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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gordon Korman offers another edge-of-your-seat action/adventure in a return to the trilogy format that sold more than 1 million copies of Island, Everest, and Dive.It's every brother's worst fear: As Aiden and his sister Meg are walking home from school one day, a van pulls over and Meg is kidnapped. There's no way for Aiden to stop it from happening. He's the only witness to his sister's disappearance.Why has Meg been kidnapped? Is it for ransom?...
Author
Publisher
J & M Press
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Poppy Fields is a Hollywood IT girl with big problems. Bodies are popping up like daisies, the Mexican police have taken her passport, and, when she runs for the border, a cartel makes her their unwilling guest.
Surrounded by trained killers, Poppy will need charm, intelligence, and a killer Chihuahua if she hopes to escape.
New from USA TODAY bestselling author Julie Mulhern, the Fields' Guide series is filled with exotic locales,
...3) The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill: Alien Encounters, Civil Rights, and the New Age in America
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1960s, Betty and Barney Hill became famous as the first Americans to claim that aliens had taken them aboard a spacecraft against their will. Their story-involving a lonely highway late at night, lost memories, and medical examinations by small gray creatures with large eyes-has become the template for nearly every encounter with aliens in American popular culture since.
Historian Matthew Bowman examines the Hills' story not only as a...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A lawyer turned successful podcaster, Melissa has recently married a man whose first wife died tragically, leaving him and their young daughter, Riley, behind. While Melissa and her brother, Mike, help their mom, Nancy, relocate from Cape Cod to the equally idyllic Hamptons, Melissa's new stepdaughter goes missing. Drawing on the experience of their own abduction, Melissa and Mike race to find Riley to save her from the trauma they still struggle...