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Author
Series
Cam Jansen adventure volume 16
Pub. Date
2011, 1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Cam uses her photographic memory to catch a thief disguised as a ghost.
523) Black Light Express
Author
Series
Railhead volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Zen Starling, a small-time thief, and Nova, an android girl come from the Network Empire, whose stations are scattered across the galaxy and linked by the K-gates and the sentient trains travel at light speed between them--but the gate through which they just passed was a new one, and they have no way of knowing into what danger it might have led them.
525) The moon-spinners
Formats
Description
Set against the sun-bleached beauty of the isle of Crete, the story pits a young English tourist against a wily Greek jewel thief.
526) Catwoman: Hunted
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Selina Kyle, the Catwoman, is simply trying to steal the world's most valuable emerald. Unfortunately, that emerald is currently in the possession of Leviathan, the world's foremost criminal empire. Who knew a little thing like stealing Leviathan's property would result in a price being put on Selina's head? Now, the bad guys and the good guys are hot on the Cat's tail. Can our famously infamous feline slink her way clear of this international mess?...
528) Nocturno
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Una novela adictiva llena de misterio, peligro y un amor por el que merece la pena jugarse el cuello. Harry Booth es un ladrón. Lleva una vida tranquila y llena de cautela, sin ataduras, hasta que se cruza en su camino Miranda Emerson, hija del profesor de Literatura especializado en Shakespeare de la Universidad de Carolina del Norte. Aunque intenta mantenerse alejado de la inteligente pelirroja, no puede dejar de pensar en ella. Y justo cuando...
529) The asphalt jungle
Series
Criterion collection volume 847
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"In a smog-choked city somewhere in the American Midwest, an aging criminal mastermind, newly released from prison, hatches a plan for a million-dollar jewel heist and draws a wealthy lawyer and a cherry-picked trio of outlaws into his carefully devised but inevitably doomed scheme"--Container.
530) Serious Moonlight
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Things are not going exactly as planned for high-powered Manhattan lawyer Louise. Her husband of 13 years, Ian, announces that he is leaving her for a younger woman. Taking things into her own hand, Louise decide to hold Ian captive until he agrees to work on their marriage. The unexpected arrivals of a gardener turned opportunistic thief and Ian's impatient mistress serve only to complicate the spiraling situation.
Author
Series
Montmorency volume 1
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In Victorian London, after his life is saved by a young physician, a thief utilizes the knowledge he gains in prison and from the scientific lectures he attends as the physician's case study exhibit to create a new, highly successful, double life for himself.
Author
Series
Tales of Egil and Nix volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Egil and Nix, the hard-fighting, harder-drinking fortune hunters of The Hammer and the Blade and A Discourse in Steel, are back to test their mettle and tempt fickle fate. Fantasy fiction has long welcomed adventurous rogues: Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, George R. R. Martin's Dunk and Egg, and Scott Lynch's Locke Lamora and Jean Tannen have all made their mark. In his Egil & Nix series, New York Times bestselling author Paul S. Kemp...
533) Bandidas
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Determined to avenge the deaths of their fathers, Sara Sandoval and Maria Alvarez vow to seize the ill-gotten gains of robber baron Tyler Jackson. With the help of a retired bank robber and a jittery criminologist, these two beauties become unlikely outlaws, blazing a trail of larcey acress Mexico.
534) The English patient
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
At the end of World War II, a mysterious, horribly burned man who claims not to remember his name, known only as the "English patient," lies near death in an Italian villa. He is cared for by a quietly desperate young nurse, Hana, herself a victim of the war. With her at the villa are Kip, a young Sikh bomb-disposal expert, and a shadowy thief with bandaged hands named Caravaggio. The key to the burned man's past may lie in his commonplace book,...
535) The sandwich thief
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Someone at school keeps stealing the sandwiches from Marin's lunchbox, and he is determined to find the culprit.
536) Gone West
Author
Series
Southern son volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Gone West is the story of how a gentleman becomes an outlaw, how an outlaw becomes a lawman, and how a Southern son named John Henry becomes a legend called Doc Holliday. As the story races from Dallas to Dodge City from Denver to Trinidad and the Santa Fe Trail, he finds a new love affair, a new hero to follow, and an old enemy eager for a reckoning.
537) The gold retrievers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
When 12-year-old Josh Peters' dog digs up a gold medallion that supposedly leads to a fortune in hidden Conquistador gold, the boy and his dog pair up with newcomer Ana to reclaim the treasure in hopes of saving their home from foreclosure. Little do they know that the woods ahead are riddled with booby traps and plagued by an ancient curse. Plus, two conniving thieves will track them into the endless maze of trees, bent upon claiming the treasure...
538) Oliver Twist
Author
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Description
This book retells the adventures of the orphan boy who is forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.
539) Blood pact
Author
Series
Kirk McGarvey adventures volume 17
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
A large portion of the treasure originally stolen by conquistadors of the eighteenth century was buried in the desert of southern New Mexico by Spanish monks. Now, a century and a half later, the diary of a Catholic priest has come to light and the Spanish government, Cuban intelligence agency and the Catholic Church are racing to be the first to claim it. Kirk McGarvey is approached by a shadowy organization that wants to beat all of them.