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Author
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A Mexican drug lord offers to free a DEA agent in return for an American gangster who is in jail in Thailand. In fact the gangster is dead, but the Mexican does not know this. Convicted killer Tim Kearney is offered his freedom by the DEA if he will impersonate the gangster and Kearney jumps at the opportunity, only to discover the Mexican wanted the gangster free so he could kill him.
22) Pretty things
Author
Publisher
Feminist Press, at the City University of New York
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A woman convinces her sister, who has a beautiful voice, to pretend they are the same person so she can become famous. After she suddenly commits suicide, the remaining sister continues to use, and learn about, her dead sister's identity."--
23) Twin scandals
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Despite the media frenzy over their tempestuous breakup, Ben Sabin and Sophie Messena aren't through. Twice the charismatic tycoon has abandoned Sophie's bed after rapturous lovemaking. And though he knows she's off-limits, he can't stop wanting her, either. Maybe a date with her twin sister will break the fever ... But Sophie switches places with her twin first, starting a chain reaction of scandal ..."--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"As one of the most popular influencers on social media, Mia Bell has lived her life online for years. With her celebrity dog and gorgeous fiancé, she is planning the ultimate virtual wedding--expensive, elaborate, and entirely paid for by sponsors. But off-camera, her world is far from picture-perfect. After being jilted by her fiancé and faking her nuptials to please her sponsors, Mia finally has had enough. She heaves her phone off a cliff, ready...
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Jennifer Lomax is twenty-one, but she's already taken some hard knocks in life. So when older, reserved and enigmatic widower Steven Taverner asks her to marry him, she's desperate to believe she's found true love. That her lifelong dream could finally become a reality. But Jennifer also knows there's something not right about Steven. What secrets is he hiding about his dead wife, Margaret, and why does he refuse to talk about her? Jennifer decides...
Author
Series
Gangsterland trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Mafia hit-man-turned-rabbi Sal Cupertine is ready to get out of the life. But it's not going to be easy. His once-brilliant plan to pass himself off as Rabbi David Cohen is unraveling. Enemies on both sides of the law are hot on his trail. His wife and son are unreachable in witness protection and are probably in danger. In order to find his family, get out of the desert alive, and salvage his long-sought-after happy ending, Sal is going to have...
27) The outsider
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cross Damon is a man at odds with society and with himself, a man of superior intellect who hungers for peace but who brings terror and destruction wherever he goes.
Author
Series
Here's Hank volume 4
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Hank's sister Emily wants Ralph's Reptile Show to perform at her birthday party more than anything, but Ralph is booked solid. So Hank comes up with a plan. He'll disguise himself as a magician called The Westside Wizard and pull a snake from thin air. But when Hank's true identity is revealed during his performance, his good deed might just turn into a huge disaster.
29) Good devils
Author
Series
Special Forces volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"The First Special Service Force is an elite commando unit composed of American and Canadian troops. From the start, the Force is intended to go where other soldiers won't. The call for volunteers specifically singles out lumberjacks, hunters, prospectors, and game wardens as ideal candidates. And their training is anything but basic, including intense lessons in parachuting, hand-to-hand combat, skiing, rock climbing, and adaptation to cold climates....
30) The fraud
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper--and cousin by marriage--of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also skeptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully...
31) The body double
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A strange man discovers our nameless narrator selling popcorn at a decrepit small-town movie theater and offers her an odd and lucrative position: she will forget her job, her acquaintances, even her name, and move to Los Angeles, where she will become the body double of the famous and troubled celebrity Rosanna Feld. A nervous breakdown has forced Rosanna out of the public eye, and she needs a look-alike to take her place in the tabloid media circus...
32) Such a good liar
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Lydia Cornwallis has arrived on an exclusive Caribbean island populated only by the ultra-rich and their staff. The Harrington sisters rule the island, throwing lavish parties and treating everyone around them like toys for their amusement, and Lydia simply can't wait to meet them. Because she's not Lydia Cornwallis. And the Harringtons have hell to pay for what they've done. When a storm hits the island and all routes to the mainland...
33) Paris model
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A stunning novel of love, betrayal and family secrets for all fans of Fiona McIntosh and Natasha Lester. Raised on a vast Australian sheep farm, the beautiful Grace Woods is compelled to travel to tumultuous, postwar Paris in order to start a new life. While working as a glamorous model for Christian Dior, the world's newly acclaimed emperor of fashion, Grace mixes with counts and princesses, authors and artists, diplomats and politicians. Amongst...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Robin Voigt is dead. If Leslie had arrived at her sister's cramped Las Vegas apartment just hours earlier, this would have been their first reunion in a decade. In the years since Robin ran away from home as a teenager, Leslie has stayed in New Mexico, taking care of their dying father even as she began building a family of her own. But when their father passed away, Leslie received a rude awakening: She and Robin would receive the inheritance he...
Author
Series
So cute it hurts!! volume 4
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Megumu is almost done taking Mitsuru's make-up classes for him, and it's nearly time for the twins to go back to their own lives. But then catastrophe hits! Megumu's true love, Aoi, discovers she's really a girl and goes into an allergic fit. How will she ever face him again? And even worse, Mitsuru's sworn enemy, Azusa, finds out he's really a dude. What will happen when she spills the secret to his sweetheart, Shino?!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"While investigating a man claiming to be the long-lost heir to a noble family, Veronica Speedwell gets the surprise of her life in this new adventure from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn. London, 1889. Veronica Speedwell and her natural historian beau, Stoker, are summoned by Sir Hugo Montgomerie, head of Special Branch. He has a personal request on behalf of his goddaughter, Euphemia Hathaway. After years...
37) The visitor
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Izzie Mallon is looking forward to celebrating Christmas on a relaxing yoga retreat. At least, that is what she's telling her mother and colleagues. In reality, she will be shutting herself away from the festive season, and the snowstorm that has brought the city to a standstill, in her apartment on Henrietta Square -- the beautiful home she shared with her beloved husband Sam until his tragic death a few months ago -- with only her grief for company....
38) Deception island
Author
Series
Legionnaires volume 1
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A stolen boy. A haunted soldier. A cornered conwoman... Rafe Angelito thought he was done with the demons from his past, until his son is kidnapped. Blackmailed into abducting an American heiress, the Legionnaire soon finds himself trapped in paradise with a fiery, daring beauty who's nothing he expects...and everything he desires. But when he uncovers her own dark secret, Rafe realizes he's made a critical mistake, one that could cost him everything....
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Born into Russian aristocracy, wealth, and security, Moura never had any reason to worry. But in the upheaval of the Bolshevik Revolution, her entire world crumbles. As her family and friends are being persecuted by Vladimir Lenin's ruthless police, she falls into a passionate affair with British secret agent Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart. But when he's abruptly and mysteriously deported from Russia, Moura is left alone and vulnerable. Now, she must...
40) Stealing her
Author
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"My estranged twin brother, Julian, was always the wonder boy - and was groomed to become CEO of our ruthless father's corporation. My mother and me? Left behind. Now, years after tearing our family apart, my father dares to ask me for a favor? Pretend to be Julian while he fights to survive a tragic accident. It can save the company. Nobody will be the wiser. It'll be our secret. I can play Dad's favorite. I'll do it for Julian. And for my mother,...
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