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41) Day of doom
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his sister, Amy, figure out Vesper One's endgame and realize they must stop the organization from using their ransoms to harm millions of people.
43) Amelia's war
Author
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
A Confederate general's threat to burn Hagerstown, Maryland, unless its citizens pay him an exorbitant ransom, prompts twelve-year-old Amelia and her friend to find some way to save their community.
44) Coffin blues
Author
Pub. Date
℗♭2004
Description
"Priest McClaren wants to put his past behind him. It's a past filled with loss, murder...and revenge. Now all Priest wants is to own a carpentry shop and earn a quiet living building coffins. But it looks like peace and quiet just aren't in Priest's future. His ex-lover has pleaded with him to carry ransom money into hostile territory in Mexico, to rescue her new husband. It's a mission he can't refuse, but it could also easily get him killed. Especially...
45) Racing ransom
Author
Series
Gamer volume Bk 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Cynthia Cyber has trapped two programmers in the video game Space Racers, which she invented but did not get credit for, and sends a monster racer to destroy them if she does not get a ten million dollar ransom--and it is up to thirteen-year-old Tyler Morant in his secret identity as The Gamer to rescue them before they are destroyed.
46) Taken For Ransom
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
A multi-millionaire who has developed a substance abuse problem after her son's death is kidnapped and held for ransom.
47) Taken
Pub. Date
1998
Description
After Ethan Grover, a successful clothing manufacturer, is kidnapped and his wife refuses to pay the ransom, Ethan learns ugly truths about those closest to him and begins to wonder who is left in his life that he can trust.
Author
Series
Thea Paris novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
International kidnap-and-ransom expert Thea Paris is escorting two former child soldiers from Kanzi, Africa, to London when their plane is hijacked. As the plane heads for somewhere in the remote Libyan desert, Thea has to figure out how to take back control of the plane without endangering their lives. Behind the skyjacking is a former nemesis, a Sicilian mobster, who after tense negotiations finds himself with Thea at his beck and call. Revealing...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Ransom of Red Chief: Tells the story (adapted from the short story by O. Henry) about two men who kidnap a mischievous boy and request a large ransom for his return, but the boy turns the tables on his captors.
Great elephant escape: Matt moves to Africa, where he meets a boy named Jomo and an orphan elephant named Ellie. When a wealthy American tries to buy Ellie, the boys escape with her into an adventure they'll never forget!
Old 587: the great...
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 81
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Nancy is in New Orleans to celebrate Mardi Gras. The father of her friend Brian wants to possess a haunting portrait of his late wife, but the painting is stolen and held for ransom and Brian's father is accused of the crime.
Author
Series
Jake Ransom volume 2
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
When Connecticut middle-schooler, Jake and his older sister, Kady are transported back to Pangaea, the strange world of lost civilizations, they must find the truth behind the mythic Eye of Ra in order to survive.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Formats
Description
"Scotland, 1830. Following the death of her dear friend, Lady Kiera Darby is in need of a safe haven. Returning to her childhood home, Kiera hopes her beloved brother, Trevor, and the merriment of the Hogmanay Ball will distract her. But when a caretaker is murdered and a grave is disturbed at nearby Dryburgh Abbey, Kiera is once more thrust into the cold grasp of death. While Kiera knows that aiding in another inquiry will only further tarnish her...
54) Out of control
Author
Series
Troubleshooters volume 4
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
Savannah von Hopf has no choice. To save her uncle's life, she goes in search of Ken "WildCard" Karmody, a guy she barely knew in college who is now a military operative. She must convince him to help her deliver a cache of ransom money into the hands of terrorists halfway around the world. What she doesn't expect is to end up in WildCard's arms before she can even ask for his help. As her plan goes horribly wrong, they become trapped in the forsaken...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
In Car Crazy, G. Wayne Miller, author of Toy Wars: The Epic Struggle Between G.I. Joe, Barbie, and the Companies That Make Them and Men and Speed: A Wild Ride through NASCAR's Breakout Season, takes listeners back to the wild and wooly years of the early automobile era-from 1893, when the first U.S.-built auto was introduced, through 1908, when General Motors was founded and Ford's Model T went on the market. The motorcar was new, paved roads few,...
56) Deserving Alaska
Author
Series
Refuge volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Friend-zoned since childhood by the most amazing man she's ever known, that doesn't stop Alaska Stein from doing whatever's necessary--including lying to the military--to be by his side when Drake ends up in a German hospital after a mission gone wrong. The broken man in the bed is not the boy she once knew. Despite that, and despite years apart, when Drake turns his gaze to Alaska, he sees her. Looks beyond the plain-Jane exterior to his childhood...
59) Going Rogue
Author
Series
Stephanie Plum volume 29
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Monday mornings aren't supposed to be fun, but they should be predictable. However, on this particular Monday, Stephanie Plum knows that something is amiss when she turns up for work at Vinnie's Bail Bonds to find that longtime office manager Connie Rosolli, who is as reliable as the tides in Atlantic City, hasn't shown up. Stephanie's worst fears are confirmed when she gets a call from Connie's abductor. He says he will only release her in exchange...