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22) Thai die
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Pub. Date
2008.
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English
Description
The owner of the Crewel World needlework shop, Betsy Devonshire must put her sleuthing talents to work when one of her regular customers unwittingly becomes embroiled in a deadly delivery of exotic antiquities.
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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The passionate, true story of one man's quest to reclaim what the Nazis stole from his family--their beloved art collection--and to restore their legacy. Simon Goodman's grandparents came from German Jewish banking dynasties and perished in concentration camps. And that's almost all he knew--his father rarely spoke of their family history or heritage. But when he passed away, and Simon received his father's papers, a story began to emerge. The Gutmanns,...
25) Keeper's Reach
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English
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"Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan, two of the FBI's most valuable agents, are preparing for their next big assignment--their wedding--when Colin's brother Mike alerts them that onetime friends from his military past are on Sharpe and Donovan home turf on the Maine coast. Now private security contractors, they want to meet with Mike. One of them, an FBI agent named Kavanagh, is supposed to be on leave. What is he investigating--or does he have his own...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"It's the summer of 1922, and nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens finds herself in Paris--broke, disowned, and completely alone. Everyone in Belgium, including her own family, believes she stole millions in a sophisticated con game perpetrated by her then-fiance, George Everard. To protect herself from the law and the wrath of those who lost everything, she creates a new identity, a Frenchwoman named Vivienne Gregsby, and sets out to recover her father's...
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Hollywood Station volume 4
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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The latest novel featuring the cops of Hollywood Station, "Hollywood Hills" is a raucous and dangerous roller-coaster ride that showcases Wambaugh in vintage form.
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English
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The Book Smugglers is the story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts?first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets?by hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them across borders. It is a tale of heroism and resistance, of friendship and romance, and of unwavering devotion?including the readiness to risk one?s life?to literature and art. And it is entirely true. Based on Jewish, German,...
30) Heist society
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Series
Heist society novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A group of teenagers uses their combined talents to re-steal several priceless paintings and save fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop's father, himself an international art thief, from a vengeful collector.
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"While on assignment to create a mural for the Dawes, Wyoming Post Office, painter Val Welch finds himself entranced by his hosts, John and Eve Long, but when Eve flees with a valuable painting, John recruits Val to track her down. "Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he's landed a New Deal assignment to create a mural...
32) Framed in France
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Flat Stanley's worldwide adventures volume 11
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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"Stanley Lambchop is whisked away to Paris, where he must help catch a mastermind art thief at the historical Louvre museum by posing as a painting"--
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Elm Creek Quilts volume 5
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author Jennifer Chiaverini charms her many fans with her engaging Elm Creek Quilts novels. In The Quilter's Legacy, Sylvia Bergstrom Compson resolves to find several heirloom quilts that have vanished. Traveling far and wide, she discovers fascinating truths about her mother, who died when Sylvia was only a child.
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Detective Luc Moncrief story volume 1-3
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English
Description
A new bind-up with three exciting thrillers featuring NYPD Detective Luc Moncrief, a Paris detective who's about to learn that NYC is a whole other ballgame in the world of crime. French Twist: Gorgeous women are dropping dead at upscale department stores in New York City. Detective Luc Moncrief and Detective Katherine Burke are close to solving the mystery, but looks can be deceiving. French Kiss: Very handsome and charming French detective Luc Moncrief...
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Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
Description
Sophie Porter is the last person in the world you'd expect to be stealing Renaissance masterpieces--and that's exactly why she's so good at it. Slipping objects out of her husband's office at the Philadelphia Museum of Art satisfies something deep inside, during a time in her life when satisfactions are few and far between. Selling the treasures also happens to keep their house out of foreclosure--a house that means everything to Sophie. But the FBI...
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Pub. Date
2003.
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English
Description
Mrs Pargeter is forced to find out more than she would wish about her husband's 'business activities', when she recreates one of his most famous scams ... When she is asked by an elderly widow to return a large number of stolen paintings to their righful owners, she doesn't hesitate for it's a point of honour to complete any of her late husband's unfinished business. So she contacts Truffler Mason, Hedgeclipper Clinton and others of the late Mr Pargeter's...
38) Rival's break
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English
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"Emma Sharpe is recovering from a shattering loss while her husband, Colin Donovan, is deep into his latest undercover mission. So they're grateful to enjoy a peaceful autumn weekend together on the southern Maine coast to celebrate Colin's brother Andy's wedding. But the peace is short-lived when Kevin Donovan, a marine patrol officer, receives a call to check on suspected food poisoning at a party aboard a yacht. Colin decides to tag along. He is...
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 23
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English
Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another stunning thriller in his action-packed tale of high stakes international intrigue.
Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world's most valuable missing painting but soon finds himself in a desperate race to prevent an unthinkable conflict between Russia and the West.
Silva's powerhouse novel showcases...
40) Harbor Island
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English
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While tracking down stolen artifacts from Boston to Ireland to the coast of Maine, Emma Sharpe, the granddaughter of a world-renowned art detective, and her fiancé, FBI deep-cover agent Colin Donovan, must outwit one of the smartest, most ruthless killers they have ever encountered.
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