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Identity theft

2013
When someone creates a fake Facebook profile in Hayley's name and posts incriminating photographs of her, Hayley discovers that she has an identical twin sister who was adopted by another family and that her twin sister is plotting to take over her life.

Faking Faith

2011
Seventeen-year-old Dylan, having become an outcast after a sexually explicit texting incident with a popular senior, comes across the blogs of homeschooled fundamentalist Christian girls and decides to befriend the group's leader Abigail under a false identity, and, as she becomes closer to Abigail and her brother, she must decide if she should continue to live the lie or tell the truth.

New York sawed in half

an urban historical
2001
Two men in the 1820s convince much of New York City that a plan is in the works to saw off the southern half of Manhattan and place it somewhere else in order to keep it from sinking into the harbor. Based on a famous hoax, the authenticity of which has not been proven.

Dead end

2006
Before their friendships are ruined, the Help-for-Hire gang must figure out who is impersonating them and causing trouble in Raven Hill.

In sheep's clothing

2005
Twenty-eight-year-old Trudy Bell decides to make some changes in her life just months before she is to get married, but when her new job at a travel agency leads her into a life of credit card fraud, her actions threaten everything she has worked for and dreamed of.

The mystery chronicles

more real-life X-files
2004
Contains a collection of over forty real-life experiences of the paranormal including haunted houses, crop circles, alien abductions, and a fabled monster in a Louisiana swamp.

The prince and the pauper

2008
A manga adaptation of the classic novel in which young Prince Edward and Tom Canty, a pauper boy who looks just like the royal youth, both learn something about "pleasures and palaces" when they accidentally switch places in sixteenth-century England.

The woman who wasn't there

the true story of an incredible deception
2012
Traces the story of Tania Head, who falsely claimed to be a September 11 survivor, describing her interviews with the co-author and the discovery that she was not in America at the time of the attacks.

The prince and the pauper

1991
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.

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