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1) Sutton
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Willie Sutton was born in the Irish slums of Brooklyn in 1901, and he came of age at a time when banks were out of control. Sutton saw only one way out and only one way to win the girl of his dreams. So began the career of America's most successful bank robber. During three decades Sutton became so good at breaking into banks, the FBI put him on its first-ever Most Wanted List. But the public rooted for the criminal who never fired a shot, and when...
Author
Series
A to Z mysteries. Main series volume 17
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
When someone steals the money the town has been collecting to help the ducks, Josh and his friends try to find the thief.
4) Cutthroats
Author
Series
Slash and Pecos volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a lifetime of robbing banks and holding up trains, Jimmy "Slash" Braddock and Melvin "Pecos Kid" Baker are ready to call it quits, settle down, though not completely by choice. The youngest members of their old gang, the Snake River Marauders, sell them out to the law. Slash and Pecos have to bust out of jail themselves. Now they're ready to leave their outlaw days behind them and start over where nobody knows them. To finance their retirement,...
5) Six of crows
Author
Series
Six of crows volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction--if they don't kill each other first"--
6) Fallen land
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Set in the final year of the Civil War, as a young couple on horseback flees a dangerous band of marauders who seek a bounty reward. Callum, a seasoned horse thief at fifteen years old, came to America from his native Ireland as an orphan. Ava, her father and brother lost to the war, hides in her crumbling home until Callum determines to rescue her from the bands of hungry soldiers pillaging the land, leaving destruction in their wake. Ava and Callum...
9) Zama
Language
Español
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Description
Zama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the King granting him a transfer from the town in which he is stagnating, to a better place. His situation is delicate. He must ensure that nothing overshadows his transfer. He is forced to accept submissively every task entrusted to him by successive Governors who come and go as he stays behind. The years go by and the letter from the King never arrives. When ZAMA...
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Illuminates the life and image of one of New York City's most fashionable criminals-Celia Cooney
Ripped straight from the headlines of the Jazz Age, The Bobbed Haired Bandit is a tale of flappers and fast cars, of sex and morality. In the spring of 1924, a poor, 19-year-old laundress from Brooklyn robbed a string of New York grocery stores with a "baby automatic," a fur coat, and a fashionable bobbed hairdo. Celia Cooney's crimes made national news,...
11) Bonnie and Clyde
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
The story of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, who robbed banks across the country during the Depression era.
Author
Series
Werepenguin volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Some stories are about happy, adorable penguins who form families, learn to dance, or make friends. This is not one of those stories. All orphan Bolt Wattle has ever wanted was to find his true family. When a mysterious baron in far-off Brugaria sends for Bolt, he wonders if he's getting closer to finding his long-lost parents. But Baron Chordata appears to be a twelve-year-old boy who wears tuxedos all the time, shouts at everyone, and forbids Bolt...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US when she was young. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in the village--they've all gone north. While watching The Magnificent Seven, Nayeli decides to go north herself and recruit seven men--her own 'Siete Magníficos'--to repopulate her hometown and protect...
14) Midnight thief
Author
Series
Midnight thief novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"Kyra, a highly skilled seventeen-year-old thief, joins a guild of assassins with questionable motives. Tristam, a young knight, fights against the vicious Demon Riders that are ravaging the city" --
15) Remote
Publisher
Full Moon Features
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old whiz kid Randy Mason creates a fleet of sophisticated remote-controlled toys, he soon runs afoul of both the local bully and his school principal, leading to a suspension and his mother banning him from using his ingenious devices. But when a cabal of crooks comes to call, Randy must defend his turf and rescue his lady love Judy using only his wits and his radio-controlled pals.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The daughter of a professional robber, Ronja realizes the complicated nature of her father's profession when she befriends Birk, the child of a rival tribe. She struggles to balance this friendship with her family relationship but comes to understand that differences can be overcome with the help of love and understanding.
17) Cloudmaker
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In 1937 Montana, fourteen-year-old Houston "Huck" Finn finds a dead body in a local creek and steals the man's rare Lindbergh flight watch. Huck is an aspiring aviator, working to build his own airplane-a secret he has kept from his God-fearing mother. His cousin, Annelise, arrives from Los Angeles for a long stay with his family, and Huck is initially wary until he learns she has had flight lessons. As his airplane takes shape, and the young cousins...
18) Bonnie and Clyde
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Two-disc special ed., widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
The story of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, who robbed banks across the country during the Depression era.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Lawless street: Randolph Scott stars as Marshal Coleen Wave, a lawman who moves from town to town in the Colorado Territory, ridding each of its outlaws. His dedication to his job causes his wife, played by Angela Lansbury (TV's Murder She Wrote), to leave him. She will not come back to him until he has hung up his guns for good. But he is determined to clean up one last town, run by bandits, who don't want to see the territory become a state.
Tall...
Author
Series
Gentleman bastard novels volume 3
Language
English
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Description
With what should have been the greatest heist of their career gone spectacularly sour, Locke and his trusted partner, Jean, have barely escaped with their lives. Or at least Jean has. But Locke is slowly succumbing to a deadly poison that no alchemist or physiker can cure. Yet just as the end is near, a mysterious Bondsmage offers Locke an opportunity that will either save him or finish him off once and for all.
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