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1) The prize
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Zara Leighton has risked everything to track down the elusive art thief known as Icon, only to discover him already in her arms: the billionaire tech genius--and her lover--Tobias Wilder. Now, Tobias needs her to help him pull off a last job--one that will clear both their names and secure their future together.
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Jeopardy falls volume 1
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"Christian O'Brady was pulled into a life of crime at a young age by his con artist parents. Now making amends for his corrupt past, he has become one of the country's foremost security experts. When a string of Southwestern art heists targets one of the galleries Christian secured, he is paired up with a gifted insurance investigator who has her own checkered past. Andi Forester was a brilliant FBI forensic analyst until one of her colleagues destroyed...
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Elm Creek Quilts volume 5
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When precious heirloom quilts hand-stitched by her mother turn up missing, Sylvia Bergstrom Compson recovers some while accepting others as lost forever. She is then able to reflect on the woman her mother was and mourn the woman she never knew.
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Clementine Abernathy considers herself a modern day Robin Hood, who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. Her latest heist involves swiping a priceless Van Gogh from its owner, who's supposed to be an egotistical trust-fund brat. Turns out Jack David is a sexy, kind-hearted man-- and Clementine is in trouble. Falling for her mark would make her the World's Dumbest Conwoman, but Jack is charmingly persistent, always singing sweet songs in her...
5) The game
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"Chasing Icon, the world's slickest art thief, was the most seductive thrill of London art investigator Zara Leighton's career...until the clues led her to the man who holds command of her body and heart, Tobias Wilder, an American billionaire with charisma to spare. Her duty to capture him is complicated by the intensity of their passion. Her will to end their connection is tinted with red-hot need to never let him go. Tobias's heists are about more...
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Lew Archer novels volume 18
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The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only Detective Lew Archer can make sense of a killer who makes murder a work of art.
Finding a purloined portrait of a leggy blonde was supposed to be an easy paycheck for Archer, but that was before the bodies began piling up. Suddenly, Archer find himself smack in the middle of a decades-long mystery of a brilliant artist who walked into the desert and simply disappeared.
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When a waterfowl decoy collection goes missing after her appraisal, fine art and antiques expert Edie Brown is accused of the crime and must race against time to expose the real culprits before the FBI's Art Crime Team or the ruthless thieves catch up with her.
10) Great art thefts
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
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1020L
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'Great Art Thefts' examines famous art crimes and the hunt to find the thieves. Part of the Treasure Hunters series, 'Great Art Thefts' offers a crosscurricular mix of science & technology and history, with a fun, dramatic approach. Art thefts covered in the book include the Mona Lisa, the Scream, the Millennium theft from the Ashmolean Museum, and the greatest ever single art theft: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist. The book also looks at...
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"The fifth entry in this acclaimed series finds Verlaque and Bonnet investigating a murder and the provenance of a mysterious painting Like Donna Leon and Andrea Camilleri, M. L. Longworth's enchanting mystery series blends clever whodunits with gustatory delights and the timeless appeal of Provence. The Mystery of the Lost Cezanne adds a new twist by immersing Antoine and Marine in a clever double narrative that costars Provence's greatest artist....
13) Among thieves
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Boston attorney Scott Finn agrees to help old friend Devon Malley who has been charged with theft, and to care for Malley's teenage daughter, but Finn realizes something bigger is afoot when the men Malley tells him to talk to for information are found dead, and it is not long before Finn finds himself involved in a plot involving IRA terrorists and a twenty-year-old art theft.
14) The Juliet Code
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Newlyweds Lord and Lady Astley Finally Reach Their Honeymoon Destination Only to Encounter a New Mystery in Need of Solving Frederick and Grace Percy finally make it to Italy to enjoy a delayed honeymoon and explore the beauties of the historic city of Venice. To their surprise, their friend, Detective Jack Miracle, is also in the city, investigating a series of art heists starting at the house of eccentric millionaire, Laraby Covington. Drawn...
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There's no such thing as a typical day at Helping Paws Animal Shelter, and this wasn't the first time I've had a soggy box waiting for me on the doorstep with a disgruntled cat inside.
However, this was the first time the cat talked to me.
What did the barista put in my coffee?
Persephone insists she's been catnapped, and she's witnessed an art heist. There's a huge reward for the safe return of the painting, and that money could go a long way to...
17) The marble mask
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Joe Gunther, newly appointed head of the Vermont Bureau of Investigation, becomes caught up in a blizzard of intrigue when he sets out to discover the truth about the death of wartime tycoon Jean Deschamps whose mummified corpse is found after fifty years frozen into a block of ice on Mt. Mansfield.
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When a job looks like amateur hour, Parker walks away. But even a squad of seasoned professionals can't guarantee against human error in a high-risk scam. Can an art dealer with issues unload a truck of paintings with Parker's aid? Or will the heist end up too much of a human interest story, as luck runs out before Parker can get in on the score?
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"For years, there have been whispers that, before his death, Van Gogh completed a final self-portrait. Curators and art historians have savored this rumor, hoping it could illuminate some of the troubled artist's many secrets, but even they have to concede that the missing painting is likely lost forever. But when Luke Perrone, artist and great-grandson of the man who stole the Mona Lisa, and Alexis Verde, daughter of a notorious art thief, discover...
20) Declan's Cross
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Sharpe & Donovan novels volume 3
Sharpe and Donovan novel volume 03
Thorndike Press large print basic
Sharpe and Donovan novels volume 3
Sharpe and Donovan novel volume 03
Thorndike Press large print basic
Sharpe and Donovan novels volume 3
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For marine biologist Julianne Maroney, two weeks in tiny Declan's Cross on the south Irish coast is a chance to heal her broken heart. She doesn't expect to attract the attention of FBI agents Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan-especially since a Donovan is the reason for her broken heart. Emma and Colin are in Ireland for their own personal retreat. Colin knows he's a reminder of everything Julianne wants to escape, but something about her trip raises...
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