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Two mice and a crow, who travel with a circus, cleaning up the spilled popcorn after every performance, come to the rescue when a greedy con artist takes over the management of the circus.

Psychotherapist Frieda Klein thought she was done with the police. But once more DCI Karlsson is knocking at her door. A man's decomposed body has been found in the flat of Michelle Doyce, a woman trapped in a world of strange mental disorder. The police don't know who it is, how he got there or what happened - and Michelle can't tell them. But Karlsson hopes Frieda can get access to the truths buried beneath her confusion. Painstakingly, Frieda uncovers...

"Beware of scammers in this look at people who lied their way into a fortune. 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 vocabulary,...

* NOMINATED FOR THE PRIX AURORA *
'Cool pseudo-scientific speculation' - LOCUS
'Imaginative, full of cool quantum stuff and a lot of fun' - CURIOUS SFF READER
'A nail-biting plot' - STRANGE ALLIANCES
'A story that grabs hold and won't let go' - SFANDF REVIEWS
THE ULTIMATE CHASE
Days ago, Belisarius pulled off the most audacious con job in history. He's rich,

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Abraham Licht, a nineteenth-century confidence artist, arrives with his family in Muirkirk and creates a criminal dynasty with his sons and daughter that changes their lives and all who come in contact with them.

"A magical tapestry prophesies doom for the town of Vengekeep, and to everyone's surprise twelve-year-old Jaxter Grimjinx and his family of con artists appear to be the town's saviors"--Provided by publisher.

"It's 1915 and the world is transforming, but for thirteen-year-old Bolt and Eleanor--twins so close they can read each other's minds--life is falling apart. After their mother dies, they are forced to leave home under the care of a vicious con man who claims to be their long-lost uncle Charlie, the only kin they have left. During a late-night poker game, when one of his rages ends in murder, they decide to flee. Salvation arrives in the form of Mr....

"Gracie Mueller is a proud mother of two and devoted wife, living with her husband Randy in upstate New York. Her life is complicated by the usual tedium and stressors--young children, marriage, money--and she's settled down comfortably enough. But when Randy's failing career as a real estate agent makes finances tight, their home goes into foreclosure, and Gracie feels she has no choice but to return to the creatively illegal and high-stakes lifestyle...

Tom Fairchild struggles to escape his past, despite his parole officer's distrust, but when a Miami real estate developer offers Tom $50,000 to make a perfect copy of a rare Renaissance map, Tom finds everything he has worked for threatened by one lapse in judgement.

Hunting the one man who puts fear into her heart-and who could destroy everything she loves-Susannah Faulkner, who has lived a dangerous and violent life, journeys across the U.S., contending with both new and old friends and foes, to take down her evil equal.