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581) The grande odalisque
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Carole & Alex, best friends for years, are now literal partners in crime and planning their biggest heist yet: to steal the classic Ingres painting Le Grande Odalisque from the Louvre. With the help of Sam, their new getaway driver, the trio feels like they could take on the French Special Forces--and they just might need to."--Back cover.
582) Gargoyles gone AWOL
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Eleven-year-old self-proclaimed supersleuth Sophie "Sesame" Seade tracks down the culprit behind a series of gargoyle thefts in Cambridge, England.
583) Death of an eye
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Alexandria, 47 BC. Cleopatra shares the throne with her brother Ptolemy under the auspices of Julius Caesar, by whom Cleopatra is heavily pregnant. A shipment of new coins meant to reset the shaky Egyptian economy has been stolen and the Queen's Eye has been murdered, so Queen Cleopatra turns to childhood friend Tetisheri to find the missing shipment and bring the murderer to justice.
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"Gina "Tinkerbell" Miyoko is not your typical private eye. Armed with a baby blue Magnum, a Harley blessed with Holy Water by her dramatically disposed mother, and a Japanese mingei tucked in her pocket (a good luck charm from her Sherlock Holmes-obsessed father) Tink spends her time sniffing out delinquent dads in the San Francisco Bay area and honing her detective skills. But when her best friend Rose, an undercover agent, discovers there's a stalker...
588) I shall not want
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Church secretary Cindy Preston and rabbi Jeremiah team up again to discover who is killing homeless people and stealing the rescue dogs provided to them by Cindy's church.
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Cuando los condes de Taimado se mudan al barrio de Violeta, ella está segura de que hay algo raro en ellos. Y cuando a su vecina, la excéntrica Didí Derota, le roban una joya muy valiosa llamada la Perla de Oriente, una serie de pistas hacen que Violeta crea que la nueva familia es la culpable del robo. Pero como nadie la escucha, violeta deberá utilizar toda su habilidad detectivesca para destapar la verdad.
"Meet Violet Remy-Robinson, an...
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"L'enseignante d'Ève va se marier! Tous se élèves sont invités au mariage! Ève fonde même un club secret pour planifier le mariage. Mais quand un collier précieux disparaît, le club se transforme en un club de détectives! Ève retrouvera-t-elle le collier avant le grand jour?"--Back cover.
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In the summer of 1913, two brilliant minds - a celebrated gentleman thief and a talented Scotland Yard detective - are pitted against each other in the greatest jewel heist of the new century. An exquisite strand of pale pink pearls worth more than the Hope Diamond has vanished without a trace.
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"From the bestselling author of Escape from Camp 14, the murderous rise of North Korea's founding dictator and the fighter pilot who faked him out In The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot, New York Times bestselling author Blaine Harden tells the riveting story of how Kim Il Sung grabbed power and plunged his country into war against the United States while the youngest fighter pilot in his air force was playing a high-risk game of deception--and...
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In 1785, a sensational trial began in Paris that would divide the country and captivate Europe. A leading Catholic cardinal and scion of one of the most distinguished families in France stood accused of forging the queen's signature to obtain the most expensive piece of jewelry in Europe: a 2,800-carat diamond necklace. Where were the diamonds? Was the cardinal innocent? Was, for that matter, the queen? The revelations from the trial would bedevil...