The Seer Of Shadows
Photographer Horace Carpetine is commissioned to do a portrait for society matron Mrs.
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year: 2009
copies: 120
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: photography, swindlers and swindling [X], revenge, ghosts, new york (n.y.) [X], ghost stories, horror stories
Silent Echoes
When sixteen-year-old Lindsay hears the voice of a girl from nineteenth century New York in her head, she thinks she may be going crazy, while Lucy, the nineteenth-century con artist whose voice Lindsay hears, thinks she might truly be a spiritual medium after all.
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year: 2007
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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subjects: space and time, family problems, swindlers and swindling [X], fantasy fiction, new york (n.y.) [X], united states
The Secret Agents Strike Back
High schooler Kyle and his "secret agent" friends uncover a medical mystery when they embark on a mission to prevent fellow "agent" (and Kyle's secret crush) Lucinda from moving away from New York City.
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year: 2008
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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Cover Story
Lora Ricci is thrilled to land a summer internship at ELLE magazine where she meets Cat Wolff, contributing editor and enigmatic daughter of a clean-energy mogul.
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copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
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subjects: swindlers and swindling [X], female friendship, women ghostwriters, young women, new york (n.y.) [X], epistolary fiction
The Fabulist
A Newsday alum and PEN/Hemingway honoree tells the full story of U.
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year: 2023
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
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subjects: santos, george, united states, legislators, swindlers and swindling [X], new york (n.y.) [X]
The Last Phone Booth In Manhattan
"Avery Lawrence thought she had it all--a charming fianc(c), a Broadway-themed star-studded engagement, and a picture-perfect life.
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copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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subjects: new york (n.y.) [X], man-woman relationships, women singers, swindlers and swindling [X], musicals, romance fiction
Victim
"Javier Perez is a hustler from a family of hustlers. He learns from an early age how to play the game to his own advantage, how his background--murdered drug dealer dad, single cash-strapped mom, best friend [Gio] serving time for gang activity--can be a key to doors he didn't even know existed.
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year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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subjects: authors, victims, puerto ricans, universities and colleges, affirmative action programs in education, cultural pluralism, ex-convicts, swindlers and swindling [X], impersonation, truthfulness and falsehood, new york (n.y.) [X], satirical literature