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Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Description
Workaholic attorney Samantha Sweeting has just done the unthinkable. She’s made a mistake so huge, it’ll wreck any chance of a partnership.
Going into utter meltdown, she walks out of her London office, gets on a train, and ends up in the middle of nowhere. Asking for directions at a big, beautiful house, she’s mistaken for an interviewee and finds herself being offered a job as housekeeper. Her employers have no idea they’ve...
Going into utter meltdown, she walks out of her London office, gets on a train, and ends up in the middle of nowhere. Asking for directions at a big, beautiful house, she’s mistaken for an interviewee and finds herself being offered a job as housekeeper. Her employers have no idea they’ve...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Language
English
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Description
Discovering a mix-up due to their shared Korean name, interns Elijah Ri and Jessica Lee decide to stay switched so Elijah can escape his controlling father while Jessica secures college recommendations, but the one thing they didn't count on was falling in love.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
In 1905 czarist Russia, an impoverished country girl Elena and the aristocratic Ekatrina meet and set in motion an escapade that includes mistaken identity, a monk locked in a tower, a prince traveling incognito, and the witch Baba Yaga.
4) The good guy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on list
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Timothy Carrier is sitting in a bar when the man next to him mistakes him for someone else and hands him an envelope with $10,000. The man leaves after handing Tim a photo of a woman marked for death and her address. Soon the killer arrives believing Tim is the one who wants to hire him.
Author
Series
Justice hustlers volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sisters from Trinidad, Violet and Lily have never had much in common. Stunning Lily arrives undocumented in New York and makes her way as a stripper. But Harvard-educated Violet is this close to the perfect assimilated life, thanks to a prestigious job, and her rich bougie fiancé... Until she aids a woman in trouble, and is mistaken for a notorious strip-club mogul's mistress. When she's wrongly accused of helping him embezzle millions, Violet loses...
10) The stand-in
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Gracie Reed is doing just fine. Sure, she was fired by her overly "friendly" boss, and yes she still hasn't gotten her mother into the nursing home of their dreams, but she's healthy, she's (somewhat) happy, and she's (mostly) holding it all together. But when a mysterious SUV pulls up beside her, revealing Chinese cinema's golden couple Wei Fangli and Sam Yao, Gracie's world is turned on its head. The famous actress has a proposition: due to their...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person--but also that the cold-reading skills she's honed as a tarot card reader might help her claim the money. Soon, Hal finds herself at the funeral of the deceased...where it dawns on her that there is something very, very wrong about this strange situation and the inheritance...
12) Once and always
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
Description
Small town cop Sam West finds himself in over his head when he pulls over Maisa Bradley, who is wanted by the Russian mob due to a mix-up involving stolen diamonds.
13) Riding freedom
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of Charley (Charlotte) Parkhurst who ran away from an orphanage, posed as a boy, moved to California, and fooled everyone by her appearance.
14) To die for
Author
Series
Blair Mallory series volume 1
Language
English
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Description
For fitness center owner Blair Mallory, trouble begins when a club member is murdered.
Author
Series
Capturing the Carlisles volume 1
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The Carlisle brothers, three unrepentant rakes, are forced to become respectable gentleman when a family tragedy strikes.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Pride and Prejudice meets Black-ish in this exciting new rom-com by debut author Nikki Payne. Liza B-The Only DJ That Gives a Jam-wants to take her neighborhood back from the soulless property developer dropping unaffordable condos on every street corner in DC. But her planned protest at their corporate event takes a turn after she mistakes the smoldering hot CEO for the waitstaff. When they go toe-to-toe, the sparks fly-but her impossible-to-ignore...
Author
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by Random House
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Marius dos Hellespont and his apprentice, Gerd, are professional looters of battlefields. When they stumble upon the corpse of the King of Scorby and Gerd is killed, Marius, mistaken for the monarch by one of the dead soldiers, is transported down to the Kingdom of the Dead.
Author
Series
Say u promise volume 2
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Forced to flee Detroit, twins Kenya and London have dodged the bullets of hired hit men and now must deal with a case of mistaken identity and a murder.
19) One thing I know
Author
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A fresh, heartfelt romance involving a case of mistaken identity when a ghostwriter masquerades as a relationship expert and the man who is determined to expose her holds not only the key to her success, but also her heart"--
Author
Series
Texas crossroads volume 2
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Marisa St. George accepts a position as business manager at the struggling Rainbow's End resort. The only silver lining is Blake Kendall, a new guest who is making her believe in love at first sight. But will her dreams of happily-ever-after be turned upside down when she discovers who he really is?
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