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The sisters Sputnik : a novel / by Favro, Terri,author.;
An odyssey wrapped in a love story, set in a near-future of artificial people. The Sisters Sputnik are a time-traveling trio of storytellers-for-hire who are much in demand throughout the multiverse of 2,052 alternate worlds. Each world was created by the detonation of a nuclear bomb in Earth Standard Time, home of the Sisters' leader, aging comic book creator Debbie Reynolds Biondi, her 20-something apprentice Unicorn Girl, and their pop culture--loving AI, Cassandra. Tales of Earth Standard Time-That-Was, from World Wars to the space race to Hollywood celebrities, have turned the Sisters into storytelling rock stars. In a distant reality where books and music have disappeared, Debbie finds herself in bed with an old Earth Standard Time lover who begs her to tell him a story. Over one long, eventful night, she spins the epic of the Sisters' adventures in alternate realities, starting with the theft of a book of evil comic strips in a post-pandemic Toronto full of ghost kitchens and robot-worshipping lost children known as junksters, to a disco-era purgatory where synthetic people are sending humans into the past through a reverse-engineered Statue of Liberty, to a version of the 1950s where the Sisters meet a rising star named Frank Sinatra and his girlfriend, the once-and-future Queen of England.
Subjects: Science fiction.; Novels.; Multiverse; Storytellers; Time travel;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Welcome to the Maynard [graphic novel] / by Robinson, James,1963-author.; Bone, J.(Jason),illustrator.; Herring, Ian(Illustrator),colourist.; Campbell, Jim(Letterer),letterer.;
Philippa (Pip) begins her new job as a bellhop (and trainee house detective) at the exclusive Maynard Hotel for Wizards (and other magical folks). This opulent hotel exists right under the noses of everyday San Francisco, where real magicians, witches, mystical characters and fantastic creatures all come to stay. However, Pip's working days aren't merely full of amazing magical experiences, they are filled with thrills and dangers as well. She must try to catch a magical hotel thief, although their strange choice of thefts suggests that murder is the ultimate goal. Can Pip solve the mystery of who the thief's target is in time to save the intended victim? And at the same time, she must go about her regular duties at the hotel of which involve spells, enchantment, and drama of one kind or another. Helping her are many fun and funny hotel employees, all of them with magic running through their veins too. The Maynard is a unique, special hotel where the strange and mystical come to stay. It truly a place like no other, especially now Pip is on the case to liven things up even more.
Subjects: Fantasy comics.; Graphic novels.; Bellhops; Hotels; Wizards; Burglary investigation; Magic; Hotels;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Lark wraps it up / by Deen, Natasha.; Cutler, Marcus,1978-;
"In this early chapter book, Lark and Connor help their halmoni's [grandmother's] friend June try to find out who stole her quilt, and get it back in time to display it at the local quilt show"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Child detectives; Theft; Twins; Siblings; Stealing; Quilts;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Paris detective [text (large print)] : three Detective Luc Moncrieff thrillers / by Patterson, James,1947-author.; DiLallo, Richard,author.; Patterson, James,1947-Novellas.Selections.; Patterson, James,1947-Christmas mystery.; Patterson, James,1947-French kiss.; Patterson, James,1947-French twist.;
Joining the NYPD for a fresh start, French detective Luc Moncrief must become a quick study in the art of the steal, as gorgeous women drop dead at upscale department stores and priceless paintings vanish from a Park Avenue murder scene before a coldblooded killer strikes again.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Large type books.; Novellas.; Art thefts; French; Murder; Police; Theft;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The art thief : a true story of love, crime, and a dangerous obsession / by Finkel, Michael,author.;
"For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly ten years--in museums and cathedrals all over Europe--Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion. In The Art Thief, Michael Finkel brings us into Breitwieser's strange and fascinating world. Unlike most thieves, he never stole for money, keeping all his treasures in a single room where he could admire them to his heart's content. Possessed of a remarkable athleticism and an innate ability to assess practically any security system, Breitwieser managed to pull off a breathtakingly number of audacious thefts. Yet these strange talents bred a growing disregard for risk and an addict's need to score, leading Breitwieser to ignore his girlfriend's pleas to stop--until one final act of hubris brought everything crashing down"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Breitwieser, Stéphane, 1971-; Art thefts;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Problem at the playground / by Carbone, Courtney.; Demmer, Melanie.;
"It's an exciting day in Aquamarina! The entire community has gathered for the opening of a new playground. But when the equipment falls apart because some of the pieces have vanished, it's up to a mermaid named Violet and her best friend, Wally the narwhal, to solve the mystery of what happened. After the adventure, explore fun facts about ocean science and civil engineering included at the back of the book!"--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Mermaids; Narwhal; Playgrounds; Theft;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The dragon thief / by Elliott, Zetta.; B, Geneva.;
Told in two voices, Jax and Kavita, Kavita's brother Vik, and new friend Kenny try to return the baby dragon to the realm of magic before anything else goes wrong.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Magic; Dragons; Witches; Apprentices; Theft; African Americans;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The sequel / by Korelitz, Jean Hanff,1961-author.;
"Anna Williams-Bonner has taken care of business. That is to say, she's taken care of her husband, bestselling novelist Jacob Finch Bonner, and solved the mystery of the anonymous plagiarism accusations that tormented him. Now she is living her life, content to enjoy her husband's royalty checks in perpetuity, but literary celebrity continues to beckon, and this time the book in question is her own debut novel, The Afterword. After all, how hard can it really be to write and publish a universally lauded best seller? Then, in the wake of The Afterword's great success, Anna begins to receive anonymous accusations of her very own. Surely there is no one out there who still knows the truth about her colorful life, so who is sending her these excerpts of a justly lost manuscript by a justly unpublished author? Who knows her true name and origins? Who understands the exact nature of her many, many transgressions? Anna has come too far, and worked too hard, to lose this life. She cannot rest until she has eradicated the threat and reclaimed, definitively and permanently, her sole and uncontested right to her own story"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Authors; Murder; Novelists; Theft; Truthfulness and falsehood; Widows; Women authors;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Crook manifesto : a novel / by Whitehead, Colson,1969-author.;
PREVIOUS BOOK IN SERIES: HARLEM SHUFFLE, ISBN 9780385693998. Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning Colson Whitehead continues his 'Harlem' saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; African American families; American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976; Arson; Blaxploitation films; Corruption; Organized crime; Receiving stolen goods; Sales personnel; Theft;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Crook manifesto [text (large print)] : a novel / by Whitehead, Colson,1969-author.;
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning Colson Whitehead continues his 'Harlem' saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; African American families; American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976; Arson; Blaxploitation films; Corruption; Organized crime; Receiving stolen goods; Sales personnel; Theft;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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