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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The adventure tale and intimate true story of a boy on the run with his mother, a housewife turned radical who kidnapped her son and set off for South America in search of the revolution. 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...
22) Six seconds
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A vengeful woman who aches for her place in paradise...
In Iraq an aid worker who lost her husband and child in a brutal attack saves the life of an American contractor. Believing he can help her avenge her family's deaths, she follows him back home to the United States.
An anguished mother desperate to find her child...
In California a soccer mom arrives to pick up her son from school, only to discover that her husband has taken their child...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
A film star begs Croft to find his missing wife and daughter Hollywood icon Roy Alonzo has just learned that in Los Angeles there is no such thing as a simple divorce. After years of bitterness and jealousy, his wife Melissa leaves him, taking most of his money, property, and five days a week with their only child. When Roy begins dating again, Melissa accuses him of sexually abusing their daughter, and disappears with her. Alonzo asks Santa Fe detective...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
What could possibly go wrong in a wealthy matriarch's country home when her dilettante son, his restless wife, and his widowed brother live there together? Strong Passions, set in the vanished world of Edith Wharton's "Old New York," recounts the true story of a tumultuous marriage. In 1862, Mary Strong stunned her husband, Peter, by confessing to an affair with his brother. Peter sued Mary for divorce for adultery, but not before she accused him...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"Sisters Katie and Jo Cromwell lost their baby sister when their father abducted her as a infant, but their reluctant return to Santa Sofia, Florida, reunites the family, and allows Jo to fall in love with the minister of the Traveler's Wayside Chapel." --
27) Second sight
Author
Series
Jigsaw files ; 2
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"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....
28) My name is Mahtob: the story that began in the global phenomenon Not without my daughter continues
Author
Publisher
Nelson Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"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." --
29) Sight unseen
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
After young Richard's mother dies, he is adopted by the Johnsons. The family's world gets turned upside down when Susan and Richard's infant daughter, Ashley Rose, is kidnapped. They race against time - and the kidnapper - to recover their precious child...
30) Forsaken country
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Max Rupert has left his position as a Minneapolis homicide detective to live in solitude. Mourning the tragic death of his wife, he's also racked by guilt--he alone knows what happened to her killer. But then the former local sheriff, Lyle Voight, arrives with a desperate plea: Lyle's daughter Sandy and his six-year-old grandson Pip have disappeared. Lyle's certain Sandy's ex-husband Reed is behind it, but the new sheriff is refusing to investigate....
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The founder of the Bring Sean Home Foundation advocacy group for parents of internationally abducted children describes how his Brazilian wife unexpectedly returned to her native country and refused to share custody of their son, triggering an international controversy.
32) At sea
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Cara and Brendan first meet, she's fresh out of college with a degree in the fine arts, recovering from the recent death of her mother and spending time on Martha's Vineyard while trying to figure out her next steps. She's swept away by Brendan's humor and charm and intoxicated by his thrilling, dangerous secret. He claims -- no, he insists -- that he can breathe underwater. He shows Cara his gills. He dives beneath the waves and doesn't emerge...
40) Dizzy: a novel
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
After an eight-year absence, Dizzy's "New Age traveler" mother suddenly shows up on her twelfth birthday and whisks her away to a series of festivals throughout Scotland in her rattletrap van.
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