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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Hardcover Edition.
Language
English
Description
"Swinging London, Summer 1967. Sixteen-year-old Estella, gifted with talent, ingenuity, and ambition, dreams of becoming a renowned fashion designer. But life seems intent on making sure her dreams never come true. Having arrived in London as a young girl, Estella now runs wild through the city streets with Jasper and Horace, amateur thieves who double as Estella's makeshift family and partners-in-(petty)-crime. How can Estella dedicate herself to...
86) The dragon kite
Author
Pub. Date
[1982]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A crafty thief constructs a magnificent kite which he hopes will enable him to reach the golden dolphins that adorn the roof of a nearby castle.
89) The getaway
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Follow Fingers McGraw, a mouse, as he scurries away with a stolen piece of cheese, and ace lawman Detective Jumbo Wayne Jr., an elephant, tries to catch him.
90) Stand off
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In a misguided attempt to protect his family and pay back gambling debts to the local mobster, Jimbo robs a fish market, coincidentally owned by the same mobster. On the run, Jimbo is cornered in a local curio shop, where he takes hostage an assortment of colorful characters, including Maguire, who may be his illegitimate father. Surrounded by the police, the SAS, and the mobster's crew, the young man must find a way out of his precarious predicament...
91) The highway rat
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Based on the beloved children's book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler, it tells the tale of a ravenous rat who craves buns, cookies, and all sweet things. Tearing along the highway, he searches for sugary treats to steal. But will his sweet tooth lead him to a sticky end? This swashbuckling tale is an animated film the whole family will enjoy.
92) Bandits
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
After busting out of jail and on the run, 2 bank robbers devise the perfect crime with imperfect partners. Not wanting to hurt anyone during their robberies, they go to the homes of bank personnel and end up staying the night with the families so that they can all go to the bank in the morning, hence becoming the "sleepover bandits."
93) The town
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Doug MacRay is leader of a Boston bank robber gang but not cut from the same cloth as his fellow thieves. When Doug falls into a passionate romance with the bank manager briefly taken hostage in their last heist, he wants out of this life and out of the town. As the Feds close in and the crew questions his loyalty, he has one of two choices: betray his friends or lose the woman he loves. Special features include the extended cut.
95) Path of beasts
Author
Series
Keepers trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Spunky twelve-year-old Goldie, Toadspit, and the other children face up to Fugleman, his band of Blessed Guardians, and an army of mercenaries who have captured the city of Jewel.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A charming German folktale based on a children's story about how Halloween came to be. Three robbers prowl the country and store their loot in a mountain cave. One night they stop a carriage and find an orphan, Tiffany, on her way to live with her wicked aunt. Tiffany is delighted to meet the robbers, but appalled at their ill-gotten wealth. What she does to change their ways will delight children of all ages.
Author
Series
School of Fear volume 2
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-olds Madeleine, Theo, and Lulu, fourteen-year-old Garrison, and ten-year-old new "contestant" Hyacinth must face their phobias and join forces to learn who is stealing wigs and pageant trophies from the School of Fear.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Black Bart was not the Old West's only stagecoach robber, but he quickly became the most famous. To many people, he was a folk hero, a robber who didn't threaten or harm passengers. He was a bandit with a sense of humor who wrote poetry. In robbing at least 28 Wells Fargo stagecoaches across northern California between 1875 and 1883, he never fired a shot or injured anyone. His gun, it turned out, was never loaded. Newspaper stories about the poet...
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