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After the death of her literary rival in a freak accident, author June Hayward steals her just-finished masterpiece, sending it to her agent as her own work, but as emerging evidence threatens her success, she discovers how far she'll go to keep what she thinks she deserves.
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English
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In Edilean, Virginia, undercover detective Mike Newland uses Sara Shaw to track down a woman who is one of the most notorious criminals in the United States--and also happens to be the mother of Greg Anders, the man whom Sara plans to marry and who leaves her without explanation three weeks before the wedding.
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English
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"The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Knew Too Much sweeps readers back to 1930s California--where the most dazzling of illusions can't hide the darkest secrets... After escaping from a private sanitarium, Adelaide Blake arrives in Burning Cove, California, desperate to start over. Working at an herbal tea shop puts her on the radar of those who frequent the seaside resort town: Hollywood movers and shakers always in need of hangover...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When her glamorous twin sister falls ill the night before she is scheduled to participate in a beauty pageant, school librarian Charlotte agrees to fill in for her and overnight finds herself in a glittery world she is woefully unprepared for.
5) The hope jar
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English
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"What happens when making an elderly Amish couple very happy means going along with a lie that gets bigger by the day? Michelle Taylor is not who her new family in Lancaster County believes her to be. The Lapps were looking for their long-lost granddaughter when they met Michelle and she assumed the identity of Sara Murray. Once homeless and hopeless, Michelle has come to love her new Amish friends and even considers the idea of romance among them....
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Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In order to escape an arranged marriage, Adelaide, an Osfridian countess, poses as her servant to start a new life in Adoria, the New World.
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English
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"One Perfect Lie is an emotional thriller and a suburban crime story that will keep you guessing until you turn the very last page. On the surface, it tells the tale of the struggling single mother of a high-school pitcher, a shy kid so athletically talented that he's being recruited for a full-ride scholarship to a Division I college, with a future in major-league baseball. But the mother fears that she's losing her grip on her son because he's being...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Takes readers on a journey both of individual healing and society's response to the question of life after life, follows a single father just released from prison as he sets out to prove that the mysterious calls from beyond to the residents of Coldwater, Michigan are nothing but a hoax.
10) Moment of truth
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Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her swim meets are repeatedly interrupted by a stranger in an action-hero costume, Hadley Moore discovers some uncomfortable truths about herself as she tries to uncover the masked boy's identity.
11) Good rich people
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"For fans of Parasite and Ready or Not--a destitute woman pretends to be someone else and moves into the lower floor of a Los Angeles duplex, and inadvertently becomes a target in the twisted game of the wealthy family upstairs. All out of money and friends couches to sleep on, Demi is desperate. Lucky for her, a stranger presents her with the chance of a lifetime: a new identity and the downstairs apartment in a secluded Beachwood Canyon duplex....
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Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st Broadway books trade pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
277 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A former confidence man and master impostor recounts his crimes, captures, escapes, and imprisonment, in a firsthand account of his international exploits.
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English
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"Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn't exist. The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she's given a name and location by her mysterious boss Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle...
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The daughter of a prominent samurai, Mariko is targeted by bandits who wish to stop her arranged marriage, a situation that compels her to infiltrate the gang, disguised as a boy, to track down the person responsible for the target on her back.
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen, two-disc special edition ; extended cut.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
David is a pot dealer in need of a fake family to use as a cover story in order to smuggle drugs from Mexico into the U.S. He is in major debt with his supplier and is desperate for the money to pay him back. He hires a stripper to be his fake-wife; a runaway as his pretend daughter; and a goofy counterfeit son. Adventure ensues as this faux-family attempts to cross the border with the loot.
16) Carolina isle
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
360 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
viii, 323 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the thirty-year con of Clark Rockefeller, a German-born immigrant who assumed numerous identities to charm his way into exclusive clubs and financial institutions before divorcing his Harvard-graduate wife and kidnapping his own daughter.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Cassie Kendrick runs away from an arranged marriage by disguising herself as a man and enlisting in the Union Army, and on the battlefields of the Civil War she meets photographer Gabriel Avery.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Princess Gabriella is accustomed to a certain kind of castle life. So when she wakes up one morning in a crowded hut, surrounded by squabbling fairy siblings, it takes all her princess training to maintain her poise and good manners.
Author
Publisher
Whitman
Pub. Date
c1954, 1970
Physical Desc
236 p. : ill. : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Not long after her family becomes wealthy, Diana Lynch's long-lost uncle appears and starts ruining her social life, causing Trixie Belden to investigate whether Uncle Monty is an imposter out to steal the Lynch fortune.