The Academy - Thief
Title | The Academy - Thief PDF eBook |
Author | C. L. Stone |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014-03-26 |
Genre | Action and adventure fiction |
ISBN | 9781496017222 |
Kayli Winchester is living in poverty, forced to be the parent to her drunk father and teenage brother who she's desperate to keep in school. The only way she scrapes by is to utilize her talents as a pickpocket. Thinking she's been unobserved, Kayli has no idea the Academy has been watching, and now they need her skill. Offering her a job or jail, Kayli chooses to work with them. But the job turns out to be more than any of them baragined for, and now the boys of the Academy have to find a way to keep Kayli safe.
The Academy - Thief
Title | The Academy - Thief PDF eBook |
Author | C. L. Stone |
Publisher | Arcato Publishing |
Pages | 559 |
Release | 2014-02-24 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Thief is the first book in The Academy Scarab Beetle Series. Kayli Winchester is a dirt-poor girl living out of a hotel, forced to be the parent for a drunken father and teenage brother who she’s desperate to keep in school. The only way she scrapes by is to utilize her one skill: pickpocketing. But even though she’s a thief she has a moral code: no kids or old ladies, only targets who can defend themselves. Not that they see her coming… Thinking she’s been working under the radar, Kayli has no idea The Academy has been watching and taking notice. Now a team that needs her skill has offered her a way out of her predicament and it’s her last chance: work with them, or face jail time. Kayli resists at first, but slowly the boys reveal they can be trusted. With Marc, the straight man, Raven, the bad-boy Russian, Corey and Brandon the twins as different as night and day, and Axel their stoic leader, there’s a lot Kayli can learn from these Academy guys about living on the edge of the law. If only she can stay on the good side instead of the bad. Especially when the job they offer her is more than any of them bargained for. After it’s done, the hunters have become the hunted and their target is now after Kayli. The Academy boys do their best to keep her hidden, but a thief like Kayli will never sit still for long. Meet an all-new Academy team in Thief, the beginning of the Scarab Beetle series. Warning: This is a new adult series. Readers of the other Academy series may need some caution as this series will contain mature sexual and violent situations and themes. Keywords: Free, freebie, spies, family, young adult, child abuse, coming of age, friendship, action, adventure, YA, NA, mysteries, thrillers, Charleston, academy, menage, reverse, harem, dysfunctional, relationships, social situations, sleuth, private detective, neglect, family, families, high, school, sibling, bullies, bullying, love, romantic, romance, teen, drama, love triangle, contemporary, new adult, college, thief pickpocket, alcoholism, poverty, survival, wealthy, billionaire, millionaire, secrets
Scout and the Sausage Thief
Title | Scout and the Sausage Thief PDF eBook |
Author | Gill Lewis |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 102 |
Release | 2016-09-20 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1627797955 |
Meet the students at Puppy Academy—a team of plucky puppies learning to be working dogs. Scout wants nothing more than to be a police dog, just like her mom and dad. But when she fails her test, Scout isn't sure she'll ever earn her badge—until, that is, a sausage thief strikes. It's up to Scout to catch the culprit and save the day.
The Feather Thief
Title | The Feather Thief PDF eBook |
Author | Kirk Wallace Johnson |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2018-04-24 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1101981628 |
As heard on NPR's This American Life “Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air “One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science Monitor A rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an underground world of fanatical fly-tiers and plume peddlers, for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief. On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying. Once inside the museum, the champion fly-tier grabbed hundreds of bird skins—some collected 150 years earlier by a contemporary of Darwin's, Alfred Russel Wallace, who'd risked everything to gather them—and escaped into the darkness. Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was waist high in a river in northern New Mexico when his fly-fishing guide told him about the heist. He was soon consumed by the strange case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? Had Edwin paid the price for his crime? What became of the missing skins? In his search for answers, Johnson was catapulted into a years-long, worldwide investigation. The gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one man's relentless pursuit of justice, The Feather Thief is also a fascinating exploration of obsession, and man's destructive instinct to harvest the beauty of nature.
Pilfer Academy
Title | Pilfer Academy PDF eBook |
Author | Lauren Magaziner |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2017-02-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0142424439 |
Includes excerpt of: The only thing worse than witches.
The Academy - Liar
Title | The Academy - Liar PDF eBook |
Author | C. L. Stone |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014-08-18 |
Genre | Action and adventure fiction |
ISBN | 9781500578596 |
Kayli Winchester, searching for her missing brother, becomes involved with five mysterious boys who call themselves "the Academy."
Tempest
Title | Tempest PDF eBook |
Author | C L Stone |
Publisher | |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2019-12-11 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781692508494 |
Kayli Winchester is on the run. Chased out of the hospital when Alice returns with a warning that she'll be coming for Kayli soon. Emergency protocol is initiated. Axel, Raven, Corey, Brandon, and Marc are preparing to run themselves. They need to separate from the Academy to protect everyone from the danger. Kayli and the Academy team will do whatever they can to protect their families and friends. They may have to leave Charleston forever to escape Alice's wrath. However, Alice proves she can be everywhere at once. She's aligned with powerful forces, a group possibly more powerful than the Academy, with corrupt police and officials on their side. No one is safe. No one can be trusted. When people go missing, the police are pointing fingers at Axel and the others.Just when Axel and the rest of the team are coming to understand their own complicated romantic relationships with Kayli, they're faced with the ultimate realization: staying together could get them all killed.There's only one way to handle this: Break all the rules, get to Alice, and ensure she'll never be able to exact revenge again. The consequences will be severe. Success could mean ejection from the Academy. Complete ex-communication. Family will be torn apart. And worse, the team might be forced to disband forever. Everything is at stake. Not even the Academy is prepared for how this will go down. The entire organization may not survive. Will Kayli?