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1) Strip
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English
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Strip-club owner Manco Kapak instructs his henchmen to find the man who robbed the club and take care of him, but when they settle on the wrong man, Kapak and his crew find themselves in more trouble than they ever expected.
3) Wyatt
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WYATT'S BEEN AWAY. NOW HE'S BACK.The job's a classic jewel heist: quick, clean and simple. Except for one thing. Wyatt prefers to work alone, but this job belongs to Eddie Oberin and his very smart ex-wife Lydia. She has the inside information; Wyatt has the planning genius and meticulous preparation. What could possibly go wrong?Plenty. But when you cross Wyatt, you don't walk away.Taut plots, brilliant writing and relentless pace; plus an unforgettable...
4) Flashfire
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Between Parker's 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the whole world of crime changed. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purchased from specialists; increasingly sophisticated policing made escape and evasion tougher; and, worst of all, money had gone digital-the days of cash-stuffed payroll trucks were long gone.
But cash isn't everything: Flashfire and Firebreak find Parker going after, respectively, a fortune in jewels and...
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Charlie Howard, a crime writer, thief, and amateur magician, is a bit jealous when he sees his agent, Victoria, being charmed at a Las Vegas roulette table by illusionist Josh Masters, so he decides to break into Master's hotel room and help himself to a safe full of casino chips, which makes him feel better until Masters disappears and he and Victoria are charged by the casino with cheating.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Spenser puts his life in danger after he fails his assignment to protect the person responsible for handing over ransom money for a stolen painting and decides to track down the thieves and retrieve the masterpiece on his own.
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Charlie Howard-globe-trotting mystery writer, professional thief, and poor decision maker-is in Paris. Flush with the success of his latest book reading, Charlie agrees to show a complete novice how to break into an apartment in the Marais. Fast-forward twenty-four hours and Charlie's hired to steal an ordinary-looking oil painting-from the exact same address. Mere coincidence? Charlie figures there's no harm in finding out-until a dead body turns...
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Hardy boys mystery stories volume 5
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English
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Frank and Joe solve a dangerous mystery involving a payroll robbery, a mine cave-in, a piano-playing ghost and a booby-trapped helicopter.
12) The blue guitar
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English
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Oliver Otway Orme, a semi-famous artist and petty thief, despairing of limits in his talents, flees when his latest theft is discovered and sequesters himself in his childhood home, where he struggles to understand how he reached his current state.
13) Camino Island
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2017.
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 University's 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 stolen...
16) The secret panel
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Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
1992, c1974
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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A chance meeting with a stranger on the road provides the Hardy brothers with a clue to a gang of local burglars.
17) Lorna Doone
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A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2001, c2000
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English
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In late seventeenth-century England, Lorna - the granddaughter of the head of a nobly-born family of robbers and outlaws - falls in love with John Ridd, a man intent on avenging his father's death upon the Doone clan.
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A philosophical yet practical gentleman, Bernie Rhodenbarr possesses many admirable qualities: charm, intelligence, sparkling wit, and unwavering loyalty. Of course, he also has this special talent and a taste for life's finer things. So he's more than willing to perform some vengeful larceny for a friend -- ripping off a smarmy, particularly deserving plastic surgeon -- for fun and a very tidy profit.
But during a practice run at another address,...
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