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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis. The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center, a women's reproductive health services clinic--its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage....
Author
Series
Prisoners of Peace volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Four centuries after an artificial intelligence named Talis conquered the world, the United Nations keeps the peace by holding the world leaders' children hostage. If war breaks out, the children die. Talis's hostage, Crown Princess Greta, is resigned to the death that will claim her if she fails to reach her 18th birthday. But a hostage boy from a new American alliance stirs rebellion in Great when he takes a stand.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Canada
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
Riley Vasquez will never forget the murder that changed her life. Max Cross lives with a devastating diagnosis he must never reveal. When the two are sent to a weekend therapy camp with five other troubled teens, three murderous masked men take the teens hostage. Now Riley and Max must find a way to escape a building with sealed exits, no windows, and no access to cell phones. But getting out might not earn them the freedom they crave.
4) Sanctuary
Author
Series
Sanctuary novels volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Prison-guard-in-training Kenzie is taken hostage by the superpowered criminals of the Sanctuary space station--only to have to band together with them when the station is attacked by mysterious creatures"--
5) Black ice
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
Britt goes hiking in the Grand Tetons of Wyoming with her ex-boyfriend Calvin, but trouble arises when she is caught in a blizzard, taken hostage by fugitives, finds evidence of murders, and learns whom to trust and whom to love.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A corporate lawyer in Washington goes to war against his own company to defend the homeless. It happens after Michael Brock is abducted by a homeless man and held hostage. The homeless man is killed by a police sharpshooter and the lawyer is rescued, but the experience changes his life. Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm with eight hundred lawyers. The money was good and getting better;...
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 19
Language
English
Description
It's Christmas Eve and Detective Alex Cross is called away from his family to resolve a horrific hostage situation that is spiraling out of control.
Author
Language
English
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When seventeen-year-old Nora O'Malley, the daughter of a con artist, is taken hostage in a bank heist, every secret she is keeping close begins to unravel.
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Language
English
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Description
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award • Winner of the Orange Prize • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
"Bel Canto is its own universe. A marvel of a book." —Washington Post Book World
New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett's spellbinding novel about love and opera, and the unifying ways people learn to communicate across cultural barriers in times of crisis
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