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Author
Series
A to Z mysteries. Main series volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
Dink and his friends use their detective skills to locate a giant emerald missing from a statue delivered to Uncle Warren's museum in New York City.
Author
Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 19
Pub. Date
1992.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
176 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
While Frank and Joe help their father locate a notorious jewel thief, they also explore the mysterious death of a tycoon's nephew years before.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 56
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Asked to locate a stolen necklace of unusual value, Nancy soon discovers that strange and dangerous people are responsible for the theft.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Christmastime jaunt to an English village devolves into an investigation of a missing ruby and a series of baffling murders and only antiques dealer Kate Hamilton can crack the case It s Christmastime and antiques dealer Kate Hamilton is off to visit her daughter, Christine, in the quaint English village of Long Barston. Christine and her boyfriend, Tristan, work at stately-but-crumbling Finchley Hall. Touring the Elizabethan house and grounds,...
Author
Series
Little thieves volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele's dutiful servant up until a year ago. That was when Vanja's otherworldly mothers demanded a terrible price for their care, and Vanja decided to steal her future back--by stealing Gisele's life for herself. The real Gisele is left a penniless nobody while Vanja uses an enchanted string of pearls to take her place. Now, Vanja leads a lonely but lucrative double life as princess...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xi, 262 pages : portraits ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Growing up during the Depression in the segregated coal-mining town of Slab Fork, West Virginia, the bright and willful Doris Payne dreamed big. Fascinated by the fine clothes, jewels, and lifestyles in magazines such as Town & Country and Harper's Bazaar, she imagined a world beyond herself, one in which she did not carry the weight of limitations that others imposed on her and where her beloved mother was free from her father's abuse. After the...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Scotland Yard's new chief inspector Nicholas Drummond is on the first flight to New York when he learns his colleague, Elaine York, the "minder" of the Crown Jewels for the "Jewel of the Lion" exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was found murdered. Then the centerpiece of the exhibit, the infamous Koh-i-Noor Diamond, is stolen from the Queen Mother's crown. Drummond, American-born but raised in the UK, is a dark, dangerous, fast-rising star...
Author
Series
Miss Julia series volume 8
Language
English
Description
America's favorite Woman of a Certain Age takes the law into her own hands when a band of jewel thieves targets her town.
Author
Series
Victor Li novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A riveting thriller about a young man on the run from a furtive past, in search of a quick payday in Mexico City, who finds himself in the crosshairs of a dangerous international scheme"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
124 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When jewelry-store owner Gina Gallo and her boyfriend Pete take a week's vacation, she leaves the store in the hands of her cousin from New York. After all, cousin Carmine is a certified gemologist--but Carmine is also in the Mob. When Gina gets back, she discovers that her cousin has spent his time switching real gems for fakes in the jewelry of some of her best customers. With her reputation on the line, what's a Mob goddaughter to do? Mastermind...
Author
Series
Edilean series volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Historian Gemma Ranford and Colin Frazier must work together to find the Heartwishes stone that's been missing for over one hundred years -- and with an international thief also on the hunt, the clock is ticking. Because in the wrong hands, no one named Frazier will ever be safe.
Author
Series
Alex Turner novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xiv, 245 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An explosive debut featuring renown diamond expert caught in a web of deception and malice while trying to uncover the secrets behind the most expensive diamond in the world.
When "The Russian Pink"-a stunningly large rose-hued diamond-makes a surprise appearance around the neck of Honey Li, the wife of surging presidential candidate Harry Nash, Alex Turner, an investigator for the Treasury Department's diamond division and former C.I.A. agent,...
14) Ocean's eight
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD)(110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Debbie Ocean gathers a crew to attempt an impossible heist at New York City's yearly Met Gala.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Alfie McQuinn, the notorious jewel thief, is killed on a job, his last words to his son, March, are to "find jewels" and this instruction leads the boy to Jules, the twin sister he never knew he had--and the perfect partner to carry on the family business.
17) Sting
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
570L
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
March and Jules are teenage twins, following in their father's footsteps as jewel thieves, but when their latest job goes wrong they end up with one jewel, a sapphire called the Morning Star, one of three cursed jewels--and the only way they can break the curse is to elude the FBI, Interpol, and a gang of international criminals, find the other two jewels, and reunite them.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (627 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Binge watch popular Quentin Tarantino's films. Titles included: Death Proof, Inglourious Basterds, Once Upon a Time in...Hollywood and Reservoir Dogs.
Death proof: A stuntman takes to the roads, stalking victims from his car.
Inglourious basterds: During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers led by Lt. Aldo Raine, known as "The Basterds," are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally...
19) Man on a ledge
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ex-cop Nick Cassidy escapes from prison to plan the ultimate heist: steal a $40 million diamond from cutthroat businessman David Englander, and in the process prove his innocence. From the ledge of the famous Roosevelt Hotel, with the whole world watching, Cassidy plays a clever game of cat & mouse with the NYPD while his dutiful brother Joey works against the clock to extract the diamond and clear his brother's name.
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