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Paws off, Cheddarface!

2006
A Geronimo lookalike is going around pretending to be Geronimo and trying to take over The Rodent's Gazette.

The human stain

2000
Coleman Silk, a New England professor forced into retirement on false charges of racism, has a fifty-year-old secret that Philip Roth attempts to decipher in this 1990s novel set against the backdrop of Presidential impeachment and professional witchhunts.

The prince and the pauper

2001
When young Edward VI of England and a poor boy who resembles him exchange places, each learns something about the other's very different station in life.

Pudd'nhead Wilson

2004
Presents Mark Twain's classic novel set in the antebellum South about two infant boys, one the light-skinned son of a female slave and the other the son of her master, who are switched at birth, and contains a timeline of significant events, outline of themes and plots, and critical analysis.

Perplexing people

2010
Describes six mysterious people from the past who assume the identities of someone else like Anastasia called Anna at her birth, and Billy the Kid whose only photograph does not resemble the Billy the Kid that many people knew over the years.

The dark lantern

a novel
2008

Pudd'nhead Wilson

and, Those extraordinary twins
2002

Batman

who is Clayface?
2013
When a man posing as Bruce Wayne causes problems at the bank, Batman knows exactly who the impostor is. But it's hard to catch a criminal who can change shape.

Mr. Murder

2010
Claiming that he is the real Marty Stillwater, a madman wages a terrifying campaign to eliminate mystery writer Marty Stillwater.

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