kidnapping

While trying to find his sister, who is a suspect in a murder investigation, werecat Yoshi encounters werepossum Clyde and human Aimee, and all three of them get caught in an underground kidnapping ring where they must fight to stay alive.

Abducted by teen genius Bounce and her drifter friends Wiggins and Orange, three-year-old Frog seems content to eat cereal and play a video game about wolves all day--a game that parallels the reality around her--until Wiggins is overcome by guilt and tension and takes action.

In 1912, four-year-old Bobby Dunbar, the son of an upper-middle-class Louisiana family, went missing in the swamps. After an eight-month search, a boy's body was found, but it was hardly recognizable. A wandering piano tuner who had been shuttling a child throughout the region for months was arrested and charged with kidnapping because it was said that the boy with him was really Bobby Dunbar and the body in the swamps that of another boy. But when a destitute single mother came forward from North Carolina to claim the boy with the pianio tuner that she said was her son, not Bobby Dunbar, the case became a high-pitched battle over custody and identity.

In a distant future, Lugh is kidnapped, and while his twin sister Saba and nine-year-old Emmi are trailing him across bleak Sandsea they are captured, too, and taken to brutal Hopetown, where Saba is forced to be a cage fighter.

Mercy, a fallen angel, is doomed to an eternity of living someone else's life, but when she meets Ryan, an eighteen-year-old who refuses to believe his missing twin sister is dead, she realizes she can help him, even if it means exposing her true self and taking a chance that her efforts will be rejected.

Seventeen-year-old Chloe, vacationing in Greece, struggles to remain calm when she is drugged, kidnapped, and held in a warehouse pending a prisoner exchange.

Living with his grandparents on a tiny island off the state of Washington's coast, Zach feels cut off from the world, but when his little brother, Gilbert, is kidnapped Zach and a new friend, Emory, seek him in the astral realm, where a centuries-old creature hungers for Zach's soul.

Nobel laureate, international financier, and philanthropist Peter Novak--a billionaire who has committed his life and fortune to fostering democracy around the world through his Liberty Foundation--has been kidnapped. The terorist known as The Caliph is holding Novak in a fortress and has refused to negotiate for his release.

Bitter and angry after his parents' divorce, Jon joins a cult, The Religion of Hebetheus, at his high school and soon becomes embroiled in a plot to kidnap a fellow student and suspected terrorist, but their plans go terribly wrong.

Chronicles the history of child abduction and kidnapping in the United States, providing accounts of landmark cases, and looking at the role of the government, police, and public in preventing kidnappings and finding victims.