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Pub. Date
2008
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Why do otherwise intelligent individuals form seething masses of idiocy when they engage in collective action? Why do financially sensible people jump lemming-like into hare-brained speculative frenzies--only to jump broker-like out of windows when their fantasies dissolve? We may think that the Great Crash of 1929, junk bonds of the '80s, and over-valued high-tech stocks of the '90s are peculiarly 20th century aberrations, but Mackay's classic--first...
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"In the late 1950s, as America prepared for the Civil War centennial, two very old men lay dying. Albert Woolson, 109 years old, slipped in and out of a coma at a Duluth, Minnesota, hospital, his memories as a Yankee drummer boy slowly dimming. Walter Williams, at 117 blind and deaf and bedridden in his daughter's home in Houston, Texas, no longer could tell of his time as a Confederate forage master. The last of the Blue and the Gray were drifting...
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Pub. Date
c2001
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For more than half a century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved people, the Ojibwe, on the remote reservation of Little No Horse. Now, nearing the end of his life, he dreads the discovery of his physical identity, for he is a woman who has lived as a man.
44) Scarlet nights
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When an undercover cop informs her that her fiance is a con man using her for a potentially lucrative heist, Sara is forced to pretend she is still committed to the relationship in order to survive and help the investigation.
45) Mirror image
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"The crash of a Dallas-bound jet wasn't just a tragedy to TV reporter Avery Daniels; it was an act of fate that handed her a golden opportunity to further her career. Mistaken for a glamorous, selfish woman named Carole Rutledge, the badly injured Avery would find that plastic surgery had given her Carole's face, the famous senatorial candidate for a husband, and a powerful Texas dynasty for in-laws. And as she lay helpless in the hospital, she would...
46) My other life
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Pub. Date
1996
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The fictional narrator, a man of many guises, reconstructs his past, telling stories of his childhood and his thirty-year career, which involved fake occupations, false names, and a number of absurd events.
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After returning from World War II, a young G.I. finds he has little in common with the wife he left behind. Disillusioned, he heads north to work as a travelling salesman where he meets the daughter of a wealthy vineyard owner. On her way home, she is terrified of what her father will do when he learns she is unmarried and pregnant. The young man gallantly offers to help by posing as her husband for one night, unaware that doing so will change both...
48) Beyond Suspicion
Pub. Date
2001
Description
When Auggie Rose is murdered on his first day out of prison, John Nolan takes on the man's identity.
49) Carolina isle
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Pub. Date
2006
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Ariel and Sara never imagined their high-spirited attempt to step into each other's shoes would cause such upheaval. The lifelong pen pals, who look exactly alike, meet for the first time in their twenties and embark on a daring adventure of changing identities. Southern belle Ariel is determined to win the heart of a man who doesn't know she exists, while Sara yearns to leave behind her hardscrabble existence and taste the good life that fate has...
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Holey cheese, it was strange! All across New Mouse City, rodents kept telling me I'd done things I had no memory of. Was I going crazy? Had the cheese finally slipped off my cracker? No, that wasn't it. I soon discovered the truth: There was a Geronimo lookalike going around, pretending to be me! He'd even fooled my sister Thea. Worst of all, he was trying to take over The Rodent's Gazette! I had to get that greedy impostor's paws off my newspaper--...
52) The heiress
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Pub. Date
2011
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"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...
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A young noblewoman, distressed when she suspects her guardian's younger son and his wife are impatient to inherit his earldom, goes in search of his older son who has been banished from society because of an unfortunate duel. Now known as a notorious mercenary, she persuades him to pose as her husband to facilitate his return to society and in doing so, accepts his scandalous trade. Can she persuade him to abandon the dark path he believes is his...
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Pub. Date
2007
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"Ed and Al come face to face with the 'father' of the homunculi, who just so happens to be a dead ringer for their own father, Van Hohenheim--a resemblance too uncanny for coincidence. And later, when the allure of immortality proves to be too much for Prince Lin of Xin, he lets Greed take over ... literally!"--P. [1] of cover.
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Palace chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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Cecilia knows that she is not just another peasant girl; she is actually the true princess, in hiding until the evil forces that killed her parents are vanquished. A commoner named Desmia is on the throne as a decoy. Fourteen-year-old Cecilia has always known she is the true princess of Suala, but when she and her best friend, Harper, decide to speed up her ascendancy to the throne, they find danger and many imposters who challenge her claim.
56) Hoaxes
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Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A look at some of history's most famous hoaxes and publicity stunts, including fairy photographs, moon-men, lost tribes, and crop circles.
57) Shadow
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
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"In a time of kings, queens, and conspiracy, it's impossible to know whom one can trust ... In a kingdom far away and long ago, it was prophesied at her birth that the queen would die before her sixteenth birthday. So Shadow, an orphan girl the same age as the young queen, was given the duty to watch her every move. And as prophesies do tend to come true, the queen is poisoned days before her birthday. When the castle is thrown into chaos, Shadow...
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Promise Lodge volume 7
Pub. Date
[2023]
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"When two women arrive at Promise Lodge under the guise of being Mennonites to experience the life they have read about in Amish romance novels, their deception has an interesting impact on the faithful, hardworking community" --
59) Moment of truth
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
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"At sixteen, Hadley Moore knows exactly who she is--a swimmer who will earn a scholarship to college. Totally worth all the hard work, even if her aching shoulders don't agree. So when a guy dressed as Hollywood's latest action hero, Heath Hall, crashes her swim meet, she isn't amused. Instead, she's determined to make sure he doesn't bother her again. Only she's not sure exactly who he is. The swim meet isn't the first event the imposter has interrupted,...
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Pub. Date
1993
Description
Government mathematician Chris Barton lives a routine life_x2014_until, at the end of an ordinary workday, he finds his car missing from the employee parking lot. When he finally arrives home, there is a stranger living in his house_x2014_a man who claims to be him. Thrust suddenly into a surreal world where the evidence of his senses cannot be trusted and strangers are trying to kill him, Chris must avoid violent assassins while following a trail...