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The omega factor [sound recording] / by Berry, Steve,1955-author.; Brick, Scott,narrator.; Hachette Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Scott Brick."The Ghent Altarpiece is the most violated work of art in the world. Thirteen times it has been vandalized, dismantled, or stolen. Why? What secrets does it hold? Enter UNESCO investigator, Nicholas Lee, who works for the United Nations' Cultural Liaison and Investigative Office (CLIO). Nick's job is to protect the world's cultural artifacts--including countless lesser-known objects and national treasures. When Nick travels to Belgium for a visit with a woman from his past, he unwittingly stumbles on the trail of the twelfth panel for the Ghent Altarpiece, stolen in 1934 under cover of night and never seen since. Soon Nick is plunged into a bitter conflict, one that has been simmering for nearly two thousand years. On one side is the Maidens of Saint-Michael, les Vautours, Vultures, a secret order of nuns and the guardians of a great truth. Pitted against them is the Vatican, which has wanted for centuries to both find and possess what the nuns guard. Because of Nick the maidens have finally been exposed, their secret placed in dire jeopardy--a vulnerability that the Vatican swiftly moves to exploit utilizing an ambitious cardinal and a corrupt archbishop, both with agendas of their own. From the tranquil canals of Ghent, to the towering bastions of Carcassonne, and finally into an ancient abbey high in the French Pyrenees, Nick Lee must confront a modern-day religious crusade intent on eliminating a shocking truth from humanity's past. Success or failure--life and death--all turn on the Omega Factor"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Novels.; Catholic Church; Unesco; Antiquities; Art thefts; Art; Nuns; Secrecy; Secret societies; Theft;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Field tripped / by Woodrow, Allan.;
The fifth graders of Liberty Falls Elementary have a reputation for trouble, but they still have a field trip to the mansion of Edward Minks (local inventor, founder of the town, and great-great-great grandfather of fifth-grader Eddie). While there, they search for secret inventions that are rumored to be hidden in the mansion--but they find that they are not the only ones searching, and somehow this class of trouble-makers must work together to thwart the thieves.LSC
Subjects: School field trips; Inventors; Inventions; Secrecy; Theft;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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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: 0 / Total copies: 3
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Kitty and the tiger treasure / by Harrison, Paula.; Løvlie, Jenny.;
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Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Superheroes; Human-animal communication; Cats; Theft from museums;
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Kitty and the great lantern race / by Harrison, Paula.; Løvlie, Jenny.;
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Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Superheroes; Parades; Theft; Human-animal communication; Cats;
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The phantom bandit / by Stilton, Geronimo.; Bigarella, Ivan,1984-; Cerchi, Daria.; Bianchi, Roberta.; Heim, Julia.;
Appeals to 2nd-4th graders.Reading level: Grade 4.LSC
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Stilton, Geronimo; Mice; Pumpkin; Theft; Castles; Vacations;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The book thieves : the Nazi looting of Europe's libraries and the race to return a literary inheritance / by Rydell, Anders,1982-author.; Koch, Henning,1962-translator.; translation of:Rydell, Anders,1982-Boktjuvarna.English.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.While the Nazi party was being condemned by much of the world for burning books, they were already hard at work perpetrating an even greater literary crime. Through extensive new research that included records saved by the Monuments Men themselves - Anders Rydell tells the untold story of Nazi book theft, as he himself joins the effort to return the stolen books. When the Nazi soldiers ransacked Europe's libraries and bookshops, large and small, the books they stole were not burned. Instead, the Nazis began to compile a library of their own that they could use to wage an intellectual war on literature and history. In this secret war, the libraries of Jews, Communists, Liberal politicians, LGBT activists, Catholics, Freemasons, and many other opposition groups were appropriated for Nazi research, and used as an intellectual weapon against their owners. But when the war was over, most of the books were never returned. Instead many found their way into the public library system, where they remain to this day. Now, Rydell finds himself entrusted with one of these stolen volumes, setting out to return it to its rightful owner. It was passed to him by the small team of heroic librarians who have begun the monumental task of combing through Berlin's public libraries to identify the looted books and reunite them with the families of their original owners. For those who lost relatives in the Holocaust, these books are often the only remaining possession of their relatives they have ever held. And as Rydell travels to return the volume he was given, he shows just how much a single book can mean to those who own it.
Subjects: Book thefts; Libraries and national socialism; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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This is not my hat / by Klassen, Jon.;
A little fish steals a hat from a big fish.LSC
Subjects: Fishes; Hats; Theft; Lost articles; Lost and found possessions;
© 2012., Candlewick Press,
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Cam Jansen and the wedding cake mystery / by Adler, David A.; Allen, Joy.;
When Cam and her father go to a talent show at the local senior center, Cam's help is needed to find out who stole a wedding cake from the delivery truck."Ages 7 up"--P. [4] of cover.LSC
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Detective and mystery stories.; Jansen, Cam (Fictitious character); Talent shows; Wedding cakes; Theft;
© 2011, c2010., Puffin Books,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The great train mystery / by Lewman, David.; Alexander, Casey.; Hillenburg, Stephen.; Artifact Group.;
"Preschool-grade 1"--P. [4] of cover.LSC
Subjects: SpongeBob SquarePants (Fictitious character); Marine animals; Railroad travel; Theft;
© c2013., Random House Children's Books,
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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