hostages

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Zed

1982
Zed, a Lebanese-British teenager, recalls the agonizing ordeal during which he, as a timid eight-year-old hostage of an Arab terrorist group, learned about courage.

Bel canto

a novel
2005
A group of international guests, taken hostage by terrorists while attending a birthday party at the home of the vice president of a small South American country, form bonds with their captors and enter into an almost idyllic lifestyle, united by the music of Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano.

Adrenaline high

2003
Sixteen-year-old D'Arcy, always on the lookout for drama, finds herself in over her head when she attempts to help her classmate Zania whose mother is being held hostage by a drug-dealing boyfriend.

Den of lions

memoirs of seven years
1993
Former hostage Terry Anderson's memoir of how he survived seven years of captivity in Lebanon.

One breath away

2012
When an unknown man armed with a gun walks into an elementary school classroom, holding the children hostage, Officer Meg Barrett watches and waits for his demands, while Evelyn Oliver, trapped in her classroom, wonders how to save her students.

Cold zero

inside the FBI Hostage Rescue Team
2001
Offers a first-person account of life inside the FBI and its elite Hostage Rescue Team.

The risen empire

2008
Zai and pacifist senator Nara Oxham challenge the Rix, machine-augmented people who worship planet-sized beings with artificial intelligence and seek to supplant the power of the undead Emperor and his sister, the Child Empress, who have ruled for sixteen hundred years.

Bel canto

a novel
2001
A group of international guests, taken hostage by terrorists while attending a birthday party at the home of the vice president of a small South American country, form bonds with their captors and enter into an almost idyllic lifestyle, united by the music of Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano.

Give a Boy a Gun

2000
Interweaves the voices of students, teachers, friends, and gunmen in a fictional story about two heavily armed students, Gary and Brendan, who hold their classmates hostage at a high school dance after being tormented by football players and teachers. Includes real-life statistics on guns and violence.

News of a kidnapping

1997
Details the 1990 kidnappings of ten Columbian men and women by Medellin drug boss Pablo Escobar who planned to use the hostages as bargaining chips in negotiations with the government; focusing on the experiences of journalist Maruja Pachon who was held captive for six months.

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