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Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a man posing as Bruce Wayne causes problems at the bank, Batman knows exactly who the impostor is. But it's hard to catch a criminal who can change shape.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
""Famous Phonies: Legends, Fakes, and Frauds Who Changed History is the first in a new nonfiction middle grade series that will explore the underbelly of history, making you question everything you thought you knew about history's finest. It's perfect for the history buff, the reluctant reader, or that kid who loves the strange and unusual."" --
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Have you ever wondered why Bernie Madoff thought he could brazenly steal his clients' money? Or why investors were so easily duped by Elizabeth Holmes? Or how courageous people like Jeffrey Wigand are willing to become whistleblowers and put their careers on the line? Fraud is everywhere-from Nigerian "princes," embezzlers, and Ponzi schemers to corporate giants like Enron and Volkswagen. And fraud is costly. Each year, consumers, small businesses,...
Author
Publisher
Zest Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
History of full of liars. Not just little-white-telling liars, but big-honkin', whopper-telling liars -- people who can convince us that even the most improbable, outrageous, nonsensical stories are true. And the worst part is that we believe them.Whoppers tells the story of history's greatest liars and the lies they told, providing a mix of narrative profiles of super-famous liars, lies, and/or hoaxes, as well as more obscure episodes.
89) Now you see her
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Hope describes events leading her to agree to her boyfriend's plan to stage her abduction, and the consequences for their relationship, her family life, and her budding career as an actress.
90) The heiress
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Suzette is not like other heiresses; she wants a poor husband. A gentleman who will be so grateful for her dowry that he will allow her access to her dowry so she can help pay off her father's gambling debts. When this alluring beauty encounters Daniel Woodward--handsome, titled, single...and even more impoverished than she could have hoped for--it seems Suzette's wildest dream has come true. But Daniel has not been truthful. Tired of being accosted...
91) Rakes and roses
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Lady Sabrina endured an abusive marriage, a miscarriage, and early widowhood to emerge as a smart, successful, confident woman who found a way to make her mark in a man's world. She has friends and purpose, but cannot hide from the emptiness she feels when the parties are over and the friends have gone home to families she will never have. Harry Stillman may be charming and handsome, but he's a gambler and a rake who has made a mockery of his privileges....
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
After commoner John Turner wins her love while posing as his noble friend for a bet, humiliating her in the process, Countess Letitia is determined to avoid him, but has trouble resisting his advances when they become neighbors.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
An elderly man in his nineties, living in Barcelona, a Holocaust survivor who gave hundreds of speeches, granted dozens of interviews, received important national honors, and even moved government officials to tears. But in May 2005, Marco was exposed as a fraud: he was never in a Nazi concentration camp.
Author
Language
English
Description
Laid-back hippie Tess Newheart is still in love with her ex-boyfriend, social-climbing businessman Nick Jamieson. When Tess pretends to be his fiancee on a business trip that could make or break Nick's career, he struggles to change her ways while she struggles to change his heart.
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
When Joe gets a chance to prove himself as coach and discovers that it is not as easy as it seems, Wishbone is reminded of the tale in which a poor boy trades places with the crown prince of England, each one believing that the other has the easier life.
96) Faking faith
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Language
English
Description
After a humiliating incident involving some bad decisions on her part, seventeen-year-old Dylan discovers the blogs of fundamentalist Christian girls and starts passing herself off as one of them in her own blog, leading her to some unexpected insights about herself and her values.
97) Identity theft
Author
Series
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
When someone creates a fake Facebook profile in Hayley's name and posts incriminating photographs of her, Hayley discovers that she has an identical twin sister who was adopted by another family and that her twin sister is plotting to take over her life.
Author
Publisher
Harriman House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is the original guide to behavioural psychology and how manias, follies and superstitions begin, spread and (eventually) pass. A hugely entertaining tour through financial scams and stock market bubbles, alchemical quests and prophecy wars, duelling bouts and relic hunts, the book is as insightful and memorable today as when it was first published over 150 years ago. This edition comes with...
99) The dark lantern
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The clash between the genteel "upstairs" and servant "downstairs" and the dark secrets of two women turn the nineteenth-century London household of the Bentley family upside down, in a tale of mistaken identity and deception.
Author
Series
Harlequin intrigue volume 1413
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises Ltd
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"The Cardwell clan has a new, mysterious member. Dana Cardwell warmly welcomed her Justice cousin into the family fold and to the ranch for a reunion. But this cunning kin has other plans for Dana--and designs on her husband, Hud. Hilde Jacobson has known Dana too long to let her best friend get conned--or worse, killed. Unfortunately Hilde is no match for a skilled impostor who's duped everyone in the canyon. Only Deputy Marshal Colt Dawson believes...
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