An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.

Shawn Spencer pretends to be a psychic. No one really believes him, but he continues to be so helpful to the police that they keep calling him in on cases they can't solve. Shawn brings his childhood friend, Gus, into his scheme, and between their bantering they manage to solve every case they're presented with.

An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.

A self-styled preacher marries and murders the widow of an executed convict with whom he once shared a cell. He then terrorizes her two young children to force them to tell him the whereabouts of the $10,000 he knows their father hid before his imprisonment.

Terry Griffith enrolls in a new high school as "Just one of the guys" after her journalism teacher refuses to enter her article in a competition to win a summer internship on the local newspaper because of her sex.

"Not everyone is who they say they are. Explore a history of pretenders and who they fooled. Don't trust anyone in the Lies and Liars Throughout History series. Each high interest title uncovers some of the most famous fakers, schemers, and cheaters who turned the world, and the truth, upside down across the ages. Readers learn how to spot a lie and confirm the truth for themselves as they look a little closer at the tales people tell. Includes considerate...

A shy lonely genealogist finally discovers the perfect family and the love of her life they just don't know it yet! They mistakenly think she's a long-lost relative, and unfortunately, he is engaged to the wrong girl who just wants his family fortune. As sparks start to fly, she must warn him of his deceptive finance and find a way to tell him the truth about herself

Join fake psychic detective, Shawn Spencer, and his best friend, Burton Guster, as they consult on some of the most bizarre police cases to date: from infiltrating a ring of street thugs to advocating for a polar bear.

In Illinois, a pair of identical twins trade places for a week, the wife becomes a jet setter and vice versa. When the real wife dies in a yacht explosion, the jet setter stays on to continue playing her role of wife and actually falls in love. One day she learns her sister survived and is in the south of France, suffering from amnesia. A sequel to Deceptions.

"A remarkable collection based on the author's popular Web site, Alex Boese's The Museum of Hoaxes is a fascinating historical tour of hundreds of documented hoaxes, many collected here for the first time. Read about the curiosities and cons of the most notorious hornswogglers and flimflam men of the nineteenth century; be astounded at the impostors, pretenders, and tricksters of the twentieth." "The Queen of England, Jimmy Carter, the editors of...