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"Adrift in a sleepy coastal Massachusetts town, a man who ferries fugitives by day gets twisted up in a plot to pilfer diamonds in this Casablanca-infused heist novel. Jack might be a polished, Harvard-educated lawyer on paper, but everyone in the down-at-the-heels, if picturesque, village of Onset, Massachusetts, knows his real job: moving people on the run from powerful enemies. The family business-co-managed with his father, a retired spy-is smooth...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"To exonerate her best friend, one woman must mastermind a jewelry heist during the wedding of the season in this hilarious romantic-comedy caper. Simi Chopra is on a bad-luck streak. She's lost yet another job, her student loan debt won't stop growing, her basement apartment is a certifiable flood zone, and now her best friend has been accused of stealing a multimillion-dollar diamond necklace. To put it lightly, she's desperate for a break-that's...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A gripping Rust Belt thriller that captures the characters of a down-and-out Pennsylvania town, revealing their troubled pasts and the crimes that could cost them their lives. In Locksburg, Pennsylvania, a former coal and steel town whose best days seem long past, five thousand residents have toughed it out, and have reasons for both worry and hope as this neglected place teeters between decay and renewal. For some of them, their biggest troubles...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"With gorgeous prose, European glamour, and an expansive wanderlust, Christine Mangan's The Continental Affair is a daring cat-and-mouse game that is as surprising as it is satisfying. Meet Louise and Henri. Two strangers, traveling alone, on the train from Belgrade to Istanbul. Except this isn't the first time they have met. Louise is running-from her past, from the shady people she has stolen money from, and from Henri, the person sent to collect...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to the Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by...
Author
Publisher
Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 Wonderbook : color illustrations ; cm.
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author-illustrator team James and Kimberly Dean comes the next I Can Read Comics book in the Pete the Cat series!
In Pete the Cat and the Sprinkle Stealer, Secret Agent Meow (also known as Pete the Cat) is ready to crack another case: a cat burglary hits too close to home when someone steals Pete's parents' secret recipe for rainbow sprinkle cookies!
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novel volume 39
Language
English
Description
LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis sees it all the time: Reinvention's a way of life in a city fueled by fantasy. But try as you might to erase the person you once were, there are those who will never forget the past . . . and who can still find you. A pool boy enters a secluded Bel Air property and discovers two bodies floating in the bright blue water: Gio Aggiunta, the playboy heir to an Italian shoe empire, and a gorgeous, even wealthier neighbor...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 344 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A collector for a Midwestern criminal enterprise is caught stealing money from his boss and is given one last job to pay back his debt by participating in an elaborate heist and blackmailing a small-time Omaha Mafioso.
Barrett Rye has always been told he can be only one thing in an enforcer. He's a seven-foot wall of muscle and the most effective collector in the largest criminal enterprise in the Midwest. After he realizes he wants more out of life...
Author
Publisher
Stark House Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Stark House Press edition.
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Marianne knows that the business she works for is in trouble, so she isn't surprised when the owner's wife, Irma, asks her to do a little favor for her-take her diamond bracelet to a man who will give her money for it. But when she confronts Mr. Moran, he seems a bit shifty to her. And Moran's wife, Harriet, seems to be an even odder character. After leaving, Marianne discovers that one of them stole the bracelet from her, so she returns and confronts...
Author
Series
Dragon girls volume 12
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
117 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Three new girls share an incredible secret-- they can transform into powerful Sea Dragons when they travel to the Magic Forest! They must work together to banish the evil Fire Queen, once and for all. Sofia the Lagoon Dragon must find the missing narwhal leader before it's too late. Otherwise the Magic Kingdom's seas will disappear forever!"--
Author
Series
Paperback sleuth volume 1
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cordelia knows books. An addict-turned-dealer of classic paperbacks, when she's not spending her days combing the charity shops and jumble sales of suburban London for valuable collector's items, she's pining for the woman of her dreams and nimbly avoiding her landlord's demands for rent. The man she's just robbed turns out be one of London's most dangerous gangsters, and now he's on her trail and out for blood.
13) Poetry in motion
Author
Series
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mary finds what could be an original copy of the poem on which the song "America the Beautiful" is based. Before she can confirm her find it disappears. Determined to recover such an important part of history, Mary sets out to find the thief.
14) Words of wisdom
Author
Series
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
254 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Mary tries to refinance the mortgage on the bookshop, her application is denied because of the large balance on her new credit card. But she hasn't opened a new account and certainly hasn't been on any spending spree. Mary is the victim of identity theft!
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime, an imprint of Pegasus Books, Ltd
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edtion.
Physical Desc
xvi, 400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color map, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a string of high profile jewel thefts went unsolved during the Swinging Sixties, the press dubbed the elusive thief "the King of Diamonds" because he eluded police and the FBI for more than a decade."--
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Simon is ready to make the Tangerine Pines his forever home, but when a robbery occurs in the apartment building, he and his new friend set out to solve the case and keep his family from moving again.
19) Cover story
Author
Series
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mary investigates the possible connection between a boat's distress call, the disappearance of a museum laptop, and the fact that several of Ivy Bay's prominent citizens have had their bank accounts cleaned out. Includes an interview with Elizabeth Adams, a recipe for Mary's hot chocolate and From the Guideposts archives.
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 13
Language
English
Description
You've got a dream job, running your own cozy secondhand bookstore, complete with Raffles, your caudally challenged cat. And you've got another way to make a buck: every once in a while you put your conscience on the shelf and let yourself into someone else's residence, and you leave with more than you came with. You're a burglar, and you know it's wrong, but you love it-until the 21st Century pulls the rug out from under you. All of a sudden the...
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