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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...
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Black Dagger Brotherhood. Main series volume 16
Language
English
Description
Sola Morte, former cat burglar and safecracker, is on the run from a drug lord's family. Her heart, though, is back up north, with the only man who has ever gotten through her defenses: Assail, son of Assail, who never meant to fall in love-- and certainly not with a human woman. They have no future: he's a vampire, and he is not about to stop dealing arms to the Black Dagger Brotherhood. When Assail falls into a coma and lingers on the verge of death,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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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
25) THICK AS THIEVES
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English
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"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...
26) Little thieves
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Little thieves volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given, not even a mother's love--and she's on the hook for one hell of a debt. Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele's dutiful servant up until a year ago. That was when Vanja's otherworldly mothers demanded a terrible price for their care, and Vanja decided to steal her future back... by stealing Gisele's life for herself
27) Liars All
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English
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Detective Brodie Farrell's agency Looking for Something is engaged by the mother of the perpetrator to find a rare star sapphire stolen from the neck of a young woman after a hit-and-run. With Brodie preoccupied with finding a cure for her infant son's inoperable brain cancer, much of the task falls to her best friend Daniel Hood
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Crissa Stone novels volume 4
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English
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"It's been a year since professional thief Crissa Stone last pulled a job, and she's spent that time under the radar, very carefully not drawing attention to herself. That kind of life is safe, but it's boring, and it's lonely, and it's not very lucrative. So when Crissa starts to get antsy--and low on funds--she agrees to act as a thief-for-hire, partnering with a wealthy art collector to steal a truckload of plundered Iraqi artifacts before they're...
29) Nightchaser
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English
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Captain Tess Bailey and her crew of Robin Hood-like thieves are desperate and on the run. Pursued by a vicious military general who wants them dead or alive, Tess has to decide if she can trust Shade Ganavan, a tall, dark and arrogant stranger with ambiguous motivations. What Tess and Shade don't know about each other might get them killed ... unless they can set aside their differences and learn to trust each other-while ignoring their off-the-charts...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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The lives of four characters, including cemetery thief Cade Curtis, a runaway slave, and an illegally captured ocelot, flow together across time through their connections to the Houston bayou and an angel carved from Georgia marble
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Series
Nancy Drew: girl detective volume 29
Nancy Drew girl detective volume 29
Nancy Drew girl detective volume 28
Nancy Drew girl detective volume 29
Nancy Drew girl detective volume 28
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Nancy and her friends attend a Mardi Gras ball at a so-called haunted mansion, George brings along a digital camera to catch some ghosts in action. When freaky things start to happen, the guests begin to wonder if the ghost stories could actually be true. But when Deirdre Shannon's antique tiara is snatched, Nancy is pretty certain the crook isn't a ghost
32) Zero days
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English
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"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...
33) Mad money
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English
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A collection of two books in the author Max Allan Collins' series of Frank Nolan novels -- Spree, the longest and the next-to-last Nolan novel chronologically, and, Mourn the living, the first book featuring Frank Nolan, written around 1967-1968
34) The dark fable
Author
Series
Dark fable volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury YA
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old orphan Evie Wilder catches the attention of the Dark Fable, a legendary group of thieves impressed by her unique ability to turn invisible, which leads her into a newfound family, but as she delves deeper she uncovers dark secrets that may hold the key to her own mysterious past
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 13
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"The Thea Sisters are boarding the famouse Orient Express for a journey from Paris to Istanbul! The train is on a special trip to return a precious wedding dress stolen years ago from an Istanbul museum. But there's a rumor that the mysterious Acrobat Thief will steal the gown from the moving train! The Thea Sisters are determined to foil this sneaky mouse's plans" -- p. [4] of cover
36) Rogue
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Two years ago, Robin Monarch was a top level CIA operative, perhaps the best they had when it came to black bag operations. Then one day, in the middle of an operation, with his team around him in the field, Monarch walked away, leaving his old life and friends behind without a word of explanation. Now this ex-soldier, ex-operative, and orphan with a murky past is a thief, stealing from the super-rich. When a complicated, high profile jewel heist...
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Dangerous damsels volume 1
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English
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"A prim and proper lady thief must save her aunt from a crazed pirate and his dangerously charming henchman in this fantastical historical romance. Cecilia Bassingwaite is the ideal Victorian lady. She's also a thief. Like the other members of the Wisteria Society crime sorority, she flies around England drinking tea, blackmailing friends, and acquiring treasure by interesting means. Sure, she has a dark and traumatic past and an overbearing aunt,...
38) Thieves' gambit
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Series
Thieves' gambit volume 1
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Ross Quest, a master thief, enters the Thieves' Gambit, a competition consisting of dangerous, international heists, in order to save her mother's life
At only seventeen years old, Ross Quest is already a master thief, especially adept at escape plans. Until her plan to run away from her legendary family of thieves takes an unexpected turn, leaving her mother's life hanging in the balance. In a desperate bid, she enters the Thieves'...
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Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A Cinderellla fairytale reimagining"--
My transformation from a poor, orphaned scullery maid into the enchantingly mysterious lady who snagged the heart of the prince did not happen--as the rumors insisted--in a magical metamorphosis of pumpkins and glass slippers. On the first evening of the ball, I didn't meekly help my "evil" stepmother and stepsisters primp and preen or watch forlornly out the window as their carriage rolled off toward the palace....
40) Fast and Loose
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Series
Men of the sisterhood volume 2
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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"With the women of the Sisterhood away on a covert assignment, their significant others could be expected to kick back and enjoy a little drama-free downtime. But that's not the way Jack, Ted, Harry, Charles, and the rest of their comrades roll. An urgent call has come to the headquarters of their organization, BOLO Consultants. Bert Navarro, head of security for Countess Anna de Silva, suspects that Annie's deluxe casino, Babylon, is being stealthily...
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