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History is told by the conquerors. Across the Western world, museums display the spoils of war, of conquest, of colonialism: priceless pieces of art looted from other countries, kept even now. Will Chen plans to steal them back. A senior at Harvard, Will fits comfortably in his carefully curated roles: a perfect student, an art history major and sometimes artist, the eldest son who has always been his parents' American Dream. But when a mysterious...
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A to Z mysteries. Main series volume 15
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2001.
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80 pages : ill. ; 20 cm.
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While visiting Dink's uncle in New York City, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose help uncover who is responsible for stealing a very valuable painting.
3) Lifeguard
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Pub. Date
2005
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Everything is going right for lifeguard Ned Kelley. He is involved with Tess, the most beautiful woman he has ever seen and what's more, a million dollars is within touching distance; his share of the score for the robbery of some world-class art. All he has to do is trigger alarms to throw the cops off the scent. But when Tess is brutally murdered and the others involved in the robbery are massacred, Ned is the prime suspect. He has been set up.
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 14
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Gabriel Allon, art restorer and occasional spy for Israel, must play a dangerous game of high stakes international intrigue as he searches for a stolen masterpiece by Caravaggio.
5) Doors open
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Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2010
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364 p. ; 25 cm.
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Three friends descend upon an art auction and concoct a plan to "liberate" several paintings from the National Gallery. As enterprising girlfriends, clever detectives, a crime boss, seductive auctioneers and a Hell's Angel named Hate enter the picture, this fast-paced story of second guesses and double crosses keeps changing the picture.
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Morros Press
Pub. Date
[c2003]
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260 p. ; 23 cm.
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Blends art theft, fraud, archeological and ecological vandalism, and murder with the fascination with Indian rock art and mythology. A complex, multi-layered plot involves two different, yet realistic and likeable characters--Jack Reed, a wounded and confused oceanologist and Cierra Rose Alcaraz, a half-Yaqui, half-Hispanic policewoman. The mystery unfolds amidst the enchanting background of the Arizona desert. Jack's ranch house and the critters...
Pub. Date
2014
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1 Blu-ray (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune.
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Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2010
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4 CDs (3 hrs. 56 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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The orange outlaw: While visiting Dink's uncle in New York City, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose help uncover who is responsible for stealing a very valuable painting.
The panda puzzle: Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose investigate the kidnapping of the new baby panda at the petting zoo.
The quicksand question: When someone steals the money the town has been collecting to help the ducks, Josh and his friends try to find the thief.
The runaway racehorse: Dink,...
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Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 4
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When a set of priceless paintings by Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt go missing in Russia, the Kidd siblings head to St. Petersburg and the wild Arctic tundra to find the bad guys and locate the treasure.
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 22
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Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon has at long last severed ties with Israeli intelligence and settled quietly in Venice, the only place where he has ever truly known peace. His beautiful wife, Chiara, has taken over the day-to-day management of the Tiepolo Restoration Company, and their two young children are discreetly enrolled in a neighborhood scuola elementare. For his part, Gabriel spends his days wandering the streets and canals of...
11) Confess, Fletch
Publisher
Miramax Acquisition
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When Fletch becomes the prime suspect in a murder case, he must clear his name while searching for the stolen art collection of his father-in-law who was kidnapped by a mob demanding the collection as ransom.
12) The Collector
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 23
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"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"--
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"Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI's Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career, offering a real-life international thriller. The son of an antique dealer, Wittman built a twenty-year career going undercover, usually unarmed, to catch art thieves, scammers, and black market traders in Paris and Philadelphia, Rio and Santa Fe, Miami and Madrid. Wittman tells the stories behind his recoveries of priceless art and antiquities:...
14) Confess, Fletch
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When Fletch becomes the prime suspect in a murder case, he must clear his name while searching for the stolen art collection of his father-in-law who was kidnapped by a mob demanding the collection as ransom.
Publisher
Sesame Street Workshop
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A cookie art museum has just opened on Sesame Street. Surrounded by beautiful cookie painting, like "Girl with the cookie earring" and the "Muncha Lisa", Cookie Monster and his friends feel as if they're in a whole new world. But when art suddenly starts to disappear, Cookie Monster quickly becomes a suspect. Can Cookie Monster clear his name? Will they find the missing art in time or will Cookie Monster be banished from the museum forever?
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Hollywood Station volume 4
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A circle of teenage burglars that the media has dubbed The Bling Ring has taken to pillaging the homes of Hollywood celebutants, and when a pair of drug-addled young copycats stumbles upon an art heist, that's just the beginning of the disaster to come. Soon LAPD veteran "Hollywood Nate" Weiss, surfer cops Flotsam and Jetsam, and the rest of the team at Hollywood Station have a deadly situation on their hands.
17) Art in the blood
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Collins Crime Club / Harpercollins
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
ix, 306 pages ; 24 cm
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1888. After a disasterous Ripper investigation, Holmes sinks into a deep depression. Watson can do nothing to help his friend, but an encoded letter from the French singer, Emmeline La Victoire, rekindles the detective's interest. The singer's illegitimate son, Emil, who is 10, has disappeared, and may have been kidnapped. As Holmes and Watson travel to Paris, they discover that Emil's father, the Earl of Pellingham and a famous art collector...
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Murder she wrote volume 36
Publisher
Obsidian / New American Library
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
422 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
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Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he’s landed a New Deal assignment to create a mural representing the region for their new Post Office. A wealthy art lover named John Long and his wife Eve have agreed to host Val at their sprawling ranch. Rumors and intrigue surround the couple: Eve left behind an itinerant life riding...
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Detective Luc Moncrief volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
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A new bind-up with three exciting thrillers featuring NYPD Detective Luc Moncrief, a Paris detective who's about to learn that NYC is a whole other ballgame in the world of crime. French Twist: Gorgeous women are dropping dead at upscale department stores in New York City. Detective Luc Moncrief and Detective Katherine Burke are close to solving the mystery, but looks can be deceiving. French Kiss: Very handsome and charming French detective Luc...
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