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In recent years, Americans have woken up to the reality that human trafficking is not just something that happens in other countries. But what most still do not understand is that neither is it something that just happens to "other people" such as runaways or the disenfranchised. The human trafficker is no respecter of faith, education, or socioeconomic status, and even kids who are raised in solid families in middle and upper class suburbs can fall...
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When Richard Chapman hosts his brother's bachelor party, his wife Kristin takes their young daughter to Manhattan for the evening. What she does not expect is bacchanalian drunkenness, her husband sharing a dangerously intimate moment in the guest room, and two women stabbing and killing their Russian bodyguards before driving off into the night. As their life rapidly spirals into nightmare, their home now a crime scene, Richard's investment banking...
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It's been eight years since Liam Goetz has seen his ex-fiancé. Vanessa Epperson had everything: beauty, brains...and a family fortune. He chose her, while she chose a life of luxury and never imagined their paths would cross again. An unexpected phone call from Vanessa-desperate for his help in a human trafficking case-ressurects old longings. As they work together to save hostages and catch a predator, Liam begins to learn some shocking truths-about...
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Badge of honor volume 11
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2013
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344 pages ; 24 cm.
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Investigating rumors about a new partnership between the Mexican drug cartels and the Russian mob, Philadelphia homicide detective Matt Payne struggles to dismantle an increasingly violent operation involving Russian sex slaves and kidnapped foster teens.
6) Mirror image
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When someone attempts to kidnap SWAT cop Jenna Reed, what saves her is her training and the impeccable timing of her boss, Lieutenant Griff Vaughn. Then they find the real target hiding in the bushes, a runaway teen who is Jenna's look-alike--and the sister she never knew she had. Teaming up to unravel her sister's past and find the human-trafficking thugs who intend to kill her, Jenna and Griff have no choice but to go on the run--outside the law....
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Hackberry Holland novels volume 3
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Sheriff Hackberry Holland patrols a small Southwest Texas border town with a deep and abiding respect for the citizens in his care. Still mourning the loss of his cherished wife and locked in a perilous almost-romance with his deputy, Pam Tibbs, a woman many decades his junior, Hackberry feeds off the deeds of evil men to keep his own demons at bay. When alcoholic ex-boxer Danny Boy Lorca witnesses a man tortured to death in the desert and reports...
9) Brave water
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[2022].
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369 pages : map ; 21 cm.
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"Girls are disappearing on their way to the spring... Will fear stop Talitha, the sole water gatherer for her hut, from searching for her friend--even if it means scaling the walls of the mine owners' compound, where locals are shot on sight? And will terror block Moses' path--or can this teenage hunter battle an underground human trafficking ring with ties to the cities on the other side of Great Mountain? Join Talitha and Moses on their journey,...
10) Livia Lone
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[2016]
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358 pages ; 22 cm
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Seattle PD sex-crimes detective and former human-trafficking victim Livia Lone must relive the horrors of the past when she gets a fresh lead as to the whereabouts of her little sister, Nason.
11) Ace of hearts
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[2022]
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1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Lenny Matthews is a detective in a small town in Arizona. When he tries to stop a human trafficking ring, he is murdered in cold blood, leaving his two sons orphaned. Ten years later, his sons, Ace and Jimmy, return to their hometown to follow in their father's footsteps as private investigators. When they find a box of their father's things, their hope is renewed that they will finally be able to catch their father's murderer.
12) Southern comfort
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Now sober, Atlanta homicide detective Patrick "Tick" Kelly, still haunted by the murder of his wife and children, gets an unexpected second chance at happiness when he works with former DEA agent Kate Rush to expose a local human trafficking ring.
13) Box 21
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p2011
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9 sound discs (10 hr., 49 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Three years ago, Lydia and Alena were two hopeful girls from Lithuania. Now they are sex slaves, lured to Sweden with the promise of better jobs and then trapped in a Stockholm brothel. Suddenly they are given an unexpected chance at freedom and with it the opportunity to take revenge on their enslavers and reclaim the lives and dignity they once had. What will happen now that the tables are turned and the victims fight back?
14) Evening star
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p2011
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10 sound discs (732 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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When Alex Saxton wins virgin Giana Van Cleve in the famous Roman Flower Auction, he never expects to lose his heart.
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For the past year Chloe St. John has been working as a K-9 cop with her German shepherd partner, Hank. Now a serious case of human trafficking with connections to her missing cousin just landed in her lap. When US Marshall Blake MacCallum's daughter goes missing, he's ordered to kill the judge he's protecting and tell no one about his daughter's disappearance or she will die. When their cases cross, will they be able to trust each other? -- adapted...
16) Threads
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2016.
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IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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240 pages ; 22 cm
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An American girl finds a note written by a Chinese girl forced to work in a factory in Beijing.
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"When domestic violence counselor Dulcie Parker uncovers evidence of a human trafficking ring in the Four Corners area, she's determined to stop it or die trying. With corruption all around her and killers on her trail, Deputy Sheriff Austin Turner's the one person she can trust. But can they work together to expose the crime ring before she becomes the next victim?"--Publisher's description.
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Jessie Archer is a member of the Athena Protocol, an elite organization of female spies who enact vigilante justice around the world. Athena operatives are never supposed to shoot to kill--so when Jessie can't stop herself from pulling the trigger, she gets kicked out of the organization, right before a huge mission to take down a human trafficker in Belgrade. Jessie needs to right her wrong and prove herself, so she starts her own investigation into...
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After her capture by human traffickers, international reporter Arden Wilkes should have felt safe back in her small hometown. Blue Falls, Texas feels comfortingly familiar--and painfully foreign. Disoriented, Arden struggles to regain her sense of self and deal with the aftermath ... only to find a sense of safety in the last place she ever expected. Rancher Neil Hartley knows too well the kind of scars that trauma can bring. However, what started...
20) Aspen crossroads
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Whisper Canyon romance volume 1
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2021.
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338 pages ; 18 cm.
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"Few in the community of Whisper Canyon have actually met Jace Daring, a handsome recluse who lives at Aspen Crossroads, the farm at the edge of town. But that doesn't stop the rumors about the multiple women who live with him. He must protect the truth--that his farm-to-table restaurant will provide new livelihoods for women rescued from human trafficking--or he risks the safety and futures of those relying on him. But he can't do it alone. Haven...
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