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Series
Orphan monster spy series volume 1
Language
English
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"Germany, 1939. After her mother is shot at a checkpoint, fifteen-year-old Sarah, finds herself on the run from a government that wants to see her, along with every other Jew, dead. Then she meets a mysterious man who needs Sarah to pull off a spy mission he can't attempt on his own: infiltrate a boarding school attended by the daughters of Nazi top brass, befriend the girl whose father is a high-ranking scientist, and find the blueprints to a bomb...
Author
Series
Wanton Dairymaid trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
New author Tessa Dare takes passion to the high seas in this steamy tale of a runaway bride and a devilishly disarming privateer.
Desperate to escape a loveless marriage and society’s constraints, pampered heiress Sophia Hathaway jilts her groom, packs up her paints and sketchbook, and assumes a new identity, posing as a governess to secure passage on the Aphrodite. She wants a life of her own: unsheltered, unconventional, uninhibited....
Desperate to escape a loveless marriage and society’s constraints, pampered heiress Sophia Hathaway jilts her groom, packs up her paints and sketchbook, and assumes a new identity, posing as a governess to secure passage on the Aphrodite. She wants a life of her own: unsheltered, unconventional, uninhibited....
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Princess Gabriella is accustomed to a certain kind of castle life. So when she wakes up one morning in a crowded hut, surrounded by squabbling fairy siblings, it takes all her princess training to maintain her poise and good manners.
47) Captive
Author
Series
Blackcoat rebellion volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
While being forced by the Blackcoats to impersonate Lila Hart, the Prime Minister's niece, Kitty Doe finds herself imprisoned in Elsewhere, an inescapable detention area for criminals.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bankrolled by an Italian count with a taste for practical jokes, streetwise bargirl passes herself off as an aristocrat as a posh Alpine resort. There she plans to land a wealthy husband pronto, even though she's drawn to the town postman.
50) Handyman
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recounts some of the greatest deceptions of all time. With what forged document did the Vatican lay claim to much of Europe? Who wrote Hitler's diaries? Why do millions still believe the vague doggerel that Nostradamus passed off as prophecy? Organizing his material by theme (con artists, the press, military trickery, scientific fraud, imposters, great escapes, and more), Michael Farquhar takes in everything from the hoodwinking of Hitler to Vincent...
53) Taking lives
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon--the legacy of P.T. Barnum's 'humbug' culminating with the currency of Donald J. Trump's 'fake news'. Disturbingly, Young finds that fakery is woven from stereotype and suspicion, with race being the most insidious American hoax of all. He chronicles how Barnum came to fame by displaying figures like Joice Heth, a black woman whom he pretended...
55) Zelig
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (79 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This spoof of documentary films stars Woody Allen as Leonard Zelig, the famous "Chameleon Man" of the 1920's, whose personality was so vague he would assume the characteristics of whomever he came into contact with. Filmed in black-and-white, the movie simulates the look of a newsreel, complete with stentorian narration.
56) Shadow =: Ying
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In Pei, a kingdom ruled by a young and unpredictable king, the military commander faces peril both inside and outside the palace walls. But he has a secret weapon: a look-alike who can fool both Pei's enemies and the King himself.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Alex Mahan is married to his high school sweetheart, Taylor. They have two daughters and a beautiful home, and Alex's startup business is about to explode thanks to private funding from his father-in-law, Joe. All is perfect--until Joe is abducted and murdered during a family trip in Mexico. Alex's world is about to be turned upside down. He can't bear to tell his grieving wife why. The man they've both idolized has been keeping secrets. As Alex...
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