Chris Jordan

When her son Tommy is kidnapped, widow Kate Bickfrod is forced to play a deadly game with a twisted abductor who not only wants money, but wants her to follow something he calls The Method.

Taken

Turn your dinner table into a showpiece with exquisitely folded napkins just like the ones seen in the finest restaurants. With only a few elementary techniques, you'll make accordion pleats, rolls, knots, as well as fanciful animals and objects that add sophistication or whimsy to any meal. Try Double Diamonds, Sea Shells, Lotus Blossoms, a Triangle Flip, Arrowhead, and a Quilt Triangle. Or come up with your own distinctive design! Creative ideas for all kinds of table settings, instructions for making your own napkins and napkin rings and tips for laundering and ironing napkins enhance the ease and joy of entertaining. The author lives in Akron, OH. 96 pages (all in color), 7 x 10.

Simply Elegant Napkin Folding

Here are the facts For the parents whose children have been taken, for the broken lives we piece back together one relentless investigation at a time, our town house is a sanctuary. My name is Alice Crane. I'm just one of a talented team working for Naomi Nantz, the brilliant and very private detective. Today that sanctuary was violated. The famous kid-finder Randall Shane was taken away by unknown assailants, possibly government agents. Shane's client is dead, and a boy known as "the keyboard kid" is missing. What is the boy's connection to a top secret physics lab? Unknown—for now. But under Naomi's lead, we will infiltrate every illicit boardroom and bedroom and war room. We'll find that little boy or die trying. The only thing guaranteed in this life is that Naomi Nantz won't give up. Not now, not ever.

Measure of Darkness

Een doodgewone zaterdag in juni. De zon schijnt, en op het sportveld praten ouders en kinderen nog even na over de wedstrijd. Tommy Bickford vraagt aan Kate, zijn moeder, of hij een ijsje mag gaan halen. Dat mag, maar dan komt hij niet meer terug. Hopend dat het allemaal een misverstand is, haast ze zich naar huis. Maar in plaats van Tommy treft ze daar zijn ontvoerder aan. In ruil voor haar zoon eist hij geld. Hij heeft de ontvoering gepland als een militaire operatie, en als ze hem niet strikt gehoorzaamt, zullen de gevolgen gruwelijk zijn. Om Tommy terug te krijgen is Kate bereid alles te doen wat de kidnapper van haar vraagt. Tot ze het ware motief achter zijn daad ontdekt. Ze realiseert zich dat hij niet zal stoppen voordat hij heeft wat hij wérkelijk wil: het leven van haar kind.

Randall Shane

Ontvoerd

Rodman Philbrick

Author Rodman Philbrick writing as Chris Jordan "...a single mother's terrifying fight...will send chills up your spine." New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry I've seen pictures of guys like this, snipers or SWAT guys or whatever. Never expected to see one of them in my own house, a living nightmare perched on my favorite chair. No parent believes it can happen to them—their child taken from a suburban schoolyard in the gentle hours of dusk. But as widowed mother Kate Bickford discovers, everything can change in the blink of an eye. One minute her lanky, amazing, maddening Tommy is begging for ice cream. Then in a terrible instant, he's gone. Opening the door to her Connecticut home, hoping to find her son, Kate comes face-to-face with her son's abductor. He wants money. All she has. And if she doesn't follow something he calls The Method, the consequences will be gruesome. Her comfortable life collapses as precious seconds tick by, and Kate is horrified to uncover the terrible, world-shattering secret she and her son share with a killer who will stop at nothing.... “Jordan's full-throttle style makes this an emotionally rewarding thriller that moves like lightning."—Publishers Weekly

When the famous kid-finder Randall Shane is taken by unknown assailants and a boy known as “the keyboard kid” goes missing, private investigators Alice Crane and Naomi Nantz must discover the boy's connection to a top secret physics lab to bring him home – or die trying. Original.

Bill McKibben

Susan Zakin

Presents a collection of photographs and essays that capture the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.

Portraits of Loss from an Unnatural Disaster

In Katrina's Wake

In a way that was almost unprecedented in both American history and the history of American cinema, the 1980s were a time in which a United States president - a former B-movie actor and Cold War industry activist - served as a catalyst for the coalescence of trends in Hollywood's political structure, mode of production, and the content of its films.

Success and Ethics

Movies and the Reagan Presidency

Author Rodman Philbrick writing as Chris Jordan "Mom, I need your help. Please call—" That's it. The call cuts off in midsentence. No static. Nothing. Just an overwhelming silence. Long Island single mom Jane Hartley is frantic when her sixteen-year-old daughter, Kelly, a survivor of childhood leukemia, disappears from her bedroom one night. To Jane's frustration, the police believe that Kelly ran off willingly with her boyfriend, Seth. Unaware that her daughter even had a boyfriend, Jane soon discovers that Seth is no boy. He is an adult—a man who, after meeting Kelly on MySpace.com, took the teenager on one thrill-seeking ride after another. From motorcycles to skydiving, Jane's little girl has been hiding some dangerous secrets. Like mother, like daughter. Adamant that Kelly is not a runaway but, rather, is being held against her will, Jane hires ex-FBI agent Randall Shane to follow the trail of her missing child. But every step brings them closer to a cold-blooded predator lurking in the shadows . . . coiled around Jane's shameful secret . . . waiting to strike. A thrilling suspense novel, Trapped is every mother's nightmare and one monster's dream come true.

Chris Jordan

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