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World of wonders

2006
The third novel in the Deptford Trilogy, which tells the story of master illusionist Magnus Eisengrim.

Taken

2009
Stephanie does not get along with her mother's new boyfriend Gregg, who is so very different from her late father, and while Gregg goes out of his way to irritate her, Stephanie is unnerved when he mentions her resemblance to the girls who have recently gone missing from their homes.

War brothers

the graphic novel
2013
A graphic novel adaptation of the author's novel about a group of boys in Uganda who are kidnapped and forced to join the Lord's Resistance Army, or LRA, and their desperate escape, only to return home to discover that their friends and family are afraid of them.

Shattered innocence

2011
Discusses the abduction of Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991, how two policewomen discovered who she was and the trial that followed for Phillip Craig Garrido, the man who kidnapped her eighteen years earlier.

A stolen life

a memoir
2011
Jaycee Dugard chronicles the eighteen years she spent in captivity, describing what happened after she was kidnapped at age eleven in 1991, the abuse she endured, the birth of her two daughters, the events leading up to her release, and her struggle to adjust to life once she was reunited with her family.

Birthright

the true story that inspired Kidnapped
2010
Recounts the true story of James Annesley, who was kidnapped at age twelve by his uncle and sold into indentured servitude in America for twelve years before managing to escape, return to England, and bring his uncle to justice.

The birthday party

a memoir of survival
2008
Former federal prosecutor Stanley Alpert describes his experiences after being kidnapped on January 21, 1998, the night before his thirty-eighth birthday, by thugs who wanted to use his ATM card, and who decided to hold onto him a while longer after learning the size of his bank account.

Hold fast

2013
On a cold winter day in Chicago, Early's father disappeared, and now she, her mother and her brother have been forced to flee their apartment and join the ranks of the homeless--and it is up to Early to hold her family together and solve the mystery surrounding her father.

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