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Author
Series
Hussite trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
From the New York Times best-selling author of the legendary Witcher series—the books that inspired the Netflix show and the hit video games—comes the first in an epic new trilogy.
142) Leap!
Pub. Date
2017
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.
143) The great moon hoax
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Two newsboys in 1830s New York sell copies of the New York Sun reporting that a powerful telescope has found exotic animals and structures on the moon. Based on a true story.
144) We're the Millers
Description
David is a pot dealer in need of a fake family to use as a cover story in order to smuggle drugs from Mexico into the U.S. He is in major debt with his supplier and is desperate for the money to pay him back. He hires a stripper to be his fake wife, a runaway as his pretend daughter, and a goofy counterfeit son. Antics and madcap adventure ensue as this faux-family attempts to cross the border with the loot.
Author
Series
Lying game novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Two months before I died, my best friend's brother disappeared. I have no idea where Thayer went or why he left, but I know it's my fault. I did a lot of horrible things while I was alive, things that made people hate me, maybe even enough to kill me. Desperate to solve my murder, my long-lost twin, Emma, is pretending to be me and unraveling the many mysteries I left behind -- my cryptic journal, my tangled love-life, the dangerous Lying Game pranks...
146) A walk in the clouds
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
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...
147) The Imposter
Description
In 1994, a thirteen-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later, he is found alive and well thousands of miles away in Europe. He tells a story of kidnap and torture when he returns. While his family is excited to bring him home, all is not quite as it seems. Is the boy really who he claims to be, or is he an imposter giving the family false hope for their child's return?
148) Catwoman
Author
Series
Catwoman (DC, 2018 series) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]-
Description
"The wedding night's barely over, but Catwoman's back on the streets, this time to expose a copycat who's pulling heists around Gotham City. As Selina cracks the whip on her former criminal cohorts, she's attracting unwanted attention from one of Gotham's most dangerous groups. The mob? Nope. Try the GCPD. And as if the Bat-Bride didn't have enough problems, don't miss the debut of an all-new villain determined to make trouble for all nine of Selina's...
149) Dungeons and drama
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"Musical lover Riley has big aspirations to become a director on Broadway. Crucial to this plan is to bring back her high school’s spring musical, but when Riley takes her mom’s car without permission, she’s grounded and stuck with the worst punishment: spending her after-school hours working at her dad’s game shop. Riley can’t waste her time working when she has a musical to save, so she convinces Nathan—a nerdy teen employee—to cover...
150) The ringer
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Pressured by a greedy uncle and a pile of debt, lovable loser Steve resorts to an unthinkable scheme. He pretends to be mentally challenged in order to rig the upcoming Special Olympics, to dethrone the reigning champion and bring home the gold.
Series
Criterion collection volume 541
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
A self-styled preacher marries and murders the widow of an executed convict with whom he once shared a cell. He then terrorizes her two young children to force them to tell him the whereabouts of the $10,000 he knows their father hid before his imprisonment.
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Jarod is a Pretender, a genius whose exceptional intelligence allows him to assume various identities at will. He was taken from his parents at an early age and brought up in a think tank, where he believed his mind was being used to benefit mankind. When he learned that the simulations he solved were being sold to the highest bidder, he escaped. Now on the run, he searches for his true identity and tries to balance any wrong his simulations have...
155) Myra Breckinridge
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
After going to Europe to have a sex change operation, Myron Breckinridge is transformed into Myra, who claims to be Myron's widow.
156) Just one of the guys
Pub. Date
2004.
Description
Terry Griffith enrolls in a new high school as "Just one of the guys" after her journalism teacher refuses to enter her article in a competition to win a summer internship on the local newspaper because of her sex.
157) 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.
158) The Joneses
Pub. Date
2010
Description
A seemingly perfect family moves into a new neighborhood and soon all of their friends want the same gadgets, furniture, and clothing that the Joneses are flaunting around town.
159) Grey Owl
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
A frontier trapper adopts the ways of the wild, finds love among its people, and fights to protect the land he loves in this film based on the life of Archie Grey Owl.
160) Accidental family
Pub. Date
2022
Description
A shy lonely genealogist finally discovers the perfect family and the love of her life they just don't know it yet! They mistakenly think she's a long-lost relative, and unfortunately, he is engaged to the wrong girl who just wants his family fortune. As sparks start to fly, she must warn him of his deceptive finance and find a way to tell him the truth about herself