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  Bringing Down the House

  The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions

  by Ben Mezrich

  #1 National Bestseller! The amazing inside story about a gambling ring of M.I.T. students who beat the system in Vegas -- and lived to tell how. Robin Hood meets the Rat Pack when the best and the brightest of M.I.T.'s math students and engineers take up blackjack under the guidance of an eccentric mastermind. Their small blackjack club develops from an experiment in counting cards on M.I.T.'s campus into a... (more)
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  If the Witness Lied

  by Caroline B. Cooney

  Choices do matter and forgiveness is possible. Jack Fountain knows that what’s happened to his family sounds like the most horrible soap opera anyone could ever write. But it happened—to Jack; his parents; his sisters, Smithy and Madison. And to his baby brother, Tris. What made it worse was that the media wanted to know every detail. Now it’s almost Tris’s third birthday, and everything’s starting again.... (more)
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  Son of the Mob: Book 1

  Son of the Mob

  by Gordon Korman

  Vince Luca is just like any other high school guy. His best friend, Alex, is trying to score vicariously through him; his brother is a giant pain; and his father keeps bugging him to get motivated. There is just one thing that really sets him apart for other kids his father happens to be the head of a powerful crime organization. Needless to say, while Vince's family's connections can be handy for certain... (more)
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  In Mike We Trust

  by Patrick Ryan

  Honesty. He wanted it. He craved it. He could barely remember what it was. When Garth's uncle comes to visit, he's like a breath of very needed fresh air. Mike is laid-back and relaxed—and willing to accept Garth for who he is, without question. For the first time in a long while, Garth feels like he's around someone who understands him. But before long Garth is helping Mike with some pretty mysterious... (more)
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  The Four Corners of the Sky

  by Michael Malone

  Praise for The Four Corners of the Sky-There-s humor and action aplenty, but Four Corners is also a warm-hearted look at how we love and forgive. Five hundred and forty-four pages never seemed so short.-People magazine 4-Star Review-Devoted Michael Malone fans have been waiting more than twenty years for another Handling Sin, perhaps the greatest road novel since Tom Jones. The wait is over--Bill Ott,... (more)
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  Flim-Flam!

  Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions

  by James Randi

  In this book, Randi explores and exposes what he believes to be the outrageous deception that has been promoted widely in the media. Unafraid to call researchers to account for their failures and impostures, Randi tells us that we have been badly served by scientists who have failed to follow the procedures required by their training and traditions. Here, he shows us how what he views as sloppy research has been... (more)
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  "They" Don't Want You To Know About

  Debt Cures "They" Don't Want YOU to Know About

  by Kevin Trudeau

  Are you getting deeper and deeper into debt while they make bigger and bigger profits? Not after you read... Debt Cure$ "They" Don't Want You To Know About ! In this new book, Kevin Trudeau blows the lid off the banking and credit card industries, exposing the greatest rip off of our citizens in this nation's history. The credit card industry is one of the most profitable industries in this... (more)
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  The Eternal Smile: Three Stories

  by Gene Luen Yang

  A fantastical adventure through the worlds we live in and the worlds we create.    From two masters of the graphic novel -- Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese) and Derek Kirk Kim (Same Difference and Other Stories) come three magical tales –   The story of a prince who defeats his greatest enemy only to discover that maybe his world is not what it had seemed.   The story of a frog who finds that just... (more)
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  The Street Smart Writer: Self Defense Against Sharks and Scams in the Writing World

  by Jenna Glatzer

  Aspiring writers learn how to avoid frauds and unsavory deals in this handbook for getting published. The editor of AbsoluteWrite.com and a seasoned publishing attorney share their expertise to help writers spot an honest agent or manager, determine the value of vanity publishing, and avoid getting conned out of hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars when signing a contract. Sections on writing contests teach... (more)
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  A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama

  by Laura Amy Schlitz

  A feisty orphan is taken in by a band of phony spiritualists in this intriguing, engaging novel. Maud Flynn is known at the orphanage for her impertinence, so when the charming Miss Hyacinth and her sister choose Maud to take home with them, the girl is as baffled as anyone. It seems the sisters need Maud to help stage elaborate séances for bereaved, wealthy patrons. As Maud is drawn deeper into the deception,... (more)
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  The Wicked Wives: A novel based on a true story

  by Gus Pelagatti

  The Wicked Wives is based on the true story of the 1938 Philadelphia murder scandals in which seventeen wives were arrested for murdering their husbands. Mastermind conspirator Giorgio DiSipio, a stunning lothario and local tailor who preys upon disenchanted and unfaithful wives, convinces twelve of them to kill their spouses for insurance money. The murder conspiracy is very successful until one lone... (more)
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  Hollywood Station: Book 3

  Hollywood Moon

  by Joseph Wambaugh

  There's a saying at Hollywood station that the full moon brings out the beast--rather than the best--in the precinct's citizens. One moonlit night, LAPD veteran Dana Vaughn and " Hollywood " Nate Weiss, a struggling-actor-turned cop, get a call about a young man who's been attacking women. Meanwhile, two surfer cops known as Flotsam and Jetsam keep bumping into an odd, suspicious duo--a smooth-talking player... (more)
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  A Dance With the Devil

  A True Story of Marriage to a Psychopath

  by Barbara Bentley

  Her marriage to retired Navy admiral John Perry seemed almost too good to be true. Because it was… At the start of her relationship with the intelligent and worldly John Perry, Barbara Bentley couldn’t believe her luck—so when things didn’t add up, she struggled to ignore her doubts. She kept trying to put the pieces together—unaware that some of them were simply missing. Even as he drained her credit, dodged... (more)
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  Posadas County Mysteries: Book 15

  The Fourth Time Is Murder: A Posadas County Mystery (Posadas County Mysteries)

  by Steven Havill

  Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman is always busy, but more so now than ever. The sheriff is still not completely recovered from his stay in the hospital, and she is recovering from a hospital stay herself. After a long day at work, Estelle is happy to clear off her desk and drive home, where her beloved family waits. She hears her cell phone ringing as she pulls into the driveway. A truck has gone off the road and... (more)
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  License To Steal

  by Reg Owens

  Scams Exposed; television, internet, email, telephone, government. This is a must read book especially if you're 50 and over. You see the ads on TV that claim to end pain. What about the Duck and the lizard insurance companies. How about the work at home and makes lots of money pitches. Learn the truth about these and more for just $0.99. This book could save you a lot of grief and money. Learn what happened to... (more)
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  Fred

  by John Haynes

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  Electronic Crime in Muted Key

  by Nick Wastnage

  Enter the enigmatic world of Barry Carter; a man who lives two lives and believes his sinister plan to scam millions and fake his death is foolproof. He’s right, until his bitter lover and distraught wife team up to seek him out. They want retribution but are stopped by the police, who’ve found Carter first and want to question him about a murder, a stolen dead body and an international cyber crime. A frantic... (more)
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  The Brethern (Large Print)

  by John Grisham

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  One Perfect Day

  The Selling of the American Wedding

  by Rebecca Mead

  The 160-billion dollar behemoth that is the American wedding industry and the psychology behind the expense, stress, and folly associated with the typical American wedding Using the American wedding as a rosetta stone, in One Perfect Day writer Rebecca Mead poses a series of questions that cut to the heart of our national identity. Why, she asks, has the American wedding become an outlandishly extravagant,... (more)
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  The Telephone Booth Indian

  by A.J. Liebling

  Often referred to as "Liebling low-life pieces," the essays in The Telephone Booth Indian boisterously celebrate raffishness. A. J. Liebling appreciated a good scam and knew how to cultivate the scammers. Telephone Booth Indians (entrepreneurs so impecunious that they conduct business from telephone booths in the lobbies of New York City office buildings) and a host of other petty nomads of Broadway—with names... (more)