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241) Blood pact
Author
Series
Kirk McGarvey adventures volume 17
Publisher
Forge Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"A large portion of the fabulous treasure originally stolen by conquistadors of the eighteenth century was buried in the desert of southern New Mexico by Spanish monks. Jacob Ambli, a Catholic priest, was sent as a spy on a Spanish military mission to find seven caches left for the Church. He kept a diary showing the locations, but was murdered trying to get back to Rome, and the journal was lost. Now, a century and a half later, the diary has come...
Author
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Forgotten Room comes a captivating historical mystery, infused with romance, that links the lives of three women across a century--two deep in the past, one in the present--to the doomed passenger liner, RMS Lusitania. May 2013Her finances are in dire straits and bestselling author Sarah Blake is struggling to find a big idea for her next book. Desperate, she breaks the one promise she made to her...
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.
244) The nightworkers
Author
Publisher
MCD
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A debut crime novel about a quirky money launderer, his artist/bagman nephew, and his thief niece"--
245) The diamond thief
Author
Series
Diamond thief volume 1
Formats
Description
By day Rémy Brunel is a daring circus acrobat, by night she is an equally talented jewel thief currently assigned to steal a famous diamond in Victorian London--but when the theft goes wrong she finds herself allied with a young policeman as they try tofind the elusive gem.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
515 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
In 2002, NASA fellow Thad Roberts hatched the most daring heist ever conceived: steal NASA's precious moon rocks. With the help of his girlfriend and another female cohort, both NASA interns, Roberts successfully stole the rocks. However, selling the invaluable stones proved to be Roberts' downfall.
Author
Series
Master Diplexito and Mr. Scant volume 1
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
Oliver, the neurotic son of a wealthy British industrialist, discovers his family butler, Mr. Scant, is a notorious thief who soon takes on Oliver to become an apprentice vigilante.
Author
Series
A to Z mysteries.Super edition volume 4
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
128 pages : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are enjoying Halloween fun in Sleepy Hollow, New York, but when unplanned spooky things start happening, they investigate whether a real headless horseman might be to blame.
Author
Series
Dangerous damsels volume 1
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
viii, 324 pages ; 21 cm
Description
A prim and proper lady thief must save her aunt from a crazed pirate and his dangerously charming henchman in this fantastical historical romance. Cecilia Bassingwaite is the ideal Victorian lady. She's also a thief. Like the other members of the Wisteria Society crime sorority, she flies around England drinking tea, blackmailing friends, and acquiring treasure by interesting means. Sure, she has a dark and traumatic past and an overbearing aunt,...
252) Railhead
Author
Series
Railhead volume 1
Publisher
Switch Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
In a world of drones and androids Zen Starling is a human thief, but mostly he just likes to ride the Interstellar Express, the sentient trains that travel through the K gates from planet to planet, something only the Guardians understand--but now the mysterious Raven wants him to steal the Pyxis, an object that could either open up a new gate, challenging the Guardians, or put the entire gate system, and the universe itself, in danger.
253) Willa of the wood
Author
Series
Willa of the Wood volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Formats
Description
In the late 1800s, a twelve-year-old nightspirit living in the Great Smoky Mountains despairs as homesteaders destroy her forest habitat, until a chance encounter with a "day-folk" man changes everything she thought she knew about her people--and their greatest enemy.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (584 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Leverage follows a team of expert thieves that take down corrupt corporations in elaborate high-tech schemes. Insurance investigator Nate Ford exposed scams and recovered stolen items worth millions. But his life hit the skids when his insurance company allowed his ailing 8-year-old son to die. Years later, Nate gets even as the leader of a specialized team of thieves, computer experts and con artists that right corporate and governmental injustices...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
2 blu-rays (313 min.) : sound, black & white and color, 4 3/4 in.
Description
The adventures of Arsène Lupin: Lupin engages in a series of daring criminal schemes. His activities arouse the interest of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, who offers Lupin a challenge: to steal a jewel of great value from a secret hiding place. Should Lupin accept the wager?
Signed, Arsène Lupin: At the end of the Great War, Lupin resumes his mischievous lifestyle with zeal. The theft of three paintings committed by an adversary leads him to the...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (408 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Home alone: A wily kid must protect his house from burglars when his family accidentally leaves him behind on Christmas vacation. Home alone 2, lost in New York: When Kevin gets separated from his family at O'Hare airport, he finds himself on a plane to New York City instead of Miami with the rest of his family. The thieves that tried to break into his house last Christmas are planning a Christmas caper in the Big Apple, and Kevin sets out to stop...
257) Black Light Express
Author
Series
Railhead volume 2
Publisher
Switch Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"With superb world building, gripping action, and ruthless political intrigue, Black Light Express delivers a breathtaking adventure into the darkest depths of space and is sure to please sci-fi fans and foes alike. At the edge of the Great Network, a small-time thief and an android girl ride aboard a sentient train. They hurtle toward the unknown, ready to see what lies beyond the end of the universe. But Zen Starling and Nova leave behind worlds...
258) Point break
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2011, ©1991.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
FBI agent Johnny Utah goes undercover to infiltrate a cache of Southern California surfers suspected of robbing banks. Utah, a former football player, is assigned to Los Angeles. There, four bank robbers, who wear rubber masks and call themselves Ex-Presidents, have executed a series of successful robberies which embarrassingly have the FBI stumped. Utah and his partner Pappas suspect that the robbers are surfers and hatch a plan for catching them....
259) Nikkatsu noir
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (432 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
I am waiting: An ex-boxer gets roped into the criminal underworld when he falls hard for a mysterious young woman fleeing her gangster boss.
Rusty knife: Best friends, who are former criminals and trying to go straight, are outed as witnesses to a murder committed by a local Yakuza boss. The police try to convince them to come forward. The gangsters try to pay them off, with the threat of death looming.
Take aim at the police van: A prison guard...
260) 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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