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It actually happened volume 2
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Provides true stories of thieves and their greatest heists, including Willie Sutton, D.B. Cooper, and those who committed London's great train robbery.
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Detective Kubu volume 7
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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"Recent university graduate David 'Kubu' Bengu joins the Botswana Criminal Investigation Department directly rather than via the normal route of a constable on the beat. This does not sit well with existing detectives. Shortly after he joins the CID, the richest diamond mine in the world is robbed of 100,000 carats of diamonds in transit. The robbery is well-executed and brutal. Police immediately suspect an inside job, but there is no evidence of...
3) Widows
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Zaffre
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2018.
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Dolly Rawlins, Linda Perelli and Shirley Miller are left devastated when their husbands are killed in a security van heist that goes disastrously wrong. When Dolly discovers her husband Harry's bank deposit box, containing a gun, money - and detailed plans for the hijack - she realises that she only has three options: 1. Give up and forget she ever found them; 2. Hand over Harry's ledgers to the police, or to the thugs that have been hassling her...
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"With the women of the Sisterhood away on a covert assignment, their significant others could be expected to kick back and enjoy a little drama-free downtime. But that's not the way Jack, Ted, Harry, Charles, and the rest of their comrades roll. An urgent call has come to the headquarters of their organization, BOLO Consultants. Bert Navarro, head of security for Countess Anna de Silva, suspects that Annie's deluxe casino, Babylon, is being stealthily...
5) Ocean's 8
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Warner Home Video
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[2018]
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Debbie Ocean gathers a crew to attempt an impossible heist at New York City's yearly Met Gala.
6) Double mint
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It's convention season at the Bellissimo Resort and Casino, and Davis Way Cole barely notices. It's hard to pay attention when you live in a Jambalaya Junkyard. But when special events coordinator Holder Darby walks off the job just as five hundred Alabama bankers pour in the front door, Davis steps up-or would that be in? Definitely in. Davis steps in it. Not only has the convention director vanished, but a certain Bellissimo guest is missing-one...
8) Hero
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After stopping a robbery at the Beverly Hills home of her client, a security guard to the stars is celebrated in the media as a local hero, but also draws the attention of the crime kingpin behind the burglaries.
9) Ocean's 8
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
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Debbie Ocean gathers a crew to attempt an impossible heist at New York City's yearly Met Gala.
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"Mrs. King is no ordinary housekeeper. Born into a world of con artists and thieves, she's made herself respectable, running the grandest home in Mayfair. The place is packed with treasures, a glittering symbol of wealth and power, but dark secrets lurk in the shadows. When Mrs. King is suddenly dismissed from her position, she recruits an eclectic group of women to join her in revenge: A black market queen out to settle her scores. An actress desperate...
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Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House
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2016.
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Examines the life of Patty Hearst who suffered an unimaginable trauma and then made the stunning decision to join her captors' crusade. On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag group of self-styled revolutionaries calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. The already sensational story took the first of many incredible twists when the group released a tape of...
14) Harlem shuffle
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""Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a...
15) Crazy Christmas
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2020
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A Bad Moms Christmas -- Bad Santa -- Daddy's Home 2 -- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation -- Office Christmas Party -- Scrooged.
A Bad Moms Christmas :Follows three under appreciated and over burdened women as they rebel against the challenges and expectations of the Super Bowl for moms: Christmas. If creating a more perfect holiday for their families wasn't hard enough, they have to do all of that while hosting and entertaining their own mothers.
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Nation Books
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2017.
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"For six terrifying months in 1911-1912, the citizens of Paris were gripped by a violent crime streak. A group of bandits went on a rampage throughout the city and its suburbs, robbing banks and wealthy Parisians, killing anyone who got in their way, and always managing to stay one step ahead of the police. But Jules Bonnot and the Bonnot Gang weren't just ordinary criminals: they were anarchists, motivated by the rampant inequality and poverty in...
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