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Story thieves volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Except for reading the Kiel Gnomenfoot magic adventure series, Owen's life is boring until he sees his classmate Bethany climb out of a book in the school library and he learns that she's half-fictional and has been searching every book she can find for her missing father, a fictional character.
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Story thieves volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Mysteries abound as memory-erased Owen Conners, boy magician Kiel Gnomenfoot, and their half-fictional friend Bethany confront secrets, stolen memories, hidden clues, surprising twists and endings, and some very familiar faces.
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Story thieves volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Aided by old friends and new, Owen and Bethany try to bring the light back to Jupiter City, a comic book world where they discover a link between the Dark and Bethany's father.
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Story thieves volume 4
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English
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Owen is trapped in a time travel plot-your-own-adventure book, controlled by the reader, and a bizarre fellow prisoner, Kara Dox, might be his only hope for escaping to save Bethany.
5) Worlds apart
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Story thieves volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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After Nobody destroys the connection between fictional and nonfictional worlds, causing nonfictional people to lose their imaginations, Owen and Bethany must risk everything to save multiple realities.
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What is the long shadow of war hiding?Under a blue sky. Bathed in the yellow late Summer sun. The smell of camellias. The sound of birdsong.The war seems a distant nightmare.Until you turn a corner to see bombed out houses full of rubble.Sadie Phillips is an ordinary country girl. Making her war effort in the London Archives.Her almost boyfriend is dead without a mark on him. She needs to know how. And why.And if she can't figure out the truth, the...
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Macey McHenry-Glamorous society girl or spy-in-training? W.W. Hale V-Heir to an American dynasty or master thief? There are two sides to every coin. Whether these two can work together is a tossup. Born into privilege, Macey and Hale are experts at mingling with the upper class. But even if they've never raised an eyebrow at the glitz, neither teenager has ever felt at home with the glamour. When Macey and Hale meet at a society gala, the party takes...
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Skate onto thin ice as multiple award-winning author Kat Bastion spins five brand-new multicultural holiday stories in… Festive Frostbite: A Colder Christmas Collection 'Tis the season for stealing and… icing. Five orphans raid a luxury department store over Christmas in…Thick as Thieves Other standalone books in the FESTIVE FROSTBITE series... A charming college football quarterback corners a sexy cat burglar in…Caught at Christmas Gunmen...
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One Thief. One Vengeful Son. A Thief-ing Meet-Cue.Thief Steve Barker hates his father. He wants to steal a painting. Steve meets a shocking man.Thief Joey steals priceless art and jewellery. He wants to steal priceless earrings. Joey stops a hottie. Steve's revenge rests on Joey.A gripping, enthralling, engrossing romantic suspense story.
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Two Art Thieves. A Budding Romance. A Suspenseful Tale.Thieves steal hearts.Art Thief Johnathan steals paintings. He travels round the world. Johnathan meets a hot man in his home city.Johnathan encounters a dangerous group.A suspenseful, compelling, exciting romantic suspense story about love, theft and danger.
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In the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and made off with one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's Scream. It was a brazen crime committed while the whole world was watching the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. Baffled and humiliated, the Norwegian police turned to the one man they believed could help: a half English, half American undercover cop...
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Early one Spring morning, in 1888, on Texada Island, British Columbia, the body of Ernie Tsan washed ashore with the tide, and landed at the feet of a young newspaper reporter, Evelyn Walker. Eve is Canada's first female journalist, on her first assignment as writer for the Coast Miner Newspaper. By virtue of her discovery, Eve quickly finds herself in the middle of a scandal that threatens to erupt into social violence, between the Salishan and sister...
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A memoir about two siblings who loved each other (sometimes); the thrill of the shoplift, the power of the written word, the agony of addiction, and the joy of someone who understands you and still stays true
Steve Geng-thief, addict, committed member of Manhattan's criminal semi-elite, was a rhapsody in blue, all on his own. Women had a tendency to crack his head open. His sister? Also unusual: Veronica Geng wrote brilliantly eccentric pieces for...
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Queen of Thieves is the gritty, fast-paced story of Fredericka "Marm" Mandelbaum, a poor Jewish woman who rose to the top of her profession in organized crime during the Gilded Age in New York City. During her more than twenty-five-year reign as the country's top receiver of stolen goods, she accumulated great wealth and power inconceivable for women engaged in business, legitimate or otherwise. The New York Times called Mandelbaum "the nucleus and...
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Publisher
Jeter Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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An investigation into how racial inequality has shaped the heart transplant race describes how in 1968 an injured black man checked into a hospital before his heart was removed and donated without his family's knowledge or consent.
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Thoroughly realized and lovingly told, THE THREE THIEVES AND THE MAGIC TEARS presents a robustly imagined world. In addition to this world building, readers will enjoy well developed characters and a new twist on the popular quest narrative. Blue Ink Review Taube's fanciful, page-turning tale will charm all. She has created quite a world whimsical enough for kids but evolved enough to keep adults engaged. The theme of facing ones fears, as seen here,...
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The true story of the world's first robbery of a moving train, and the real origins of the Wild West. They were the first outlaws to rob a moving train. But from 1864 to 1868, the Reno brothers and their gang of counterfeiters, robbers, burglars, and safecrackers also held the town of Seymour, Indiana, hostage, making a large hotel near the train station their headquarters. When the gang robbed the Adams Express car of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad...
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Chasing Thieves tells the true story of how I overcame identity theft to catch the criminal and recover from the personal and financial trauma that turned my life upside down.
Every year hundreds of thousands of Americans become the victims of identity theft. In most cases the thief is not found; the victim never has the satisfaction of knowing how the thief came to target them. But my story had a very different ending. You may even have heard about...
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As the travelers continue westward, the monkey king Sun Wukong steals rice from an elderly villager's kitchen. Then the pig-man Zhu Bajie takes three silk vests from a seemingly abandoned tower. These small crimes trigger a violent confrontation with a monster who uses a strange and powerful weapon to disarm and defeat the disciples. Helpless and out of options, Sun Wukong must journey to Thunderclap Mountain and beg the Buddha himself for help.
This...
20) Liars, Cheats, & Thieves: A Story of a Florida Municipal Electric Provider, and Electrifying Choices
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English
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Taxpayers and citizens of Vero Beach Florida, an electric provider, are swindled into paying high electric rates.