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Camino Island novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton Universitys Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it for twenty-five million dollars. 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...
2) Nightwork
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Pub. Date
2022.
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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, he...
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Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their unexpected common traits.
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...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Arden Maxwell, the daughter of the man who vanished twenty years ago following his involvement in a heist gone wrong, returns to her family home near mysterious Caddo Lake to finally get answers to the questions that torment her about his disappearance, but little does she know, two of her father's co-conspirators -- a war hero and a corrupt district attorney -- are watching her every move.
5) This train
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"This Train races us through America's heartland, carrying secrets. There is treasure in the cargo car, along with an invisible puppeteer. There is a coder named Nora, Mugzy, the yippy dog, and Ross, the too-curious poet. On board, it's a countdown to murder… On this train there is a silver madman, a targeted banker, and crises of conscience. This train harbors the "perfect" couple's conspiracies, the chaos of being a teenager, and parenthood alongside...
7) Past crimes
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Van Shaw novels volume 1
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English
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Van Shaw was raised to be a thief, but at eighteen he suddenly broke all ties to that life and joined the military. Now, after ten years of silence, his grandfather has asked him to come home to Seattle. But when Van arrives, he discovers his grandfather bleeding out on the floor from a gunshot to the head. With a lifetime of tough history between him and the old man, Van knows he's sure to be the main suspect.
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Series
Robert Rivers novels volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
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Series
Another Coop heist volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
10) Sweet revenge
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English
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At twenty-five, Princess Adrianne lives a life most people would envy. Beautiful and elegant, she spends her days dabbling in charities and her nights floating from one glamorous gala to the next. But her pampered-rich-girl pose is a ruse, a carefully calculated effort to hide a dangerous truth. For ten years Adrianne has lived for revenge. As a child, she could only watch the cruelty hidden behind the façade of her parents fairy-tale marriage. Now...
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Series
Good thief's guide volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
12) Book of night
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"#1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black makes her stunning adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of shadowy thieves and secret societies in the vein of Ninth House and The Night Circus. One of Publishers Weekly's top ten most anticipated books of 2022! 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...
14) The thief
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Black Dagger Brotherhood. Main series volume 16
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English
Description
New enemies rise and desire burns in the next thrilling novel of the #1 New York Times bestselling paranormal romance series the Black Dagger Brotherhood.Sola Morte, former cat burglar and safecracker, has given up her old life on the wrong side of the law. On the run from a drug lords family, she is lying low far from Caldwell, keeping her nose clean and her beloved grandmother safe. Her heart, though, is back up north, with the only man who has...
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Jack Swyteck novels volume Prequel
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English
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Every week a hundred million dollars in cash arrives at Miami International Airport, shipped by German banks to the Federal Reserve. A select group of trusted workers moves the bags through Customs and loads them into armored trucks. Ruban Betancourt has always played by the rules. But the bank taking his house and his restaurant business going bust has driven him over the edge. He and his wife deserve more than life has handed them, and he's come...
17) Thief's mark
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Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Working with art thief Oliver York to investigate the murders of his parents and his own kidnapping in childhood, Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan question whether they can trust him as danger mounts and a killer threatens to strike again.
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English
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Twelve-year-old Easter and her six-year-old sister Ruby are put into foster care after their mother dies. Just as they get settled, their father, Wade, appears and wants them back. But, Wade has signed away legal rights to his daughters, and the only way to get them back is to steal them. Brady Weller, the girls' guardian, begins looking for Wade and turns up information linking Wade to an armored car heist. Robert Pruitt, a shady man with a vendetta,...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Discovering in the Vatican archives a first-century memoir by Emperor Tiberius's head speechwriter, Nick Tosches is shocked to discover a portrayal of a shabby and licentious young Jesus whom the writer made over as a messianic figure.
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Series
Good thief's guide volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Charlie is a crime writer, part-time thief-- and an amateur magician. He breaks into a conjurer's hotel room and makes a safe full of casino chips vanish into think air. When the victim disappears, Charlie is suspected of being his accomplice at cheating the roulette tables.
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