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261) Good rich people
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
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Description
"Lyla has always believed that life is a game she is destined to win, but her husband, Graham, takes the game to dangerous levels. The wealthy couple invites self-made success stories to live in their guesthouse and then conspires to ruin their lives. After all, there is nothing worse than a bootstrapper. Demi has always felt like the odds were stacked against her. At the end of her rope, she seizes a risky opportunity to take over another person's...
Author
Series
Regency vows volume 1
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Description
"In this fresh and hilarious historical rom-com, an estranged husband and wife in Regency England feign accidents and illness in an attempt to gain attention--and maybe just win each other back in the process. Five years ago, Lady Violet Grey and Lord James Audley met, fell in love, and got married. Four years ago, they had a fight to end all fights, and have barely spoken since. Their once-passionate love match has been reduced to one of cold, detached...
263) The truth cookie
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
When a strange recipe book finds it way into the hands of Lulu Baker, she and her friend Frenchy try to outwit Lulu's wicked stepmother-to-be and her son with special cookies that make them tell the truth.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"FAKE AMNESIA. REAL FEELINGS? REAL PROBLEMS. Sam Becker loves-or, okay, likes-his job. Sure, managing a bed and bath retailer isn't exactly glamorous, but it's good work and he gets on well with the band of misfits who keep the store running. He could see himself being content here for the long haul. Too bad, then, that the owner is an infuriating git. Jonathan Forest should never have hired Sam. It was a sentimental decision, and Jonathan didn't...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Scott Adams-a trained hypnotist and a lifelong student of persuasion-was one of the earliest public figures to predict Trumps win, doing so a week after Nate Silver put Trumps odds at 2 percent in his FiveThirtyEight.com blog. The mainstream media regarded Trump as a novelty and a sideshow. But Adams recognized in Trump a level of persuasion you only see once in a generation. Trump triggered massive cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias on both...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
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Description
"The children of the Grace Field House orphanage must escape a macabre fate before it's too late.Life at Grace Field House is good for Emma and her fellow orphans. While the daily studying and exams they have to take are tough, their loving caretaker provides them with delicious food and plenty of playtime. But perhaps not everything is as it seems... In order to wipe out the demons, Norman sends his forces into the capital to take down the queen...
268) The promise: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
1989.
Description
Something happened on Michael and Nancy's wedding day to tear them apart. Now their promise of love will be tested
269) Cloudburst
Author
Series
(Virginia C.).March family volume 2
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
Sasha becomes increasingly attracted to shy classmate Duane while rehearsing for a school play only to watch him succumb to depression in the wake of parental neglect.
270) A perilous plan
Author
Series
Imperiled young widows volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Penelope Hammond finds herself a widow at the age of twenty-three, having been married five years to a man she barely knew. Her husband, David Hammond, Lord Hampstead, was a member of the House of Lords who rarely said more than a few words to her in a week's time--and often did not come home at night. But Lord Hampstead was from a wealthy, powerful London family with no enemies, so why was he murdered? Penelope is a penniless widow with few friends...
271) The Human Stain
Pub. Date
2003.
Description
Coleman Silk is a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African-American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeply into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when Coleman's affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley is exposed. But amid...
273) Just go with it
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
After a man meets the girl of his dreams, he convinces a co-worker to pretend that she is his soon-to-be ex-wife and that her kids are his.
Author
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Description
Operation Fortitude tells the thrilling tale of an ingenious deception that changed the course of the Second World War. The Story is one of intrigue, drama, and good fortune, practically a Hollywood script. It is the tale of double agents, fake radio transmissions and dummy invasion craft.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Bento Santiago, our charismatic yet exceedingly unreliable narrator, nicknamed by his enemies Dom Casmurro, has become a bit of a recluse in old age. He spends his days reading and mourning the past in a house built as a replica of his childhood home. One day, musing over the painted busts of Nero, Augustus, Masinissa, and Caesar, he is inspired to write his own story, a tale of equally epic proportions. Or so, at least, he thinks. “Yes, let us...
276) Fargo
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
A midwestern policewoman investigates a series of brutal and interconnected crimes. Steadily, she tightens the net on the killers and their accomplices in a kidnapping scheme gone wildly wrong.
277) Thorn tree
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Now in his late-sixties, Daniel lives in quiet anonymity in a converted guest cottage in the Hollywood Hills. A legendary artist, he's known for one seminal work--Thorn Tree--a hulking, welded, scrap metal sculpture that he built in the Mojave desert in the 1970s. The work emerged from tragedy, but building it kept Daniel alive and catapulted him to brief, reluctant fame in the art world. Daniel is neighbors with Celia, a charismatic but fragile...
Author
Series
Baer Creighton volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Luke Graves turned the family butcher business into an empire by cutting fat off the ledger as well as he cut meat off the bone. He also learned many men sold beef, but few sold girls and boys. Demand was high especially for the ones with brown skin-- and supply small. Ten years later the family business included three sons and a distribution chain that delivered kids for any purpose throughout the western United States. One evening, returning to...
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