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Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're right back to fighting for their lives. Double-crossed and badly weakened, the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope. As powerful forces from around the world descend on Ketterdam to root out the secrets of the dangerous drug known as jurda parem, old rivals, and new enemies emerge to challenge...
Author
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Magic misfits volume 1
Language
English
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"Six young magicians and illusionists team up to save their small town from a crooked carnival owner and his goons"--
Author
Publisher
Arbor House
Pub. Date
[1987]
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Bandits assembles an unlikely crew: an ex-cop, an ex-con, and an ex-nun. They've got their eyes on several million bucks intended for the Contras; with their unique set of skills and their crazily clever plan, they're sure to make out like bandits -- if they live so long
4) Six of crows
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A convict with a thirst for revenge. A sharpshooter who can't walk away from a wager. A runaway with a privileged past. A spy known as the Wraith. A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums. A thief with a gift for unlikely escapes. Kaz Brekker and his crew are the only ones who might stand between the world and destruction - if they don't kill each other first.
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Del Rey mass market edition.
Physical Desc
690 pages : map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"With the greatest heist of their career gone spectacularly sour, con artist extraordinaire Locke Lamora and his trusted partner, Jean, have barely escaped with their lives. Or at least Jean has. Locke is slowly succumbing to a lethal poison that no alchemist can cure. With the end nearing, Locke's only hope is to accept a mysterious Bondsmage's offer: act as a political pawn in the Magi elections, and in exchange be healed. But the lifesaving sorcery...
Author
Series
A to Z mysteries. Main series volume 14
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
86 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose visit a dude ranch in Montana, they find themselves with another mystery to solve, this one involving the theft of money from the ranch's safe and of a large gold nugget that Josh had found.
8) Appaloosa
Author
Series
Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa, they find a small, dusty town suffering at the hands of renegade rancher Randall Bragg, a man who has so little regard for the law that he has taken supplies, horses, and women for his own and left the city marshal and one of his deputies for dead. Cole and Hitch, itinerant lawmen, are used to cleaning up after opportunistic thieves, but in Bragg they find an unusually wily adversary-one who...
9) The reader
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Series
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English
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"Set in a world where reading is unheard-of, Sefia makes use of a mysterious object to track down who kidnapped her aunt Nin and what really happened the night her father was murdered"--
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Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
287 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
Description
Husband and father Monte Becket, unable to repeat the success of his first novel despite years of attempts, leaves his family behind in Minnesota in 1915 to join self-confessed rascal Glendon Hale, an aging train robber, on a journey in search of the wife he abandoned nearly two decades earlier--pursued by ex-Pinkerton detective Charles Siringo every step of the way.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
177 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"What do Mother Theresa, Honest Abe, and Mahatma Gandhi have in common? They're all too good for this book, that's what. Sure, you'll find some familiar faces like Queen Elizabeth I and Thomas Edison in here, but you'll learn that behind their angelic smiles were cunning con artists who stole their way to gold and greatness. Follow the trail of twelve trouble-makers to learn what really made the Mona Lisa the most iconic painting in the world, meet...
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Series
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
329 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When King Charming and his brothers set out to purge the Dwarf Forests of outlaws and rule it themselves, they must face the most feared outlaw, Goldilocks--and then, their wives.
13) Dog gone!
Author
Series
Good crooks volume 2
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
121 pages : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When their thieving parents steal a rich and famous dog, twins Jillian and Billy, who have grown tired of being crooks, must find a way to get Poochie Smoochie back to her owner. Includes activities.
14) Sniff a skunk!
Author
Series
Good crooks volume 3
Publisher
Egmont Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Unlike their thieving parents, ten-year-old twins Billy and Jillian Crook like to do good deeds, including rescuing a baby skunk. Features activities.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are enjoying Halloween fun in Sleepy Hollow, New York, but when unplanned spooky things start happening, they investigate whether a real headless horseman might be to blame.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old Nayeli becomes very aware of the lack of men in Tres Camarones after watching the movie "The Magnificent Seven" at a local theater, and comes up with a plan to travel to the U.S.--Illinois specifically--and recruit a group of men to return with her to Mexico to protect and repopulate her remote village.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
The ladybug goes to town and visits a zoo, where she overhears Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len plotting to take a monkey and use him to rob the queen.
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