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221) The great ghost hoax
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Great pet heist volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
490L
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English
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Butterbean is bored. She and the other pets pulled off a heist once, but that was like a million years ago. Nothing exciting has happened since then. That is, until Mrs. Third Floor shows up at their apartment, convinced there's a ghost in the building. Mrs. Third Floor's rental unit is showing signs of paranormal activity--eerie noises, objects moving when no one is there, fish disappearing from the tank overnight. The pets decide to investigate....
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"In this compelling story of greed, theft, and the dark underbelly of globalization and impact investing, two Wall Street Journal financial reporters investigate the shocking collapse of Abraaj-the largest private-equity failure in history-and the face behind its glimmering rise and catastrophic fall"--
223) The wizard of lies
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
It is the headline-making true story about the deceptions, lies and betrayals of Bernie Madoff, the man who masterminded the most heinous financial swindle of our generation.
224) Grifter's Game
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Your name's Joe Marlin, but you change it almost as often as you change your shirt. It's David Gavilan when you skip a hotel bill and head for Atlantic City. You left empty-handed, and you need luggage to check into a decent hotel, so you grab two checked bags before the owner turns up to claim them. They're monogrammed L.K.B.-so now your name is Leonard K. Blake.
But you're not the only L.K.B. in Atlantic City. L. Keith Brassard is the owner of...
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This Edgar Award winner is a “raucously funny” novel of crime, con artists, and a poor sucker caught in the middle, by the author of the Dortmunder series (Kirkus Reviews).
If there is a scam operating anywhere, sooner or later it will find Fred Fitch. The pure-hearted, gullible man seems to get taken every time he turns around. At this point, he’s been ripped off so many times he’s got a regular...
If there is a scam operating anywhere, sooner or later it will find Fred Fitch. The pure-hearted, gullible man seems to get taken every time he turns around. At this point, he’s been ripped off so many times he’s got a regular...
226) The nurse's secret
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The Alienist meets The Light of Luna Park in a fascinating historical novel based on the little-known story of America's first nursing school, as a young female grifter in 1880s New York evades the police by conning her way into Bellevue Hospital's training school for nurses... In the slums of 1880s New York, Una Kelly has grown up to be a rough-and-tumble grifter, able to filch a pocketbook in five seconds flat. But when another con-woman pins her...
227) Treasure state
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"Private Investigator Cassie Dewell's business is thriving, and her latest case puts her on the hunt for a slippery con man who's disappeared somewhere in the "treasure state." A wealthy Florida widow has accused him of absconding with her fortune, and wants Cassie to find him and get it back. The trail takes Cassie to Anaconda, Montana, a quirky former copper mining town that's the perfect place to reinvent yourself. As the case develops, Cassie...
229) Tiger shrimp tango
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Serial killer Serge Storms finds himself criss-crossing Florida, tracking down digital scam artists and searching for a missing girl, all the while being followed by a hit man from his past.
230) Lies & alibis
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Nobody's better at lies-for-hire than retired grifter Ray Elliott. His alibi service for cheating spouses is doing a bang-up business. But when a new client accidentally kills his mistress during a weekend tryst, the desperate Ray has to enlist his fast-thinking assistant, Lola to help the mastermind with one final con. They have to outwit the cops, blackmailers and hit men who are out to bury him.
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six comes an intimate and contemporary study of time, space, and the nature of love. Alone with You in the Ether explores what it means to be unwell, and how to face the fractures of yourself and still love as if you're not broken. CHICAGO, SOMETIME-- Two people meet in the armory of the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts...
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With what should have been the greatest heist of their career gone spectacularly sour, Locke and his trusted partner, Jean, have barely escaped with their lives. Or at least Jean has. But Locke is slowly succumbing to a deadly poison that no alchemist or physiker can cure. Yet just as the end is near, a mysterious Bondsmage offers Locke an opportunity that will either save him or finish him off once and for all.
234) A spy in the house
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Series
The Agency volume 1
(Ying S.),Agency volume 01
Candlewick on BrillianceAudio
(Ying S.),Agency) volume 1
(Ying S.),Agency volume 01
Candlewick on BrillianceAudio
(Ying S.),Agency) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan (and thief) Mary Quinn is surprised to be offered a singular education, instruction in fine manners - and an unusual vocation. Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls is a cover for an all-female investigative unit called The Agency, and at seventeen, Mary is about to put her training to the test. Assuming the guise of a lady's companion, she must infiltrate a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing...
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Sisters of Mercy Flats volume 03
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English
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"After the wagon carrying Amelia McDougal and her two sisters falls under attack, Amelia finds herself hanging on for dear life to the dashing figure of Captain Morgan Kane. But when she confesses she's running from the law, he drops her off in Galveston, only to come to her rescue later, in more ways than one."--
236) The music man
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
Description
A con man in the guise of a traveling salesman gets off the train in River City, Iowa. He convinces the town to finance a children's marching band instead of a pool hall. Special features include: 'Right Here in River City' Documentary and Introduction by Shirley Jones.
237) After dark, my sweet
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"William "Kid" Collins was once a respected boxer. Now he's a drifter, on the run after escaping from a mental institution. One afternoon he meets Fay, a beautiful young widow. She is smart and decent--at least when she's sober. Soon Collins finds himself involved in a kidnapping scheme that goes drastically wrong almost before it even begins. Because the kid they've picked up isn't like other kids: he's diabetic and without insulin, he'll die....
238) Out of the rain
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(Virginia C.).Umbrella volume 2
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English
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After escaping the trauma of the Umbrella Lady's home, Saffron Faith Anders is determined to find the father who abandoned her all those years ago. When she finds him in a nearby town, Saffron is shocked to discover that he has married a woman he clearly had been involved with before her mother's death. Worse, her father insists Saffron pretend to be his niece so he can continue to con his new wife's family. It soon becomes clear that perhaps it is...
239) A million to one
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An acrobat, an actress, an artist, and a thief, four girls who seemingly have nothing in common, work together and plot a heist to steal the Rubaiyat off the Titanic.
240) Tempted by trouble
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[2010]
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When his promising future is upended by the recession, former Detroit auto industry employee Dmytryk and his wife, Cora, make a morally ambiguous and ultimately violent deal with a crime boss that forces Dmytryk to reassess his beliefs.
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