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Author
Publisher
Villard
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
xiii, 284 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the true story of four young American rock climbers who were kidnapped by militants of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan in August 2000 while in the Pamir-Altai Mountains and endured six days of captivity before taking drastic action to escape.
Before Dawn on August 12,2000, four of America's best young rock climbers -- the oldest of them only 25 -- were asleep in their portaledges high on the Yellow Wall in Pamir-Alai mountain range of...
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
viii, 277 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl must join forces with his nemesis, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police, in order to save his father -- one of the few people in the world Artemis loves -- who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On a cold, gloomy night, twenty-three-year-old Kyoko stands in the rain with a knife in her hoodie's pocket. Her target is Daniel, who seduced Kyoko's mother then callously dropped her, leading to her death. But tonight, there will be repercussions. Following the unsuspecting Daniel home, Kyoko manages to get a rash kidnapping plot off the ground ... and then nothing goes as planned. The Fetishist is the story of three people--Kyoko, a Japanese...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
An unforgettable memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents.
When Shane McCrae was three years old, his grandparents kidnapped him and took him to suburban Texas. His mom was white and his dad was Black, and to hide his Blackness from him, his maternal grandparents stole him from his father. In the years that followed, they manipulated and controlled him, refusing to...
Author
Series
Amina al-Sirafi novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first book of "a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, in one woman's determined quest to seize a final chance at glory--and write her own legend ... Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean's most notorious pirates, she's survived backstabbing rogues, vengeful merchant princes, several husbands,...
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