Author: Megan Whalen Turner
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Keywords: thief, book, queen
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0060824972
ISBN-13: 9780060824976
"I can steal anything." After Gen’s bragging lands him in the king’s prison, the chances of escape look slim. Then the king’s scholar, the magus, needs the thief’s skill for a seemingly impossible task -- to steal a hidden treasure from another land. To the magus, Gen is just a tool. But Gen is a trickster and a survivor with a plan of his own.
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Publisher: Image Entertainment
Keywords: thief, bicycle
Published:
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 6305081034
ISBN-13: 9786305081036
DescriptionA beautiful, simple story of a man in post-war Rome who needs his bicycle in order to work at his job. No sooner does he retrieve it from pawn, then it is stolen. The heartwrenching search teaches the man and his son much about the meaning of life and just how far we will go when pushed to the edge. Winner of a special Academy Award.
Author: Kay Hooper
Publisher: Bantam
Keywords: thief
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2002-10-01
List price: $7.50
ISBN-10: 0553585118
ISBN-13: 9780553585117
With a priceless collection at stake...Is everything for the taking?It had taken centuries for Max Bannister’s family to acquire their treasures, and now he’s been asked to risk his collection as bait for a master criminal. For his own reasons, Max allows a public exhibition, and to protect the family fortune he must rely on the skills of his half brother--a world-class security expert--and his smart and savvy exhibit director, Morgan West.But almost immediately, Morgan comes face-to-face with the mysterious Quinn, Interpol’s most wanted thief for the past decade--and a man who makes it
Author: Kay Hooper
Publisher: Bantam
Keywords: thief
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007-09-25
List price: $4.99
ISBN-10: 0553590243
ISBN-13: 9780553590241
With a priceless collection at stake...Is everything for the taking?It had taken centuries for Max Bannister’s family to acquire their treasures, and now he’s been asked to risk his collection as bait for a master criminal. For his own reasons, Max allows a public exhibition, and to protect the family fortune he must rely on the skills of his half brother—a world-class security expert—and his smart and savvy exhibit director, Morgan West.But almost immediately, Morgan comes face-to-face with the mysterious Quinn, Interpol’s most wanted thief for the past decade—and a man who makes
Author: Kay Hooper
Publisher: Bantam
Keywords: thief
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2003-06-03
List price: $7.50
ISBN-10: 0553585681
ISBN-13: 9780553585681
In a deadly game of skill and deception...A master thief is just the first wild card…The priceless, rarely displayed Bannister collection is about to be exhibited—and the show’s director, Morgan West, can’t ignore her growing uneasiness. She’s certain she hasn’t seen the last of the infamous cat burglar Quinn. But she never expected him to turn up at her apartment one dark night in desperate need of her help—help she can’t refuse. The mysterious master thief is playing a dangerous game, and it’s a game that just might get him killed.With Morgan’s help, Quinn sets a trap int
Author: Douglas Coupland
Publisher: Random House Canada
Keywords: thief, gum
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-09-25
List price: $30.81
ISBN-10: 0307356280
ISBN-13: 9780307356284
The first and only story of love and looming apocalypse set in the aisles of an office supply superstore.In Douglas Coupland’s ingenious new novel–sort of a Clerks-meets-Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf–we meet Roger, a divorced, middle-aged “aisles associate” at a Staples outlet, condemned to restocking reams of twenty-lb. bond paper for the rest of his life. And then there’s Roger’s co-worker Bethany, who’s at the end of her Goth phase, and young enough to be looking at fifty more years of sorting the red pens from the blue in Aisle Six.One day, Bethany comes across Roger’s
Author: Brian James
Publisher: Push
Keywords: thief
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-06-01
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 0545034000
ISBN-13: 9780545034005
Elizabeth is a pickpocket and thief living on the edge in New York City. She and her foster sister, Alexi, are living with Sandra—a modern-day Fagin who takes in foster children and then forces them to steal things for her. Even though she’s sick of it, Elizabeth doesn’t really question her life…until Sandra takes in a third foster child, this time a boy. Dune is a completely lost soul, and Elizabeth begins to see the limits of her life. Sandra is not going to let her go easily—but Elizabeth knows she has to find a way out. With brutal honesty and striking lyricism, Brian Jam
