reader swept up in a disturbing missing-child case with a twist you won't see coming. After striking out on her own as a teen mom, Madi Price is forced to return to her hometown of Brandywine, Virginia, with her seventeen-year-old daughter. With nothing to her name, she scrapes together a living as a palm reader at the local farmers market. It's there that she connects...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Poppy and Branch return for an all-new chapter in DreamWorks Animation's blockbuster musical franchise Trolls Band Together! Get ready for an action-packed all-star, rainbow-colored family reunion as the Trolls go on an epic quest to help Branch reunite with his missing brothers--spreading music, joy, friendship, and good times along the way!"
17) The searchers
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Series
The secret of Glendunny volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
When swan Elsinore, the beavers' beloved mother figure, is kidnapped by dark forces, Dunwattle and Locksley set out to find her, but little do they know, they have a much larger expedition in store when they discover other persecuted animals being held against their will for nefarious purposes.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Best friends don't always have the best intentions. On a brisk fall night in a New York apartment, 35-year-old Billie West hears terrified screams. It's her lifelong best friend Cassie Barnwell, one floor above, and she's just realized her infant daughter has gone missing. Billie is shaken as she looks down into her own arms to see the baby, remembering - with a jolt of fear - that she is responsible for the kidnapping that has instantly shattered...
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Series
Spy school novel volume 11
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Superspy middle schoolers Ben and Erica must embark on mission to rescue Erica's grandfather, who was abducted from a remote Alaskan training facility.
Author
Publisher
Harper Alley
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"LankyBox duo Adam and Justin and their friends Foxy, Boxy, and Rocky love hanging out and playing games together. But when Justin gets hungry and decides to order donuts, he and Adam wind up kidnapped! An evil hacker has nabbed Adam and Justin, and he wants them to teach him the secret to online superstardom. If they can't, he's going to wipe out all the content in the world that's more popular than his videos are. In other words: everything! Now...
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