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381) King of fools
Author
Series
Shadow game trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
599 pages : map ; 24 cm.
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
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this compelling story of greed, theft, and the dark underbelly of globalization and impact investing, two Wall Street Journal financial reporters investigate the shocking collapse of Abraaj-the largest private-equity failure in history-and the\ face behind its glimmering rise and catastrophic fall"--
The founder of Abraaj, a Dubai-based private-equity firm, Arif Naqvi was the key man to the global elite searching for impact investments to make...
Author
Series
Desert Flowers mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"While sidekick Matt Flowers shoots a film abroad, Poppy dusts off her own acting chops to break up a Gen Z crime ring targeting seniors in Palm Springs. Tanya Cook and her gal pals have been swindling susceptible residents for all they're worth-- until the gang meets Poppy undercover ... Poppy's already sweating over a menacing mystery stalker when a shocking death proves she's in serious danger. As suspicions fall once again on Tanya, finding answers...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
After traveling from her home planet to Ouris and sneaking into the imperial ball to steal from the galactic elite, expert thief Cass is framed for the unexpected death of the emperor, and must work together with a mysterious rebel to uncover the true plot and clear her name.
385) Escape velocity
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xiii, 415 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Georgia Griffin has just arrived in Silicon Valley from Piney, Arkansas, on very bald tires, having firmly rejected her beloved father's life as a con artist. Her father is in jail and a certain minister is hugging her mother for Jesus while eyeing Georgia's little sister, Katie-Ann. Georgia desperately needs to keep her new job as a paralegal for Lumina Software so she can provide a California haven for her sister before it's too late. While she's...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 400 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Blankman: He has no superpowers, no money and no name. He's Blankman, a self-appointed neighborhood crimestopper who's so broke that he fights crime in his underwear.
Mo' money: A lifelong con-man meets a girl and tries to impress her by cleaning up his act and doing things the honest way.
Little man: When a stolen diamond is stashed in the home of a wannabe father and his workaholic wife, a pint-sized jewel thief poses as the world's ugliest baby...
Author
Series
Dixie Hemingway mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
vi, 262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the sixth installment of the wildly popular Dixie Hemingway mystery series, Dixie is caring for the cat of a prickly old man whose granddaughter shows up with baby in tow. Dixie desperately tries to save this young woman and her infant from murderous con artists ready to kill in order to hold on to the millions they stole from naive investors. The villains, though, are not run of the mill criminals; they are among the socially prominent movers...
388) Forks and hope
Author
Series
Snarked volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Red Queen's children, Princess Scarlett and her baby brother Rusty, set out in search of the missing Red King with the help of their guides the Walrus and the Carpenter.
Author
Series
Dino riders volume 6
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
116 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
While the sheriff is away, crooked, businessman Malachi Wilks and his stegosaurus workers try to build a railroad through Trihorn Valley, with only Josh and his friends standing in his way.
390) The hustler
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 135 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
New York. Ames Billiards, with high ceilings and air of hushed concentration, is a church of pool. "Fast" Eddie Felson enters as an innocent con man and leaves with a taste of what the world can do, that talent alone will only get him so far, and that a man's search for "character," that hard-to-define quality that is simultaneously elusive and essential, could last a lifetime. Having come to take on pool legend Minnesota Fats, Eddie is soundly beaten...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (725 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From his early days on stage in vaudeville and Broadway through his live appearance on radio, W.C. Fields created an iconic persona that has never been matched. The comic genius of Fields is best captured forever in his body of films that highlight his notoriously sarcastic quick wit and slapstick routines. In these ten films, see W.C. Fields at his best.
392) Drift & dagger
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
As a boy in the late nineteenth century, Mal's only friend was Essie, daughter of the Roe witch, and it was she who discovered that he is a "blank," not affected by magic, setting him on a career as a con artist, traveling the globe in search of a legendary magical dagger that can steal a witch's power.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
141 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates, 1 folded leave of plate : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Edgin the bard lost everything when he and his barbarian friend, Holga, were captured during a risky heist years ago. Recently free, the two journey to the city of Neverwinter to reconnect with their former partners in crime. Can Edgin and Holga reassemble their band of scrappy scoundrels for one last mission, even in the face of constant danger and insurmountable odds?" -- Back cover.
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