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1) Long lost
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Successful architect Brad Denning finds his perfect existence shattered when a man claiming to be his long-lost brother kidnaps his wife and son, forcing Brad to find his family before a dark secret from his past is exposed.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Gr 5-7-Luke, a third child, hides quietly in his house, eluding the Population Police because he lives in a society in which families are only allowed two children. Now he has a chance to come out of the shadows by taking on an assumed identity and leaving home. This sequel to Among the Hidden (S & S, 1998) has Luke, now Lee, entering the Hendricks School for boys and a completely new existence where he feels lost and confused by his surroundings....
Author
Series
Five hundred kingdoms volume 4
Publisher
Luna
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Falsely accused of unleashing evil on nearby villages, Aleksia, the ice fairy and Queen of the Northern Lights, realizing that a heartless imposter is ruining her reputation, sets out to face down a formidable foe.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
They are the same age and they look alike. Tom Canty is a child of the London slums; Edward Tudor is heir to the throne of England. Just how insubstantial this difference is becomes all too clear when a chance encounter leads to an exchange of clothing and roles.
Author
Series
Westward chronicles volume 3
Language
English
Description
Upon arriving in Pintan, Arizona, Jillian Danvers is confronted with the magnitude of the task before her. Though an exact reflection of her twin, Judith, assuming her sister's identity is anything but easy. Not only are her attempts to fumble her way through the strict regulations and routines of the Harvey House feeble at best, Jillian finds she must also fend off the well-meaning acts of matchmaking on the part of her mother. Inadvertently discovering...
9) The hope jar
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A Brand-New Series from New York Times Best Selling Author Wanda E. Brunstetter. What happens when making an elderly Amish couple very happy means going along with a lie that gets bigger by the day? Michelle Taylor is not who her new family in Lancaster County believes her to be. The Lapps were looking for their long-lost granddaughter when they met Michelle and she assumed the identity of Sara Murray. Once homeless and hopeless, Michelle has come...
10) Mirage
Author
Series
Mirage (Daud) volume 1
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In a world dominated by the brutal Vathek empire, eighteen-year-old Amani dreams of having an adventure and traveling beyond her isolated home. But when adventure comes, it is not what she expects: she is kidnapped by the regime and taken to become a body double for the cruel and hated half-Vathek Princess Maram.
11) The liar
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shelby Foxworth lost her husband. Then she lost her illusions...The man who took her from Tennessee to an exclusive Philadelphia suburb left her in crippling debt. He was an adulterer and a liar, and when Shelby tracks down his safe-deposit box, she finds multiple IDs. The man she loved wasn't just dead. He never really existed. Shelby takes her three-year-old daughter and heads south to seek comfort in her hometown, where she meets someone new: Griff...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
An exploration of the varieties of faking, from its historical roots in satire and con artistry to its current boom. Paul Maliszewski journeys into the heart of our fake world, telling tales of the New York Sun's 1835 moon hoax, Jayson Blair's faked New York Times stories, early American con artists, James Frey and his fake drug memories, Internet hoaxes, forged Vermeers, and more. Through these stories, he explains why fakers almost always find believers...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the wake of World War II, a young, enigmatic woman named Lily arrives in Montreal on her own, expecting to be married to a man she's never met. But upon seeing her at the train station, Sol Kramer turns her down. Out of pity, his brother Nathan decides to marry her instead, and pity turns into a deep-and doomed-love.
14) Hoaxes
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications Company
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A look at some of history's most famous hoaxes and publicity stunts, including fairy photographs, moon-men, lost tribes, and crop circles.
Author
Publisher
Wilder Publications, LLC
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Why do otherwise intelligent individuals form seething masses of idiocy when they engage in collective action? Why do financially sensible people jump lemming-like into hare-brained speculative frenzies--only to jump broker-like out of windows when their fantasies dissolve? We may think that the Great Crash of 1929, junk bonds of the '80s, and over-valued high-tech stocks of the '90s are peculiarly 20th century aberrations, but Mackay's classic--first...
16) Carolina isle
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ariel and Sara never imagined their high-spirited attempt to step into each other's shoes would cause such upheaval. The lifelong pen pals, who look exactly alike, meet for the first time in their twenties and embark on a daring adventure of changing identities. Southern belle Ariel is determined to win the heart of a man who doesn't know she exists, while Sara yearns to leave behind her hardscrabble existence and taste the good life that fate has...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
For more than half a century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved people, the Ojibwe, on the remote reservation of Little No Horse. Now, nearing the end of his life, he dreads the discovery of his physical identity, for he is a woman who has lived as a man.