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Author
Series
Michael St. Pierre thrillers volume 3
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
471 p. ; 24 cm.
Series
Criterion collection volume 174
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two bumbling burglars plan a robbery with a young woman they just met. Problems begin immediately when they both fall for the girl and the plan goes haywire. The jewel-heist plot is merely a jumping off point for Godard's fast-paced mix of fantasy and spoof of Hollywood crime films.
4) Heartwishes
Author
Series
Edilean series volume 5
Description
Historian Gemma Ranford and Colin Frazier must work together to find the Heartwishes stone that's been missing for over one hundred years--and with an international thief also on the hunt, the clock is ticking. Because in the wrong hands, no one named Frazier will ever be safe.
Author
Series
Michael St. Pierre thrillers volume 4
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
406 p.
Description
Reformed thief Michael St. Pierre and his ex-girlfriend, KC Ryan, are coerced by a military official to steal centuries-old artifacts from China to solve an ancient puzzle, a dual mission that places their lives in each other's hands.
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Series
Camino Island novels volume 1
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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"Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn't pick, a book she couldn't steal, or a bad decision she wouldn't make. She's spent half her life working for gloamists, magicians who manipulate shadows to peer into locked rooms, strangle people in their beds, or worse. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily, creating an underground economy of grimoires. And to rob their fellow magicians, they need Charlie. Now, she's trying to distance herself from...
Author
Series
Riley Wolfe novels volume 3
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Super thief Riley Wolfe can do it all. He is a master of disguise, can scale a wall, and can vanish into thin air (thick air, too). He uses these unique talents to rob the richest. But this time, it’s the most powerful who have him in their grips. It’s not just that the high-up, rogue government agent has abducted the only two people Riley loves: it’s the fact that Riley has to do the man’s dirty work to set them free. It’s something Riley...
9) Rififi
Series
Criterion collection volume 115
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
Just out of prison, a master thief is persuaded to orchestrate the nearly impossible robbery of an upscale jewelry store.
11) Anxious people
Author
Description
Looking at real estate isn't usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can't fix their own marriage. There's a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about...
Publisher
Entertainment Studios
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As a massive hurricane builds, criminals infiltrate a U.S. Mint facility. Their plan: to steal $600 million and escape using a category five hurricane as cover. But a treasury agent and a storm chaser have a plan of their own, desperately racing against time, and the hurricane, to save the hostages and stop the thieves before their town is reduced to rubble.
13) Uncharted
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
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 worlds...
14) Ambulance
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2022
Formats
Description
Needing money to cover his wife's medical bills, a decorated veteran teams up with his adoptive brother to steal $32 million from a Los Angeles bank. However, when their getaway goes spectacularly wrong, the desperate thieves hijack an ambulance that's carrying a severely wounded cop and an EMT worker. Caught in a high-speed chase, the two siblings must figure out a way to outrun the law while keeping their hostages alive.
15) Bad Samaritan
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a robber breaks into a home and sees that a woman will soon be tortured, he tells the police and after they don't believe him he sets out to rescue the woman himself.
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
Los Angeles burglar Junior Bender is summoned by a formidable nonagenarian mob boss to exact justice for a once-famous starlet whose career was derailed by an unknown adversary's compromising photos seventy years earlier.
Author
Series
Junior Bender mysteries volume 2
Formats
Description
Bullied into proving the innocence of a music industry mogul who has been accused of murdering a tabloid journalist, Los Angeles burglar-turned-private investigator Junior Bender finds the case complicated by the victim's attractive widow.
Author
Description
Unrepentant book thief John Charles Gilkey has stolen a fortune in rare books from around the county. Yet unlike most thieves, who steal for profit, Gilkey steals for the love of the books. Perhaps equally obsessive, though, is Ken Sanders, the self-appointed "bibliodick" driven to catch him. Sanders, a lifelong rare book collector and dealer turned amateur detective, will stop at nothing to catch the thief plaguing his trade.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sexy American diamond lover Wanda and her boyfriend Otto are in England to plot alongside George and Ken the robbery of a diamond collection. Wanda and Otto want the stolen diamonds for themselves, and inform the police about George, not knowing that he has already moved the diamonds to another secret place. Wanda thinks the best way to find out is by getting close to George's lawyer, Archie Leach.
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Set in the eighteenth century London underworld, this bawdy, genre-bending novel reimagines the life of thief and jailbreaker Jack Sheppard to tell a profound story about gender, love, and liberation. Recently jilted and increasingly unhinged, Dr. Voth throws himself into his work, obsessively researching the life of Jack Sheppard, a legendary eighteenth century thief. No one knows Jack's true story--his confessions have never been found. That is,...
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