Crowley County Combined Library

The Loner has searched the frontier for his missing children, who have been hidden from him since their birth by a vengeful mother. Now, in fog-shrouded San Francisco, his search ends and the fight begins. Conrad Browning is the Loner, a man on a mission, crossing the country--and crossing a lot of bad men--to rescue his kidnapped young twins. The trail has led him all the way to San Francisco's perilous red-light district and into the middle of a...

"Throughout the late 1970s and early '80s, dozens of Japanese citizens were abducted from coastal Japanese towns by North Korean commandos. In what proved to be part of a global project, North Korea attempted to reeducate the abductees and train them to spy on the state's behalf. When the project faltered, the abductees were hidden in a series of guarded communities known as "Invitation-Only Zones"--the fiction being that these were exclusive enclaves,...

No matter what you see, no matter what you've heard, assume nothing. Adam and Sophie Warner and their three-year-old daughter are vacationing in Washington State's Hood Canal for Memorial Day weekend. It's the perfect getaway to unplug--and to calm an uneasy marriage. But on Adam's first day out on the water, he sees Sophie abducted by a stranger. A hundred yards from shore, Adam can't save her. And Sophie disappears. In a nearby cabin is another...

A toxic presidential election is underway in an America already badly weakened by internal divisions. While politicians focus entirely on maintaining their own power and privilege, ISIS kidnaps a brilliant French microbiologist and forces him to begin manufacturing anthrax. Slickly-produced videos chronicling his progress and threatening an imminent attack are posted to the Internet, intensifying the hysteria gripping the U.S. ISIS recruits a Mexican...

"Tells the story of Steven L. Berk, M.D., who was kidnapped from his home in Amarillo, Texas, in March of 2005. Shows how Berk used his experiences and training as a physician to survive the ordeal and bring his captor to justice"--Provided by publisher.

When his daughter, an investigative reporter for the Washington Post, vanishes while preparing to break a story about a powerful senator, Tom Redmon heads for Washington, determined to uncover the truth and find his daughter.

Four years after being kidnapped, sixteen-year-old Charlotte returns home to find her family ripped apart, but before she can try to reunite them, or help find the body of her captor's first victim, she must come to terms with her past.

When Patience Ibrahim was nineteen, her first husband was murdered by Boko Haram. She fled to the safety of her village and remarried several months later. Having prayed for a child for years, Patience is overjoyed to discover she is pregnant. Soon after, Boko Haram soldiers are at her door. Violently abducted and forced to convert to Islam, she lives in constant terror of what her kidnappers will do. She is alone in the world and fears her life is...

Sophie Hollis could charm any man. Kidnapped as a child and sold to Tek Garrett, a conman, she was a fast learner, and in no time at all, she could sweet-talk her way out of trouble. Now all Sophie wanted was to be left alone to build a new life - one that was honest and decent, and based on truth rather than trickery.