missing persons

"When Lauren Spierer-a gregarious young woman at a crossroads in her life-vanished from Indiana University in 2011, her story drew global attention from celebrities and news outlets such as People magazine, CNN, Fox News, and USA Today. What made the case so confounding to those outlets was that the 20-year-old was out with dozens of classmates in a bustling university town on the night she went missing. She was seen in public by witnesses and security cameras, and ended up in a townhouse complex with several wealthy, well-connected male students-never to be seen again. Despite the media frenzy surrounding the case, the police investigation went nowhere and her body was never found. Armed with the support of Lauren's parents and never-before-seen evidence that chronicles a cover-up, a botched investigation, conflicting testimony, and new interviews, Cohen leads readers through a gripping narrative before finally shining a light on those often forgotten in true crime: the innocent people left behind. College Girl, Missing will provide an incisive look at "Missing White Woman Syndrome" to expose the prejudice in true crime reporting and demonstrate how the excessive media coverage that Lauren received, paradoxically, damaged the quest to bring her home"--.

When sixteen-year-old Keeper Chance receives an invitation to join E.V.I.L., a society of villains, he embarks on a journey of low-grade villainy until members begin to disappear and Keeper races against time to save his newfound friends and uncover his true nature amidst the chaos.

"The past is packed with mysterious disappearances, but can science solve these spooky events? Find out in this investigation of history's strangest disappearances"--Provided by publisher.

Jules Montgomery, navigating London with a recent hearing loss, joins forces with detectives Watson and Holmes to uncover the truth behind a missing classmate, and finds that her unique powers of observation may hold the key to solving both the case and the mystery of the detectives' presence in the 21st century.

Claire's dream internship with Warrior Nation is quickly complicated by a budding relationship with new superhero Joy, and when supervillains strike, Claire must team up with disillusioned Bridgette to save the day.

"Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote The Underland--and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it's best to let the uncanny house--and its last lonely heir, Arthur Starling--go to rot. Opal knows better than to mess with haunted houses or brooding men, but an unexpected job offer might be a chance to get her brother out of Eden. Too quickly, though, Starling House starts to feel dangerously like something she's never had: a home. As sinister forces converge on Starling House, Opal and Arthur are going to have to make a dire choice: to dig up the buried secrets of the past and confront their own fears, or let Eden be taken over by literal nightmares. If Opal wants a home, she'll have to fight for it."--Provided by publisher.

"Full of offbeat humor and wordplay, this madcap adventure about a family on a quest to find their mother and save another dimension shows the power of language and the passage of time"--BTCat.

On the run after her mother disappears, eleven-year-old Daisy Thistledown steps through a mysterious hidden doorway and enters the realm of Greenwild, where she must uncover the truth about who she really is to save this land of magic and amazing natural wonders from being destroyed.

"It's been twenty years since Detective Chelsey Calhoun's sister vanished. Ever since, Chelsey's been searching: for signs, for closure, for other missing girls. But happy endings are rare in Chelsey's line of work. Then, a glimmer of hope. Local teenager Ellie Black, who disappeared without a trace two years earlier, has been found alive in the woods of Washington State. Only--something isn't right with Ellie. She won't say where she's been or who she's protecting. Now, it's up to Chelsey to find answers before it's too late: for herself and for the memory of her sister. But mostly for the next girl who could be taken--and who, unlike Ellie, might never return"--Provided by publisher.

"When a girl with peculiar abilities lands at a boarding school where students are part human and part magical, she discovers nothing is what it seems when sinister forces causes one of her classmates to go missing"--Provided by publisher.