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Publisher
Sesame Street Workshop
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A cookie art museum has just opened on Sesame Street. Surrounded by beautiful cookie painting, like "Girl with the cookie earring" and the "Muncha Lisa", Cookie Monster and his friends feel as if they're in a whole new world. But when art suddenly starts to disappear, Cookie Monster quickly becomes a suspect. Can Cookie Monster clear his name? Will they find the missing art in time or will Cookie Monster be banished from the museum forever?
Author
Series
Spero Lucas mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The job seems simple enough: retrieve the valuable painting--"The Double"--Grace Kinkaid's ex-boyfriend stole from her. It's the sort of thing Spero Lucas specializes in: finding what's missing, and doing it quietly. But Grace wants more. She wants Lucas to find the man who humiliated her--a violent career criminal with a small gang of brutal thugs at his beck and call. Lucas is a man who knows how to get what he wants, whether it's a thief on the...
Author
Language
English
Description
"After talking her way into a job with Dan Mansfield, the leading investigative reporter in Chicago, rising young journalist Jules Roth is given an unusual--and very secret--assignment. Dan needs her to locate a painting stolen by the Nazis more than 75 years earlier: legendary Expressionist artist Ernst Engel's most famous work, Woman on Fire. World-renowned shoe designer Ellis Baum wants this portrait of a beautiful, mysterious woman for deeply...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1025
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Director-approved special edition ; widescreen.
Language
English
Description
When the oldest and richest patron of a legendary hotel in the Alps turns up dead, her greedy son is shocked to find she has left the concierge a priceless Renaissance painting and stops at nothing to frame him for her death.
45) Driving the deep
Author
Series
Finder chronicles volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As a professional finder, Fergus Ferguson is hired to locate missing objects and steal them back. But it is rarely so simple, especially after his latest job in Cernee. He's been recovering from that experience in the company of friends, the Shipmakers of Pluto, experts at crafting top-of-the-line AI spaceships. The Shipmakers have convinced Fergus to finally deal with unfinished business he's been avoiding for half his life: Earth. Fergus hasn't...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Espanol
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"A gripping story of deception in the world of international fine art. Restorer and spy Gabriel Allon embarks on a dangerous hunt across Europe for the secret behind the forgery of a seventeenth-century masterpiece that has fooled experts and exchanged hands for millions"--Provided by publisher.
"Legendario espía y restaurador de arte, Gabriel Allon por fin ha roto sus lazos con la inteligencia israelí y se ha establecido tranquilamente en Venecia,...
Author
Series
Hollywood Station volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A circle of teenage burglars that the media has dubbed The Bling Ring has taken to pillaging the homes of Hollywood celebutants, and when a pair of drug-addled young copycats stumbles upon an art heist, that's just the beginning of the disaster to come. Soon LAPD veteran "Hollywood Nate" Weiss, surfer cops Flotsam and Jetsam, and the rest of the team at Hollywood Station have a deadly situation on their hands.
Author
Series
Detective Luc Moncrief volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A new bind-up with three exciting thrillers featuring NYPD Detective Luc Moncrief, a Paris detective who's about to learn that NYC is a whole other ballgame in the world of crime. French Twist: Gorgeous women are dropping dead at upscale department stores in New York City. Detective Luc Moncrief and Detective Katherine Burke are close to solving the mystery, but looks can be deceiving. French Kiss: Very handsome and charming French detective Luc...
Author
Series
Eddie Red undercover volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Sixth grader Edmund Xavier Lonnrot, codename "Eddie Red," has a photographic memory and talent for drawing anything he sees. When the NYPD is stumped by a mastermind art thief, Eddie becomes their secret weapon to solve the case"--
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
When Hitler's armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind's greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the treasures of the Vatican, and the antiquities of the Roman Empire. In May 1944 two unlikely American heroes--artist Deane Keller and scholar Fred Hartt--embarked from Naples on the tresure hunt of a lifetime, tracking billions of dollars...
Author
Series
Eddie Red undercover volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"On vacation in Mexico, Eddie Red and his best friend Jonah must once again rely on Eddie's talent for drawing and his photographic memory to uncover clues to catch a crook when Eddie's father is falsely accused of a crime"--
Author
Series
A to Z mysteries. Main series volume 15
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
While visiting Dink's uncle in New York City, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose help uncover who is responsible for stealing a very valuable painting.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
"An old wound forces Cold Case Detective Lauren Riley onto Injured on Duty leave. Unless she rests she faces the threat of early retirement. However, dreading the prospect of doing nothing for six months, Lauren renews her private investigator license. She's soon contacted by Sharon Whitney, the ex-wife of wealthy Buffalo resident - and suspected mob boss - Howard Whitney. During their bitter divorce twenty years earlier a Picasso painting was stolen...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"No one had ever tried a caper like this before. The goods were kept in a secure room under constant scrutiny, deep inside a crowded building with guards at the exits. The team picked for the job included two old hands known only as Paul and Swede, but all depended on a fresh face, a kid from Pinetown, North Carolina. In the Depression, some fellows were willing to try anything--even a heist in the rare book room of the New York Public Library"--P....
Author
Series
Eddie Red undercover volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"Elusive art thief Lars Heinrich returns to New York City looking to settle a score. Super sleuth seventh-grader Edmund Xavier Lonrrot will need not only his photographic mind and artistic talents, but any skill he possesses with cracking codes as a string of the city's historical monuments become potential clues in what could become one of the greatest heists in history"--
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Imagine the world without our masterpieces. Interviews with eyewitnesses and historians and newsreel footage show how during World War II the Nazis systematically took or destroyed the art of Europe. It follows the the heroic Europeans who first hid, and then set out to find and return what had been taken, with the help of the Allied forces "Monuments Men". It is work that continues to this day.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of eleven men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of Western civilization. As the war raged, these American and...
60) The Mona Lisa vanishes: a legendary painter, a shocking heist, and the birth of a global celebrity
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how the robbery made the portrait the most famous artwork in the world-and how the painting by Leonardo da Vinci should never have existed at all"--
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