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Author
Language
English
Description
To save her sister, who, along with her American diplomat husband and children, is trapped behind the Iron Curtain, Ruth Macallister embarks on a dangerous mission, and as the sisters race toward safety, a dogged Soviet agent forces them to make a heartbreaking choice.
Author
Series
Colorado cowboys (Jody Hedlund) volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publisher Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Traveling the Santa Fe Trail on a botanical exploration, Linnea Newberry longs to be taken seriously by the other members of the expedition. When she is rescued from an accident by Flynn McQuaid, her grandfather hires him to act as Linnea's bodyguard, and Flynn soon finds himself in the greatest danger of all-falling for a woman he's determined not to love"--
Author
Series
Eagles series volume 9
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Falcon MacCallister comes to the aid of Teddy Roosevelt being attacked by a bandit gang in the Dakota Territory. Roosevelt knows a brave man when he sees one. He calls on Falcon when a judge's daughter is taken by an outlaw trying to pry his brother free. Falcon has only one way to do this job: alone and ready to kill.
4) Mouse island
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mouse enjoys living on his island but feels that something is missing from his life until the day he performs a daring rescue and acquires an unlikely friend.
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
When a madman is on the loose and Miss Peregrine in peril, Peculiar Children Jacob Portman and Emma Bloom stage rescue missions, meet new allies, and face great dangers.
6) Deep water
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Responding to a rescue call in the Indian Ocean, a Captain discovers a mortally injured man and his traumatized wife who describes how their exotic trip to a tiny, remote island forced her to become a murderer.
Author
Series
Riverbend romance volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Katie Loveland's car veered off a winding Appalachian Mountain road, she thought she was done for. That is until Cooper Robinson, local sheriff's deputy, came to her rescue. And though Katie narrowly escaped her brush with death, she still fell. Hard. She wasn't the only one. But soon Cooper learns that the woman he's more attracted to than any he's ever met is his brother's new girlfriend -- and therefore unquestionably off limits. Yet, despite...
8) Mine
Author
Series
Lair of the wolven volume 3
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In the conclusion to the series, Lydia and Daniel brace themselves for his inevitable decline, but must first go on a dangerous rescue mission.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Buzz Bumble, widely admired for his flying ability, resents having to watch the cute new baby when he should be practicing for an important visitor, but only he can rescue Baby when she takes a misstep into a Venus fly trap.
10) Nick of time
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ted Bell's NICK OF TIME is an epic adventure story starring young Nick McIver, who uses a time machine to rescue two young children taken prisoner by pirates. Along the way, with courageous feats of derring-do, not to mention his resourcefulness, our young hero-"the most reliable boy in England"-changes the course of events in two time periods, the Napoleonic Wars and World War II.
Author
Series
Veronica Speedwell novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"London, 1887. As the city prepares to celebrate Queen Victoria's golden jubilee, Veronica Speedwell is marking a milestone of her own. After burying her spinster aunt, the orphaned Veronica is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry--and the occasional romantic dalliance. As familiar with hunting butterflies as she is fending off admirers, Veronica wields her butterfly net and a sharpened hatpin with equal aplomb, and with...
12) The firebrand
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Series
Language
English
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Description
In the midst of the Great Fire of Chicago of 1871 a young woman, Lucy Hathaway, finds and rescues a beautiful baby girl from the fire. Lucy raises the child as her own. Five years later Lucy goes to Randolf Higgins, a prominent banker, for a loan for her new bookstore and discovers that the child she has been raising is his. What will happen next?
13) Die by the gun
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After completing a successful cattle drive as the chuckwagon cook, Dewey "Mac" McKenzie signs up for another one on the Goodnight-Loving Trail, deep in New Mexico Territory. Pursued by a gang of ruthless killers hired by his enemies, with an ornery trail boss and the cattle owner's spoiled son as his crew mate, Mac sets off on a route overrun with kill-crazy rustlers and bloodthirsty Comanche. When the owner's son is kidnapped, the courageous cook...
14) Red burning sky
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Summer 1944: Yugoslavia is locked in a war within a war... Lieutenant Drew Carlton is desperate for redemption. From a Texas airbase he volunteers for a secretive and dangerous assignment, code named Operation Halyard, that will bring together American special operations officers, airmen, and local guerilla fighters in Yugoslavia's green hills. This daring plan--to evacuate hundreds of stranded airmen while avoiding detection by the Germans--faces...
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Bolt, who plays a super-dog on TV, thinks that he actually possesses the powers of his character and enlists the help of Mittens, a street cat, and Rhino, a hamster who is his biggest fan, to cross the country to Hollywood to help him save his owner, Penny.
16) Kindred spirits
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A kidnap attempt outside the school gates in broad daylight convinces Gabriel Ash that his renegade wife is trying to steal their sons from him. Only the intervention of his friend Constable Hazel Best kept them safe. It's a simple if alarming explanation, but is it the truth? Hazel uncovers disturbing information about another crime, the repercussions of which are still threatening innocent lives seventeen years later. Once again Hazel finds herself...
17) Crystal gardens
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Moving to a country cottage where she seeks refuge in a paranormally charged garden, Evangeline Ames is rescued from a would-be assassin by the garden's owner, Lucas Sebastian, who taps Evangeline's detective skills to solve a buried-treasure mystery and stop a common enemy.
Publisher
Sony Wonder
Pub. Date
2003, 1989.
Language
English
Description
Madeline and the dog show: In an old house in Paris, covered with vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines, with their doggie named Genevieve, faithful and true. There was nothing Genevieve could not do! Madeline's rescue: Madeline falls into the river and is rescued by Genevieve (the dog). She becomes adopted by the girls of the school, but the trustees disapprove and Genevieve is banished.
Author
Series
Paul Janson novels volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Paul Janson, an ex-assassin for the United States government, teams up with an accomplished sharpshooter, Jessica Kincaid, to rescue a doctor abducted by African pirates in international waters and realizes there are larger forces at work when their liberation mission goes awry.
20) Great circle
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Series
Language
English
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"After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There --after encountering a pair of pilots passing through town in a beat up Cessna--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fifteen, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy rancher who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement...
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