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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
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Describes how the author's three-month service as a volunteer at the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal became a commitment for advocacy and reform when he discovered that many of his young charges were victims rescued from human traffickers.
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Quinn Colson novels volume 2
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Newly-elected Tibbehah County sheriff Quinn Colson investigates an old friend's gun sales when stolen military rifles are found in the possession of a Mexican drug gang, a case that is complicated by his discovery of a black market baby adoption ring.
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[2020]
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"Based on a true story--Nine-year-old Jai watches too many reality police shows, thinks he's smarter than his friend Pari (even though she gets the best grades), and considers himself to be a better boss than Faiz (even though Faiz is the one with a job). When a classmate goes missing, Jai decides to use the crime-solving skills he has picked up from TV to find him. He asks Pari and Faiz to be his assistants and together they draw up lists of people...
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When a tsunami rages through their coastal town in India, 17-year-old Ahalya Ghai and her 15-year-old sister Sita are left orphaned and homeless. As they struggle to reach the safe haven of the convent where they attend school, they are abducted by human traffickers and thrust into a hidden world of sexual violence and illicit commerce, where the most valuable prize is the innocence of a child. Halfway across the world, in Washington, D.C., attorney...
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"Adoption has long been enmeshed in the politics of abortion. But as award-winning journalist Kathryn Joyce makes clear in The Child Catchers, adoption has lately become entangled in the conservative Christian agenda. To tens of millions of evangelicals, adoption has become a new front in the culture wars: a test of "pro-life" bonafides, a way to reinvent compassionate conservatism on the global stage, and a means to fulfill the "Great Commission"...
7) Invading the Darkness: Inside the Historic Fight Against Child Sex Trafficking in the United States
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An eye-opening inside look into the historic movement to stop the injustice of sexually trafficked children in America, Invading the Darkness highlights who these modern-day abolitionists are and how their strategic work shaped the fight to stop the injustice of child sex trafficking in our nation. Meet key leaders from the U.S. Department of Justice, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons,...
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Addresses several types of cyber crimes, ranging from child pornography and solicitation to cyberbullying, cyberstalking, and sexting, giving parents the necessary information they need to protect their children in cyberspace. This book builds on the historical efforts to reduce child abuse in the United States and looks at the limitations of these efforts when attempting to address child abuse in cyberspace. By identifying these different types of...
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A Texas Ranger is out to stop a notorious child trafficking ring-and win back the heart of a beautiful sheriff-in this uplifting suspense novel.
Minutes after his baby nephew is kidnapped, Texas Ranger Dallas Sanders traces the crime to a child trafficking ring hiding in plain sight. As he and local sheriff Rachel Young race to expose the sinister conspiracy, they're determined to keep their relationship professional. But when Rachel's infant daughter...
11) Tell no lies
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Quinn & Costa volume 2
Mobile Response Team volume 2
Thorndike Press large print mystery
Quinn and Costa thriller volume 2
Mobile Response Team volume 2
Thorndike Press large print mystery
Quinn and Costa thriller volume 2
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"The unsolved murder of a young activist leads to the discovery of much darker crimes in New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan's latest compelling thriller to feature the young, edgy detective Kara Quinn and the loner FBI agent Matt Costa. This time they work to uncover possible ties to a high-stakes cartel in the Southwest desert. Something mysterious is killing the wildlife in the mountains just south of Tucson. When a college intern...
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A gripping psychological thriller from New York Times Bestselling Author Kristen MiddletonPsychic Carissa Jones is pulled into another heart-pounding case, this one involving an eight-year-old girl who's been abducted by the Russian mafia. It's a race against time as Carissa tries to find the kidnapped girl before she's lost in the seedy world of human trafficking. Adult language and situations (fyi- there will not be any sexually explicit scenes)...
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2011
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Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is a compulsive do-gooder who can't say no when someone asks for help--even when she knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to a public locker in the Copenhagen train station, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous project yet. Inside the locker is a suitcase, and inside the suitcase is a three-year-old boy: naked and drugged, but alive. Is the boy a victim of child...
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"From the 1920s through 1950, Georgia Tann ran a black-market baby business at the Tennessee Children's Home Society in Memphis. She offered up more than 5,000 orphans tailored to the wish lists of eager parents--hiding the fact that many weren't orphans at all, but stolen children of poor families, desperate single mothers, and women told in maternity wards that their babies died. The publication of Lisa Wingate's novel Before We Were Yours brought...
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A small-town cop must protect
a beautiful rogue undercover detective.
Trespassing, fleeing a peace officer...hell, she'd aimed a gun at his chest! Officer James Tedder can't help but admire her fight. And undercover detective Charlotte Helms will never quit. She's on a personal mission: rescue her best friend's daughter...and bust the child-trafficking ring that lured her away. When they're forced to become partners, James must trust Charlotte to...
17) The Dauntless
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Peril on Earth and in outer space
The global war is over, but a new threat to human civilization has emerged.
What the threat is exactly no one knows, yet the Britannic Alliance is doing all it can to protect Earth. A new starship capable of interstellar travel, the Dauntless, is under construction.
Meanwhile, Taylan Ellis's search for her children continues. She must get to Australia to help in the hunt for the Crusader child traffickers, but...
18) Cradle Swapping
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A young couple discovers their baby was swapped for another at the hospital and during a search to find their child unearth a treacherous underworld of child trafficking.
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A Memoir of Extreme Sexual Abuse and Child Trafficking:Norma Okun offers a harrowing, raw memoir of extreme childhood sexual abuse and child trafficking at the hands of cultists who destroyed her childhood-and continued to follow and destroy her adult life, including ensuring her parental rights were terminated and her husband's career was ruined.
Amazingly, Norma perseveres in living to tell her truth, a quality she attributes to the wonder of meeting...
20) Innocent
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When a child trafficking ring takes root in the shadows of the Big City, a detective mired in tragedy, a hitman hiding from his past, and a femme-fatale vigilante cross paths and trade crosshairs. But to take down the crime syndicate behind the operation, they'll have to put aside their differences and find a way to work together.