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1) The brethren
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In a maximum security federal prison, three former judges who call themselves "the brethren" meet daily in the law library to run a rougher form of justice inside their new community, and make a little money, but when one of their scams derails, they are forced to confront the world of their own creation.
2) Flint
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Flint left the West at the age of seventeen, leaving behind a rootless past and a bloody trail of violence. In the East he became one of the wealthiest financiers in America -- and one of the most feared and hated. Now, suffering from incurable cancer, he has come back to New Mexico to die alone. But when an all-out range war erupts, Flint chooses to help Nancy Kerrigan, a local rancher. A cold-eyed speculator is setting up the land swindle of a lifetime,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
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.
4) Stone cold
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
While trying to protect his identity from a man seeking revenge for the death of his father, Oliver Stone, a former CIA assassin, and a group of justice seekers protect Annabelle Conroy, a woman who stole millions of dollars from a casino owner in retaliation for her mother's murder.
Author
Publisher
Broadway
Pub. Date
2000, c1980
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The world's most sought-after con man wrote $2.5 million in bad checks, practiced law without a license, practiced medicine with no medical training, and co-piloted a Pan Am jet with a fake license.
Author
Series
Gentleman bastard volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fantasy meets crime caper in the first book of a landmark, enduringly popular epic series about a roguish group of conmen, which George R. R. Martin has called “fresh, original, and engrossing . . . gorgeously realized.”
An orphan’s life is harsh—and often short—in the mysterious island city of Camorr. But young Locke Lamora dodges relentless danger, becoming a thief under the tutelage of a gifted con artist....
An orphan’s life is harsh—and often short—in the mysterious island city of Camorr. But young Locke Lamora dodges relentless danger, becoming a thief under the tutelage of a gifted con artist....
7) Red glove
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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.
8) Curses
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
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.
Merit Cravan refused to fulfill her obligation to marry a prince, leading to a fairy godling's curse. She will be forced to live as a beast forever, unless she agrees to marry a man of her mother's choosing before her eighteenth birthday. Tevin...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The elite academy of Vale Hall is Brynn Hilder's chance to start over, away from her mom's loser boyfriend and her rundown neighborhood. She soon learns that the school's extracurricular activities involve ridding the city of corrupt officials. Then she meets her mark-- a senator's son that she needs to con for her semester grade. But the school's headmaster has secrets he'll stop at nothing to protect, and Brynn begins to realize she's in way over...
10) White cat
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
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.
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