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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly ten years-in museums and cathedrals all over Europe-Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion. In The Art Thief,...
Author
Series
Camino Island novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer's block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious...
3) Bloodshot
Author
Series
Cheshire red reports volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When blind vampire Ian Stott hires thief Raylene Pendle to steal medical documents that may help restore his sight, Raylene learns about Bloodshot, a government-sanctioned project that involved performing cruel experiments on vampires. With the proverbial men in black closing in on her, Raylene follows the Bloodshot document trail from Seattle to Atlanta, where she teams up with a deadly drag queen whose sister was one of the project's victims.
Series
Publisher
www.EASTWESTDVD.com
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Language
English
Description
Number seventeen: A comedy-thriller about an unsuspecting, innocent hobo who accidentally stumbles across the hideout of a gang of jewel thieves.
Young and innocent: When a woman's body is discovered on the beach by one of her former lovers, he races off to call the police. Two witnesses see him run and think he is the escaping killer. After being arrested, he manages to escape in the confusion at the courthouse. With the assistance of the constable's...
5) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
"Oliver Twist is a poor orphan boy cruelly treated in the public workhouse. Pennyless and hungry, he runs away to London, only to fall into the clutches of a gang of thieves and pickpockets led by the master criminal, Fagin. Befriended by a man robbed by the gang, Oliver ultimately learns his true identity and gains a home, a fortune and a family!"--Book back cover.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Twenty years ago in the dead of night, four seemingly random individuals pulled the ultimate heist and almost walked away with half a million dollars. But by daybreak, their plan had been shot to hell. One of them was in the hospital. One was in jail. One was dead. And one got away with it. Arden Maxwell, the daughter of the man who disappeared all those years ago -- presumably with the money, after murdering his accomplice -- has never reconciled...
7) Nightwork
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Harry Booth started stealing at nine to keep a roof over his ailing mother's head, slipping into luxurious, empty homes at night to find items he could trade for precious cash. When his mother finally succumbed to cancer, he left Chicago--but kept up his nightwork. Wandering from the Outer Banks to Savannah to New Orleans, he dons new identities and stays careful, observant, distant. He can't afford to attract attention--or get attached. Still, he...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sid and Ronnie Abel are a first-rate husband-and-wife detective team, both retirees of the LAPD. Ed and Nicole Hoyt are married assassins-for-hire living in the San Fernando Valley. Except for deadly aim with a handgun, the two couples have little in common--until they are both hired to do damage control on the same murder case. As the book races toward a high-octane climax, the Abels must fend for their own lives as they circle ever closer to the...
Author
Series
Pandava volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Accused of stealing the god of love's bow and arrow, Aru has ten days to find the real thief or risk being kicked out of the Otherworld.
Author
Series
Tracy Whitney novels volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Forced to confront her greatest nightmare in the face of a tragedy, Tracy Whitney returns to the world of her past to confront a terror threat from a group of global hackers intent on the collapse of capitalism.
11) The Pink Panther
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
French Inspector Jacques Clouseau is called in to solve the mysterious death of a soccer coach and find the missing Pink Panther diamond.
12) Gamer bandit
Author
Series
Publisher
12-Story Library
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a lunch thief leads Ava to a boring online video game, she is determined to solve the mystery. Why would the thief create such a horrible game?
Author
Series
Electra McDonnell novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Electra McDonnell has always known that the way she and her family earn their living is slightly outside of the law. Breaking into the homes of the rich and picking the locks on their safes may not be condoned by British law enforcement, but World War II is in full swing, and Uncle Mick's more honorable business as a locksmith can't pay the bills any more. So when he receives a tip about a safe full of jewels in the empty house of a wealthy family,...
14) Algiers
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Boyer plays a celebrated thief who takes refuge in the Casbah. Lamarr plays the woman he loves and can't live without.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their unexpected common traits.
Viewing an apartment normally doesn't turn into a life-or-death situation, but this particular open house becomes just that: a failed bank robber bursts in and takes everyone in the apartment hostage....
Author
Series
Publisher
Amazon Crossing Kids
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After a merciless winter, spring has sprung in 1880 Stockholm, and the city awaits the arrival of the SS Vega, the first ship to have sailed the Northeast Passage. Life is busy at the orphanage, but twelve-year-old Mika quickly notices that the older orphans are up to something--and it doesn't look good. When Constable Hoff approaches her with information about thefts around the city, Mika becomes even more concerned about what the other kids are...
19) The magic line
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House Pub
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Detective Sarah Burke is called to a mass shooting in a quiet residential street that looks like a home invasion gone wrong, but when one of the "dead" victims suddenly escapes, Sarah is charged with finding out what went down and why.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A delicious twist on a Gothic classic, Rachel Hawkins's The Wife Upstairs pairs Southern charm with atmospheric domestic suspense, perfect for fans of B.A. Paris and Megan Miranda. Meet Jane. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates--a gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. The kind of place where no one will notice if Jane lifts the discarded tchotchkes and jewelry off...
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