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63) One night
Author
Language
English
Description
An unlikely couple from opposing areas of society checks into an upscale hotel and shares twelve hours of passion, con games, and violence that culminate in bliss--and murder.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Language
English
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Description
Gracie Mueller is a proud mother of two and devoted wife, living with her husband Randy in upstate New York. Her life is complicated by the usual tedium and stressors--young children, marriage, money--but she's settled down comfortably enough. But when Randy's failing career as a real estate agent makes finances tight, their home goes into foreclosure, and Gracie feels she has no choice but to return to the creatively illegal and high-stakes lifestyle...
65) Hype: how scammers, grifters, and con artists are taking over the internet--and why we're following
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Language
English
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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.f
66) Barrier Island
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1986.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An uncorrupted and brave real estate broker uncovers a multimillion-dollar land swindle in the fragile barrier islands off the Mississippi coast.
67) Gingham mountain
Author
Series
Lassoed in Texas volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Hannah Cartwright meets Grant, a disreputable-looking cowboy, she's determined to keep him from exploiting two more orphans. When she gets the job as schoolmarm, she resolves to keep Grant's adopted children in school to minimize their time spent in hard labor on his ranch. Will she succeed in her plans or lose her heart--and the children--to a man she despises? Grant already has a Texas ranch full of orphans he's rescued, but still he's determined...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A clever, tenderhearted, and intricately plotted novel about a hard-luck lawyer's refusal to concede defeat, even as fate, the court system, and a gang of untouchable con artists conspire against him. Kevin Moore, once a high-flying Virginia attorney, hits rock bottom after an inexplicably tumultuous summer leaves him disbarred and separated from his wife. Short on cash and looking for work, he lands in the middle of nowhere with a job at SUBstitution,...
69) Abandoned
Author
Series
Max Revere novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Investigative reporter Max Revere has cracked many cases, but the one investigation she's never attempted is the mystery from her own past. Her mother abandoned her when she was nine, sending her periodic postcards, but never returning to reclaim her daughter. Seven years after the postcards stopped coming, Martha Revere was declared legally dead, with no sign of what may have happened to her. Until now. With a single clue--that her mother's car disappeared...
70) Taken
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Series
Language
English
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Kayla Sheridan had longed for love, marriage and a family. Now, after a miraculous whirlwind courtship with the man of her dreams, she is his wife. But on their wedding night, he vanishes, leaving Kayla with the bitter realization that her desire has made her an easy mark for deception.
Nick Granville has an ingrained sense of honor and an intense desire to succeed in building the world's most challenging high-tech bridges. But when he crosses
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Language
English
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Description
All of Westview is excited when teen idol Starr Silveira arrives to film an episode of her television show, but when contest winners start receiving letters asking them to return their valuable show memorabilia, sleuths-in-training Milo and Jazz suspect a scam.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores the psyches, motives, and methods of con artists to reveal why they are consistently successful, identifying common hallmarks of cons to share additional insights into the relationship between artists and victims.
Series
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A conman is entrusted to take care of a young orphan girl until he can return her to her grandparents, but learns that the grandfather of the girl is a judge who despises conmen.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
No one loves Florida more, or can keep it safe from invasive criminal species better than self-appointed Sunshine Sheriff Serge Storms. When a particular scam leads to the death of a few innocents and a young woman's disappearance, Serge and his perpetually self-bent sidekick Coleman--aided by his new pal, latter-day noir private eye Mahoney -- load up the car for a riotous road trip to do right.
76) White Cat
Author
Series
Curse workers volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A "dangerously, darkly gorgeous fantasy" (Cassandra Clare), from New York Times bestselling author Holly Black.
Cassel comes from a family of curse workers—people who have the power to change your emotions, your memories, your luck, all by the slightest touch of their hands. Since curse work is illegal, they're all criminals. But not Cassel. He hasn't got the magic touch, so he's an outsider—the straight kid in a crooked...
Cassel comes from a family of curse workers—people who have the power to change your emotions, your memories, your luck, all by the slightest touch of their hands. Since curse work is illegal, they're all criminals. But not Cassel. He hasn't got the magic touch, so he's an outsider—the straight kid in a crooked...
77) Skin game
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this comedy, meet Quincy and Jason, two likable swindlers who've come up with a way to make a bundle by bamboozling slave owners. Posing as master and slave, Quincy and Jason ride into backwater prairie towns where, after Quincy intones and Jason moans, Jason is sold to the highest bidder. Then Quincy springs him loose and they split town, split the cash and head down the road looking for the next sucker.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The thrilling novel that launched #1 New York Times bestseller Jeffrey Archer's career, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less.
THE SWINDLE IS INGENIOUS
The conned: an Oxford don, a revered society physician, a chic French art dealer, and a charming English lord. They have one thing in common. Overnight, each novice investor lost his life's fortune to one man. The con: Harvey Metcalfe. A brilliant, self-made guru
79) The grifters
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
x, 201 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
To his friends, to his coworkers, and even to his mistress Moira, Roy Dillon is an honest hardworking salesman. He lives in a cheap hotel just within his pay bracket. He goes to work every day. He has hundreds of friends and associates who could attest to his good character. Yet, hidden behind three gaudy clown paintings in Roy's pallid hotel room, sits fifty-two thousand dollars--the money Roy makes from his short cons, his "grifting." For years,...
80) The music man
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (181 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Silver-tongued con artist Harold Hill hoodwinks the stubborn townsfolk of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boy's band, but his game ultimately and romantically backfires.
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