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Ron Rosenbaum, an author and New York Observer columnist, wrote in 1999 that Barnes & Noble had a list of these authors whose books are the most frequently stolen from that book-store chain (or perhaps the Union Square store in the chain, where his source, "a helpful clerk", worked): Martin Amis, Paul Auster, Georges Bataille, William S ...
The Missing Books Register, established by the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers in 2012 as the Stolen Books Database, is a registry of valuable and/or historically significant books that allows libraries and antiquarian book dealers to track purloined or missing materials. [1] It tracks works stolen or lost after 15 June 2010. [2]
This list of the most commonly challenged books in the United States refers to books sought to be removed or otherwise restricted from public access, typically from a library or a school curriculum. This list is primarily based on U.S. data gathered by the American Library Association 's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), which gathers data ...
The library has been subjected to theft for centuries. One of the earliest deterrents of library theft was the invention of chained libraries, where the books are attached to their bookcase by a chain, which is sufficiently long enough to allow the books to be taken from their shelves and read, but not removed from the library itself. As ...
Increasingly organized thieves are making big bucks by reselling stolen retail goods. Here are the items that have emerged as favorite targets. The #1 Most Shoplifted Item in the Country
Of all the things to take from a Chick-fil-A, a man stole two cow costumes valued at about $2,800 from the restaurant and listed them on Craigslist for $350 apiece in 2013, practically begging to ...
Without further ado, these were the 10 most stolen cars in the U.S. in 2023. Hyundai Elantra This is an unfortunate first-place spot to be in, but one car has to take it.
This is a list of best-selling fiction authors to date, in any language. While finding precise sales numbers for any given author is nearly impossible, the list is based on approximate numbers provided or repeated by reliable sources. "Best selling" refers to the estimated number of copies sold of all fiction books written or co-written by an ...