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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"At sixteen, Hadley Moore knows exactly who she isâa swimmer who will earn a scholarship to college. Totally worth all the hard work, even if her aching shoulders donât agree. So when a guy dressed as Hollywoodâs latest action hero, Heath Hall, crashes her swim meet, she isnât amused. Instead, sheâs determined to make sure he doesnât bother her again. Only sheâs not sure exactly who he is. The swim meet isnât the first event the imposter has...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012, p1990
Language
English
Description
Brian and Charlie are good-guy London gangsters who decide to leave the criminal life forever by stealing one million dollars in drug money from the Chinese Triads. But when their getaway goes wrong, they grab the loot and hide inside a nearby convent school. Now disguised as S̀ister Inviolata of the Immaculate Conception' and S̀ister Euphemia of the Five Wounds', Charlie and Brian find themselves chased by their vicious former gang, Hong Kong's...
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Language
English
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A tautly paced investigation of one the 20th century's most audacious art frauds, which generated hundreds of forgeries-many of them still hanging in prominent museums and private collections today
Provenance is the extraordinary narrative of one of the most far-reaching and elaborate deceptions in art history. Investigative reporters Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo brilliantly recount the tale of a great con man and unforgettable villain,...
Provenance is the extraordinary narrative of one of the most far-reaching and elaborate deceptions in art history. Investigative reporters Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo brilliantly recount the tale of a great con man and unforgettable villain,...
5) Leap!
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.
6) Play dead
Author
Language
English
Description
When her husband, Boston Celtics' star player David Baskin, dies on their Australian honeymoon, fashion model-turned-entrepreneur Laura Ayars begins to suspect that David's death wasn't a simple accident and launches her own investigation.
9) Clambake
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
After trading identities with a penniless water ski instructor, a millionaire matches his speedboat racing skills against his arch-rival to capture the heart of a no-nonsense girl determined to marry rich.
Author
Series
Wanton Dairymaid trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After an odd encounter at a grand masquerade ball, Lady Emily becomes embroiled in the murder investigation of one of the guests, a sometime actress trying to pass herself off as the mysterious heiress and world traveler Estella Lamar. Each small discovery, however, leads to more questions. Was the intended victim Miss Lamar or the imposter? And who would want either of them dead? As Emily and Colin try to make sense of all this, a larger puzzle begins...
12) Now you see her
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
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.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"After escaping from a private sanitarium, Adelaide Blake arrives in Burning Cove, California, desperate to start over. Working at an herbal tea shop puts her on the radar of those who frequent the seaside resort town: Hollywood movers and shakers always in need of hangover cures and tonics. One such customer is Jake Truett, a recently widowed businessman in town for a therapeutic rest. But unbeknownst to Adelaide, his exhaustion is just a cover....
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Finley Tremaine, a small town farm girl, longs to spread her wings and soar as an aspiring performer. When a Hollywood film crew arrives in her sleepy town, she is determined to land a role in the production and captures the attention of handsome lead actor Jackson Stone. Unfortunately, a botched audition forces her to change course. Now, disguised as cowboy "Huck," Finley finally gets her big break. But can she keep the charade a secret from everyone,...
15) One perfect lie
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Language
English
Description
"One Perfect Lie is an emotional thriller and a suburban crime story that will keep you guessing until you turn the very last page. On the surface, it tells the tale of the struggling single mother of a high-school pitcher, a shy kid so athletically talented that he's being recruited for a full-ride scholarship to a Division I college, with a future in major-league baseball. But the mother fears that she's losing her grip on her son because he's being...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Maurice Flitcroft, a dreamer and unrelenting optimist, managed to gain entry to The British Open Golf Championship Qualifying in 1976 and subsequently shot the worst round in Open history, becoming a folk hero in the process.
Follows the story of optimistic dreamer Maurice Flitcroft, who managed to enter the qualifying round of the British Open golf tournament in 1976 despite a lack of experience and played the worst round in its history.
Author
Publisher
International Collectors Library
Pub. Date
[195-]
Language
English
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Description
When Rudolf Rassendyll, a young Victorian gentleman travels to Ruritania, all he expects is a pleasant summer holiday. But when the King is kidnapped, he soon gets involved in a plot to rescue him.
Author
Series
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
More than a century before Alan Greenspan coined the phrase "irrational exuberance" to describe the speculative bubble inflating technology stocks, Charles Mackay was recording the history of "tulipomania," a speculative madness surrounding the value of tulips in the 18th century that was the ruin of many Dutch and English investors. This is only one of the "extraordinary popular delusions" documented by Mackay in a fascinating study of group psychology....
19) Beautiful lies
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A tale inspired by a true story follows the experiences of Scottish aristocrat's wife Maribel Campbell, a self-proclaimed Chilean heiress who in late Victorian London finds her husband's career threatened by a notorious journalist's investigation into her true past.
Author
Language
English
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“Sweeping and intimate, warm and gripping. I loved it!” Louise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Chief Inspector Gamache novels. A single twist of fate puts a servant girl to work in Queen Victorias royal kitchen, setting off a suspenseful, historical mystery by the New York Times bestselling author of The Tuscan Child and The Victory Garden. Isabella Waverly only means to comfort the woman felled on a London street. In her final...
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