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Kiss My Book
by Jamie Michaels
RUBY CRANE IS a rising star. At 15, she sold her first book, got a movie deal, scored the hottest guy in school, and became the most popular student at Frasier High. Now, as a soon-to-be junior and published author, she's ready to make waves in New York's literary world. But every star falls back to earth one day. Ruby's accused of plagiarism - on national television. And the worst part is that the proof of her... (more)
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My Life as a Fake
by Peter Carey
In his remarkable new novel, the two-time Booker-winning author Peter Carey creates a Creature as indelible as Frankenstein. In Melbourne in the 1950s, an arrogant young Australian poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. Choosing as his target the trendiest of the literary magazines, he submits for publication the entire oeuvre of one Bob McCorkle, a... (more)
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Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are
by Bart D. Ehrman
Bart D. Ehrman is the author of more than twenty books, including the New York Times bestselling Misquoting Jesus and God's Problem . Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and is a leading authority on the Bible and the life of Jesus. He has been featured in Time and has appeared on Dateline NBC, The Daily Show with Jon... (more)
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Plagiarism : why it happens? how to prevent it
by Barry Gilmore
A Study Guide is available for this title. Click here to download. To download some helpful suggestions for book study groups, click here. You dread confronting students who have plagiarized. But every year you have to. By the time you detect a simple citation mistake or a research misdemeanor, it's too late. The right prevention strategy can reduce or eliminate the incidence of plagiarism. And in Barry... (more)
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Too Close to Home
by Linwood Barclay
“The night they killed our neighbors, we never heard a thing.” In a quiet suburban neighborhood, in a house only one door away, a family is brutally murdered for no apparent reason. And you think to yourself: It could have been us. And you start to wonder: What if we’re next? Linwood Barclay, critically acclaimed author of No Time for Goodbye , brings terror closer than ever before in a thriller where... (more)
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Combating Student Plagiarism: An Academic Librarian's Guide (Chandos Series for Information Professionals)
by Lynn D. Lampert
Combating Student Plagiarism addresses the growing problem of student plagiarism and the academic librarians role in its prevention. There are recommendations for effective outreach techniques, instructional methods for preventing plagiarism and examples of discipline based approaches for combating plagiarism in the classroom. Author Lynn D. Lampert of California State University, Northridge, highlights the... (more)
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The War at Ellsmere
by Faith Erin Hicks
Zombies Calling creator Faith Erin Hicks brings her manga-fueled art style and pop-culture sensibilities to girl's boarding schools in her latest book The War at Ellsmere. Jun is the newest scholarship student at the prestigious Ellsmere girls' boarding school - but to a lot of the privileged rich girls, scholarship student is just a code for charity case. Fortunately, Jun has an ally in the quirky Cassie, who... (more)
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Student Plagiarism in an Online World: Problems and Solutions (Premier Reference Source)
by Tim Roberts
Twenty years ago, plagiarism was seen as an isolated misdemeanor, restricted to a small group of students. Today it is widely recognized as a ubiquitous, systemic issue, compounded by the accessibility of content in the virtual environment. Student Plagiarism in an Online World: Problems & Solutions describes the legal and ethical issues surrounding plagiarism, the tools and techniques available to combat... (more)
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Information Literacy Skills: Evaluating Information
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Research Without Copying
by Nancy Polette
This book is Out of Print...Please search for the Research Without Copying - 3rd Expanded Edition - ISBN 978-1-934358-26-9
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Crisis on Campus: Confronting Academic Misconduct
by Wilfried Decoo
Crisis on Campus presents an overview of the phenomenon and handling of academic misconduct. After a brief historical background, it discusses contemporary circumstances that affect the nature and frequency of academic misconduct. It then details the phases of misconduct discovery and investigation: detection, analysis, assessment, reporting, and institutional handling. The final chapter deals with prevention.... (more)
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Stop plagiarism : a guide to understanding and prevention
by Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic (Editor), Katie Elson Anderson (Editor)
Designed to be of use to all levels of educators working with students from high school to post-graduate this book addresses the problems and concerns facing librarians and educators involved in the process of teaching academic honesty. Many of the original authors from The Plagiarism Plague have returned with new essays along with new voices, a majority of whom represent the next generation of librarianship, the... (more)
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The writing circle
by Corinne Demas Bliss
They call themselves the Leopardi Circle, six members of a writing group who share much more than their works in progress. When Nancy, whose most recently published work is a medical newsletter, is asked to join a writing group made up of established writers, she accepts, warily. She’s not at all certain that her novel is good enough for the company she’ll be keeping. Her novel is... (more)
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Academy X: A Novel
by Andrew S. Trees
Welcome to Academy X, an ethical wonderland in which up is down, right is wrong, and parents and students will stop at nothing (including lying, plagiarizing, and even seduction to name a few) in orderto get into the Ivy League. Caught in the middle is John Spencer, a bumbling but loveable English teacher struggling through the final weeks of his spring semester. But keeping focused on a Jane Austen seminar... (more)
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Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management
by Isabella Mary Beeton
An almost forgotten classic though a founding text of Victorian middle-class identity,Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management is a volume of insight and common sense. Written by what one might now describe as a Victorian Martha Stewart, the book offers advice on fashion, child-care, animal husbandry, poisons, and the management of servants. To the modern reader expecting stuffy verbosity or heavy moralizing,... (more)
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Kane & Abel: Book 1
Kane & Abel
by Jeffrey Archer
William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless polish immigrant-born on the same day near the turn of the century on opposite sides of the world-are brought together by fate and the quest of a dream. Two men - ambitious, powerful, ruthless - are locked in a relentless struggle to build an empire, fueled by their all-consuming hatred. Over sixty years and three... (more)
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How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life
by Kaavya Viswanathan, Kaavya Vishwanathan
In this outrageously funny debut novel, an overachieving teenage girl discovers that, in order to get into the college of her dreams, she needs to have more fun. A movie is currently in development with Dreamworks.
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The Recognitions
by William Gaddis
Wyatt Gwyon's desire to forge is not driven by larceny but from love. Exactingly faithful to the spirit and letter of the Flemish masters, he produces uncannily accurate 'originals' - pictures the painters themselves might have envied. In an age of counterfeit emotion and taste, the real and fake have become indistinguishable; yet Gwyon's forgeries reflect a truth that others cannot touch - cannot even... (more)
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Snake Moon
by Ray Manzarek
A family, isolated geographically from the ongoing Civil War, is torn apart by greed, lust, war and ghosts in this parable of the destruction of Eden. A ghost story of the Civil War.
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Lindsay Gordon Series: Book 3
Final Edition
by Val McDermid
Lindsay Gordon finds herself dragged into a sordid world of blackmail, prostitution, lies and murder when she investigates the case of a former colleague jailed for killing a notorious Glaswegian journalist. Third in the popular mystery series. When Alison Maxwell, a well-known Glaswegian journalist with an irresistible sexual attraction to both sexes, is found murdered the police look no further than the owner... (more)

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