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1) Flag day
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Jennifer Vogel's father John taught her so much about love and joy, but he also happened to be the most notorious counterfeiter in US history. Directed by Sean Penn, the film stars Penn and his daughter Dylan Penn in an intimate family portrait of a young woman who struggles to rise above the wreckage of her past while reconciling the inescapable bond between a daughter and her father.
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"Jacqueline Rivers manages a Pony Express station in 1860 Utah territory after her father's death. There are daily stresses placed on her in this unconventional role--and now a government official is asking her to sniff out counterfeiters. When Elijah Johnson passes through on the stage while on an exhausting quest to find his boss's heir, he doesn't want to leave the beguiling station manager. In fact, he may never leave when caught in the crossfire...
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Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
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In three separate stories, boy detective Saxby Smart exposes a comic book counterfeiter, restores a slandered dead man's good name, and uncovers a massive case of identity theft. As Saxby notes, "I don't have a sidekick, so that part I'm leaving up to you.
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"Ava Wong has always played it safe. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with a successful surgeon as a husband, a young son, and a beautiful home, she's built the perfect life. But beneath this facade, Ava's world is crumbling: her marriage is falling apart, her expensive law degree hasn't been used in years, and her toddler's tantrums are pushing her to the breaking point. Enter Winnie Fang, Ava's enigmatic college roommate from...
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Pub. Date
c2022.
Description
When former platoon sergeant Matt Kubelsky is paroled from Ray Brook Federal Correctional Institute in upstate New York, he’s surprised to find his ex-girlfriend waiting for him out in the parking lot. An ex-girlfriend he’s spent years pining for after she dumped him and stopped answering his letters. An ex-girlfriend who wonders if her apparently criminally-hardened ex-boyfriend can help her out of some extra-legal difficulty of her own.During...
7) Blind trust
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Port Aster secrets volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Investigating a small-time counterfeit operation leads amateur sleuth Kate Adams into a far more elaborate web of intrigue"--
Pub. Date
[c2011]
Description
Blue steel: It's up to John Carruthers to save the little town of Yucca City from the evil extremes of the 'Polka Dot Bandit," and win the heart of the beautiful Betty Mason.
Santa Fe Trail: Jeb Stuart, the famed Southern calvaryman arrives at West Point, where he befriends George Armstrong Custer. Both compete for the attention of "Kit Carson" Halliday. As a punishment for fighting with fellow classmates, both men are sent to an outpost in Kansas...
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Amos Walker novels volume 18
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Sometimes friendship is the only thing you can count on. Just before Thanksgiving, an old friend, cigarette smuggler Jeff Starzek, saved private detective Amos Walker's life by getting him to the hospital when he was shot. After New Year's, Walker gets a frantic call from Starzek's sister. Jeff's missing, hasn't been in touch for weeks. It's just not like him. Now Walker, still gimpy and rehabbing, is trying to find Starzek. All he has to go on is...
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Baroque cycle (Neal Stephenson) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
In the wake of a power struggle between the throne-seeking Tories and Whigs in early eighteenth-century England, Daniel Waterhouse teams up with Isaac Newton to hunt down a shadowy group that uses time bombs to kill Natural Philosophers
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"Ignatius O'Reilly is famous for his beautifully crafted counterfeit money. John Henry Sixkiller is famous for hunting criminals into the most violent and dangerous worlds most lawman dare not go. Now, the Deputy U.S. Marshal is zeroing on O'Reilly in San Francisco, when the case blows up in his face. Instead of O'Reilly, Sixkiller finds a beautiful woman and a meddling Federal agent from the Secret Service. O'Reilly gets away and the hunt leads Sixkiller...
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Border empire volume 2
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
Gunslinger Wes Stone, along with his fellow warrior El Lobo, is called upon to expose a secret organization of criminals that is replacing freshly minted gold with conterfeit coins--leading him closer to the men who murdered his father, the legendary Nathan Stone.
18) Fighting
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Small-town boy and counterfeiter Shawn MacArthur knows firsthand that every day in New York City is a struggle to survive. So when scam artist Harvey Boarden gives him a chance to be something more in the brutal underground world of bare-knuckle street-fighting, Shawn decides he has something worth fighting for and puts everything on the line to win.
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Pub. Date
2002.
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"In 1696, young Christopher Ellis is sent to the Tower of London, but not as a prisoner. Though Ellis is notoriously hotheaded and was caught fighting an illegal duel, he arrives at the Tower as assistant to the renowned scientist Sir Isaac Newton. Newton is Warden of the Royal Mint, which resides within the Tower walls, and he has accepted an appointment from the King of England and Parliament to investigate and prosecute counterfeiters whose false...
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