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61) Heartbreaker
Author
Series
Hell's belles volume 2
Language
English
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New York Times best-selling author Sarah MacLean follows her highly acclaimed Bombshell with Heartbreaker, featuring a fierce, fearless heroine on a mission to steal a duke's secrets...and his heart. A Princess of Thieves. Raised among London's most notorious criminals, a twist of fate landed Adelaide Frampton in the bright ballrooms of Mayfair, where she masquerades as a quiet wallflower--so plain and unassuming that no one realizes she's the Matchbreaker...using...
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English
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"An alliance embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover the secrets of the distant past and save their world in this captivating, deeply visionary adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling thriller-master James Rollins. A gifted student foretells an apocalypse. Her reward is a sentence of death. Fleeing into the unknown she is drawn into a team of outcasts: A broken soldier, who once again takes up the weapons he's forbidden to wield and carves...
63) Thief of Corinth
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English
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After years spent living with her mother and oppressive grandfather in Athens, Ariadne runs away to her father's home in Corinth, only to discover the perilous secret that destroyed his marriage: though a Greek of high birth, Galenos is the infamous thief who has been robbing the city's corrupt of their ill-gotten gains. Desperate to keep him safe, Ariadne risks her good name, her freedom, and the love of the man she adores to become her father's...
Author
Series
Electra McDonnell novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
"The second in the Electra McDonnell series from Edgar-nominated author Ashley Weaver, The Key to Deceit, is a delightful World War II mystery filled with spies, murder, romance, and wit. London, 1940. After years of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor-well, to themselves, anyway-Ellie McDonnell and her family have turned over a new leaf as they help the government's war effort. It's true that the straight-laced Major Ramsey didn't give...
Author
Series
Riley Wolfe novels volume 2
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A masterful thief plots an impossible crime in Book 2 of the Riley Wolfe series"--
Pulling off an impossible crime is the only way he can stay alive. Stealing a Faberge egg. Surviving a double cross. And pulling off the most incredible robbery ever, for the world's most demanding--and dangerous collector. This will be the challenge of thief extraordinaire Riley Wolfe's life. -- adapted from dust jacket
In St. Petersburg, Riley steals a Fabergé...
66) To Catch An Earl
Author
Series
Bow Street bachelors volume 2
Language
English
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Description
"Alex Harland, Earl of Melton and dedicated rake, never pictured himself as an agent of inquiry. But the thrill of investigation is a challenge he now embraces. When he's asked to pursue the Nightjar, a notorious thief who is reclaiming France's crown jewels, the case throws him into the path of the beautiful and equally elusive Emmy Danvers, reminding him of the only puzzle he's never solved: the identity of the mysterious woman who once stole a...
67) Blood pact
Author
Series
Kirk McGarvey adventures volume 17
Publisher
Forge Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A large portion of the fabulous treasure originally stolen by conquistadors of the eighteenth century was buried in the desert of southern New Mexico by Spanish monks. Jacob Ambli, a Catholic priest, was sent as a spy on a Spanish military mission to find seven caches left for the Church. He kept a diary showing the locations, but was murdered trying to get back to Rome, and the journal was lost. Now, a century and a half later, the diary has come...
68) Tough tender
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes you bury the past. Sometimes it buries you. Every professional thief knows you never return to the scene of a crime. But what if you have no choice? In this intense heist story - appear in bookstores for the first time in three decades - MWA Grandmaster Max Allan Collins brings veteran theif Nolan and his young partner in crime Jon back to rob the same bank they targeted in their debut novel, Two For The Money, at the behest of an embezzling...
Author
Series
Queer principles of Kit Webb volume 2
Language
English
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Description
"Cat Sebastian returns to Georgian London with a stunning tale of a reluctant criminal and the thief who cannot help but love her. Marian Hayes, the Duchess of Clare, just shot her husband. Of course, the evil, murderous man deserved what was coming to him, but now she must flee to the countryside. Unfortunately, the only person she can ask for help is the charismatic criminal who is blackmailing her--and who she may have left tied up a few hours...
Author
Series
Riley Wolfe novels volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From the author of the wildly successful Dexter series, comes a new mesmerizing bad guy we can root for: Riley Wolfe is a master thief, expert at disguise and violent when he needs to be. It's no accident, though, that Riley targets only the .1% and is willing to kill when necessary: He despises the degenerate and immoral possessors of the objects that he steals. In this series launch, Riley targets an extraordinary set of crown jewels, a heist that...
71) The Fenmere Job
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Series
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English
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"An uneasy calm has filled the neighborhood of North Seleth, as the survivors of the Holver Alley fire return to normal, honest lives. But Asti and Verci Rynax and the rest of the Holver Alley Crew know the peace won't last. Josie Holt, once an ally to the Rynaxes, is now working her own agenda with the mage circle that has moved into the neighborhood. Asti learns that Josie plans to smuggle the drug efhân through North Seleth, which can only mean...
Author
Series
Electra McDonnell novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The third in the Electra McDonnell series from Edgar-nominated author Ashley Weaver, Playing It Safe is a delightful World War II mystery filled with spies, murder, romance, and wit ..."--
As the Blitz continues to ravage London, Ellie McDonnell--formerly a safecracking thief, but currently determined to stay on the straight and narrow to help her country--is approached by British Intelligence officer Major Ramsey with a new assignment. She is to...
73) Homeport
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Publisher
Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
An art expert and a thief get caught in a dangerous game in this novel of daring deception and desire from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts. After an assault at her family home in Maine, Dr. Miranda Jones is determined to put the experience behind her. Distraction comes when she is summoned to Italy--to verify the authenticity of a Renaissance bronze of a Medici courtesan known as The Dark Lady. But instead of cementing Miranda's...
Author
Series
Queer principles of Kit Webb volume 1
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Kit Webb has left his stand-and-deliver days behind him. But dreary days at his coffee shop have begun to make him pine for the heady rush of thievery. When a handsome yet arrogant aristocrat storms into his shop, Kit quickly realizes he may be unable to deny whatever this highborn man desires. In order to save himself and a beloved friend, Percy, Lord Holland must go against every gentlemanly behavior he holds dear to gain what he needs most: a book...
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Series
(Tim E.).Dizzy Heights mystery volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Missing diamonds. Mysterious deaths. And all that jazz. London, 1925. With their band the Dizzy Heights, Jazz Musicians Ivor 'Skins' Maloney and Bartholomew 'Barty' Dunn are used to improvising as they play the Charleston for flappers and toffs, but things are about to take a surprising turn. Superintendent Sunderland has had word that a deserter who stole a fortune in diamonds as he fled the war is a member of the Aristippus private members' club...
Author
Series
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"An idle conversation on the merits of the glorious game with an old Etonian chum is just the excuse Blotto needs to put himself forward for a cricket tour to foreign climes... and so begins the next adventure for our intrepid duo, where the action takes them to India where, as everyone knows, the finest cricket players hail from - as well as the world's most skilled jewel thieves...The Dowager Duchess has no problems in letting her two children go...
77) Queens: Part 1
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Series
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"It's 1999, and Sincere has finished his tour in the United States Army. He's come back home just in time to find his little brother, Maurice, taking his place in the streets. Maurice is hanging out with Drip-Drip and Voltron. The trio commits a home invasion on a stash house belonging to Zulu and executes the occupants inside. Unbeknownst to them, they've left behind a survivor who's seen one of their faces. Sincere is trying to put the pieces of...
78) The Big Kahuna
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Series
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English
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A sinister adversary has Nick Fox and Kate O'Hare in his crosshairs, and will stop at nothing to eliminate them. They'll need to assemble the team to defeat their enemy. Unfortunately, their number one player, Kate's father, is on the run and on the most wanted list, after being betrayed by an old friend. The trio is going to have to watch their backs at every turn to rid the world of their two greatest foes, and clear their names
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Rapunzel, who has lived in a tower her whole life, goes to a village with a thief named Flynn and her chameleon Pascal. When she receives art lessons, she paints Flynn first which causes Pascal to run away
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