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Summary
As Noelle Van Doren and her parents engage in a child custody case against her estranged husband, they "peel away layers of mystery surrounding Robert and a thirty-year-old suicide. But they also find themselves on the path of a cold-blooded killer. It soon becomes plain that this battle is not just to regain custody, but to keep loved ones alive."--Jacket.
Author
Lexile Measure
830L
Summary
Thirty-two-year-old New Hampshire search-and-rescue worker Delia Hopkins, a soon-to-be-married mother of a five-year-old daughter, begins having strange flashbacks of a forgotten childhood and learns that her father, whom she always believed to be a widower, kidnapped her when she was four--and that her mother is still alive.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Summary
"When an evangelical preacher in Tennessee offers shelter to two gay men after a catastrophic flood, he's met with resistance by his wife and congregation, and eventually loses custody of his son. He decides to kidnap his son and flee to Key West, where he suspects his estranged gay brother is living"--
Author
Pub. Date
c1991
Summary
Six months without her babies was forever for Cassie Kimbrough. they'd been kidnapped by their father on November 13, 1987 from their McAllen, Texas home and taken thousands of miles away to live in his native Bolivia. At her wit's end, she took matters into her own hands. Risking everything she had--including her own life--she took part in a daring rescue mission with hired "recovery experts" to bring her son and daughter back home.
Author
Summary
Richard Coulter is a man who has everything. His beautiful new wife is pregnant, his upstart airline is undercutting the competition and moving from strength to strength, his diversification into the casino business in Macau has been successful, and his fabulous Art Deco house on an Irish cliff top has just been featured in Architectural Digest. But then, for some reason, his ex-wife Rachel doesn't keep her side of the custody agreement and vanishes...
10) Second sight
Author
Series
Jigsaw files volume 2
Summary
"When Charlie Dodge gets a phone call from a frantic woman stating her daughter has been kidnapped by her ex-husband and taken into a cult called Fourth Dimension, he takes the case without hesitation. The cult's rumored purpose is to gather men with psychic abilities with the goal of breeding a race of people who have supernatural powers. Once accepted into the cult, men are given a young girl to marry in exchange for one of their own daughters....
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Summary
When, on his eighteenth birthday, Jack Polovsky's almost-suicide is interrupted by his ex-girlfriend Jess's call saying she is in labor, he impulsively snatches the baby and hits the road with his best friend Tommy and Jess to introduce baby Socrates to Jack's aging grandmother.
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Summary
Originally published under a pseudonym in 1985, The Door to December has now been revisited by the author, who provides a new afterword. Melanie went missing when she was three. Then she's found six years later, wandering a Los Angeles backstreet with a vacant stare-and carrying an unimaginable secret.
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Formats
Summary
Liz's husband, Paul, has decided that, despite a strained relationship with his mother and father, the family should visit the farm in western New York where he spent his childhood. When her children, Ally and Reed, disappear from the hotel they stop at, blind panic slides into ice-cold terror. Liz realizes that it was no stranger who slipped into the hotel room that night-- someone she trusted completely has betrayed her. Now she must follow the...
16) Zachary's law
Author
Pub. Date
[2011], p2008
Summary
When a divorced mother's children are kidnapped by her ex-husband, Lauren Regis exhausts every possibility of finding her son and daughter. That is, until maverick attorney Zachary Winters agrees to take the case. Zach operates under his own set of rules. But even his unconventional methods don't include getting emotionally involved with the client, no matter how tempting.
17) My name is Mahtob: the story that began in the global phenomenon Not without my daughter continues
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Summary
The author tells the story of her and her mother's escape from an abusive, fanatical Iranian father when she was six, as well as how she lived her subsequent life under the shadow of fear of her menacing father, and eventually was healed by her faith in God.
18) In a dark house
Author
Series
Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
2004
Summary
An abandoned Southwark warehouse burns next door to a women's shelter for victims of spousal abuse. Within it lies the charred corpse of a female body burned beyond all recognition. At the same time, workers at Guy's Hospital anxiously discuss the disappearance of a hospital administrator -- a beautiful, emotionally fragile young woman who's vanished without a trace. And in an old, dark, rambling London house, nine-year-old Harriet's awful fears won't...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Summary
"Carol Andreas was a traditional 1950s housewife from a small Mennonite town in central Kansas who became a radical feminist and Marxist revolutionary. From the late sixties to the early eighties, she went through multiple husbands and countless lovers while living in three states and five countries. She took her youngest son, Peter, with her wherever she went."--Jacket flap.
The intimate true story of a boy on the run with his mother, as she abducts...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Summary
On his third day in Death Valley, Rick Fallon comes upon a deserted Toyota Camry, and soon thereafter, the almost-dead body of Casey Dunbar. Having rescued her, Fallon soon learns what had driven her to give up on life--and, his own life on hold, he resolves to unravel the twisted and dangerous strands of hers, a quest that leads him to the glitter-dome of Las Vegas.