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Series
Language
English
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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 faȧde, 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...
3) Contraband
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Chris Farraday long ago abandoned his life of crime, but after his brother-in-law, Andy, botches a drug deal for his ruthless boss, Tim Briggs, Chris is forced back into doing what he does best, running contraband, to settle Andy's debt. Chris is a legendary smuggler and quickly assembles a crew with the help of his best friend, Sebastian, to head to Panama and return with millions in counterfeit bills. Things quickly fall apart with only hours to...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 74
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While celebrating his birthday with his family, Geronimo realizes someone has replaced all of his money with counterfeit bills and sets out to find the thieves.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1871 Wisconsin, thirteen-year-old Georgia sets out to find her sister Agatha, presumed dead when remains are found wearing the dress she was last seen in, and before the end of the year gains fame as a sharpshooter and foiler of counterfeiters.
6) Murphy's law
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Series
87th Precinct mysteries volume 51
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is Christmas in the city, but it isn't the giving season. A retired Gulf War pilot, a careless second-story man, a pair of angry Mexicans, and an equally shady pair of Secret Service agents are in town after a large stash of money, and no one is interested in sharing.The detectives at the 87th are already busy for the holidays. Steve Carella and Fat Ollie Weeks catch the squeal when the lions in the city zoo get an unauthorized feeding of a young...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kregel Publications
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"After all that Grandfather has sacrificed to raise her, Theresa Plane owes it to him to save the family name-and that means clearing their debt with creditors before she marries Edward Greystone. But when one of the creditors' threats leads her to stumble across a midnight meeting, she discovers that the money he owes isn't all Grandfather was hiding. And the secrets he kept have now trapped Theresa in a life-threatening fight for her home-and the...
9) Secret lives
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Everybody has something to hide At 75-years-old, Ethel Fiona Crestwater is used to being underestimated. She looks like someone's grandma, though she's never married or had children; petite and a bit frail, she's not a threat to anyone. Or is she...? Ethel runs a boarding house for government agents, and when someone murders one of her boarders, she springs into action-much to the surprise of her distant cousin Jesse, who has recently come to stay...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Describes how a counterfeiting ring plotted to ransom Lincoln's body to secure the release of their imprisoned ringleader and how a fledging Secret Service and an undercover agent conducted a daring election-night sting operation.
11) Colors of truth
Author
Series
Carnton novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1866 Catriona O'Toole arrives in the town of Franklin, Tennessee, searching for her younger brother, Ryan, who, according to his last letter, was headed for Franklin only days before the catastrophic Battle of Franklin. Ryan's last note contained a stack of cash -- enough money to bring his entire family across the ocean from Ireland. But after disease and illness tear through County Antrim and the O'Toole family, only Catriona and her seven-year...
12) Bloodhound
Author
Series
Beka Cooper volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Having been promoted from "Puppy" to "Dog," Beka, now a full-fledged member of the Provost's Guard, and her former partner head to a neighboring port city to investigate a case of counterfeit coins.
Author
Publisher
Osprey Pub
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In 1940, the Nazis set a secret project in motion, Operation Berhard. In 1942, men with certain skills were selected from the concen-tration camps, even from those on their way to the gas chambers. The men were transferred to the strictly isolated Block 19 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp ...
Author
Series
Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 6
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When they uncover a conspiracy against America and its fundamental freedoms, the Kidd children, accompanied by their great uncle, crisscross the country in a race to prove that a newly-discovered copy of the Bill of Rights is a forgery.
15) Squared away
Author
Series
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Sarah Hart participates in a fabric swap and finds that one of the fabrics has small traces of metallic ink on it. She deduces that the ink is related to a series of counterfeit bills that have been circulating in town-- can she find who the culprit is?
16) Hurricane Force
Author
Series
Publisher
Jana DeLeon
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
"A force to be reckoned with ... During missions as a CIA assassin, Fortune Redding saw and overcame most every obstacle, but Sinful, Louisiana, keeps producing new challenges for her. When a hurricane blows through, it brings a shower of counterfeit money raining down on the tiny bayou town. When the money is linked back to Ahmad, the arms dealer who issued the kill order on Fortune, everyone is worried that her nemesis is far too close for comfort....
18) Malicious intent
Author
Series
Defend and protect (Blackburn) volume 2
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Driven by a traumatic event in her past, Dr. Ivy Collins is on the precipice of a scientific breakthrough after years of research and sleepless nights when dangerous circumstances demand that she give it all up-to save someone else. Can US Secret Service Agent Gil Dixon work with her to help save her work-and her life?"--
Author
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The haunted hotel: When the guests of the Shangri-La Hotel are scared away by a white-haired female ghost, Dink and his friends investigate the mystery.
The invisible island: While picnicking on Squaw Island, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose find a hundred dollar bill, and when they return to explore further they find an entire cave full of money.
The jaguar's jewel: Dink and his friends use their detective skills to locate a giant emerald missing from...
20) Rebel
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2004, 2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When her grandmother decides to ditch assisted living and start a boarding house, fourteen-year-old Amanda Jane Keeling, or Rebel, signs on for the work crew, where she just happens to meet a teenaged boy taller than she is and to embroil them both in a mystery.
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