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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world’s most prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser. • “The Art Thief, like its title character, has confidence, élan, and a great sense of timing."—The New Yorker
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Lit Hub
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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Lit Hub
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2) Zero days
Author
Language
English
Description
"Hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, Jack and her husband, Gabe, are the best penetration specialists in the business. But after a routine assignment goes horribly wrong, Jack arrives home to find her husband dead. To add to her horror, the police are closing in on their suspect--her. Suddenly on the run and quickly running out of options, Jack must decide who she can trust as she circles closer to the real killer...
Author
Series
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...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"On the morning after the Venice Preservation Society's annual black-tie gala, art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon enters his favorite coffee bar on the island of Murano to find General Cesare Ferrari, the commander of the Art Squad, eagerly awaiting his arrival. The Carabinieri have made a startling discovery in the Amalfi villa of a murdered South African shipping tycoon--a secret vault containing an empty frame and stretcher matching the...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Listen. All the world forgets me. First my face, then my voice, then the consequences of my deeds. So listen. Remember me. My name is Hope Ardern, and you won't know who I am. We've met before - a thousand times. But I am the girl the world forgets. It started when I was sixteen years old. A slow declining, an isolation, one piece at a time. A father forgetting to drive me to school. A mother setting the table for three, not four. A teacher who forgets...
Publisher
Columbia
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Frank is an aging ex-jewel thief, and his two grown children are worried that he can no longer care for himself. In deciding what to do with Frank, the most likely option appears to be putting him in a nursing home. But Frank's son comes up with another option: buy Frank a walking, talking robot programmed to look after him and improve his physical and mental health. Frank resists the robot at first, but he warms to it after realizing that it could...
9) Nightwork
Author
Language
English
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...
12) Thick as thieves
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Thieves fall out after a food stamps robbery. The protagonist is Mackin, a professional thief who agrees to steal the stamps from a printer in return for a cut. As he is making his getaway he is stopped by two policemen and instinctively realizes they have been hired by his employer to rub him out. He kills the policemen and sets about giving his employer, a Chicago mobster, a taste of his own medicine. A first novel.
13) Lovey and Dovey
Author
Publisher
Lemniscaat
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Lovey and Dovey have stolen each other's hearts. And a pair of blue socks from the shop on the corner. That's why they're in prison. But iron bars won't keep Dovey from sneaking out of their dungeon every night to bring back presents for his Lovey"--Publisher.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Sidney Sheldon's heroine--Tracy Whitney of If Tomorrow Comes and Sidney Sheldon's Chasing Tomorrow--find herself caught in a nefarious and far-reaching scheme involving international terrorism and corruption. Once upon a time, Tracy Whitney was one of the best thieves in the business. Then she settled down, had a baby, and planned to spend the rest of her days quietly, living anonymously, devoted to her son. But tragedy forces her to face her greatest...
16) Sweet revenge
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
While Princess Adrianne plots revenge on her abusive father, Philip Chamberlain comes into her life--but for romance or murder?
17) Sleepwalker
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
While housesitting for her Uncle Nicco, policewoman Micayla Lange catches Jason Davis in the act of stealing money from her uncle's locked safe. But when they both find incriminating photos that that implicate Nicco n the murder of a city councilman, Mick and Jason hurtle into a race for their lives.
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Growing up during the Depression in the segregated coal-mining town of Slab Fork, West Virginia, the bright and willful Doris Payne dreamed big. Fascinated by the fine clothes, jewels, and lifestyles in magazines such as Town & Country and Harper's Bazaar, she imagined a world beyond herself, one in which she did not carry the weight of limitations that others imposed on her and where her beloved mother was free from her father's abuse. After the...
19) Void moon
Author
Language
English
Description
A novel on a casino robbery in Las Vegas carried out by a woman. She is Cassie Black, a professional thief who thought she was stealing a quarter million dollars. Instead, the loot turns out to be two million and the mob sends a killer after her.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Snarky seventeen-year-old Josslyn Drake gets infected by a dangerous piece of forbidden magic and teams up with wanted criminal Jericho Nox to remove the spell corrupting her soul.
Josslyn Drake knows only three things about magic: it is rare, illegal, and always deadly. Then she is caught up in a robbery gone wrong at the Queen's Gala and infected by a dangerous piece of magic-- one that allows her to step into the memories of an infamously evil...
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