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Alexander and Alestria

a novel
2008
A fictionalized tale of the life of Alexander the Great that focuses on his love affair with Alestria, who kidnaps Alexander and makes him her slave, leading to a battle of wills that is fueled by passion and arrogance and will influence the course of history.

Missing children

a psychological approach to understanding the causes and consequences of stranger and non-stranger abduction of children
1996

Baby-snatcher

1984
During Laurel's thirteenth summer, she babysits the baby of a sculptor for whom she develops romantic feelings, only to make the shocking discovery that he is not what he seems to be.

Deadly stranger

1988
When twelve-year-old Shannon is kidnapped by a psychopath, her new friend, Katie, finds her life in danger when she unknowingly becomes the kidnapper's only witness.

Kidnapped

1984
Elizabeth Wakefield is kidnapped as she leaves her candy striper job at the hospital. She finds herself in an isolated shack with Carl, a lonely and disturbed orderly from the hospital.

De nadie m?s

2008
Evie, a young girl who was forced to give up her baby, kidnaps the child and runs to Montreal but must make a difficult decision when baby Brianna gets very ill.

Kidnaps

2010
Presents a discussion of forensic techniques and developments in relation to kidnappings, covering various cases involving victims such as Marilyn Miller, Charles Lindbergh, Jr., and Shari Smith.

Seven types of ambiguity

2004
Simon Heywood, still obsessed with Anna nine years after their breakup, triggers an emotional chain of events when he kidnaps her six-year-old son Sam, and must then depend on her for his freedom when he lies and says he had her permission to pick up the child.

Lo que est? en mi coraz?n

2001
Camila jumps at the chance to alleviate her boredom and memories of her late son by traveling to Mexico to write about the Zapatista movement, but a series of dramatic events, including her own kidnapping by paramilitaries, leads her to question her own past and the way she has been handling her life.

The howling house

1995
Danica is the only one who can save her family after they are taken prisoner by a madman at the Iris Arms, an out-of-the-way hotel in the Great Smoky Mountains.

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