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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis' parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents -- telekinesis and telepathy -- who got to this place the same...
2) Hideaway
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Caitlyn Sullivan had come from a long line of Hollywood royalty, stretching back to her Irish immigrant great-grandfather. At nine, she was already a star- yet still an innocent child who loved to play hide and seek with her cousins at the family home in Big Sur. It was during one of those games that she disappeared. Some may have considered her a pampered princess, but Cate was in fact a smart, scrappy fighter, and she managed to escape her abductors....
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Rebels in a politically volitile Latin American country have kidnapped Alice Bowman's husband for ransom--$3 million. Terry Thorne is the hostage retrieval expert who becomes Alice's only hope in navigating a high-stacks game where terrorists value money over life.
4) Ransom
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
When a wealthy executive's son is kidnapped, he takes matters into his own hands in an effort to rescue the boy.
5) Chaos
Author
Language
English
Description
"Iris Johansen introduces a new kickass female protagonist, Alisa Flynn, a CIA agent who may be willing to go rogue if it means catching the most heartless band of criminals she's ever encountered. Alisa is aided by mysterious billionaire-genius-inventor Gabe Korgan and recurring character Margaret Douglas, an animal whisperer who brings along her beloved dog Juno to fight alongside them. Alisa is determined to rescue schoolgirls kidnapped from their...
6) Lost hours
Author
Series
Alaska wild volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A year after arriving in Benedict, Beth Rivers is feeling very at home in Alaska, even as outsiders are starting to return to enjoy the brief summer perfection. Beth feels like she's finally let go of most of her demons. She's even found her father, Eddy Rivers--or, rather, he found her--and she's trying to find the middle ground between anger and forgiveness. One sunny July day, Beth boards a tourist ship to see the glaciers, the main reason visitors...
7) Split
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Even though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him, as well as everyone around him, as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A newlywed couple proves their crime-solving prowess when their political ties and successful private-eye business suddenly puts them in grave danger. When their parents are taken hostage by a vengeful kidnapper looking for justice for the wrongful murder conviction of his brother, the duo must work together to uncover the clues that will save their parents' lives, and put their own on the line.
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After resigning from a top-secret position, a man is abducted from his London home and kept prisoner in a mysterious place known only as The Village. Residents of The Village, known only by numbers, are held captive on account of their valuable knowledge. The prisoner--Number Six--must protect his mind in order to preserve his humanity while he struggles to discover the identity of Number One and achieve freedom by escaping from the repressive grasp...
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Arthur Bishop returns as the Mechanic in the sequel to the 2011 action thriller. When the deceitful actions of a cunning but beautiful woman force him to return to the life he left behind, Bishop's life is once again in danger as he has to complete an impossible list of assassinations of the most dangerous men in the world.
Publisher
Tristar
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
When Harry, the last of the great sleuthing Crumbs--and the last person in the firm to ever get an assignment--finally gets a shot at a front-page kidnapping, it's only because his beady-eyed boss Eliot Draisen doesn't want the case solved.
12) Gone
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Psychologist Alex Delaware and L.A.P.D. detective Milo Sturgis investigate the bizarre case of two students whose claims of abduction are revealed to be a hoax, a case that takes an odd turn when one student is found murdered and the other vanishes.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Donna Leon?s charming, evocative, and addictive Commissario Guido Brunnetti mysteries are widely celebrated, critically acclaimed, and national and international bestsellers. In her sixteenth novel, Brunetti plunges into a family crisis. Summoned in the middle of the night to the hospital bed of a senior pediatrician, Commissario Brunetti is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men had burst into the doctor?s apartment while the family...
14) Ruthless people
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
When loathesome millionaire Sam Stone's wife is kidnapped by inept kidnappers, Sam cries tears of joy and refuses to pay the ransom. And when the abductors threaten to kill the abrasive heiress, Sam celebrates!
15) Mean streak
Author
Series
Sandra Brown novel volume 65
Language
English
Description
"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 the...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Matthew Keating, a one-time Navy SEAL--and a past president--has always defended his family as staunchly as he has his country. Now those defenses are under attack. A madman abducts Keating's teenage daughter, Melanie--turning every parent's deepest fear into a matter of national security. As the world watches in real time, Keating embarks on a one-man special-ops mission that tests his strengths: as a leader, a warrior, and a father"--
Publisher
Critics' Choice Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A double feature of the adventures of dashing sleuth Bulldog Drummond. In Bulldog Drummond escapes, Drummond plunges into a dangerous mystery and falls in love. In Bulldog Drummond comes back, Drummond's fiancee is kidnapped, and Colonel Neilson of Scotland Yard adopts a series of disguises to help find her.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Quatermain, a quick-witted, fast-talking soldier of fortune has a soft spot for damsels in distress. Jessie Huston asks him to help find her father who has been kidnapped by an evil German colonel and a Turkish cutthroat. Before arriving at the fabled goal, there are fights on and under a speeding train, hungry natives, hungrier crocodiles and much more.
19) Trapped
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A couple find their world has been turned upside down when they're taken hostage and held in different cities while their young daughter, who has severe asthma, is kidnapped by the same band of ruthless criminals and held for a large ransom. It seems that the criminals have a foolproof plan. Unable to contact the police, the criminals demand a massive ransom, but if the payment is not arranged in 24 hours, the girl will be killed.