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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xii, 234 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Captured by ISIS, her bravery and faith became her pathway to freedom. Badeeah Hassan was just 18 when she witnessed firsthand the horrors of the 2014 genocide of the Ezidi people by ISIS forces. Captured by ISIS, known locally as Daesh, Badeeah was among hundreds forced into a brutal human trafficking network made up of women and girls of Ezidi ethnicity, a much-persecuted minority culture of Iraq. Badeeah's story takes her to Syria where she is...
222) Where's Molly
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
212 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Molly Devereaux has been missing for more than two weeks, and police are still searching for the girl who seemed to vanish out of thin air. The world still wants to know... Where's Molly?" In my dreams, I never escaped the Oregon woods. Life after death isn't easy to accept, especially when I still feel like a ghost. Now, I live deep in the mountains of Montana--the paradigm of beauty. But they are also the home of horrors. Horrors that I only unleash...
223) The cruelty
Author
Series
The cruelty (Scott Bergstrom) volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Gwendolyn Bloom's father vanishes, she sets out across Europe under a new identity to bring him back alive, even if that means becoming as cruel as his captors.
224) Storm rising
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
FBI special agent Meg Jennings and her K-9 partner Hawk head to Virginia Beach to help with search and rescue after a hurricane. They uncover a human trafficking ring run by some of the most powerful and influential powers in Virginia. With the evidence-- and victims-- washed away, Meg joins forces with Special Agent Walter Van Cleave to hide the scared teenage girl who is their only witness. And now dangerous enemies are coming out of the storm to...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 290 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins to the rarefied heights of New York City's financial elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers--and for people--Epstein amassed his wealth through a combination of access and skill. But even after he had it all, Epstein wanted more. And that unceasing desire--especially a taste for young girls--resulted in his stunning fall from grace. From Epstein himself, to the girls he employed as masseuses...
226) Illegal
Author
Series
Disappeared (Stork) volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
To escape the violent cartel that is after them in Ciudad Juárez, siblings Sara and Emiliano flee across the border, seeking a better life in the United States and hoping to bring their pursuers to justice, only to discover that an even greater danger awaits them.
To escape the violent cartel that is after them in Ciudad Juárez, siblings Sara and Emiliano flee across the border, seeking a better life in the United States. Now Sara is being held...
227) Girls on the line
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, Luli and Yun, raised in an orphanage to age sixteen, work together in a factory until Yun, pregnant, disappears and Luli must confront the dangers of the outside world to find her. Includes facts about China's One-Child Policy and its effects.
Gujiao, China, 2009. Luli has aged out of the orphanage, and her friend Yun helps her get work at a factory. Yun has new clothes, a cell phone, and a boyfriend. But word is Yung is a bride...
228) Vicarious
Author
Series
Vicarious duology volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Winter Kim and her sister, Rose, survived growing up in a Korean orphanage and being trafficked into the United States. But they've escaped the past and started over in a Saint Louis, where no one knows who they used to be. Now they work as digital stunt girls for Rose's ex-boyfriend, Gideon, engaging in dangerous and enticing activities while recording their neural impulses for his Vicarious Sensory Experiences, or ViSEs. Whether it's bungee jumping,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"After her village is devastated by famine, 10-year-old Sixiang is sold to a human trafficker for a bag of rice and six silver coins. Her mother is reluctant to let her go, but the promise of a better life for her beloved daughter ultimately sways her. Arriving in America with the profits from her sale and a single photograph of Guifeng, her absent father, Sixiang journeys across an unfamiliar American landscape in the hopes of reuniting her family....
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xx, 213 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From sex slaves to drug mules, The Daily Beast's Rome Bureau Chief uncovers a terrifying and intricate web of criminal activity right on Europe's doorstep. Caught between Camorra gunrunners selling to ISIS and Nigerian drug gangs along Italy's picturesque coast, each year thousands of refugees and migrants are lured into their criminal underworld, forced to become sex slaves, drug mules or weapon smugglers. In this powerful exposé, investigative...
231) Disappeared
Author
Series
Disappeared (Stork) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Four months ago Sara Zapata's best friend, Linda, disappeared from the streets of Juarez, and ever since Sara has been using her job as a reporter to draw attention to the girls who have been kidnapped by the criminals who control the city, but now she and her family are being threatened--meanwhile her younger brother, Emiliano, is being lured into the narcotics business by the promise of big money, and soon the only way for both of them to escape...
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