After his younger sister dies, 17-year-old Jean-Luc goes into a downward spiral. He is sent away for the summer to live with his uncle in a small town on the coast of France. His first day there he meets the beautiful Selina and decides that this summer might not be so bad after all. That is until he realizes that she stole his wallet. Jean-Luc does some detective work and eventually tracks her down. Selina confesses that she and other runaway teens...

Thirteen-year-old Alice Truelove can't take another day of her father's cruelty. Better a life on the streets than being constantly blamed for her mother's sad death, or that's what Alice thinks as she packs up her meagre possessions. But fending for herself in the Black Country town of Wednesbury is not as easy as she expected, and it soon hits her that without help she will quickly be hungry and cold. Bertram Jordan, or BJ to his friends, became...

Hustlers were everywhere in the world looking for the perfect trick to make off with a buck.It did not matter what pocket they picked, it mattered what they made out of it. But there was one hustler, Steven Jones, who gave birth to flawless tricks that picked the pocket of anyone he came across. He had made money out of the Jacobs, hustling them from the remnants of a blood vendetta, now he was looking at his biggest move ever, making a billion out...

He was in the wrong place and the wrong time - and became the witness to a murder. And the murderer knew who he was and where to find him. So what can a poor guy who's usually on the wrong side of the law do?

Found out! Heloise Edwina Marchant longs for the beauty and comfort of her former life, before she was forced to flee her family home. Coming to London in the guise of a boy, she has learned the hard way how to survive among the hovels and alleyways of St. Giles. There is shame in having to pick the pockets of unsuspecting passersby, and the inevitable happens-she is caught! The gentleman who seizes hold of her is not angry for long. In fact, his...

Throughout history, most dictionaries have served the purpose of preserving the purity of the language, usually preferring the erudite vocabulary of the affluent upper classes to the salty, constantly evolving slang of their working-class counterparts. That began to change in the early modern period, when several innovative lexicographers began publishing collections of slang terms used by particular subcultures, such as criminals. According to

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When thief Gaston Monescu meets his true love in pickpocket Lily, they embark on a scam to rob a perfume company. But when Gaston becomes romantically entangled with Mme. Colet, their ruse is jeopardized and Gaston must choose between the two of them.

Edward, Alphonse and Winry head south in search of Izumi Curtis, the master alchemist who taught the two brothers the art. An encounter with a pickpocket in Rush Valley starts them down a different path in search of an auto-mail blacksmith who Winry declares is the best he's ever seen