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Author
Series
Leah's garden volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Larkspur Nielsen is ready for change, frustrated by the small-mindedness of her Ohio hometown and its lack of opportunity for her or her younger sisters. But the push to leave comes faster than she ever expected when several of her bold actions for justice earn her vindictive enemies. Overnight, they must pack up and ready to make a new life out West, hoping to escape notice and any opportunities for revenge. Knowing that four women traveling together...
Author
Series
Misfits of Mayfair volume 2
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
x, 377 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Living as a boy to escape an arranged marriage, Ophelia Hardwick, working as a steward for the Earl of Carlyle, finds her life--and heart--in danger when he discovers her secret.
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed in the USA by Publishers Group West
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
170 p. : maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Because the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Afghanistan, impose strict limitations on women's freedom and behavior, eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so that her family can survive after her father's arrest.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Having been raised believing he will die before he reaches the age of fourteen, Pepper Roux runs away on his fourteenth birthday in an attempt to elude his fate, assumes another identity, and continues to try to outrun death, no matter the consequences.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Tom Angleberger scored two critical and popular hits with his Star Wars- inspired The Strange Case of Origami Yoda and Darth Paper Strikes Back. In the hilarious Fake Mustache, young Lenny Flem Jr.'s friend Casper disguises himself with a shockingly convincing handlebar mustache and begins robbing banks, quickly amassing a fortune. Setting his sights on the presidency, Casper is working on plans for world domination- and only Lenny stands in his way....
Author
Series
Lady librarian volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"1784, London. Miss Tiffany Woodall didn't murder her half-brother, but she did bury him in the back garden so that she could keep her cottage. Now, the confirmed spinster has to pretend to be Uriah and fulfill his duties as the Duke of Beaufort's librarian while searching Astwell Palace for Uriah's missing diamond pin, the only thing of value they own. Her ruse is almost up when she is discovered by Mr. Samir Lathrop, the local bookseller, who tries...
Author
Series
Riley Wolfe volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Super thief Riley Wolfe can do it all. He is a master of disguise, can scale a wall, and can vanish into thin air (thick air, too). He uses these unique talents to rob the richest. But this time, it's the most powerful who have him in their grips. ONE MADMAN. TWO HOSTAGES. It's not just that the high-up, rogue government agent has abducted the only two people Riley loves: it's the fact that Riley has to do the man's dirty work to set them free. It's...
Author
Series
Alien superstar volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Buddy Burger escapes his home planet, lands in Hollywood, and is cast in a new television series, but must pretend his six eyes and suction-cup feet are the costume and his human skin, real.
Author
Publisher
Realms
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"When newspaper reporter Tom Whiteman befriends a homeless man named Joe, Tom decides to bring him home to Stoney Creek, Texas. Joe begins to work odd jobs around town and make new friends, but contradictions in the man's manner and speech cause Tom to believe there's more to the old man than meets the eye. As Tom and his childhood friend Faith Delmont set out to learn the truth about the old man with the kind, sad eyes, Christmas in Stoney Creek...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of Anastasius, a young woman who disguises herself as a eunuch in order to prove her brother innocent of a crime she knows he didn't commit. With the threat of the next Christian crusade looming, thirteenth-century Constantinople comes alive. Meanwhile, Anastasius works her way through each level of the city--from her humble neighbors to the emperor himself--seeking to uncover the truth.
13) The prince: #4
Author
Series
Devil's Duke volume 4
Publisher
AvonBooks, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
415 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Libby Shaw is determined to become a member of Edinburgh's all-male Royal College of Surgeons. Disguising herself as a man, she attends the surgical theater and nearly fools everyone. Forced to leave his home as a boy, famed portraitist Ziyaeddin is secretly the exiled prince of a distant realm. When he first met Libby, he memorized every detail of her face and drew her. But her perfect lips gave him trouble--the same lips he now longs to kiss. When...
Author
Series
Fall of the dragon volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
466 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After her father's murder, eighteen-year-old Aihui Ying travels to the capital, where she diguises herself as her brother and infiltrates the Engineers Guild as she tries to solve her father's murder with help from a prince with plans of his own.
Author
Series
Riley Wolfe volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the author of the wildly successful Dexter series comes a new, mesmerizing bad guy we can root for: Riley Wolfe. He's a master thief, expert at disguise, and not averse to violence when it's needed. It's no accident, though, that Riley targets the wealthiest 0.1 percent and is willing to kill them when they're in his way: he despises the degenerate and immoral rich and loves stealing their undeserved and unearned valuables. In this series launch,...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
312 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in their separate voices, twelve-year-olds Petra, who escaped her abusive father's Amsterdam house in 1663, and Bram, a half-Javanese/half-Dutch boy, relate their adventures at sea after Petra stows away and Bram, son of the ship's carpenter, helps her disguise herself as a boy.
Author
Series
Ranger's apprentice the royal ranger volume 4
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Charged by Araluen's King Duncan to covertly rescue the Prince of Gallica from a politically ambitious baron, Will Treaty and his apprentice Maddie take to the road disguised as father and daughter jongleurs.
19) The fourth rule
Author
Series
Riley Wolfe volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Impossible doesn't belong in Riley Wolfe's vocabulary. He's a master of heists and disguises, whose life's work is swindling the rich out of their undeserved treasures. Now rumors surrounding a dangerous new figure of international crime are spreading through the underworld. And this ruthless collector, the Cobra, has a personal vendetta against Riley ... No matter--with the aid of his new partner, Caitlin, Riley prepares to take on the most powerful...
20) Venom & vow
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
327 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Teenagers Cade McKenna, a transgender prince doubling for his brother, and lady-in-waiting Valencia Palafox/boy assassin Gael Palma, thanks to their concealed identities, do not realize they are simultaneously falling for and trying to destroy each other.
Cade McKenna is a transgender prince who's doubling for his brother. Valencia Palafox is a young dama attending the future queen of Eliana. Gael Palma is the infamous boy assassin Cade has vowed...