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Mistborn novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 38
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English
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Charged with the task of rebuilding the world after the defeat of the brutal Lord Ruler, former street urchin Vin finds herself worshipped for her Mistborn powers and worries about the strange behavior of the mists since the death of the Lord Ruler.
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Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller
A People Book of the Week, Book of the Month Club selection, and Best of Fall in Good Housekeeping, PopSugar, The Washington Post, New York Post, Shondaland, CNN, and more!
"[A] quirky, big-hearted novel...Wry, wise, and often laugh-out-loud funny, it's a wholly original story that delivers pure pleasure." —People...
A People Book of the Week, Book of the Month Club selection, and Best of Fall in Good Housekeeping, PopSugar, The Washington Post, New York Post, Shondaland, CNN, and more!
"[A] quirky, big-hearted novel...Wry, wise, and often laugh-out-loud funny, it's a wholly original story that delivers pure pleasure." —People...
3) Nightwork
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English
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"Harry Booth started stealing at nine to keep a roof over his ailing mother's head, slipping into luxurious, empty homes at night to find items he could trade for precious cash. When his mother finally succumbed to cancer, he left Chicago--but kept up his nightwork. Wandering from the Outer Banks to Savannah to New Orleans, he dons new identities and stays careful, observant, distant. He can't afford to attract attention--or get attached. Still,...
5) Hot ice
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English
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Whitney Macallister-- reckless and beautiful, she possesses all the wealth and beauty everyone dreams of. Douglas Lord-- his good looks and street smarts have made him a success at his chosen profession-larceny. She has the cash and the connections. He has the stolen documents leading to a fabulous hidden fortune. It is a business proposition, pure and simple. But the race to finds the treasure, from Manhattan to Madagascar, is only part of the game....
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[Jensen Brand] volume 1
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English
Description
"Smoke and Sally Jensen's Sugarloaf Ranch is being threatened by rustlers and the call goes out for help, but Sugarloaf's last defense is the Jensen twins, Denise and Louis, who have just returned from their schooling in Europe"--
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English
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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 Hall. Now, she’s trying to distance herself from past mistakes, but getting out isn’t easy. Bartending at a dive, she’s still entirely too close to the corrupt...
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Spenser novels volume 38
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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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...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Jane. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates--a gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. The kind of place where no one will notice if Jane lifts the discarded tchotchkes and jewelry off the side tables of her well-heeled clients. Where no one will think to ask if Jane is her real name. But her luck changes when she meets Eddie Rochester. Recently widowed, Eddie is...
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Series
Riyria chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
For more than a year Royce Melborn has tried to forget Gwen DeLancy, the woman who saved him and his partner Hadrian Blackwater from certain death. Unable to get her out of his mind, the two thieves return to Medford but receive a very different reception -- Gwen refuses to see them. The victim of abuse by a powerful noble, she suspects Royce will ignore any danger and seek revenge. By turning the thieves away, Gwen hopes to protect them once more....
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Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
252 p.
Language
English
Description
When Bernie breaks into an apartment to steal a box, he finds a body.
12) Sleepwalker
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
370 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
While housesitting for her Uncle Nicco, policewoman Micayla Lange catches Jason Davis in the act of stealing money from her uncle's locked safe. But when they both find incriminating photos that that implicate Nicco in the murder of a city councilman, Mick and Jason hurtle into a race for their lives.
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Series
Spenser volume 46
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English
Description
The heist was legendary, still talked about twenty years after the priceless paintings disappeared from one of Boston's premier art museums. Most thought the art was lost forever, buried deep, sold off overseas, or, worse, destroyed as incriminating evidence. But when paint chips from the most valuable piece stolen, Gentlemen in Black by a Spanish master, arrives at the desk of a Boston journalist, the museum finds hope and enlists Spenser's help....
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The founders volume 1
Language
English
Description
Sancia Grado is a thief, and a damn good one. And her latest target, a heavily guarded warehouse on Tevanne's docks, is nothing her unique abilities can't handle. But unbeknownst to her, Sancia's been sent to steal an artifact of unimaginable power, an object that could revolutionize the magical technology known as scriving. The Merchant Houses who control this magic -- the art of using coded commands to imbue everyday objects with sentience -- have...
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Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 10
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
293 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Antiquarian book dealer and fashionable thief Bernie Rhodenbarr once again indulges his appetite for breaking and entering in his never-ending quest for fun and profit.
16) Sweet revenge
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Language
English
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Princess Adrianne of Jaquir, daughter of a fabled Hollywood beauty and an equally fabled Arab playboy, leads a remarkable double life. The paparazzi and the gossip columnists know her as a modern princess, a frivolous socialite flitting from exclusive watering spot to glittering charity ball. No one knows her as The Shadow, the most extraordinary jewel thief of the decade. She hones her skills at larceny as she parties with the super rich, stealing...
17) Just watch me
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Series
Riley Wolfe novels volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the wildly successful Dexter series, comes a new mesmerizing bad guy we can root for: Riley Wolfe is a master thief, expert at disguise and violent when he needs to be. It's no accident, though, that Riley targets only the .1% and is willing to kill when necessary: He despises the degenerate and immoral possessors of the objects that he steals. In this series launch, Riley targets an extraordinary set of crown jewels, a heist that...
18) Strip
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English
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An aging but formidable strip club owner, Claudiu 'Manco' Kapak, has been robbed by a masked gunman as he placed his cash receipts in a bank's night-deposit box. Enraged, he sends his half-dozen security men out to find a suspect who is spending lots of cash and is new enough to Los Angeles not to know he was robbing a gangster. Their search leads them to Joe Carver, an innocent but hardly defenseless newcomer who evades capture and sets out to make...
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Series
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English
Description
Normally the arrival of an art exhibition at the Mayville Heights library would be cause for celebration. But thanks to the overbearing curator and high-tech security system that comes with it, Kathleen's life has been completely disrupted. Even Owen and Hercules have been affected, since their favorite human doesn't seem to have a spare moment to make their favorite fish crackers or listen to Barry Manilow. But when Kathleen stops by the library...
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
291 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Bernie Rodenbarr meets the woman of his dreams at the Humphrey Bogart film festival, a woman whose past may be as dark as a movie theater.
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