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Mona Lisa overdrive

1989
Mona, a young girl with an indistinct past and an uncertain future meets internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell, a woman who is able to tap into cyberspace without a computer, and together they are drawn into a dangerous kidnapping plot from inside cyberspace that threatens all humanity.

Gone, baby, gone

2007
Boston private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro reluctantly agree to join the search for a four-year-old girl who was abducted from her home in the middle of the night, but they face a dilemma when they learn that some children are better off missing than found.

Two little girls in blue

2007
Margaret and Steve Frawley return from an evening out to discover their three-year-old twins have been kidnapped and an eight-million dollar ransom demanded, but even though Frawley's employer pays the money, only Kelly is returned, and Kathy is believed to have been killed until Kelly insists she is in telepathic communication with her sister who is alive but in grave danger.

Colibr?

2005
Kidnapped from a crowded bus in Guatemala City when she was four years old, twelve-year-old Rosa is forced into a life of lies and deceit by her abductor until she manages to escape and seek the help from the Day-Keeper who is able to locate her parents.

Deep

2005
Somewhere in the Caribbean, seventeen-year-old Morgan and thirteen-year-old Birdie, two girls whose lives are worlds apart, are brought together by the maniacal Nicholas.

Kidnapped

child abduction in America
1997
Examines some of the most infamous kidnapping cases in American history, beginning with the abduction of Charley Ross in 1874, and discusses the ways in which the public has come, socially and culturally, to define, understand, cope with, and imagine this crime.

My enemy, my ally

a Star trek novel
1984
A Romulan Commander joins her old enemy, Captain Kirk, in a secret pact to destroy the Romulan research laboratory which has kidnapped Vulcans in order to genetically harness their mind power.

Podkayne of Mars

1987
An adventurous Mars girl takes off on her first space voyage. She is kidnapped on Venus and discovers that fairies are not imaginary or nice.

Poison island

2008
Zac Power parachutes onto a dangerous island while in pursuit of Dr. Drastic, a mad scientist, but when his older brother gets kidnapped and hung over a volcano--that is expected to erupt within twenty-four hours--Zac has more than quicksand, piranhas, and poison dart frogs to worry about.

Blood on the handle

2010
The reader, in the role of the orphaned nephew of Uncle Morgan, chooses the course of the action in a story in which Uncle Morgan disappears, leaving behind a bloody dagger stabbed through the carpet.

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