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"Nora O'Malley's been a lot of girls. As the daughter of a con artist who targets criminal men, she grew up as her mother's protege. But when Mom fell for a mark, Nora pulled the ultimate con--escape. For five years Nora's been playing at normal, but she needs to dust off her skills because she has three problems. Number 1: Her ex walked in on her with her girlfriend, and Wes didn't know about her and Iris. Number 2: They all have to meet to deposit...
2) White cat
Author
Series
Curse workers volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Cassel Sharpe discovers that his older brothers have used him to carry out their criminal schemes and then stolen his memories, he figures out a way to turn their evil machinations against them.
3) A good horse
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
On her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt tries to rely on her Christian faith as she faces the possibility of giving up her beloved colt, Jack.
4) Red glove
Author
Series
Curse workers volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When federal agents learn that seventeen-year-old Cassel Sharpe, a powerful transformation worker, may be of use to them, they offer him a deal to join them rather than the mobsters for whom his brothers work.
Author
Series
Into the crooked place volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A group of deadly young crooks who excel at using magic and trickery embark on a quest to save their city"--
7) New in town
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The people of Puddletrunk are accustomed to their bridge collapsing and being rebuilt by Mortimer Gulch--when they provide funds and labor--but a newcomer to town may have a better idea.
8) Grounded
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After her father, brother, and sister are killed in a plane crash, twelve-year-old Daralynn's life in tiny Digginsville, Missouri, proceeds as her mother turns angry and embittered, her grandmother becomes senile, and her flamboyant aunt continues to run the Summer Sunset Retirement Home for Distinguished Gentlemen, while being courted by the owner of the town's new crematorium.
9) Curses
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
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.
12) King of fools
Author
Series
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
With bounties on their heads, Enne continues to play the role of both a lady and a street lord, while Levi begins a relationship with the son of a member of the Mafia.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ginny Blackstone precipitously travels from her home in New Jersey to London when she receives a message from an unknown man telling her he has the letters that were stolen just before she completed a series of mysterious tasks assigned by her now dead aunt, an artist.
Author
Publisher
Laura Geringer Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
After her supposed best friend implicates her in a cheating and blackmail scam, twelve-year-old Bernie loses her private school scholarship but, with the help of a new friend, spends the summer using her knowledge of magic and sleight-of-hand both to earn the $9,000 in tuition money and to get revenge.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop and her fellow talented teenagers work together to find and steal the "Cleopatra Emerald" from an unscrupulous dealer and return it to its rightful owner, while a former love of her Uncle Eddie tries to get the gem for herself.
Author
Series
A to Z mysteries.Super edition volume 12
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose head to Florida where they uncover a scam at a local space memorabilia attraction.
17) A million to one
Author
Publisher
Harper Teen
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An acrobat, an actress, an artist, and a thief, four girls who seemingly have nothing in common, work together and plot a heist to steal the Rubaiyat off the Titanic.
18) Shipnapped!
Author
Series
A misfit's life for me volume 3
Publisher
Spellbound, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Jinx has a bad feeling about a guest Captain Small is entertaining before the misfits leave Pirate Cove. Apple tells her not to worry, but she just can't shake her concerns. Back on the open ocean, the misfits run into the mysterious guest again, and this time they get a glimpse of his true colors"-- Page [4] of cover.
19) Fallen Grace
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Language
English
Description
In Victorian London, impoverished fifteen-year-old orphan Grace takes care of her older but mentally unfit sister Lily, and after enduring many harsh and painful experiences, the two become the victims of a fraud perpetrated by the wealthy owners of several funeral businesses.
20) Fly by night
Author
Language
English
Description
YA. Stunningly original, fabulously inventive and packed with humour and wit - now with a eye-catching new cover look! A breathtaking adventure story, set in reimagined eighteenth-century England. As the realm struggles to maintain an uneasy peace after years of cival war and tyranny, a twelve-year-old orphan and her loyal companion, a grumpy goose, are about to become the unlikely heroes of a radical revolution. Mosca Mye is on the run, heading for...