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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Takes readers on a journey both of individual healing and society's response to the question of life after life, follows a single father just released from prison as he sets out to prove that the mysterious calls from beyond to the residents of Coldwater, Michigan are nothing but a hoax.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
When William Shatner and his wacky entourage roll into Riverside, Iowa to supposedly film a big-budget sci-fi flick, a prank of mass proportions unravels as the locals fall victim to their bizarre demands and hilarious schemes.
Author
Language
English
Description
Bunk traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon, examining what motivates hucksters and makes the rest of us so gullible. Disturbingly, Young finds that fakery is woven from stereotype and suspicion, 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 was the 161-year-old nursemaid to George Washington, and What Is It?,...
4) Holy ghost
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Wheatfield, Minnesota, is a metropolis of all six hundred souls and change for which the word "moribund" might have been coined. Nothing ever happened there, and nothing ever would, until the mayor of sorts (campaign slogan: "I'll Do What I Can") and his precocious teenage buddy come up with a scheme to put Wheatfield on the map. Should something dramatic occur-say, an apparition of the Virgin Mary miraculously appearing at the local Catholic church-the...
Publisher
Image Entertainment ; RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Max and Drew run a popular webcast that streams "live exorcisms" watched by millions across the globe. In reality, the exorcisms are just elaborately staged hoaxes performed by paid actors. But their fortunes take a turn when one of the actors becomes possessed by an actual demon and takes the crew hostage. In front of a rapidly growing audience, the demon subjects the crew to a series of violent challenges, threatening to expose the dark secrets...
Author
Series
Publisher
Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Discover Cryptids film crew travel to South Carolina to investigate reports of a Swamp lizard man, which they are convinced is a hoax, just like all the other monsters--but Gabe is not so sure.
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this 2018 New York Times Notable Book,Paige Williams "does for fossils what Susan Orlean did for orchids" (Book Riot) in her account of one Florida man's attempt to sell a dinosaur skeleton from Mongolia—a story "steeped in natural history, human nature, commerce, crime, science, and politics" (Rebecca Skloot).
In 2012, a New York auction catalogue boasted an unusual offering: "a superb Tyrannosaurus skeleton."...
In 2012, a New York auction catalogue boasted an unusual offering: "a superb Tyrannosaurus skeleton."...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First Pegasus Books trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
It is said that the greatest art forger in the world is the one who has never been caught. “Caveat Emptor” reveals the astonishing story of America's most accomplished art forger.
Ten years ago, an FBI investigation in conjunction with the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York was about to expose a scandal in the art world that would have been front-page news in New York and London. After a trail of fake paintings of astonishing...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A legal analyst for NPR, NBC, and CNN, delves into the facts surrounding what has been called the “worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history”: the case of Robert Hanssen—a Russian spy who was embedded in the FBI for two decades.
As a federal prosecutor and the daughter of an FBI agent, Wiehl has an inside perspective. She brings her experience and the ingrained lessons of her upraising to bear on her remarkable exploration of the case, interviewing...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
By the age of nine, I will have lived in more than a dozen countries, on five continents, under six assumed identities. I’ll know how a document is forged, how to withstand an interrogation, and most important, how to disappear . . .
To the young Cheryl Diamond, life felt like one big adventure, whether she was hurtling down the Himalayas in a rickety car or mingling with underworld fixers. Her family appeared...
To the young Cheryl Diamond, life felt like one big adventure, whether she was hurtling down the Himalayas in a rickety car or mingling with underworld fixers. Her family appeared...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Think You Know Who Your Friends Are?
Think again...
From Mata Hari to D. B. Cooper, history is littered with people pretending to be someone else. Some go undetected for years, cultivating their false identities so skillfully, even their spouses don't know. Other frauds go up in flames after one misstep. The Ultimate Book of Impostors presents the astonishing true stories behind over one hundred of the craziest and funniest
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Publisher
Post Hill Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Where does a moderately popular internet star who never leaves her house look for potential suitors? Online. Tinder, Bumble, Match.com, OkCupid—I tried them all. My thirty-one-year-old self clicked and swiped her little heart out, leading to more dates than I could count, and more disappointment than I was prepared for.
Maybe you can relate. Maybe you know all too well the perils of modern dating. But let's say, eventually, you meet
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Publisher
Skyhorse Pub
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
Since Marilyn Monroe died among suspicious circumstances on the night of August 4, 1962, there have been queries and theories, allegations and investigations, but no definitive evidence about precisely what happened and who was involved . . . until now. In The Murder of Marilyn Monroe: Case Closed, renowned MM expert Jay Margolis and New York Times bestselling author Richard Buskin finally lay to rest more than fifty years of wild speculation and...
15) Labor pains
Publisher
First Look Studios
Pub. Date
�2009
Language
English
Description
Thea is on the brink of being fired, to keep her job she makes a desperate claim: She's pregnant! Her employer fears a lawsuit and lets Thea keep her job. Now, she has to keep up the lie to keep her job and her new man.
16) Diary of a void
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When thirty-four-year-old Ms. Shibata gets a new job in Tokyo to escape sexual harassment at her old one, she finds that, as the only woman at her new workplace--a company that manufactures cardboard tubes--she is expected to do all the menial tasks. One day she announces that she can't clear away her colleagues' dirty cups--because she's pregnant and the smell nauseates her. The only thing is . . . Ms. Shibata is not pregnant. Pregnant Ms. Shibata...
17) Hit List: an In-Depth Investigation into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
Richard Belzer and David Wayne are back to set the record straight after Dead Wrong; this time they're going to uncover the truth about the many witness deaths tied to the JFK assassination. For decades, government pundits have dismissed these "coincidental" deaths, even regarding them as "myths" as "urban legends."
Like most people, Richard and David were initially unsure about what to make of these 'coincidences'. After all, events don't...
Like most people, Richard and David were initially unsure about what to make of these 'coincidences'. After all, events don't...
18) Selling hope
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1910, just before the earth passes through the tail of Halley's Comet, thirteen-year-old Hope McDaniels, whose father is a magician in a traveling vaudeville show, tries to earn enough money to quit the circuit by selling "anti-comet pills," with the help of fellow-performer Buster Keaton.
Author
Publisher
Onyx
Pub. Date
[1989], c1988
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the complex murder cases of two wealthy Southern widows and their children, examining the involvement of Susie Sharp Newsom Lynch, the beautiful young mother who represented the only link between the families involved, and her obsessive first cousin, Fritz Klenner.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Find out how and why LBJ had JFK assassinated.
The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ hit the New York Times bestseller list the week of the 50th Anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Consummate political insider Roger Stone makes a compelling case that Lyndon Baines Johnson had the motive, means, and opportunity to orchestrate the murder of JFK. Stone maps out the case that LBJ blackmailed his way on the ticket...
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