hostages

Seventeen-year-old Kenzie trains to become a elite guard on Sanctuary--a corporate-funded, maximum security space prison for superpowered teenagers too dangerous to be imprisoned on Earth. After a routine drill goes wrong, Kenzie finds herself a hostage of the prisoners, but is confident her mother--the commanding officer--will come rescue her. But Kenzie learns that not only will her mother not break protocol, but that an evil entity from space has crawled its way on Sanctuary, leaving Kenzie to form an alliance with her captors to survive. She also learns that corporation she works for may have darker ulterior motives.

"Explores the role of hostages under ISIS, from those who are killed or forced to fight to those who are used for their value as propaganda or their ability to generate income, in the form of bribes, for the Islamic State"--OCLC.

Taylor is a rebellious teenager with a habit of sneaking out to hang with his anti-war friends, so in January 1968 his mother drags him off to Saigon where his father is attached to the United States embassy; bored (and still rebellious) Taylor sneaks out of the embassy to watch the Tet celebrations, just as the war erupts all over Vietnam and there he is captured by the North Vietnamese Army and sent North as a prisoner and hostage--and during the brutal journey Taylor is forced to confront the realities of war and survival for the first time in his sheltered life.

"Examines the motivations, events, and effects of the terrorist practice of taking hostages"--Amazon.com.

This is a fictionalized story based on the amazing real life experiences of Miriam Moss, a fifteen year old English school girl who was held hostage on a plane hijacked by the Palestinian Liberation Front in 1970.

"Cosmoe's been taken hostage by space pirate Rani, the same pirate who seized him years earlier, beginning his life in space. As memories of Cosmoe's and Humphree's first days of the Neon Weiner unfold, the danger right now is big-time bad... Just when Cosmoe was getting the hang of this hero thing, he loses the one part of him he can't imagine succeeding without"--Provided by publisher.

"Greta was her country's crown princess, and also its hostage, destined to be the first casualty in an inevitable war. But when the war came, it broke all the rules, and Greta forged a different past. She is no longer princess. No longer hostage. No longer human. Greta Stuart has become an AI."--Provided by publisher.

"In the middle of the night in 1997, Doctors Without Borders administrator Christophe Andr?e was kidnapped by armed men and taken away to an unknown destination in the Caucasus region. For three months, Andr?e was kept handcuffed in solitary confinement, with little to survive on and almost no contact with the outside world. Close to twenty years later, award-winning cartoonist Guy Delisle ... recounts Andr?e's harrowing experience in Hostage, a book that attests to the power of one man's determination in the face of a hopeless situation."--Provided by publisher.

"Shy, introverted Phaet Theta has gone from being a top student to an interplanetary fugitive to the reluctant but fierce leader of a revolution. With the Earthbound on their side, she and her friends finally have a chance at toppling the evil leaders who've held the Moon captive for decades. But as the death tolls rise, the cost of the war weighs heavily on Phaet, even as she's forced to lead her siblings and Wes, the love of her life, into terrible danger. Phaet started this war because she lost someone she loved. Will she have to lose another to end it?"--Provided by publisher.

"It's a new day in the Empire. With Tyrus on the throne and Nemesis at his side, they can find a new way forward--one without hiding or scheming or bloodshed. They can form a galaxy where science and information is shared with everyone and not just the elite. But having power isn't the same as keeping it, and change isn't always welcome. There are those who have no intention of letting this teenage Emperor and Nemesis, who's considered a mere killing machine, rule without a fight. In order to protect Tyrus, Nemesis must prove her humanity to the Empire. But if this means she and Tyrus must do inhuman things, is the fight worth the cost of winning?"--Dust jacket flap.