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Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A desperate woman’s innocent escape from London turns deadly in this suspenseful mystery by the renowned author of the Albert Campion series. Out of a job, a home, and luck, Mary Coleridge tells a seemingly innocuous lie in order to take a break from the pressures of London. Posing as her friend, Marie-Elizabeth Mason, Mary travels to the countryside to visit Miss Mason’s wealthy aunt. The estate is grand, Mrs. de Liane eager and endearing, the...
2) In a fix
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Snagging a marriage proposal for her client while on an all-expenses-paid vacation should be a simple job for Ciel Halligan, aura adaptor extraordinaire. A kind of human chameleon, she's able to take on her clients' appearances and slip seamlessly into their lives, solving any sticky problems they don't want to deal with themselves. No fuss, no muss. Big paycheck.
This particular assignment is pretty enjoyable...that is, until Ciel's island resort...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school and rarely leave the house, and their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh, which allows young Rahima to dress and be treated as a boy until she is of marriageable age.
4) Kagemusha
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005
Language
日本語
Description
A petty criminal in 16th century Japan is hired to impersonate a famous dying warlord, and finds himself transforming into the leader of 25,000 samurai warriors.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"John Lago is an intern at one of the biggest law firms in Manhattan. He clocks eighty hours a week getting coffee, answering phones, and doing all of the shit work no one else wants to do . . . and he doesn't make a dime. But John isn't trying to claw his way to the top of the corporate food chain. He was hired to assassinate one of the firm's high profile, heavily guarded partners. His internship is the perfect cover--enabling him to gather intel...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Dear Lady Truelove . . . My twin brother and I need a new mother, though Papa insists he'll never marry again. Must be nice, brainy, and fond of cats . . . Lady Truelove may be London's most famous advice columnist, but James St. Clair, the Earl of Kenyon, knows his wild young sons need a tutor, not a new mother. They need a man tough enough to make his hellions tow the line, and James is determined to find one. Miss Amanda Leighton, former schoolteacher...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
In a world inspired by ancient Arabia, seventeen-year-old huntress Zafira must disguise herself as a man to seek a lost artifact that could return magic to her cursed world.
8) The Bolds
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two hyenas from Africa find a pair of passports (memo: do not go swimming in a crocodile pool), and move to Teddington, England, where they live suburban lives, hold jobs, and raise their children to hide their tails and act human--the only trouble is old Mr. McNumpty, their nosy neighbor, who is hiding a secret of his own.
Author
Series
Ascendance trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the king's long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war.
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When Samuel Cross was growing up, he was rarely found without a book in his hands and that was the way his mother, a widow, wanted him raised. His uncle, Stephen Larkin, a frontiersman like Sam's father, wanted him to be strong and able to fend for himself, so he would take him into the mountains every summer to teach him how to fight and use a weapon. He proved to be as adept at these subjects as he had been at book learning, but when he was eighteen...
11) Genuine fraud
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Told through flashbacks, best friends Jule and Imogen are orphaned outcasts who will do almost anything to attain a happy, wealthy life.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jane Cleveland is in desperate need of a job, and when she sees an ad for a woman of her description needed to impersonate a grand duchess, she cannot believe her luck. The royal retainers tell Jane that the job will be dangerous because attempts have been made on the Grand Duchess Pauline's life, but this only serves to make the job more appealing. Jane's disguise initially goes according to plan, but when she is kidnapped and drugged, it appears...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
One of Library Journal's Best Romances of 2018 The one you love ... Robert Selby is determined to see his sister make an advantageous match. But he has two problems: the Selbys have no connections or money and Robert is really a housemaid named Charity Church. She's enjoyed every minute of her masquerade over the past six years, but she knows her pretense is nearing an end. Charity needs to see her beloved friend married well and then Robert Selby...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One of today's leading lights in romantic fiction." - Seattle Times USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas is one of America's most acclaimed and popular authors of historical romance fiction-and Stranger in My Arms is one of her most beloved novels! A classic tale of a noble lady whose life is upended when her despised husband-believed lost at sea-returns, a remarkably altered, more passionate and loving man ... if he is, indeed,...
16) A Lost Love
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In this classic bestselling romance, a wife reinvents herself after a near-fatal accident and plots revenge on her millionaire husband who thinks she died.
Brooke Adamson knew how devilishly handsome magnate, Rafe Charlwood felt about her. She was his wife after all-or rather she had been, until a terrible car accident three years ago, which Rafe still believed had claimed her life.
Now she's returned, with a new face and identity, to claim...
17) Pawn
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The first move is hers ... The Blackcoat Rebellion Book 1 Author of The Goddess Test novels A single test determined her entire future ... until she was given a way out Kitty Doe had one chance to prove she could be worthwhile to society. Instead, she walked out of her ranking test as a complete failure, with a permanent "III" tattooed on the back of her neck. At seventeen, she's facing a lifetime of cleaning sewers ... and being separated from Benjy,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the end of the 1990s, with the art market finally recovered from its disastrous collapse, Miss Rebecca Farwell has made a killing at Christie's in New York City, selling a portion of her extraordinary art collection for a rumored 900 percent profit. Dressed in couture YSL, drinking the finest champagne at trendy Balthazar, Reba, as she's known, is the picture of a wealthy art collector. To some, the elusive Miss Farwell is a shark with outstanding...
19) Victor, Victoria
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A woman singer masquerades as a man impersonating a woman in Paris, circa 1934. This brings her success in her professional life but complicates her personal life.
Publisher
Harlequin Presents
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Harlequin Presents brings you four new titles for one great price! Escape with these four stories by USA TODAY bestselling authors. This Presents bundle includes An Heiress for His Empire by USA TODAY bestselling author Lucy Monroe, Commanded by the Sheikh by USA TODAY bestselling author Kate Hewitt, The Uncompromising Italian by USA TODAY bestselling author Cathy Williams and A Deal Before the Altar by Rachael Thomas. Look for 8 new exciting stories...
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