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  • Chasing Picasso

    by C.Joan Baker ...
    In Chasing Picasso: A True Story of A Daytime Heist on Art Hill, the author unveils the mysterious history and disappearance of a small Picasso painting from the Saint Louis Art Museum in 1973. The 1906 Rose Period oil painting has not been seen since it disappeared in a clandestine daytime theft under the watch of museum guards. The painting and the heist would have been forgotten altogether if ... Read more

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  • Priceless

    How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures

    The Wall Street Journal called him “a living legend.” The London Times dubbed him “the most famous art detective in the world.”In Priceless, Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI’s Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career for the first time, offering a real-life international thriller to rival The Thomas Crown Affair.Rising from humble roots as the son of an antique ... Read more

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  • The Man with the Sawed-Off Leg and Other Tales of a New York City Block

    They stand proudly gazing across the Hudson River at the cliffs of New Jersey. Their brows are marked by ornamental pediments. Greek columns stand as sentries by their entrances and stone medallions bedeck their chests. They are seven graceful relics of Beaux Arts New York, townhouses built more than 100 years ago for a new class of industrialists, actors and scientists -- many from abroad -- who ... Read more

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  • Jackie After O

    One Remarkable Year When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Defied Expectations & Rediscovered Her Dreams

    by Tina Cassidy ...
    Former Boston Globe reporter Tina Cassidy delivers a remarkable account of one year in the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, America's favorite first lady and an international icon. 1975 was a year of monumental changes for Jackie: it was the year she lost her second husband, shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, saved one of New York City's cultural landmarks at Grand Central Station, and found ... Read more

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  • House of Outrageous Fortune

    Fifteen Central Park West, the World's Most Powerful Address

    by Michael Gross ...
    “Michael Gross’s new book…packs [in] almost as many stories as there are apartments in the building. The Jackie Collins of real estate likes to map expressions of power, money, and ego… Even more crammed with billionaires and their exploits than 740 Park” (Penelope Green, The New York Times).A New York Times bestseller that unveils Fifteen Central Park West, the legendary Manhattan luxury ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Rescue Artist

    A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece

    Edgar Award Winner for Best Fact Crime. "An entertaining account of the eternal struggle between high art and low cunning." — TimeIn the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and made off with one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's Scream. It was a brazen crime committed while the whole world was watching the opening ... Read more

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  • The Crime Book

    Big Ideas Simply Explained

    by DK ...
    Series series DK Big Ideas
    Learn about the world's most notorious cons, heists, and murders in The Crime Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Crime in this overview guide to the subject, great for novices looking to find out more and true crime experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Crime Book brings a ... Read more

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  • Stealing Rembrandts

    The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists

    Anthony M. Amore and Tom Mashberg's Stealing Rembrandts is a spellbinding journey into the high-stakes world of art theftToday, art theft is one of the most profitable criminal enterprises in the world, exceeding $6 billion in losses to galleries and art collectors annually. And the masterpieces of Rembrandt van Rijn are some of the most frequently targeted.In Stealing Rembrandts, art security ... Read more

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  • Breaking van Gogh

    Saint-Rémy, Forgery, and the $95 Million Fake at the Met

    In Breaking van Gogh, James Grundvig investigates the history and authenticity of van Gogh’s iconic Wheat Field with Cypresses, currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Relying on a vast array of techniques from the study of the painter’s biography and personal correspondence to the examination of the painting’s style and technical characteristics, Grundvig proves that ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Red Mafiya

    How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America

    In the past decade, from Brighton Beach to Moscow, Toronto to Hong Kong, the Russian mob has become the world's fastest-growing criminal superpower. Trafficking in prostitutes, heroin, and missiles, the mafiya poses an enormous threat to global stability and safety. Today, the mafiya controls over 80 percent of Russia's banks and has siphoned off billions of dollars in Western loans and aid, ... Read more

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  • Your New York

    The secret smart travelers turn to when facing a dizzying choice of what to do and see is to establish their own personal relationship with a city. Yo, New York. ... Read more

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  • Building Art

    The Life and Work of Frank Gehry

    **From Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Paul Goldberger, a full-fledged critical biography of Frank Gehry, undoubtedly the most famous architect of our time.“Fascinating. . . . An informative, startling journey into the inner sanctums of modern architecture’s power structure.” —The New York Times Book Review“Riveting. . . . Full of little-known facts about the Pritzker Prize-winner that will surprise ... Read more

    $16.99 USD