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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
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 with...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hired by a museum to provide protection during a ransom exchange for a stolen painting, Spenser is personally outraged when the ransom fails and the painting is not recovered, a case that makes him suspect the innocence of the art scholar who retained him.
3) Dirty thirty
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Trenton, New Jersey's most underappreciated bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum, while taking care of her boyfriend's giant orange dog, tracks the former security guard of a local jeweler who supposedly stole a fortune of diamonds, and must keep herself clean when everyone else is playing dirty.
4) The thief
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
219 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone.
6) Ghostman
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
321 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A casino robbery gone wrong compels its orchestrator to call in a favor from a master criminal known only as "Jack," who must test the limits of his considerable skills in order to protect his anonymity from a closely pursuing FBI.
7) Nightwork
Author
Language
English
Description
When Harry Booth started stealing at nine, it was to keep a roof over his ailing mother's head and pay her medical bills. At night, in darkness, he'd slip into rich people's empty homes, opening drawers and safes filled with luxuries he could trade for precious cash. When his mother finally succumbed to cancer after a long, valiant battle, he left Chicago - but kept up his nightwork. From leaving a party at a Savannah mansion with a diamond bracelet...
Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
387 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eugenides, still known as a Thief of Eddis, faces palace intrigue and assassins as he strives to prove himself both to the people of Attolia and to his new bride, their queen.
Author
Series
The Dopple Ganger chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
293 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an anonymous note threatens someone they love, twins Sadie and Saskia Dopple are thrust into a series of crimes that look suspiciously like something from the pages of a mystery novel.
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2000, c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., col maps ; 23 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
While travelling with her mother cross-country by train in 1896, a young girl unexpectedly shares Thanksgiving dinner with the notorious outlaw, Butch Cassidy.
11) This is Ant-Man
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discover how an ordinary man named Scott Lang becomes the smallest hero with the biggest heart.
12) Escape from fear
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
147 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
While at St. John National Park in the Virgin Islands for a seminar on coral reefs, the Landons help a wealthy thirteen-year-old to find his birth mother, who he believes is in danger.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
177 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1935, while preparing to write a newspaper story about a theater production of Macbeth in her hometown of Cincinnati, twelve-year-old Kit discovers that a thief is stealing from the box office.
Author
Series
The Dopple Ganger chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Saltriver
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
287, [4] p. : chiefly ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Erik Morrissey Ganger and his friend, Sadie Dopple, meet a wealthy recluse while trying to escape tunnels under Isambard Dunstan's School for Wayward children in order to pursue a former foe who has kidnapped Sadie's twin sister.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
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.
16) Dreadful acts
Author
Series
Eddie Dickens trilogy volume 2
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Eddie Dickens survives encounters with an escape artist in a runaway hearse's coffin, a hot air balloon bearing the escape artist's lovely assistant, a gas explosion, and a jewel thief on the run.
19) Forty thieves
Author
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
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world's most valuable missing painting but soon finds himself in a desperate race to prevent an unthinkable conflict between Russia and the West"--