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1) Cold hit
Author
Series
Alexandra Cooper novels volume 3
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
©1999.
Language
English
Description
A woman who owned a ritzy art gallery in New York is murdered, her body found in the river. Investigating assistant district attorney Alexandra Cooper is drawn into the world of stolen art, including art looted by the Nazis.
2) 13 gifts
Author
Series
Willow Falls series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shortly before her thirteenth birthday, shy and withdrawn Tara is sent to stay with her aunt, uncle, and cousin in her parents' hometown of Willow Falls, where she makes friends and becomes involved with an elderly buyer and seller of collectibles, who seems to be trying to give Tara some kind of mysterious message.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"On the night before graduation, seven students gather in the basement of their university's rare books library. They're not allowed in the library after closing time, but it's the perfect place for the ritual they want to perform--one borrowed from the Greeks, said to free those who take part in it from the fear of death. And what better time to seek the wisdom of ancient gods than in the hours before they'll scatter in different directions to start...
Author
Series
St. Kilda Consulting volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Protecting a river guide with ties to the art world, private information collector and reluctant bodyguard Zach Balfour realizes his charge is in more danger than previously known, a situation that pits them against the ruthless multi-million-dollar Western art circuit.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the end of the 1990s, with the art market finally recovered from its disastrous collapse, Miss Rebecca Farwell has made a killing at Christie's in New York City, selling a portion of her extraordinary art collection for a rumored 900 percent profit. Dressed in couture YSL, drinking the finest champagne at trendy Balthazar, Reba, as she's known, is the picture of a wealthy art collector. To some, the elusive Miss Farwell is a shark with outstanding...
Author
Series
Kitty Bloodworth '57 mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2002.
Language
English
Description
A sometime Israeli spy by trade and an art restorer by preference, Gabriel Allon arrives in Zurich to clean the work of an Old Master for a millionaire banker -- only to find himself standing in his client's blood and framed for the murder. Without warning, Allon is drawn into a spiraling chain of events involving Nazi art theft, a decades-old suicide, and a bloody trail of killings -- some of them his own. The spy world Allon thought he had put aside...
8) Unspoken
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charlotte Graham is at the center of the most famous kidnapping in Chicago history. A task force of FBI and local cops found her two abductors, killed them, rescued her, but it took four very long years. The fact she was found less than three miles from her home, and had been there the entire time, haunts them. She's changed her identity, found a profession she loves, and rebuilt her life. She's never said a word -- to the cops, to her doctors, to...
9) Bowled over
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When her glass bowl is used as a murder weapon, vintage kitchenware and cookbook collector Jaymie Leighton must figure out who wants to implicate her in the death of a former friend.
10) The treasure box
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Before he becomes very sick, Grandpa enjoys joining his granddaughter in her favorite activity, searching for things to add to her secret treasure box, including a broken robin's egg, a rusty spring, and a snakeskin that makes Grandpa squirm and make funny faces.
11) Antiques con
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Brandy and Vivian head to a comic-book convention to sell a rare 1940s Superman drawing. An intruder breaks into their hotel suite, and they suspect a felonious fan, over-eager to acquire the artwork. When Brandy and Mother stumble onto a murder victim impaled by a pen-shaped award, suspects range from comic-book collectors to crime kingpins, leading to a madcap Manhattan misadventure.
Author
Series
Alexandra Cooper novels volume 11
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Summoned to Tina Barr's apartment to investigate a possible assault, Assistant D.A. Alex Cooper finds a terrified and uncooperative victim, but when a murder complicates the case, Alex follows a trail to the wealthy, eccentric Hunt family.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A collector of objects, Amy Ashton, who believes it is easier to love things than people, finds her solitary existence interrupted when a new family moves in next door with two young boys--one of whom has a collection of his own.
14) In a jar
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, New York
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Llewellyn, a little rabbit who collects ordinary things in jars, meets a young girl named Evelyn, he joins with her to capture the extraordinary.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With all the endless, creative fun a child can have with a rock, the best thing one can do with one is to share it with a friend. Includes facts about rocks and rock collecting.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Grace and Ellie have been best friends since second grade. Ellie's always right in the center of everything--and Grace is usually happy to be Ellie's sidekick. But what happens when everything changes? This time it's Grace who suddenly has everyone's attention when she accidentally starts a new fad at school. It's a fad that has first her class, then her grade, and then the entire school collecting and trading and even fighting over . . . buttons?!...
18) Nothing ventured
Author
Series
William Warwick novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nothing Ventured heralds the start of a brand new series in the style of Jeffrey Archer's #1 New York Times bestselling Clifton Chronicles: introducing Detective William Warwick. But this is not a detective story, this is a story about the making of a detective . . . William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective, and decides, much to his father's dismay, that rather than become a lawyer like his father, Sir Julian Warwick QC, and his sister...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"London, 1703. In a time when the old approaches to science coexist with the new, one elite community attempts to understand the world by collecting its wonders. Sir Barnaby Mayne, the most formidable of these collectors, has devoted his life to filling his cabinets. While the curious-minded vie for invitations to study the rare stones, bones, books, and artifacts he has amassed, some visitors come with a darker purpose. For Cecily Kay, it is a passion...
20) Daisy
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Because she is teased at school, Daisy hangs her head a lot, which leads to a new hobby of collecting lost and broken items and to a real treasure--a new friend.--
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