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The Heist
Silva, Daniel 2014-07 - Harper 9780062320056 Check Our Catalog A fallen spyA missing masterpieceA daring missionThe Heist Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon is in Venice repairing an altarpiece by Veronese when he receives an urgent summons from the Italian police. The eccentric London art dealer Julian Isherwood has stumbled upon a chilling murder scene in Lake Como, and is being held as a suspect. To save his friend, Gabriel must …More |
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The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
Tartt, Donna 2013-10 - Little Brown and Company 9780316055437 Check Our Catalog Awards: ALA Notable Books (2014), Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence (2014), Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014), National Book Critics Circle Award (2013), Pulitzer Prize (2014) "The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel. A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he …More |
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The Art Forger
Shapiro, Barbara Author Shapiro, B. A. 2012-10 - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 9781616201326 Check Our Catalog Awards: Macavity Award (2013), New England Book Award (2013) In 1990, 13 works of art worth today more than $500 million were stolen from a museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in history, and Claire Roth, a struggling young artist, is about to discover that there's more to this crime than meets the eye. HPL patron: …More |
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The Marseille Caper
Mayle, Peter 2012-11 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780307594198 Check Our Catalog Lovable rogue and sleuth extraordinaire Sam Levitt is back in another beguiling, as-only-Peter-Mayle-can-write-it romp through the South of France. …More |
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The Thomas Crown Affair
McTiernan, John 2011-01 - Tcfhe/MGM 0883904210023 Check Our Catalog This sexy game of cat and mouse pits a millionaire who steals for thrills against a beautiful insurance agent who's torn between turning him in and joining him. …More |
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Stealing Mona Lisa
Morton, Carson 2012-10 - Minotaur Books 9781250015730 Check Our Catalog The charming Eduardo de Valfierno makes a very respectable living in Argentina fleecing the nouveau rich--they pay him to steal valuable pieces of art, and Valfierno sells them flawless forgeries instead. But when Eduardo meets the beautiful Mrs. Hart on his latest con, he takes a risk that forces him back to the city he loved and left behind--Paris. …More |
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