Fifteen-year-old Charlie stays home from school so he can help his older brother, Tom, who is in a hip-to-toe cast after breaking his leg in a football game. When not waiting on his brother hand and foot, Charlie investigates a series...
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Author:Epstein, Adam JaySummary:Chopping blades, scorpion nests, giant spider webs - no one makes traps better than Wily Snare. He has never seen the sun or a blue sky or even his parents. Wily Snare lives underground, creating traps to keep treasure-seekers away from...
- Author:Highley, Kendra C.Summary:
Lexa Pate, seventeen-year-old thief extraordinaire, has burned a bridge or two in her life. You don’t make a career out of stealing other people’s property without making enemies. When a risky job goes from bad to worse, Lexa and her...
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Author:SCHROEDER, AndreasSummary:Ten classic stories about cunning plans and daring escapades. Of all the crimes that human beings commit, stealing is probably the most common. Thieves!, the latest in the True Stories from the Edge series, brings ten exciting stories...
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Author:Schroeder, AndreasSummary:Willie Sutton was casing a bank when he noticed that the manager looked a lot like Sutton himself, so he walked into the vault, loaded up with banknotes, and calmly walked out. D.B. Cooper hijacked a plane, demanded $200,000 in payment...
- Author:Ellis, Joy.Summary:
DI Nikki Galena gets a series of anonymous calls. She is told the place, time, and who will die. But the messages are in a secret language used only by villains. Nikki and her team must decode the riddles and work out where the threats...
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Author:Anderson, EdwardsSummary:As the titles suggests, Thieves Like Us is about thieves: three bank robbers. At first successful, they buy nice clothes, guns, and faster cars and read about themselves in the newspapers. The central character of the three thieves,...
- Author:Brown, SandraSummary:
In this tantalizing thriller from a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a woman uncovers lifelong secrets as she searches for the truth behind her father's involvement in a heist gone wrong. Twenty years ago in the dead of...
- Author:Holton, IndiaSummary:
"The kind of book for which the word "rollicking" was invented."--New York Times Book Review One of Bustle's Best New Books Out June 2021. A Popsugar Best Summer Read of 2021A prim and proper lady thief must...
- Author:Finkel, MichaelSummary:
Many people dream of escaping modern life, but most will never act on it. This is the remarkable true story of a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years, making this dream a reality--not out of anger at the world, but...
- Author:Rollins, JamesSummary:
A gifted student foretells an apocalypse. Her reward is a sentence of death. Fleeing into the unknown she is drawn into a team of outcasts. On the run, hunted by enemies old and new, they must learn to trust each other in order to...
- Author:Sebastian, CatSummary:
Kit Webb has left his thieving days behind him, but when a handsome yet arrogant aristocrat storms into his shop needing his help, Kit realizes he may be unable to deny whatever this man desires.
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Author:Lee, MaggieSummary:Sequel to The Mark of a Man After narrowly escaping the sinister plotting of Anthony Arlen’s City Guard and the wrath of the outlawed Sun League, Kit Porter and his friends, Alec Weston and Robert Warren, must flee or risk capture — or...
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Author:Lee, MaggieSummary:Kit Porter’s fear that he is being followed is confirmed when he is arrested by Alec Weston, a captain in the City Guard. Taken as a thief, Kit soon realizes that darker forces are at work. Captain Weston’s suspicions have been aroused...
- Author:Leblanc, MauriceSummary:
In the third installment of the Arsène Lupin series, we find our gentleman burglar up against Isidore Beautrelet, a young but gifted amateur detective who is determined to foil Lupin once and for all. As he hunts down the Hollow Needle...
- Author:Sanderson, BrandonSummary:
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action.Who is the Hero of Ages?To end the Final Empire and restore freedom, Vin killed the...
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Author:Erickson, CarollySummary:Historian Carolly Erickson has brought Mary's story to life, illuminating the horrors of transportation and the hardships of the early penal settlement, and describing in the extraordinary story of her escape in an open boat from...
- Author:Sanderson, BrandonSummary:
Now with over 10 million copies sold, The Mistborn Series has the thrills of a heist story, the twistiness of political intrigue, and the epic scale of a landmark fantasy saga. For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed....
- Author:Hamilton, KarenSummary:
Charlotte has an unsavory past, but she's on the straight and narrow these days. Her ex-husband Sam is now missing, but before he disappeared, he left urgent, cryptic messages about someone threatening him--someone who has been...
- Author:Oh, EllenSummary:
Perfect for fans of Wing & Claw, this must-have middle grade novel is from We Need Diverse Books cofounder Ellen Oh! "Filled with strange terrains, creatures, and magic, this is an enthralling read!"—Soman Chainani,...
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