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1) Shadow
Formats
Description
In Pei, a kingdom ruled by a young and unpredictable king, the military commander faces peril both inside and outside the palace walls. But he has a secret weapon: a look-alike who can fool both Pei's enemies and the King himself.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Disowned by his family, Sebastian Townshend has forged a reputation throughout Europe as a mercenary, until his former neighbor, Lady Margaret Landor, enlists his assistance in investigating death threats against his estranged father.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
David is a pot dealer in need of a fake family to use as a cover story in order to smuggle drugs from Mexico into the U.S. He is in major debt with his supplier and is desperate for the money to pay him back. He hires a stripper to be his fake-wife; a runaway as his pretend daughter; and a goofy counterfeit son. Adventure ensues as this faux-family attempts to cross the border with the loot.
5) Leap!
Publisher
The Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2017
Formats
Description
An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.
Author
Description
Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, Samuel Clemens, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Chapter Book, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Classics-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original classic. These classics...
8) Mirage
Author
Series
Mirage (Daud) volume 1
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
311 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
After being kidnapped by the Vathek, Amani is forced to work as a body double for the princess who is hated by her conquered people.
9) Nancy
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A serial imposter, Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child, and when she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, the power of emotion threatens to overcome all rationality.
Author
Description
A New York Times Notable Book
"Stunning. . . a moving meditation. . . infused with mystery and wonder." —Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In a masterwork that both deepens and enlarges the world of her previous novels, acclaimed author Louise Erdrich captures the essence of a time and the spirit of a woman who felt compelled by her beliefs to serve her people as a priest. The Last Report on
...12) The lady Eve
Series
Criterion collection volume 103
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A conniving father and daughter meet up with the heir to a brewery fortune-- a wealthy but nai?ve snake enthusiast-- and attempt to bamboozle him at a cruise ship card table. Their plan is quickly abandoned when the daughter falls in love with their prey. But when the heir gets wise to her gold-digging ways, she must plot to re-conquer his heart.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A psychotic self-styled preacher marries and murders a young widow for her money. He then pursues her children to get his hands on the money, only to meet his match in the form of a saintly farm woman.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 487 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dying day: Antony Skipling becomes convinced that someone is trying to kill him after he listens to a cassette left behind by a stranger. The limbo connection: Mark Omney is forced into desperate actions after his wife mysteriously disappears. Rachel in danger: Ten-year-old Rachel travels from Scotland to London to visit her father but she does not know that the man who meets her is not who he seems. The victim: When his daughter is kidnapped, Vincent...
Author
Series
Edilean series volume 3
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2010
Formats
Description
In Edilean, Virginia, undercover detective Mike Newland uses Sara Shaw to track down a woman who is one of the most notorious criminals in the United States--and also happens to be the mother of Greg Anders, the man whom Sara plans to marry and who leaves her without explanation three weeks before the wedding.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
viii, 323 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
A probing and cinematic exploration of an audacious impostor, Christian Gerhartsreiter, and his "talented Mr. Ripley" story as Clark Rockefeller.
"The unbelievable thirty-year run of a shape-shifting con man. Clark Rockefeller's story is a strange twist on the classic American success story of the self-made man--because Clark Rockefeller was totally made up. Born in a small village in Germany, Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter was obsessed with getting...
19) Midnight
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2008, 1939
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An American gold-digger finds herself penniless in Paris. But when impersonating a baroness, she finds several ways to make money. If only she can avoid stepping into the same trap she always does - falling in love with a poor man.
20) We're no angels
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Description
Two escaped convicts' only prayer is to pass themselves off as clergymen. As men of the cloth, they are able to pass right through a police blockade at the border and into the safety of Canada.
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