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"A stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions. In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders, her children clinging to her legs. They never saw her again. Her abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was...
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Young Abu disappears suddenly together with at least ten other children, after a nightly and violent raid of his village by the rebel army. His best friend Thomas cannot be consoled. He wants Abu back, and Eduard, his father, decides to try to find Abu. Eduard persists in his plight towards finding and saving his son's friend, and discovers the tyrant of children is someone from his past.
4) Abducted
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When the heiress of a luxury hotel chain is kidnapped at her dingy motel outside Detroit by a band of ruthless sex traffickers, her downtrodden assistant must figure out a way to rescue her.
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When Karen and her adoring niece Ashlee are caught in the middle of a robbery, Ashlee ends up in the hospital. Karen tells police that she recognized one of the men involved, a guy named Ray Martinez. When they are unable to break his alibi, Karen decides to deal with him herself. But when Ray pulls a gun on her, she's forced to kill him in self-defense. Now Karen finds herself locked in a desperate struggle for her life-and justice for her family....
6) Blue Velvet
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A sensual mystery thriller about strange happenings in a small North Carolina town. A college student stumbles across a bizarre mystery and wants to know more, perhaps too much more. The strange world he's found lurking beneath his hometown's picture-postcard veneer is about to become much stranger, becoming an unforgettably fascinating and forboding world.
7) Betrayed
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While vacationing in Cape Cod, Julie and her boyfriend Trent get caught up in a scandal when Trent is kidnapped by a mysterious man and Julie must turn to Jonathan – her husband - to pay the ransom.
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The host of "CNN Newsroom Live" presents a definitive account of Boko Haram's 2014 abduction of two hundred seventy-six Chibok schoolgirls, sharing first-person insights based on the author's escape with twenty-one survivors.
The first definitive account of the lost girls of Boko Haram and why their story still matters--by celebrated international journalist Isha Sesay. In the early morning of April 14, 2014, the militant Islamic group Boko Haram...
9) Carjacked
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Lorraine (Maria Bello of TV's TOUCH, PRISONERS), a vulnerable single mom, is struggling to make ends meet, and to gain custody of her 5 year-old son. One night on the way to a mother-son dinner, they are carjacked by Roy (Stephen Dorff of SOMEWHERE, BLADE), a vicious bank robber on the run. He forces Lorraine to drive to meet up with his accomplice who still has money from their most recent heist. Roy's directives are reminiscent of the emotional...
11) Undying Dreams
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Risking his life Mike fled the repressive regime in Iran to live freely in the U.S. Embracing the American dream he becomes a successful businessman and falls in love and marries an American nurse Christine. Deeply devoted to her profession Christine volunteers to serve as a pediatric nurse during a three month humanitarian program in war torn Iraq. Christine is kidnapped shortly after arriving in Iraq forcing Mike to confront a chaotic world he thought...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
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2020.
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372 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
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"For readers of Educated and The Glass Castle, a harrowing, redemptive and profoundly inspiring memoir of childhood trauma and its long reach into adulthood. One Omaha winter day in November 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knifepoint from a church parking lot. She was thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and then left to die as an ice storm descended over the city. Debora survived. She identified her attacker...
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