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261) The girls I've been
Author
Publisher
Putnam/G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Nora O'Malley's been a lot of girls. As the daughter of a con artist who targets criminal men, she grew up as her mother's protégé. But when her mom fell for the mark instead of conning him, Nora pulled the ultimate con: escape. For five years, Nora's been playing at normal. But she needs to dust off the skills she ditched, because she has three problems: #1: Her ex walked in on her with her girlfriend. Even though they're all friends, Wes didn't...
262) Extract
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Joel is the owner of an extract manufacturing plant who constantly finds himself in precarious situations that steadily worsen by the minute. First, his soon-to-be floor manager acquires a serious injury in a machine malfunctioning accident. This subsequently endangers the wellbeing of his company. Second, his personal life doesn't fare much better when he takes his bartending friend Dean's advice while in a drug-induced brainstorming session on how...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of SAY NOTHING and EMPIRE OF PAIN, twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue by one of the most decorated journalists of our time "I read everything he writes. Every time he writes a book, I read it. Every time he writes an article, I read it ... he's a national treasure." - Rachel Maddow Patrick Radden Keefe has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award to the...
265) Nightmare alley
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
From visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes a suspenseful psychological thriller about a manipulative carnival man who teams with an equally deceptive psychiatrist to grift the wealthy in 1940s New York society. Del Toro co-wrote the enthralling film with Kim Morgan, based on William Lindsay Gresham's novel.
Author
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Former actress Meg Barnes used to have it all: tony Beverly Hills address, Amex Black card, Manolos for every day of the month. Not to mention a career as a popular TV detective that made her glittering life possible. But her lifestyle of the rich and famous has turned into a reality show for d-listed starlets. Lost in her Louboutins, she has one man to thank: her con man of a husband. Handsome FBI agent Jack Mitchell knows a suspect when he sees...
267) Hype: how scammers, grifters, and con artists are taking over the internet--and why we're following
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The former "Vice" journalist and producer of the Netflix documentary, "Fyre," presents a revelatory examination of the con-artists, grifters, and scammers of the digital age that outlines recommendations for protecting consumers.
Author
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In 1843, James Strang, a charismatic young lawyer and avowed atheist, converted to a burgeoning religious movement known as Mormonism, persuaded hundreds to follow him to Lake Michigan, and declared himself a divine king. This book presents an account of one of the country's boldest con men and the boisterous era that allowed him to thrive.
In 1843, James Strang, a charismatic young lawyer and avowed atheist, converted to a burgeoning religious movement...
Series
White Collar volume 6
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The tension has never been greater as Neal Caffrey re-teams with FBI agent Peter Burke in their most ambitious sting operation yet--infiltrating a sophisticated gang of deadly thieves. With Elizabeth Burke pregnant, Neal desperate for his freedom, and amidst pressure from Mozzie for Neal to cut ties with the FBI, the scheme unfolds, culminating in the series' most shocking plot twist of all.
270) Stella stands alone
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Stella, orphaned just after the Civil War, fights to keep her family's plantation and fulfill her father's desire to turn land over to the people who have worked on it for generations, but first she must find her father's hidden deed and will.
271) Paper moon
Author
Publisher
Four Walls Eight Windows
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
"Addie Pray, eleven, and her father are con artists who travel the South before they join a more sophisticated schemer who plans their ultimate con." *** "The death of eleven-year-old Addie Pray's mother leaves her in the care of Long Boy, a man who may or may not be her biological father, and together they set out to con their way through the Deep South in the middle of the Great Depression."
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From a photo editor at Vanity Fair comes the true account of her friendship with "Anna Delvey"--a woman posing as a German heiress who conned her out of $62,000--and her quest to obtain justice"--
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When the young Englishman Baron Jerome Manchester Paget arrives in 1878 Fort Griffin with a satchel full of money to start a buffalo ranch and find a bride, a horde of colorful swindlers from throughout Texas arrive to help him. With a passel of oddball characters and more twists and turns than a stagecoach trail, "The Fleecing of Fort Griffin" pits the baron against crooked gamblers, a one-eyed gunfighter, a savvy marshal, conniving females and...
274) The wizard of lies
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Dramatizes the events leading up to Bernie Madoff's arrest for a Ponzi scheme which defrauded his clients of billions of dollars.
275) The frame-up
Author
Publisher
Del Rey, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2024].
Language
English
Description
"Dani Poissant is the daughter and former accomplice of the world's most famous art thief. There was no job too big for Maria and her loyal crew. The secret to their success? A little thing called magic, kept rigorously secret from the non-magical world. They seemed unstoppable... until a teenage Dani turned her mother over to the FBI. Ten years later, with Maria still in prison, Dani finds herself approached for a job that only Maria and her crew...
276) Dead souls: a poem
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Chichikov, an enigmatic stranger and schemer, buys deceased serfs' names from their landlords' poll tax lists hoping to mortgage them for profit and to reinvent himself as a gentleman.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by BCI
Pub. Date
�2007
Language
English
Description
The lemon drop kid: A swindler finds himself in trouble after giving a bad horse betting tip to the girlfriend of a notorious gangster.
The great lover: A scout leader takes his troop on an ocean cruise, pursues a beautiful duchess and is stalked by a murderer.
Road to Rio: Two stowaways on a luxury liner, struggle to keep a hypnotized heiress from marrying a man she does not love.
Road to Bali: Two vaudeville performers are hired as deep sea divers...
278) The Rainmaker
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures Corp
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Under the spell of a wandering charlatan named Starbuck, a lonely ranch girl blossoms into full womanhood.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A fantastical novel which reworks Shakespeare's 'Pericles' into a parable for today."
Maja, the pregnant wife of wealthy Philippe, is killed in a plane crash but their daughter Angelica survives. Philippe's obsession with the girl's safety morphs into something sinister and grotesque as she grows into a beautiful teen. Darius, a con-artist visiting Philippe with a business proposition, encounters Angelica and decides to rescue her. The attempt goes...
280) Fighting
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Small-town boy and counterfeiter Shawn MacArthur knows firsthand that every day in New York City is a struggle to survive. So when scam artist Harvey Boarden gives him a chance to be something more in the brutal underground world of bare-knuckle street-fighting, Shawn decides he has something worth fighting for and puts everything on the line to win.
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