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Capital punishment

2013
When private security expert Charles Boxer is hired by an Indian tycoon to find his missing daughter, he goes up against religious fanatics, Indian mobsters, and London's crime lords to beat the kidnappers at their own game.

The bunker diary

I can't believe I fell for it. It was still dark when I woke up this morning. As soon as my eyes opened I knew where I was. A low-ceilinged rectangular building made entirely of whitewashed concrete. There are six little rooms along the main corridor. There are no windows. No doors. The lift is the only way in or out. What's he going to do to me?.

The ransom of the Jews

the story of the extraordinary secret bargain between Romania and Israel
2005
Reveals the secret exchange between Romania and Israel in which Israel paid the Romanian government to let the 370,000 Jews of Romania who survived the Holocaust to immigrate to Israel.

Shattered

reclaiming a life torn apart by violence
2003
Debra Puglisi Sharp explores how her life was changed when a cocaine addict shot her husband, and attacked, raped, and kidnapped her, sharing how she overcame the violence to find happiness once again.

The spinning man

2003
Evan Birch's steady life as a husband, father, and professor of philosophy is ruined when he is wrongfully accused of kidnapping a local high school cheerleader.

The con man's daughter

2003
Eddie Dunne, banished from the NYPD and retired from his job with the Russian mob, enjoys a relaxing life playing the ponies and baby-sitting his six-year-old grandchild, but when his thirty-five-year-old daughter is kidnapped, he must risk everything to get her back.

The last detective

2003
Private detective Elvis Cole is panicked when Ben Chenier, the ten-year-old son of his lawyer lover Lucy, disappears while in his care, and his dread only grows stronger when it begins to appear Elvis's own past is the motive for the kidnapping.

The great Arizona orphan abduction

1999
Chronicles the events that occurred in Arizona in 1904, when New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote mining camp to be placed with Catholic, Mexican families, and the town's Anglos formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped the children and nearly lynched the nuns and priest.

Finn the half-great

2009
Finn McCool, the fourteen-foot-tall son of a Giant and a mortal woman, calms down after a wild youth spent seeking revenge against the Frost Giants who killed his father and settles with his wife, Oonagh, on a hill known as Knockmany, but when Ireland and Britain become overrun by mortal men who kidnap Oonagh, Finn rallies the Giants to bring her back.

Kidnapped

2004
A sixteen-year-old orphan is kidnapped by his villainous uncle, but later escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.

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