Heist Society
Fifteen-year-old Kat schemes her way into the best boarding school, hoping to leave the thieving antics of her family behind her, but Hal, a former co-conspirator, appears on campus to tell Kat that a powerful mobster believes her father stole art from a priceless collection, and in order to save him, Kat will have to recover the paintings.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 83
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
subjects: art thefts, crime, swindlers and swindling [X], wealth, new york (state) [X], europe, england, audiobooks, children's audiobooks, detective and mystery stories, mystery fiction, mystery and detective stories
Uncommon Criminals
Fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop and her fellow talented teenagers work together to find and steal the "Cleopatra Emerald" from an unscrupulous dealer and return it to its rightful owner, while a former love of her Uncle Eddie tries to get the gem for herself.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 41
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
subjects: precious stones, crime, swindlers and swindling [X], wealth, new york (state) [X], europe, england, detective and mystery stories
How It Happened In Peach Hill
When fifteen-year-old Annie Grey and her "clairvoyant" mother arrive in Peach Hill, New York, in 1924, each finds a reason for wanting to finally settle down, but to reach their goals they will have to do some serious lying and Annie will have to stand up for herself.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 16
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: mothers and daughters, swindlers and swindling [X], self-realization, clairvoyance, new york (state) [X]
Uncommon Criminals
Fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop and her fellow talented teenagers work together to find and steal the Cleopatra Emerald from an unscrupulous dealer and return it to its rightful owner, while her uncle Eddie's former love tries to get the gem for herself.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
subjects: precious stones, crime, swindlers and swindling [X], wealth, new york (state) [X], europe, england
The Cardiff Giant
Briefly discusses the Cardiff Giant hoax in which people of upstate New York were fooled into believing that the petrified form of a giant human being had been uncovered from the ground on October 16, 1869.
569.9
year: 1983
copies: 1
call number/section: 569.9
lexile:
subjects: cardiff giant, forgery of antiquities, swindlers and swindling [X], cardiff (n.y.), new york (state) [X]
The Mystery Of The Cardiff Giant
Illustrations and easy-to-follow text recount the discovery and exploitation of the Cardiff Giant in 1869.
974.7
year: 2004
copies: 1
call number/section: 974.7
lexile: 740
subjects: cardiff giant, forgery of antiquities, swindlers and swindling [X], cardiff (n.y.), new york (state) [X]
Ladrona Con Clase
Fifteen-year-old Kat schemes her way into the best boarding school, hoping to leave the thieving antics of her family behind her, but Hal, a former co-conspirator, appears on campus to tell Kat that a powerful mobster believes her father stole art from a priceless collection, and in order to save him, Kat will have to recover the paintings.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: wealth, spanish language materials, swindlers and swindling [X], crime, art thefts, england, europe, new york (state) [X]
The Nurse's Secret
The Alienist meets The Light of Luna Park in a fascinating historical novel based on the little-known story of America's first nursing school, as a young female grifter in 1880s New York evades the police by conning her way into Bellevue Hospital's training school for nurses.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: swindlers and swindling [X], nursing, bellevue hospital, historical fiction, novels, fiction, new york (state) [X]