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1) Faking it
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Tilda Goodnight, one of a long line of art forgers, tries to save her family by going straight, but things become complicated when she tries to steal back a painting she did years earlier and has an encounter in a closet with semi-reformed con man Davy Dempsey.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beano X. Bates, a con man known as "King Con," is nearly beaten to death by a New Jersey crime boss and considers leaving his life as a grifter for good. But before he quits, he makes plans to perform one final scam that will ruin the boss and his Mob family forever.
5) Fox tale
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Donkey, Crow, and Rabbit join forces to prevent Fox from swindling Bear out of a jar of honey.
Author
Series
Hardy boys mystery stories volume 23
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c1970, c1944
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Suspecting that their friend has been swindled, the Hardy brothers investigate and find themselves on the trail of a much larger criminal operation.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Photographer Horace Carpetine is commissioned to do a portrait for society matron Mrs. Frederick Von Macht; however, the photos evoke both the image and the ghost of the Von Macht's dead daughter, Eleanora, who has returned to seek vengence on those who killed her.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Commisario Guido Brunetti works multiple cases in the middle of a Venetian summer--one involves the elderly aunt of a close associate and her dealings with a possibly fraudulent astrologer, and another involves a corrupt judge who delays trials for the right price.
12) Stone cold
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Oliver Stone and the Camel Club are back in their most dangerous adventure yet, a war on two fronts"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Marina Marks has made her living preying on the fears and insecurities of her clients to build a reputation as a psychic, but when she moves to California to start a new life, her past follows her and, after predicting a murder and becoming the sole suspect, she realizes she does have the ability to see the future and must find the killer before her life is destroyed.
14) The gatecrasher
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2000, c1998
Language
English
Description
Fleur Daxeny, a beautiful, unscrupulous woman who makes her living crashing the funerals of wealthy women in order to take advantage of their newly vulnerable widowers, but her scheme falls apart when she lingers too long at the home of multimillionaire Richard Favour, and becomes entangled in the problems of his family.
17) Hick
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tired of going hungry while her parents get drunk and fight, thirteen-year-old Luli, who has just discovered the power of her sexuality, leaves Palmyra, Nebraska, for Las Vegas, Nevada, to find a "sugar daddy," and soon meets two grifters who use her while teaching her how to get by.
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