kidnapping victims

"Charlotte Graham's never spoken about her kidnapping. Sixteen years later, she's back in Chicago and she is the only one who knows the truth. But, even now, can she risk sharing it?"--Provided by publisher.

In 2006, twenty-seven-year-old Jessica Buchanan stepped off a plane in Nairobi, Kenya hoping to help educate African children. By 2009 she had met and married a native swede named Erik Landemalm who worked to coordinate humanitarian aid with authorities in Africa and together they moved from Nairobi to Somalia. On October 25, 2011, Jessica and a colleague were kidnapped by Somali pirates and held for ransom. Jessica was terrorized, held indoors in filthy conditions, and kept on a starvation diet as ransom negotiations dragged on. After ninety-three days, Jessica's deteriorating health was becoming a life-or-death issue and President Obama ordered Navy SEAL Team Six to attempt a rescue operation.

Presents the text to the Charles Dickens' classic novel "Oliver Twist" about an orphan who is raised in a workhouse and who eventually runs away to London.

Presents the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson about a sixteen-year-old orphan who is kidnapped by his villainous uncle.

"For the first time, ten years after her abduction from her Salt Lake City bedroom, Elizabeth Smart reveals how she survived and the secret to forging a new life in the wake of a brutal crime On June 5, 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart, the daughter of a close-knit Mormon family, was taken from her home in the middle of the night by religious fanatic, Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee. She was kept chained, dressed in disguise, repeatedly raped, and told she and her family would be killed if she tried to escape. After her rescue on March 12, 2003, she rejoined her family and worked to pick up the pieces of her life. Now for the first time, in her memoir, MY STORY, she tells of the constant fear she endured every hour, her courageous determination to maintain hope, and how she devised a plan to manipulate her captors and convinced them to return to Utah, where she was rescued minutes after arriving. Smart explains how her faith helped her stay sane in the midst of a nightmare and how she found the strength to confront her captors at their trial and see that justice was served. In the nine years after her rescue, Smart transformed from victim to advocate, traveling the country and working to educate, inspire and foster change. She has created a foundation to help prevent crimes against children and is a frequent public speaker. In 2012, she married Matthew Gilmour, whom she met doing mission work in Paris for her church, in a fairy tale wedding that made the cover of People magazine"--.

Since moving to Chicago, seventeen-year-old Jamie Tessman has been plagued by mind-slips and vivid daydreams about her best friend Webb. When her daydreams begin blocking out reality, her mother, and her new friend Morgan see that she gets help from Morgan's psychiatrist aunt.

The third novel in the Deptford Trilogy, which tells the story of master illusionist Magnus Eisengrim.

Stephanie does not get along with her mother's new boyfriend Gregg, who is so very different from her late father, and while Gregg goes out of his way to irritate her, Stephanie is unnerved when he mentions her resemblance to the girls who have recently gone missing from their homes.

A graphic novel adaptation of the author's novel about a group of boys in Uganda who are kidnapped and forced to join the Lord's Resistance Army, or LRA, and their desperate escape, only to return home to discover that their friends and family are afraid of them.

Discusses the abduction of Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991, how two policewomen discovered who she was and the trial that followed for Phillip Craig Garrido, the man who kidnapped her eighteen years earlier.