a decade of darkness, a life reclaimed : a memoir of the Cleveland kidnappings
Knight, Michelle
In 2002 Michelle Knight was kidnapped by a Cleveland bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade she endured unimaginable torture. At her rescue, investigators and psychologists would liken her years of imprisonment to that of a prisoner of war. In 2003 Castro kidnapped Amanda Berry and in 2004 he took Gina DeJesus. The three escaped on May 6, 2013. Michelle's past fight to remain a person of worth and her determination now to build a life worth living is beyond inspirational.
Ten-year-old Zeus, irritated that he keeps getting struck by lightning, discovers a magical thunderbolt embedded in a stone and embarks on the adventure of a lifetime when he is attacked by the Titans, who have been kidnapping other Olympian children with powers comparable to Zeus's.
When Clara vanishes after the puppeteer Grisini and two orphaned assistants were at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping chases the trio away from London and soon the two orphans are caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient rival, a witch with a deadly inheritance to shed before it is too late.
A family shattered by the abduction of an older son endures the fallout of four nightmarish years when he is found alive and returned to them badly traumatized.
Riley Spencer never thought twice about keeping secrets from her parents, but when she finds a birth certificate with the name Jane O'Callahan hidden in her baby book, she must consider that her parents are lying to her.
Fourteen years after an unhappy young mother's beloved baby is kidnapped, Sophie, a reclusive, home-schooled teen, breaks the strict rules of her adoptive parents and meets a loving family that encourages her to look into her mysterious past.
Nine-year-old Katie Mackey, the daughter of the most affluent family in a small Indiana town, disappears one night while riding her bike to the library, throwing the town into turmoil.
Rio Cruz and a crew of young disabled veterans are teamed up to sail around the world for charity--but when they are kidnapped by an psychotic African warlord and his band of child soldiers the trip of a lifetime turns into a nightmare journey into the African jungle.
