Our Stolen Pieces

Our Stolen Pieces
Author: James Hunt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2020-01-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781658128896

Two detectives, each with their share of personal and professional baggage, are paired together under the watchful eye of a newly minted lieutenant. The disappearance of two young girls at a slumber party prompts Detective Jim North and Kerry Martin to examine all facets of the girl's lives, and they discover the girl's parents are hiding more than they're letting on.

All Our Broken Pieces

All Our Broken Pieces
Author: L.D. Crichton
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2019-05-04
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 136804428X

You can't keep two people who are meant to be together apart for long . . . Lennon Davis doesn't believe in much, but she does believe in the security of the number five. If she flicks the bedroom light switch five times, maybe her new LA school won't suck. But that doesn't feel right, so she flicks the switch again. And again. Ten more flicks of the switch and maybe her new stepfamily will accept her. Twenty-five more flicks and maybe she won't cause any more of her loved ones to die. Fifty more and then she can finally go to sleep. Kyler Benton witnesses this pattern of lights from the safety of his tree house in the yard next door. It is only there, hidden from the unwanted stares of his peers, that Kyler can fill his notebooks with lyrics that reveal the true scars of the boy behind the oversize hoodies and caustic humor. But Kyler finds that descriptions of blond hair, sad eyes, and tapping fingers are beginning to fill the pages of his notebooks. Lennon, the lonely girl next door his father has warned him about, infiltrates his mind. Even though he has enough to deal with without Lennon's rumored tragic past in his life, Kyler can't help but want to know the truth about his new muse.

Pieces of Me

Pieces of Me
Author: Lizbeth Meredith
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2016-09-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1631528351

Now a Lifetime television movie starring Sarah Drew, Stolen By Their Father was adapted from the story of Pieces of Me: Rescuing My Kidnapped Daughters about a young mother and her daughters face the unimaginable consequences after leaving abuse. In 1994, Lizbeth Meredith said good-bye to her four- and six year-old daughters for a visit with their non-custodial father only to learn days later that they had been kidnapped and taken to their father's home country of Greece. Twenty-nine and just on the verge of making her dreams of financial independence for her and her daughters come true, Lizbeth now faced a $100,000 problem on a $10 an hour budget. For the next two years fueled by memories of her own childhood kidnapping, Lizbeth traded in her small life for a life more public, traveling to the White House and Greece, and becoming a local media sensation in order to garner interest in her efforts. The generous community of Anchorage becomes Lizbeth's makeshift family?one that is replicated by a growing number of Greeks and expats overseas who help Lizbeth navigate the turbulent path leading back to her daughters.

Museum of the Missing

Museum of the Missing
Author: Simon Houpt
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781402728297

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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Author: Boston, Mass. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300063417

"This book takes you through the collection gallery by gallery, illuminating the art and installations in each room"--From preface.

Loot

Loot
Author: Thomas McShane
Publisher:
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Art thefts
ISBN: 9781905379378

McShane is one of the world's foremost authorities on the art theft business. Here, he presents a unique memoir that gives readers a thrilling ride through the underworld of stolen art and historical artefacts. For 36 years McShane masked his colourful alter egos in various disguises and chased down 600 million Euros worth of stolen art pieces. Along the way he matched wits with some of the most devious criminal masterminds of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Our Missing Hearts

Our Missing Hearts
Author: Celeste Ng
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2022-10-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1408716909

'It's impossible not to be moved' Stephen King 'Stunning...this novel will break your heart and fire up your courage' Mail on Sunday The New York Times bestseller, a deeply heart-wrenching novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child and a TIMES BEST PAPERBACK OF APRIL 2023 Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. His mother Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left without a trace when he was nine years old. He doesn't know what happened to her-only that her books have been banned-and he resents that she cared more about her work than about him. Then one day, Bird receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, and soon he is pulled into a quest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of heroic librarians, and finally to New York City, where he will finally learn the truth about what happened to his mother, and what the future holds for them both. Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can ignore the most searing injustice. It's about the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children, and the power of art to create change.

Stolen Girl

Stolen Girl
Author: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2019-02-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1338233068

A companion to Making Bombs for Hitler and The War Below, this novel follows a Ukrainian girl who was kidnapped as a child to be raised by a Nazi family. Nadia is haunted by World War II. Her memories of the war are messy, coming back to her in pieces and flashes she can't control. Though her adoptive mother says they are safe now, Nadia's flashbacks keep coming.Sometimes she remembers running, hunger, and isolation. But other times she remembers living with a German family, and attending big rallies where she was praised for her light hair and blue eyes. The puzzle pieces don't quite fit together, and Nadia is scared by what might be true. Could she have been raised by Nazis? Were they her real family? What part did she play in the war?What Nadia finally discovers about her own history will shock her. But only when she understands the past can she truly face her future.Inspired by startling true events, Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch delivers a gripping and poignant story of one girl's determination to uncover her truth.

The Book of Stolen Dreams

The Book of Stolen Dreams
Author: David Farr
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2023-05-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1665922591

An exhilarating, wondrous middle grade debut about a brother and sister on a quest that “swoops from thrilling to terrifying to heartwarming and back again” (BookPage) to defeat a tyrannical ruler and protect a magical book. “[W]ill appeal to readers of Kelly Barnhill and Lemony Snicket” (Publishers Weekly). Rachel and Robert live a gray, dreary life under the rule of cruel and calculating Charles Malstain. That is, until one night, when their librarian father enlists their help to steal a forbidden book. Before their father is captured, Rachel and Robert are given one mission: find the missing final page. But to uncover the secrets of The Book of Stolen Dreams, the siblings must face darkness and combat many evils to be rewarded with the astonishing, magical truth about the book. Nevertheless, they resolve to do everything in their power to stop it from falling into Charles Malstain’s hands. For if it does, he could rule their world forever.