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1) Appaloosa
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Language
English
Description
Itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, accustomed to cleaning up after opportunistic thieves, encounter a formidable enemy when they arrive in Appaloosa, a town controlled by renegade rancher Randall Bragg.
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Series
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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Series
Spenser volume 38
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange-money for a stolen painting.
The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client and the valuable painting remains stolen. Convinced that Ashton Prince played a bigger role than just ransom delivery boy, Spenser enters into a daring game of cat-and-mouse with the thieves. But...
4) Hero school
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Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Night Ninja steals the school bus to make his own super-car! Can the PJ Masks stop him in his tracks?"--
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English
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Description
Sid and Ronnie Abel are a 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.
6) Heartwishes
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Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Gemma Ranford wants the job cataloging the documents of the Frazier family so much that she is ready to do battle to get it. Fascinated with history, and desperately trying to finish her dissertation, she's hoping against all hope that the papers will yield new information to invigorate her research.
What she didn't expect to find is references to the Heartwishes Stone - believed by most to be pure legend - and said to grant wishes to anyone named...
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Series
Stick Cat volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Much to Edith's delight, she and Stick Cat are enjoying a lazy day at his apartment. But not for long. Soon, strange and threatening sounds come from the ceiling. What could it be? An elephant? Santa?
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Series
Jack Russell Dog Detective volume 12
Publisher
Kane Miller
Pub. Date
[2010]
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Description
Jack's person, Sarge, is getting married, and that means a big party, with lots of food! All the dogs are excited, so when the ham for the wedding party is stolen, Jack has plenty of canine suspects.
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Series
A Fox and O'Hare novel volume 6
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English
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Description
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.
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When Stanley Lambchop wakes up one morning, his brother, Arthur, is yelling. A bulletin board fell on Stanley during the night, and now he is only half an inch thick! Amazing things begin happening to him. Stanley gets rolled up, mailed, and flown like a kite. He even gets to help catch two dangerous art thieves. He may be flat, but he's a hero!.
11) Dark life
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Series
Dark Life volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Ty, who has always lived on the ocean floor, joins Topside girl Gemma in the frontier's underworld to seek and stop outlaws who threaten his home, they learn that the government may pose an even greater threat.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After witnessing a troupe of pickpockets pull off an incredible robbery in a busy Marseille square, Charlie Fisher agrees to protect one of the thieves if they teach him their ways, leading him into a world of adventure with global stakes.
13) Uncharted
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Street-smart Nathan Drake is recruited by seasoned treasure hunter Victor "Sully" Sullivan to recover a fortune amassed by Ferdinand Magellan and lost 500 years ago by the House of Moncada. What starts as a heist job for the duo becomes a globe-trotting, white-knuckle race to reach the prize before the ruthless Santiago Moncada, who believes he and his family are the rightful heirs. If Nate and Sully can decipher the clues and solve one of the world's...
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Series
Pandava volume 2
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Accused of stealing the god of love's bow and arrow, Aru has ten days to find the real thief or risk being kicked out of the Otherworld.
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Detective Chase McCain is always ready to protect justice! So when the mayor needs an important box guarded on a cargo plane, it is up to Chase to make sure it arrives safely. Too bad for Chase that the infamous criminal Rex Fury shows up with other plans!"--Page 4 of cover.
16) Ocean's 8
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Debbie Ocean, Frank's sister, gathers a crew to attempt an impossible heist at New York City's yearly Met Gala.
17) Thief's mark
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
As a young boy, Oliver York witnessed the murder of his wealthy parents in their London apartment. The killers kidnapped him and held him in an isolated Scottish ruin, but he escaped, thwarting their plans for ransom. Now, after thirty years on the run, one of the two men Oliver identified as his tormentors may have surfaced. Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan are enjoying the final day of their Irish honeymoon when a break-in at the home of Emma's grandfather,...
19) Firebrand
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Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Anglet Sutonga, a former Steeplejack, must pose as a foreign princess to catch the thief who stole the government's plans for a secret weapon. Yet Ang has other things on her mind as well. Refugees from the north are trickling into the city, but an ambitious politician is proposing extreme measures to get rid of them, and when Ang discovers that one theft could spark a conflagration of conspiracy that will threaten the most vulnerable of Bar-Selehm,...
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