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441) Worse, worser, wurst
Author
Series
Princess Pulverizer volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
There's trouble in the kingdom of Salamistonia! Ever since an evil wizard kidnapped Lester the jester, laughter and smiles have disappeared. Now Princess Pulverizer has the perfect opportunity to complete the next good deed on her Quest of Kindness: a rescue mission!
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"'In my seventh winter, when my head only reached my Appe’s rib, a White Man came into camp. Bare trees scratched sky. Cold was endless. He moved through trees like strikes of sunlight. My Bia said he came with bad intentions, like a Water Baby’s cry.' Among the most memorialized women in American history, Sacajewea served as interpreter and guide for Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery. In this visionary novel, acclaimed Indigenous author...
443) Night will find you
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
""An expertly rendered mystery, complete with compelling characters, an impeccably paced plot, and surprising twists...A must-read!" -Heather Gudenkauf, bestselling author of The Overnight Guest A scientist and reluctant psychic is brought in to find a girl who went missing long ago in the new novel by Julia Heaberlin, the bestselling author of We Are All the Same in the Dark Vivvy Bouchet, daughter of a known psychic, was ten when she saved a boy's...
Author
Publisher
Plan B
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Primera ediciaon.
Language
Español
Description
"In a crime that stunned the world, Mexican police kidnapped 43 student teachers from the Ayotzinapa college. There is still no trace of them. This graphic novel illustrates this cruel moment in Mexican history through first person testimonies by the young men who dodged bullets, the parents who tirelessly search for their missing children and the brave journalists who report on the case."
445) Changeling
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Working-class suburb Los Angeles, 1928. Christine says goodbye to her son, Walter, and departs for work. Arriving home, Christine discovers that Walter is nowhere to be found. Christine launches a desperate search for her son. Then, a boy claiming to be Christine's son appears out of thin air. Knowing the boy is not hers, Christine invites the child to stay in her home. Christine cannot accept the injustice being pushed upon her and continues to challenge...
446) Grand Canyon grab
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The star of their favorite television show is kidnapped at the Grand Canyon, and it is up to Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose to find him.
Author
Publisher
GCP, Grand Central
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Paced like a thriller and full of insider information on the history and science of Crime Scene Investigation, In Light of All Darkness embeds readers in one of the most famous true-crime stories of our generation--the kidnapping of Polly Klaas--a case as pivotal in the history of the FBI as the Unabomber or Oklahoma City bombing. On October 1, 1993, a 12-year-old girl was kidnapped at knifepoint from her bedroom in Petaluma, California, during a...
Author
Series
Publisher
City Lights Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Harrowing personal narratives describing how Mexican authorities killed, injured, and disappeared scores of students and others in a still-unsolved crime"--
"On September 26, 2014, police in Iguala, Mexico attacked five busloads of students and a soccer team, killing six people and abducting forty-three students--now known as the Iguala 43--who have not been seen since. In a coordinated cover-up of the government's role in the massacre and forced...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Law and disorder. Desperate to escape her kidnappers, Kody Cameron can turn to only one man, and he's holding a gun. Outnumbered and trapped in the deadly Everglades, she has little recourse, but something in this captor's eyes makes her believe she can trust him. Does she dare to take the risk? Undercover agent Nick Connolly has met Kody before and knows she might very well blow his cover. Though determined to maintain his facade, he can't let Kody...
450) Bye, baby: a novel
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Best friends don't always have the best intentions. On a brisk fall night in a New York apartment, 35-year-old Billie West hears terrified screams. It's her lifelong best friend Cassie Barnwell, one floor above, and she's just realized her infant daughter has gone missing. Billie is shaken as she looks down into her own arms to see the baby, remembering - with a jolt of fear - that she is responsible for the kidnapping that has instantly shattered...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Based on a set of unfinished Mark Twain notes for a children's story, this is the tale of Johnny, a young boy with a magical ability to speak to animals who sets off to rescue a stolen prince"--
Author
Publisher
Molino
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Primera edición en México.
Language
Español
Description
"Ante la sorpresa de todos, el célebre doctor Watson, mano derecha de Sherlock Holmes, ha desaparecido sin dejar rastro. Y ni siquiera el famoso detective es capaz de hallar una sola pista que pueda conducir a su paradero. El caso despierta la curiosidad de Enola y decide implicarse. Sabe que debe actuar, y rápido, si quiere hallar al doctor Watson a tiempo. ¿Lo conseguirá?" --back cover
453) Big time
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
What if time could be taken from us—the minutes, the hours, the years of our lives, extracted like organs taken for transplant? What would it mean for the world? And what would it do to the person from whom it's taken? Grace Berney is a mid-level bureaucrat in the Food and Drug Administration, a woman who once brimmed with purpose but somehow turned into a middle-aged single mom with a dull government job and a melancholy sense that life has passed...
Author
Series
Asker volume 1
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"After a high-profile kidnapping case goes wrong, criminal inspector Leonore Asker is relegated to the so-called Department of Lost Souls where she, drawn into a peculiar case, one possibly linked to the kidnapping, is led to the darkest recesses of the city where an unusual kind of evil lurks in the shadows"--
455) Unicorn boy
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The first few years of Brian Reyes' life were unremarkable--nothing weird about this kid, no sir. Then, one day, a bump appeared on his head, and it grew... and grew... and grew until it was a full-blown, sparkling, singing unicorn horn. That's absolutely the last thing a shy kid like Brian wants, but destiny waits for no unicorn boy. Luckily, Brian has his reassuring pal Avery to keep him grounded as weird occurrences start stacking up, like Brian's...
Author
Series
Wollstonecraft Detective Agency volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a dinosaur fossil hunter is blackmailed by kidnappers who need her to fake a validation in return of her beloved pooch, Ada and Mary are given three days to find the offenders and save the scientist's reputation.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Jack Burton, a tough-talking, wisecracking truck driver whose hum-drum life on the road takes a sudden supernatural tailspin when his best friend's fiancee is kidnapped. Speeding to the rescue, Jack finds himself deep beneath San Francisco's Chinatown, in a murky, creature-filled world ruled by Lo Pan, a 2000-year-old magician who mercilessly presides over an empire of spirits. Dodging demons and facing baffling terrors, Jack battles his way through...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A nonfiction thriller packed with tension, passion, and politics, [this book] offers a rare glimpse into a secretive world, illuminating a fascinating chapter of North Korea's history that helps explain how it became the hermetically sealed, intensely stage-managed country it remains today"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Polar Bear Explorers' Club volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Stella Starflake Pearl, Ethan, Shay, Beanie, and Percifal set out for Witch Mountain, where a fearsome witch has taken Stella's father, Felix.
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