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1) The drifter
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The #1 New York Times–bestselling author "turns an able and sensual hand to the old story of the capable, straitlaced spinster and the sensual roving rogue." -Publishers Weekly
She seeks a home. He seeks redemption. What they find is each other.
Leah Mundy has spent her life dashing from town to town, one step ahead of her father's dreadful reputation. Now she wants to create a home for herself and build a medical practice in Coupeville, a...
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[2018]
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IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
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Lucy Bluecrowne is beginning a new life ashore with her stepmother and half brother, though she's certain the only place she'll ever belong is with her father on a ship of war as part of the crew. She doesn't care that living in a house is safer and the proper place for a twelve-year-old girl; it's boring. But then two nefarious strangers identify her little brother as the pyrotechnical prodigy they need to enact an evil plan, and it will take all...
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Three decades after the first publication of Forrest Gump, Winston Groom returns to fiction with this sweeping American epic. Long fascinated with the Mexican Revolution and the vicious border wars of the early twentieth century, Winston Groom brings to life a much-forgotten period of history in this sprawling saga of heroism, injustice, and love. An episodic novel set in six parts, El Paso pits the legendary Pancho Villa, a much-feared outlaw and...
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Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
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Eleven-year-old asthmatic Reuben Land chronicles the Land family's odyssey in search of Reuben's older brother, Davy, who has escaped from jail before he can stand trial for the killing of two marauders who came to their Minnesota farm to harm the family. A first novel. Reprint.
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
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"Vow of Thieves is the thrilling sequel to Dance of Thieves, set in the same world as Mary E. Pearson's New York Times-bestselling Remnant Chronicles. Kazi and Jase have survived, stronger and more in love than ever. Their new life now lies before them - the Ballengers will be outlaws no longer, Tor's Watch will be a kingdom, and Kazi and Jase will meet all challenges side by side, together at last. But an ominous warning mars their journey back,...
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"In 1840s Ireland, heartstruck thief Liam O'Connor lures away, lovely Cora from her intended, so angels send him to small-town in contemporary America to right this wrong. He must convince today's Cora, a police detective, to marry a lawyer she loves, or Liam will be damned for eternity." -- Provided by publisher.
In 1844 Ireland, Liam O'Connor, a rogue and a thief, fell madly in love with a squire's daughter and unwittingly altered the future. Shy...
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2016.
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At the Sugarloaf Ranch, Smoke and Sally Jensen prepare to welcome Preacher home for the holidays unaware that their friend is trailed by a storm full of trouble. On a mission of vengeance, an old trapper is rescued by Ace and Chance Jensen from ruthless outlaws and wanted by a driven bounty hunter named Luke Jensen. And, just released from prison, a criminal mastermind assembles a vicious gang of cutthroats to extract his final revenge against his...
11) Painted devils
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
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"Reformed" jewel thief and scam artist Vanja accidentally starts a cult around a Low God, the Scarlet Maiden, who claims Emeric as her virgin sacrifice, and desperate to save the only man she's ever cared for, Vanja seeks a dangerous alternative.
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Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
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Raised to be a thief, blind orphan Peter Nimble, age ten, steals from a mysterious stranger three pairs of magical eyes, that lead him to a hidden island where he must decide to become a hero or resume his life of crime.
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Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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Two thieves, caught stealing from an Egyptian market, are brought before the Cat Pharaoh, who agrees to pardon them if they bring back a treasure that was stolen from her, without taking anything else and without getting the precious Jewel Fish wet.
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Greenleaf Book Group Press
Pub. Date
c2011
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Shaped by a brutal and orphaned childhood, abused and sexually exploited, Kelly Jensen has become a daring and seductive criminal, a beautiful and bewitching master of disguise and identity theft, in order to protect the lives of her children and to bring down a ruthless underworld subjecting foster children to white slavery.
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Magic Misfits volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
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"Six young magicians and illusionists team up to save their small town from a crooked carnival owner and his goons"--
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Hardy boys mystery stories volume 10
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Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
1995, 1931
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
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When Frank and Joe try to get hold of a top secret invention, they are put on the trail of jewel thieves and smugglers.
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Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
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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.
20) Dance of thieves
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 21
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A formidable outlaw family that claims to be the first among nations. A son destined to lead, thrust suddenly into power. Three fierce young women of the Rahtan, the queen's premier guard. A legendary street thief leading a mission, determined to prove herself. A dark secret that is a threat to the entire continent. A dark secret that is a threat to the entire continent. When outlaw leader meets reformed thief, a cat-and-mouse game of false moves...
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