kidnapping

While on a journey from Chicago to San Francisco on the California Comet with his uncle, amateur sleuth Hal Beck stumbles into a mystery when the daughter of a billionaire tech entrepreneur goes missing.

Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock have barely recovered from their last arctic adventure, when they are confronted by the most frightening catastrophe yet. Millions of fish are dying off the coast of Hawaii and someone-or something-is destroying hundreds of ships. Unable to discover the cause, the government enlists the Flock to help them get to the bottom of the disaster before it is too late.

A full-color graphic novel adaptation in which thirteen-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl must join forces with his nemesis, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police, in order to save his father--one of the few people in the world Artemis loves--who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya.

"Madi Preston, a veteran of Britain's elite special operations J-Squad unit, is burnt out and up to her eyeballs in debt. She and the rest of her team have retired from the military but are now trapped having to pay to service and maintain the technology put into them during their years of service. They're working for British conglomerate Liberty Inc as mercenaries, selling their unique ability to be remote controlled by specialists while in the field, and the debts are only growing as they get injured completing missions. We meet Madi as she decides she's had enough. She will take an off-the-books job that should earn her enough to pay out her and her sister, but when the piece of tech she's supposed to steal turns out to be a kid, and she suddenly blacks out... she finds herself on the run from everyone she's ever known."--Provided by publisher.

"In early 1900s New York, the formidable crime syndicate known as the Black Hand has been terrorizing the city's Italian community with bombings and kidnappings. When a young Italian girl is found drowned and sexually defiled, Dr. Genevieve Summerford suspects the organization has expanded into forced prostitution, and she won't rest until the trafficking ring is brought to justice.".

"In his twenties, Ethan Holt won the decathlon at the Olympics and was jokingly nicknamed "Hercules"; now, in his late thirties, he's returned to his ivy-covered alma mater to teach, and to raise his young daughter Skip as a single father. After a hushed-up scandal over his Olympics win and the death of his wife in a car accident five years ago, Ethan wants nothing more than to forget his past. Skip is not only the light of Ethan's life--she is his life. Then, Skip is kidnapped. A series of bizarre ransom demands start coming in that stretch Ethan's athletic prowess to its limits, and he realizes with growing horror that they are modern versions of the Twelve Labors of Hercules, demanded in tricky, rhyming clues by someone who seems to have followed every step of Ethan's career."--Provided by publisher.

Tom has been invited to spend spring break with his girlfriend and her family at an idyllic resort on the Mayan Riviera. But tragedy propels Tom into the dark side of paradise and headlong into the world of the Mexican drug cartel.

In an attempt to escape from his overbearing parents, Theo goes on a spontaneous road trip with his old babysitter, and ends up in an uncomfortable situation.

"The lust for power drives a ruthless Bay Area Russian drug smuggler to attack and kidnap the accountant of a high-tech company while he is transporting new spy technology. The Device falls into the hands of a street-smart teen, who escapes the clutches of evil and races east to a renovated gold mine in the Sierras. Active duty and retired lawmen, the FBI, marijuana growers, and army special forces unite to protect and rescue the innocent"--Back cover frame.

Once a happily married top agent with the FBI, Jane Hawl is now a widow wanted by the agency she once worked in. Hunting her enemies comes with its own costs, and now those she seeks revenge against are prepared to fight back, using her five-year-old son as bait. But an increasing number of people are becoming afflicted with a mysterious brain-altering malady that drives them violently insane, leaving everyone's lives in danger.