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41) The stolen smile
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Creative Editions
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English
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From his jail cell in Italy, Vincenzo Peruggia tells how and why he stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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The Guy decides to have a house party while his parents are out of town. The Girl is adjusting to life in a new country. The Artist has discovered that forgery is a lucrative business. And his Ex, mother of his baby, is just trying to make ends meet. As Guy, a feckless high-school senior, plans the party of the year, Rafi worries about her mother, who is still grieving over the drowning death of Rafi's little brother back in Bolivia and haunted by...
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Series
Her Majesty the Queen investigates volume 2
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English
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"Amateur detective Queen Elizabeth II is back in this hugely entertaining follow-up to The Windsor Knot, in which Her Majesty must determine how a missing painting is connected to the shocking death of a staff member inside Buckingham Palace"--
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English
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"It's 1958, and Evelyn Elizabeth Grace Murphy has not left the Pinnacle Hotel in fourteen months. She suffers from agoraphobia, and what's more, it's her father's hotel, and everything she needs is there. Evelyn's always been good at finding things; she discovered her mother dead in a Manhattan alleyway fifteen years earlier. Now she's finding trouble inside her sanctuary. At a party for artist Billie Bell, his newest work is stolen, and Evelyn's...
45) The big bad woof
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Series
Rider Woofson volume 8
Publisher
Little Simon
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A new criminal in Pawston is stealing priceless works of art, but Rider, busy with an old friend, may not be able to prevent the theft of the Bona Lisa.
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Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When a set of priceless paintings by Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt go missing in Russia, the Kidd siblings head to St. Petersburg and the wild Arctic tundra to find the bad guys and locate the treasure.
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English
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A Fast-Paced, Keep-You-Guessing Whodunit with a Dash of Romance! When a valuable Salvador Dali painting belonging to her grandmother's friend is mysteriously replaced by a forgery, FBI Special Agent Serena Jones is called in to investigate. Serena hopes finding the thief will also mean finally measuring up to Nana's expectations. But when the evidence points to members of the owner's own household, it becomes increasingly clear that Serena won't be...
49) Headcase
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Series
Chris Honeysett mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Language
English
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Language
English
Description
An account of the Boston criminal underworld's role in the infamous Gardner Museum art theft traces the contributions of Louis Royce and Ralph Rossetti and examines the FBI's announcement that they had identified those responsible.
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Language
English
Description
"The true story of the world's most prolific art thief: a spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, from the bestselling author of The Stranger in the Woods. For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stephane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly ten years--in museums and cathedrals all over Europ--Breitwieser,...
56) Nothing ventured
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Series
William Warwick novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Nothing Ventured heralds the start of a brand new series in the style of Jeffrey Archer's #1 New York Times bestselling Clifton Chronicles: introducing Detective William Warwick. But this is not a detective story, this is a story about the making of a detective . . . William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective, and decides, much to his father's dismay, that rather than become a lawyer like his father, Sir Julian Warwick QC, and his sister...
60) Masterpiece
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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