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1) Pickpocket
Series
Criterion collection volume 314
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (75 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Michel, an insignificant man who drifts into crime, is arrested and imprisoned. Upon release, he abandons an attempt at reform when a master pickpocket teaches him his art.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After their mother dies, two boys travel for Venice, where they meet Scipio, the Thief Lord. Along with a small band of abandoned kids, the boys join Scipio's world of robbing the rich. Soon, they win the heart of the detective hired to track them.
3) Stray dog
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004, c1949
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A bad day gets worse for rookie detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo's sweltering streets for the thief, whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, the cop and the criminal's lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami's own dark side.
Series
Criterion collection volume 224
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 80 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Petty crook Skip McCoy has his eye set on the big score. When the three-time convict picks the pocketbook of unsuspecting Candy, he finds a haul bigger than he ever could have imagined: a strip of microfilm bearing confidential U.S. secrets. Tailed by the Feds and the unwitting courier's Communist puppeteers, Skip and Candy find themselves in a precarious gambit that pits greed against redemption.
Author
Series
Agent Amelia volume 3
Formats
Description
Young secret agent Amelia investigates three new cases, involving an evil genius who makes dogs howl, a sneaky science teacher who buys too much cereal, and a psychotic criminal picking the pockets of toy shoppers.
6) Fingersmith
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A rousing adaptation of Sarah Waters' most acclaimed novel. Orphan Sue Trinder, raised in a den of petty thieves or 'fingersmiths,' agrees to help a young con man defraud a wealthy heiress. But Sue's plans didn't include falling in love with the heiress.
7) Oliver Twist
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (176 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This gripping tale of Charles Dickens' classic remains faithful to the spirit of the novel while delivering a modern, thrilling, tragic, and occasionally comic edge.
Series
Vivien Leigh Hollywood classics volume disc 2
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 173 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
408 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Steven "Steel" Trapp has been placed in an East Coast boarding school for gifted kids by his FBI agent father. He soon discovers that there's a clubby element of faculty and upperclassmen that is very secretive and protective. To his surprise, his friend Kaileigh arrives at the school, and it isn't long before the two realize that this is not your normal prep school. There are dark forces at play. Foreign agents may have penetrated the school's secrecy...
11) Oliver Twist
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A slightly darker version of the classic Charles Dickens tale. After living in poor conditions, Oliver runs away to the streets of London. There he meets a gang of pickpockets and soon Oliver's life is changed forever.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
372 pages : genealogical table ; 21 cm
Description
Pip lives by his wits in the city of Clarel. When he picks the wrong pocket, he finds himself in possession of a strange dried heart in a silver casket--and those who lost it will stop at nothing to get it back. With assassins on his trail and the ominous heart beginning to whisper to him, Pip and his childlike older sister El are drawn deeper into the forbidden world of magic. Now they must seek the help of the secret witches of Clarel and Princess...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
225 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Description
When Molly, a ten-year-old orphan, is arrested for picking pockets in London in 1731, she is banished to America and serves as an indentured servant for a New York City family that expects her to follow their Jewish traditions.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
420 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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.
16) Lily the thief
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
279 pages : chiefly illustrations (color) ; 21 cm
Description
"Lily is a young novice who dreams of being a master thief. That's not easy when the Guildmaster of Thieves only assigns you the lowliest jobs: pick-pocketing, trespassing, and petty theft. But on one of these meager quests, Lily unearths a plot involving a mysterious cult and long-forgotten gods -- a secret that could destroy the whole world. Lily must fight to save the same people who have branded her an outcast. Can she use her cunning to put an...
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