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Publisher
Universal Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A motorcycle stunt rider turns to robbing banks as a way to provide for his lover and their newborn child, a decision that puts him on a collision course with an ambitious rookie cop navigating a department ruled by a corrupt detective.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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"A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University's Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it for twenty-five million dollars. Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen...
7) Transit
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The camping trip was meant to reunite the Sidwell family, it's not. When they are hunted and terrorized by violent bank robbers their very survival will depend on working together.
8) Wyatt
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English
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WYATT'S BEEN AWAY. NOW HE'S BACK.The job's a classic jewel heist: quick, clean and simple. Except for one thing. Wyatt prefers to work alone, but this job belongs to Eddie Oberin and his very smart ex-wife Lydia. She has the inside information; Wyatt has the planning genius and meticulous preparation. What could possibly go wrong?Plenty. But when you cross Wyatt, you don't walk away.Taut plots, brilliant writing and relentless pace; plus an unforgettable...
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A philosophical yet practical gentleman, Bernie Rhodenbarr possesses many admirable qualities: charm, intelligence, sparkling wit, and unwavering loyalty. Of course, he also has this special talent and a taste for life's finer things. So he's more than willing to perform some vengeful larceny for a friend -- ripping off a smarmy, particularly deserving plastic surgeon -- for fun and a very tidy profit.
But during a practice run at another address,...
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English
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Bookseller-burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr gets caught up in a tangled web of intrigue when he agrees to help reculsive author Gulliver Fairborn retrieve the letters he wrote to his former literary agent Anthea Landau, who is planning to auction the letters off.
12) Strip
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Language
English
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Strip-club owner Manco Kapak instructs his henchmen to find the man who robbed the club and take care of him, but when they settle on the wrong man, Kapak and his crew find themselves in more trouble than they ever expected.
13) Oceans thirteen
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
After his friend Reuben Tishkoff is double-crossed in a Las Vegas real estate investment deal by the shady casino owner Willy Banks, Danny Ocean decides to reunite his team of criminals, including his former enemy Terry Benedict, to get revenge.
14) Freezer burn
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English
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Loner, loser, and sometime armed robber Bill Roberts finds himself in over his head when he bungles a raid on a fireworks stand and takes refuge in a cut-rate traveling freak show that is kept going by the magnetic aura of the mysterious frozen man.
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English
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Bernie Rhodenbarr is a personable chap, a good neighbor, a passable poker player. His chosen profession, however, might not sit well with some. Bernie is a burglar, a good one, effortlessly lifting valuables from the not-so-well-protected abodes of well-to-do New Yorkers like a modern-day Robin Hood. (The poor, as Bernie would be the first to tell you, alas, have nothing worth stealing.)
He's not perfect, however; he occasionally makes mistakes....
17) Headhunters
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Roger steals art to subsidize his lifestyle of living well beyond his means, and when his wife introduces him to a former mercenary who is in possesion of an extremely valuable painting, Roger will risk everything to get his hands on it.
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English
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Burglar and bookseller Bernie Rhodenbarr has retired to the New England countryside for a weekend of supposed rest and romance, but his real agenda involves a rare, autographed first edition of Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep," that someone is obviously willing to kill for.
19) The ladykillers
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Marva Munson is a spry, elderly woman who is looking for a tenant for the spare room in her house. Goldthwait H. Dorr moves in and gains Munson's permission to use the basement for rehearsals with his "medieval music ensemble." Dorr is masterminding the robbery of a riverboat casino, and the fellow musicians in his ensemble are actually the crew he's assembled to pull off the job. Despite their best efforts, Munson finds out about their scheme and...
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Series
Stick Cat volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Much to Edith's delight, she and Stick Cat are enjoying a lazy day at his apartment. But not for long. Soon, strange and threatening sounds come from the ceiling. What could it be? An elephant? Santa?
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