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The Robber Bridegroom

Author: Aariel Portera

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-05-17

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9781530040872

In a German county north of Hamburg rests a town named Sommerwood, where Ruby and Rosa Muller, two enchanted sisters, live. Engaged to be married, Ruby is a feisty teenage girl, while Rosa is more subdued and mature. One day, their mother becomes ill, and Rosa sends Ruby to fetch help. But instead of aid, Ruby stumbles on the doctor's murdered body, then encounters a strange man she's never seen before. Throughout the county, young women are vanishing, and the king is distraught. Appointed to investigate the mystery, Sir Jonas Martin promptly travels to Sommerwood, the geographical center of the disappearances. There, he meets Ruby and Rosa, who are both taken with him. But when Sir Jonas discovers that Ruby's fiancé is the man she saw outside the dead physician's house, suspicions arise. As Sir Jonas follows a lengthening trail of bodies and danger, romance and passion deepens between the two sisters and their suitors, even as the suspense and tension build, leading to a surprising twist and conclusion in this delightful, engrossing adaption of a lesser-known Brothers Grimm fairy tale.

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber

Author: Julian Rubinstein

Publisher: Back Bay Books

Published: 2007-09-03

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0316028282

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An award-wining and "outrageously entertaining" true crime story (San Francisco Chronicle) about the professional hockey player-turned-bank robber whose bizarre and audacious crime spree galvanized Hungary in the decade after the fall of the Iron Curtain. During the 1990s, while playing for the biggest hockey team in Budapest, Attila Ambrus took up bank robbery to make ends meet. Arrayed against him was perhaps the most incompetent team of crime investigators the Eastern Bloc had ever seen: a robbery chief who had learned how to be a detective by watching dubbed Columbo episodes; a forensics man who wore top hat and tails on the job; and a driver so inept he was known only by a Hungarian word that translates to Mound of Ass-Head. Ballad of the Whiskey Robber is the completely bizarre and hysterical story of the crime spree that made a nobody into a somebody, and told a forlorn nation that sometimes the brightest stars come from the blackest holes. Like The Professor and the Madman and The Orchid Thief, Julian Rubinstein's bizarre crime story is so odd and so wicked that it is completely irresistible. "A whiz-bang read...Hilarious and oddly touching...Rubinstein writes in a guns-ablazing style that perfectly fits the whiskey robber's tale." --Salon

The Robber Bride

Author: Margaret Atwood

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2011-06-08

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13: 030779797X

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From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments—one of Margaret Atwood’s most unforgettable characters lurks at the center of this intricate novel like a spider in a web. The glamorous, irresistible, unscrupulous Zenia is nothing less than a fairy-tale villain in the memories of her former friends. Roz, Charis, and Tony—university classmates decades ago—were reunited at Zenia’s funeral and have met monthly for lunch ever since, obsessively retracing the destructive swath she once cut through their lives. A brilliantly inventive fabulist, Zenia had a talent for exploiting her friends’ weaknesses, wielding intimacy as a weapon and cheating them of money, time, sympathy, and men. But one day, five years after her funeral, they are shocked to catch sight of Zenia: even her death appears to have been yet another fiction. As the three women plot to confront their larger-than-life nemesis, Atwood proves herself a gleefully acute observer of the treacherous shoals of friendship, trust, desire, and power.

The Robber Bridegroom

Author: Eudora Welty

Publisher: HMH

Published: 1978-11-08

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 0547544375

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author takes a classic fairy tale and turns it into a novel set along the eighteenth-century frontier of the Natchez Trace. In the clammy forests of Louisiana, somewhere between New Orleans and the muddy Mississippi River, the berry-stained bandit of the woods, Jamie Lockhart, saves the life of a gullible planter. In reward, Jamie is given shelter—only to kidnap the planter’s lovely young daughter, Rosamund. It’s an impulsive act that will have far-reaching consequences, and will set in motion a series of fantastic, murderous, and flamboyantly uncivilized romantic adventures. With legendary figures of Mississippi’s past—including notorious riverboatman Mike Fink and the thrill-killing Harp brothers—mingling side-by-side with characters from legendary fairy tales and the author’s own imagination, The Robber Bridegroom in an exuberant cocktail of fantasy, folklore and history along the treacherous Natchez Trace. The basis of the popular musical that has run both on and off Broadway, The Robber Bridegroom is “a modern fairy tale, where irony and humor, outright nonsense, deep wisdom and surrealistic extravaganzas becomes a poetic unity through the power of a pure exquisite style” (The New York Times). “As sly and irresistible as anything in Candide. For all her wild, rich fancy, Welty writes prose that is as disciplined as it is beautiful.” —The New Yorker

The Case of the Red-Bottomed Robber

Author: Richard Byrne

Publisher:

Published: 2018-04-19

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780192749765

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The young chalks are busy at the chalkboard but someone keeps stealing their drawings . . .Mrs Red calls Sergeant Blue to investigate but when the culprit is caught, he absconds in a cloud of chalk dust. The chalks find another way to lure the suspect into their hands and it is only then thatthey discover they've misjudged the poor chalk rubber all along . . .

Midnight Robber

Author: Nalo Hopkinson

Publisher: New York : Warner Books

Published: 2000-03

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 0446675601

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Where the Money Is

Author: William J. Rehder

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780393325751

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In a fast-paced, hard-edged style that reads like a novel, FBI special agent Rehder chronicles the lives and crimes of bank robbers in today's Los Angeles who are as colorful and exciting as the legends of long ago.

The Robber Girl

Author: Franny Billingsley

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2021-09-14

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1536206938

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Part literary mystery, part magical tour de force—an incantatory novel of fierce beauty, lyricism, and originality from a National Book Award Finalist A brilliant puzzle of a book from the author of Chime and The Folk Keeper plunges us into the vulnerable psyche of one of the most memorable unreliable narrators to grace the page in decades. The Robber Girl has a good dagger. Its voice in her head is as sharp as its two edges that taper down to a point. Today, the Robber Girl and her dagger will ride with Gentleman Jack into the Indigo Heart to claim the gold that’s rightfully his. But instead of gold, the Robber Girl finds a dollhouse cottage with doorknobs the size of apple seeds. She finds two dolls who give her three tasks, even though she knows that three is too many tasks. The right number of tasks is two, like Grandmother gave to Gentleman Jack: Fetch unto me the mountain’s gold, to build our city fair. Fetch unto me the wingless bird, and I shall make you my heir. The Robber Girl finds what might be a home, but to fight is easier than to trust when you’re a mystery even to yourself and you’re torn between loyalty and love. The Robber Girl is at once achingly real—wise to the nuances of trauma—and loaded with magic, action, and intrigue. Every sentence shines, sharp as a blade, in a beautifully crafted novel about memory, identity, and the power of language to heal and reconstruct our lives.