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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.
2) The hope jar
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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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"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...
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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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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First American edition.
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364 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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Offers a fictional account of the life of Enric Marco, who was exposed as a fraud after receiving innumerable honors as an inspirational speaker and Holocaust survivor.
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HarperFestival
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
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English
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When the Chameleon wreaks havoc throughout the city as Spider-Man, the real Spider-Man must stop the shapeshifting criminal.
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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...
9) The stranger
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 94 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Having directed two undisputed masterpieces - Citizen Kane and The magnificent Ambersons - Orson Welles delved into the suspense film, crafting a baroque postwar thriller that drew upon the style of his previous work, while laying the groundwork for his later film noir classics The lady from Shanghai and Touch of evil. Edward G. Robinson stars as Wilson, a government agent who tracks down a high-ranking Nazi officer (Welles) who has managed to craft...
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Whitman
Pub. Date
c1954, 1970
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236 p. : ill. : 22 cm.
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English
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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.
11) Veil of shadows
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Warriors the broken code volume 3
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"With an impostor leading ThunderClan, threatening to exile any cats who challenge him, a small but growing group of cats must find a way to expose the truth and return ThunderClan's rightful leader-before the tensions among the Clans erupt into war"-- Provided by publisher.
12) Leap!
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Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.
13) Play Dead
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Signet
Pub. Date
1993
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550 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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Theirs was a marriage made in tabloid heaven, but no sooner had supermodel Laura Ayars and Celtics star David Baskin said "I do" than tragedy struck. While honeymooning on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, David went out for a swim--and never returned. Now widowed and grievin, Laura has a thousand questions and no answers. Her search for the truth willd draw her into a web of lies and deception that stretches back thirty years--while on the court at...
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Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 541
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Two-DVD special edition ; widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. +
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English
Description
A self-styled preacher marries and murders the widow of an executed convict with whom he once shared a cell. He then terrorizes her two young children to force them to tell him the whereabouts of the $10,000 he knows their father hid before his imprisonment.
15) Alter ego
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Quercus
Pub. Date
2018.
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369 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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When a freak accident kills a driver on the remote roads outside Duluth, Jonathan Stride is disturbed to discover that the victim appears to be a ghost, with a false identity and no evidence to suggest who he really was. What's worse, the man has a gun locked in the trunk, and it has recently been fired. It's up to Stride to solve the mystery, but there are those who would stop at nothing to stop him.
16) Mirage
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"In a world dominated by the brutal Vathek empire, eighteen-year-old Amani is a dreamer. She dreams of what life was like before the occupation; she dreams of writing poetry like the old-world poems she adores; she dreams of receiving a sign from Dihya that one day, she, too, will have adventure, and travel beyond her isolated home. In a world dominated by the brutal Vathek empire, eighteen-year-old Amani is a dreamer. She dreams of what life was...
17) Sanctuary
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English
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Melissa James has been looking over her shoulder for most of her life, but one phone call forces her to leave behind her precious husband and home in Connecticut, on the run from her past once again, and looking for sanctuary in the home of a Mennonite woman.
18) Still life
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
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436 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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"The UK's "Queen of Crime" Val McDermid returns to her propulsive series featuring cold case detective Karen Pirie, who finds herself investigating the shadowy world of forgery, where things are never what they seem. Still Life is intensely gripping from the first page and further proof that McDermid is writing at the top of her game. When a lobster fisherman on an early morning run pulls in his traps, he finds something he wasn't expecting to catch-a...
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"Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon--the legacy of P.T. Barnum's 'humbug' culminating with the currency of Donald J. Trump's 'fake news'. Disturbingly, Young finds that fakery is woven from stereotype and suspicion, with race being the most insidious American hoax of all. He chronicles how Barnum came to fame by displaying figures like Joice Heth, a black woman whom he pretended...
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