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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.
4) 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...
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2008, 1990, 1992.
Language
English
Description
Home alone: Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister's has become the man of the house, overnight! Accidentally left behind when his family rushes off on a Christmas vacation, Kevin gets busy decorating the house for the holidays. But he's not decking the halls with tinsel and holly. Two bumbling burglars are trying to break in, and Kevin's rigging a bewildering battery of booby traps to welcome them!
Home alone 2: Kevin McCallister is back! But this time...
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
Publisher
Beaver's Pond Press
Pub. Date
2009, 2002.
Language
English
Description
Young Nancy loves farm animals, especially cows, and when she explains to her kitty, Dusty, what she would do if she were a dairy farmer, her detailed imagination takes them both through an adventure in which Nancy is the hero.
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.
12) The partner
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young partner in a Biloxi law firm who staged his own death and stole a fortune from the firm's offshore account is found living in Brazil.
13) 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.
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,...
Author
Series
(Barry).Mystery searchers book volume Vol. 4
Publisher
Bakken Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In Arizona's rugged high-country, four teens fight crime and solve mysteries.
16) Dog gone
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A notorious diamond thief and two accomplices stop along the highway, where Owen sees them mistreating their dog. The dog runs into the forest where Owen finds him. The thugs have put a $5 million stolen jewel on the dog and are desperate to get it back.
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....
18) Loot
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Alfie McQuinn, the notorious jewel thief, is killed on a job, his last words to his son, March, are to "find jewels" and this instruction leads the boy to Jules, the twin sister he never knew he had--and the perfect partner to carry on the family business.
19) The bank job
Publisher
Pegassus Films
Pub. Date
2008, 2007.
Language
English
Description
On a blistering hot day, Kenny gets out of the joint and it doesn't take too long for him to partner up with his old pal Brandon to successfully rob a bank. As Brandon is left wounded in the heist, they opt to steal a cherry red Mustang with a big surprise in the trunk. All they wanted was a fast getaway to Brazil, but with success yields a lot of headaches-- and a lot of fun.
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