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"Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome. A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she's been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city. With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost through the hedged lanes, gated driveways, and sun-blasted...
83) Kiss and tell
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Sisterhood volume 23
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"Life comes in stages. Even the Sisterhood has been content to let their gold shields gather a little dust while they enjoy their friends and family. But when a string of anonymous emails arrives at Pinewood, suggesting shady dealings at a local assisted-living facility, Myra Rutledge and her best friend Annie de Silva are more than ready to out-hustle a master con-artist at his own game. They'l need to enlist some new and untested allies in order...
84) City of betrayal
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Series
Counterfeit lady novel volume 7
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2023]
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"A year has passed since Elizabeth Bates ran her last con. Life has been simpler, although not nearly as exciting, but she has thrown herself into working to get the 19th Amendment ratified by thirty-six states to become the law of the land. Since every other Southern state has already rejected the amendment, it seems unlikely Tennessee will be an exception . . . but it's their only hope, so the suffragists descend on Tennessee for the final battle....
85) The big case
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
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Judy Hopps is a bunny cop. Nick Wilde is a fox con artist. Can they work together to solve Zootopia's biggest case?
86) Curses
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Pub. Date
2021
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Forced to live as a beast forever unless she agrees to marry a man of her mother's choosing before her 18th birthday, Merit Cravan joins forces with a con artist who is her only hope in finding the best match.
Merit Cravan refused to fulfill her obligation to marry a prince, leading to a fairy godling's curse. She will be forced to live as a beast forever, unless she agrees to marry a man of her mother's choosing before her eighteenth birthday. Tevin...
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Straight arrow FBI Agent Kate O'Hare always plays by the rules. Charming con man Nicholas Fox makes them up as he goes along. She thinks he's nothing but a scoundrel. He thinks she just needs to lighten up. They're working together to tackle the out-of-bounds cases ordinary FBI agents can't touch. And, their relationship? Well, there hasn't been so much explosive chemistry since Nitro was introduced to Glycerin. Next on the docket: The mysterious...
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2015.
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"It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Speakeasies thrived, gang war shootings announced Al Capone's rise to underworld domination, Chicago's corrupt political leaders fraternized with gangsters, and yellow journalism only contributed to the excesses. The frenzy of stock market gambling was rampant. Enter a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz, who...
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Pub. Date
2021
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The Addams Family -- The Addams Family Values -- Casper -- The House with a Clock in the Walls -- Hocus Pocus -- The Nightmare Before Christmas -- The Witches.
The Addams Family: When long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after twenty-five years in the Bermuda Triangle, the other members of the off-beat Addams clan plan a great celebration, only to begin to suspect that he may not be who he claims to be.
The Addams Family Values: It's love at first...
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2020
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Trading Places -- Die Hard -- Edward Scissorhards -- Gremlins -- Iron Man 3 -- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang -- Lethal Weapon.
Trading Places: Two old business partners bet that they can turn a street hustler into a successful businessman.
Die Hard: On Christmas Eve a team of terrorists has seized a building in L.A. and taken hostages. A New York cop, in town to spend the holidays with his estranged wife, is the only hope for the people held by the cunning...
91) Treasure state
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"Private Investigator Cassie Dewell's business is thriving, and her latest case puts her on the hunt for a slippery con man who's disappeared somewhere in the "treasure state." A wealthy Florida widow has accused him of absconding with her fortune, and wants Cassie to find him and get it back. The trail takes Cassie to Anaconda, Montana, a quirky former copper mining town that's the perfect place to reinvent yourself. As the case develops, Cassie...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Imprisoned in a remote Turkish prison camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors"--
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Fox and O'Hare volume 7
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"Straight as an arrow special agent Kate O'Hare and international con man Nick Fox have brought down some of the biggest criminals out there. But now they face their most dangerous foe yet-a vast, shadowy international organization known only as the Brotherhood. Directly descended from the Vatican Bank priests who served Hitler during World War II, the Brotherhood is on a frantic search for a lost train loaded with $3 0 billion in Nazi gold, untouched...
94) Plastic man
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Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2019]
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"Meet Eel O'Brian: a petty thug, thief, con artist who runs a strip club...and now Plastic Man. Hey, he's also dead, at least according to the gang that tossed him out like last week's garbage. Literally. Don't worry, though--he bounced back from all that, and now he's trying to make a new life for himself, but the effort is stretching him pretty thin. Eel didn't like it when a spy blackmailed him over his secret identity, and then a kid found out,...
95) Outfox
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
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FBI agent Drex Easton is relentlessly driven by a single goal: to outmaneuver the conman once known as Weston Graham. Over the past thirty years, Weston has assumed many names and countless disguises, enabling him to lure eight wealthy women out of their fortunes before they disappeared without a trace, their families left without answers and the authorities without clues. The only common trait among the victims: a new man in their life who also vanished,...
96) High score
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Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Months after his last 'job' sparked unintended consequences, mastermind DJ ... [and] seventh grader ... is lying low at his new school, retired from a life of cons, heists, and schemes. That is, until his best friend and former partner-in-crime Conor transfers to be with him, and promptly runs afoul of the lottery kingpin who controls the school's underground economy of Starcade-brand arcade tickets. Now, DJ has two weeks to acquire 100,000 tickets,...
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Pub. Date
2021
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Minority Report -- Jack Reacher -- Vanilla Sky -- Interview with the Vampire -- The Color of Money -- Cocktail -- Collateral.
Minority Report: Washington, D.C. has been murder-free thanks to astounding technology which identifies killers before they commit their crimes. But when the chief of the Pre-crime unit is himself accused of a future murder, he has just 36 hours to discover who sets him up.
Jack Reacher: Ex-military investigator Jack Reacher...
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Pub. Date
2019
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Catch Me if You Can -- Ready Player One -- Shutter Island -- Message In a Bottle -- There Will Be Blood -- The Namesake -- Dark Tower
Catch Me if You Can: Based on the autobiography of a brilliant young master of deception and the FBI agent hot on his trail. Frank W. Abagnale, Jr. passed himself off as a pilot, a lawyer, and a doctor all before his 21st birthday.
Ready Player One: When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies,...
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