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A novel of Victorian England - Raised in the slums in 1850s London, Celia Laws is a rarity, an educated young woman whose creative skills have attracted notice. But with family to care for, circumstances have driven her to pickpocketing. In Celia's harsh world, it's a small step from picking pockets to prostitution. When a young man offers her a fortune to spend a week with him, she takes the money and runs. But Celia's conscious can't allow her to...
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Marrying the duke volume 2
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"The penniless orphan of a disreputable earl, Lady Charlene Blanchard thrives on the adventure of picking the pockets of unsavory gentlemen to survive. But due to her extraordinary beauty and prized bloodlines, she is hand-chosen as a potential bride for the Duke of Baynton, who is on the hunt for a suitable wife to provide heirs. All Char has to do is act the part she was born to play and charm a duke she's never laid eyes on into proposing. Except...
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Legends of the Riftwar volume 3
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Jimmy the Hand, boy thief of Krondor, was a pickpocket with potential... until the day he met Prince Arutha, and ran afoul of Black Guy's secret police. His youthful bravado and courage will plunge him deep into the maw of chaos... and perhaps even death.
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"From V.E. Schwab, the critically acclaimed author of Vicious, comes a new universe of daring adventure, thrilling power, and parallel Londons, beginning with A Darker Shade of Magic. Kell is one of the last Travelers--magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes--as such, he can choose where he lands. There's Grey London, dirty and boring, without any magic, ruled by a mad King George. Then there's Red London, where...
5) Jack Cloudie
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After narrowly escaping the gallows for a bank robbery gone wrong, Jack Keats is pressed into service in the Royal Aerostatical Navy aboard a run-down airship, with a seemingly mad captain, on its way to the deserts of Cassarabia.
6) Found
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Magic thief volume 3
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Connwaer, the young thief-turned-wizard's apprentice, escapes from prison and follows the call of magic to the distant and mysterious Dragon Mountain on a quest to save Wellmet from Arhionvar, dread magic that can destroy the city.
7) Firestorm!
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A twelve-year-old street urchin and the son of Chicago's most important jeweler strike up an unlikely friendship in the days before the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, and both are nearly trapped when the city goes up in flames.
8) Oliver Twist
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Born and raised in the appalling deprivation of a Victorian-era London workhouse, the orphan Oliver escapes the drudgery of apprenticeship only to fall into the hands of the notorious Fagin and his gang of child thieves. But Oliver is an innocent at heart and the attempts by Fagin and the impudently witty Artful Dodger to teach the boy the trick of the pick-pocket's trade lead only to his almost immediate capture. Oliver's rescue by the kindly Mr....
10) Pickpocket
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After his younger sister dies, 17-year-old Jean-Luc goes into a downward spiral. He is sent away for the summer to live with his uncle in a small town on the coast of France. His first day there he meets the beautiful Selina and decides that this summer might not be so bad after all. That is until he realizes that she stole his wallet. Jean-Luc does some detective work and eventually tracks her down. Selina confesses that she and other runaway teens...
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"Trying to escape, were you?" Tassie bit her lip. Why hadn't he turned her over to the constables? She certainly wasn't going to try to run past him, even if he did have a limp. She was tall, but this man towered over her-- six feet of hardened muscle, shoulders forbiddingly broad beneath his riding coat, strong booted legs set firmly apart. Major Marcus Forrester. All ready for action. And Tassie couldn't help but remember his kiss.
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Whodunit Detective Agency volume 3
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Circus Splendido has come to Pleasant Valley but so have pickpockets who are stealing wallets, cell phones, and jewelry from the audience as they watch the performances, so the police chief asks Jerry and Maya for help again in collecting clues and sniffing out suspects.
13) Four dead queens
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Keralie is the best pickpocket in all of the kingdoms of Quadara, but when she steals a "comm disk" and realizes a royal murder plot is afoot, she must learn who to trust and fast.
Seventeen-year-old Keralie Corrington may seem harmless, but she's, in fact, one of Quadara's most skilled thieves and a liar. Varin, on the other hand, is an honest, upstanding citizen of Quadara's most enlightened region, Eonia. He runs afoul of Keralie when she steals...
15) En la sangre
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"Eva Valverde vive en Barcelona, no roba por necesidad, sino para pagar un tren de vida que no podría mantener con un sueldo fijo. Y, claro, para sentirse por encima de los demás. Pero nadie dijo que la bvia del carterista fuera fácil. Tras varios años construyendo su mundo perfecto, lo pierde todo en un solo día. Lo que iba a ser un camino de champán y rosas se convierte en una sucesión de chantajes, violencia y cadáveres."--Page 4 of cover....
16) Złodziejka serc
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Hoping to incite the jealousy of Lady Constance Gideon, the young woman he plans to marry, barrister Gideon Cole comes up with a scheme to pass off Lily Masters, a lovely pickpocket, as a grand society lady.
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Marrying the Duke volume 2
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In New York Times bestselling author Cathy Maxwell's glittering new series, wedding bells are ringing ... but which Whitridge twin is the right groom?The penniless orphan of a disreputable earl, Lady Charlene Blanchard thrives on the adventure of picking the pockets of unsavory gentlemen to survive. But due to her extraordinary beauty and prized bloodlines, she is hand-chosen as a potential bride for the Duke of Baynton, who is on the hunt for a suitable...
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