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The traitor's game

2018
"After three years in exile, Kestra Dallisor has been summoned back to Antora by her father, right-hand man of the seemingly immortal king, Lord Endrick, but she is intercepted and kidnapped by the Coracks who want to use her to get the Olden Blade, which they believe can be used to kill the despot. Simon, one of the rebels with his own grudge against the Dallisors, is assigned to accompany her, but Kestra has her own plans and she does not intend to let anyone get in her way"--Publisher provided.
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The toilet vortex

2016
"Something is rotten in the plumbing of Harry Buttz Elementary School, and it's kidnapped Janitor Stan! It's up to the Fart Squad to dive into the toilet vortex to save their scent-sei from the World of the Royal Flush ... Only the Fart Squad has the guts, the gall, and the gas to flush this round brown mound before he overflows his toilet kingdom on the world."--Provided by publisher.
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Nadya Skylung and the cloudship rescue

2018
When pirates capture a cloudship and its crew, it is up to young Nadya and her friends, all orphans, to rescue the only family they have ever known.
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Stealing Candy

2017
Candy is bored. The only promise of excitement is graduation, and that's still eons away. Then she is kidnapped. Candy panics. The only reason anyone would abduct her is to get a payout from her rock star father. Except Candy and her father don't really get along. There's no way he's going to pay. But with every hour that passes, Candy's fear slowly recedes. Being on the road is freeing, not to mention great material for a new documentary. And the more time she spends with her mysterious and handsome captor, Levon, the more she learns the whole scheme is not just about ransom. It's about revenge. What began as a kidnapping is spiraling into a crazy road trip adventure as Candy and Levon find a lot of wrong ways to do the right thing.
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The girl in the tower

2017
"An evil queen kidnaps ten-year-old Violet to turn her into a princess"--Provided by publisher.
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Emma in the night

2017
"One night three years ago, the Tanner sisters disappeared: fifteen-year-old Cass and seventeen-year-old Emma. Three years later, Cass returns, without her sister Emma. Her story is one of kidnapping and betrayal, of a mysterious island where the two were held. But to forensic psychiatrist Dr. Abby Winter, something doesn't add up. Looking deep within this dysfunctional family Dr. Winter uncovers a life where boundaries were violated and a narcissistic parent held sway. And where one sister's return might just be the beginning of the crime"--Provided by publisher.
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The purloining of Prince Oleomargarine

"Based on a set of unfinished Mark Twain notes for a children's story, this is the tale of Johnny, a young boy with a magical ability to speak to animals who sets off to rescue a stolen prince"--Provided by publisher.
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The speaker

Sea of Ink & Gold, Book 2
"Sefia and Archer's adventure continues as Archer searches for a way to combat his nightmares of his time with the impressors and Sefia becomes more and more consumed by her study of the Book"--Provided by publisher.
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Not if I save you first

Six years ago Maddie lived in Washington D.C. with her father, a Secret Service agent assigned to the President's family, and her best friend was Logan, the President's son; but after her father was wounded in an attempted kidnapping the two of them moved to a remote cabin in Alaska and Logan never replied to her letters--but now he has suddenly turned up on her doorstep, and, while she has no attention of forgiving him for his silence, she soon realizes that first she has to save him from the winter wilderness and the men who are pursuing him.
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