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The theft of sunlight

When her friend's sister is the latest victim in the child-snatchings plaguing her region, Amraeya ni Ansarim makes the journey to the royal court despite the mental and physical pain her malformed foot causes her, because she dares hope the rulers will help. She finds unexpected allies in the city, from the foreign princess to a street thief, but as the mystery unravels, it's possible the answers she seeks could endanger the entire kingdom.
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Lost in the Never Woods

2021
"When children start to go missing in the local woods, eighteen-year-old Wendy Darling must face her fears and a past she cannot remember to rescue them in this novel based on Peter Pan"--OCLC.
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There was an old woman who lived in a book

The Little Old Woman Who Lives in a Book cannot find her children, and when she goes searching for them she meets other fairy tale characters who are all missing something or someone important.

The search party

The entire town thinks sixteen-year-old Sadie Saunders is dead. Missing now for a week, they say she was murdered. And they think they know who did it. Sadie's five best friends aren't so sure, and they vow to find out the truth. So they pack their bags and head into the woods where Sadie was last seen. But they're not just friends, they're suspects. And each of them has a secret. As the landscape opens up, and the darkness closes in, the reality of their situation becomes clear... This was never really a search party. It's a witch hunt. And not everyone will make it home alive.
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Zen and gone

2018
Because their mother is usually high, Essa, seventeen, must be responsible for her sister, nine-year-old Puck, but when Puck disappears during a hike outside of Boulder, Essa must rely on her newfound spiritual strength and boyfriend Oliver.
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Cut to the bone

2020
"A bus full of high school students has disappeared from Washington D.C. and FBI neuroscientist Sayer Altair must hunt down the culprit who has a link to her own past. After grieving the death of her fianc? and almost losing her job, Agent Sayer Altair is finally starting to rebuild her life. Her research into the minds of psychopaths is breaking new ground and her strange little family is thriving. But Sayer's newfound happiness is threatened when she is called in to investigate a girl's body left inside a circle of animal figurines below a cryptic message written in blood. When they discover that the dead girl is one of twenty-four missing high school students, Sayer quickly realizes that nothing in this case is what it seems. As the investigation draws her in to a tangled web of fake identities and false leads, the trail soon begins to point directly to her own life. Now, Sayer must confront her painful past to uncover her connection to the deranged killer if she hopes to save the missing teens and protect everything that she loves"--Provided by publisher.

Master of the phantom isle

As the evil Celebrant conquers more and more dragon sanctuaries, Kendra must raise an army of friends and allies on her own to fight him because her brother Seth and Bracken are missing.

The missing piece of Charlie O'Reilly

Charlie O'Reilly is the only one who remembers his younger brother, Liam, who disappeared a year ago. It seems the moment Liam vanished, any memory of him went with him. Even Charlie's parents worry when he talks about the brother they don't recall. But Charlie's best friend Ana believes him, and the two are determined to uncover the truth about what happened to Liam even if it means they could disappear too.

Every dead thing

2000
Former NYPD detective Charlie Parker, teetering on the verge of madness after the unsolved slayings of his wife and daughter, finds his old instincts for survival, compassion, love, and killing reawakening when he agrees to help his old partner track down a missing girl.

Luke on the loose

2015
A young boy's fascination with pigeons soon erupts into a full-blown chase around Central Park, across the Brooklyn Bridge, through a fancy restaurant, and into the sky.

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