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1) Hemlock Bay
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Language
English
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FBI agents Dillon and Lacey (Sherlock) Savich rescue two boys kidnapped from Maryland and then rush off to California to save Dillon's sister from a greedy art collector.
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Series
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English
Description
The Golden Bowl comes in the first years of the 20th-century: the publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, decided never to serialise it and published it in New York in December 1904 in two volumes. After just a few months, in February 1905, also Methuen published the novel in London in a one-volume edition.
In 1909, a revised edition appeared as volumes 23 and 24 of the New York edition, and James this time also prepared the preface, in which he reflected...
Author
Series
Collectors volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
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Overlooked in class, a hearing-impaired boy who collects lost or discarded trinkets discovers a dangerous underground world full of stolen wishes and the people who collect them.
4) Empty mansions: the mysterious life of Huguette Clark and the spending of a great American fortune
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English
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"When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed a property listing for a grand estate that had been unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled into one of the most surprising American stories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Empty Mansions is a rich tale of wealth and loss, complete with copper barons, Gilded Age opulence, and backdoor politics. At its heart is a reclusive 104-year-old heiress named Huguette Clark. Dedman...
5) In a jar
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
AD 580L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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.
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English
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"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 Grace, he will join London's Metropolitan Police Force. After graduating from university, William begins a career that will define his life: from his early months on the beat under the watchful eye of his first mentor, Constable Fred Yates, to his first high-stakes case...
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English
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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...
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Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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.
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Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
"Goldy Schulz is thrilled to be catering a holiday breakfast feast for the staff of the Aspen Meadow Library. But little does she know that on the menu, alongside the Great Expectations Grapefruit, Chuzzlewit Cheese Pie, and Bleak House Bars, is a large helping of murder. While setting up at the library, Goldy spots a woman lurking in the stacks who bears a striking resemblance to Sandee Brisbane--the Sandee Brisbane who killed Goldy's ex-husband,...
10) Max's words
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Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
510L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
When Max cuts out words from magazines and newspapers, collecting them the way his brothers collect stamps and coins, they all learn about words, sentences, and storytelling.
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English
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"Mary Daniels doesn't let anything get in the way of her job acquiring rare artifacts for her wealthy boss. But this particular obstacle--huge, hard-muscled, unashamedly masculine--is impossible to ignore. Stuck in a cramped car with Brodie Crews for hours en route to their new assignment, Mary feels her carefully crafted persona--and her trademark self-control--is slipping, and she won't allow it. Brodie can't imagine what secret in Mary's past has...
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English
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"Annie McDee, thirty-one...is working as a chef for two rather sinister art dealers. Recovering from the end of a long-term relationship, she is searching in a neglected secondhand shop for a birthday present for her unsuitable new lover. Hidden behind a rubber plant on top of a file cabinet, a grimy painting catches her eye. After spending her meager savings on the picture, Annie prepares an elaborate birthday dinner for two, only to be stood up....
14) 13 gifts
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Lexile measure
720L
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English
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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.
16) Don't look back
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Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
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Description
Celeste Hudson, the beautiful wife of a family friend, is dead. She had planned to use her talents as a mesmerist to forge a new future in Society that didn't include her husband. Lavinia Lane and Tobias March begin an investigation that leads them from the glittering ballrooms of the ton to the darkest reaches of men's psyches.
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Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
490L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
Jerome enjoys collecting and using words that he hears, reads, or sees, and then decides to share his collection with others.
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Series
Blackbird Sisters mystery volume 1
Language
English
Description
Nora Blackbird, society columnist and down-and-almost-out former debutante, reclaims her place within Philadelphia's elite when she stumbles upon the murdered body of a millionaire art collector.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Gallery books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 24 cm
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.
Amy Ashton once dreamed of becoming an artistof creating beautiful objects. But now she simply collects them. Aquamarine bottles, bright yellow crockery, deep Tuscan red pots (and the odd slow-cooker) take up every available...
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Series
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The unnamed hero takes on the Peruvian government, priests, guerrillas and drug dealers to find an ancient manuscript whose nine insights prophesy New Age spirituality. An adventure story replete with energy transfers and other psychic phenomena.