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1. Games of deception: the true story of the first U.S. Olympic basketball team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany

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Author:
Maraniss, Andrew
Publisher:
Philomel Books
Pub. Date:
©2019
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1230L
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English
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"The true story of the birth of Olympic basketball at the 1936 Summer Games in Hitler's Germany"--

2. Games of deception: the true story of the U.S. Olympic basketball team at the 1936 Olympic in Hitler's Germany

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Author:
Maraniss, Andrew
Publisher:
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date:
[2020]
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English
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"On a scorching hot day in July 1936, thousands of people cheered as the U.S. Olympic teams boarded the S.S. Manhattan, bound for Berlin. Among the athletes were the 14 players representing the first-ever U.S. Olympic basketball team. As thousands of supporters waved American flags on the docks, it was easy to miss the one courageous man holding a BOYCOTT NAZI GERMANY sign. But it was too late for a boycott now; the ship had already left the harbor....

3. Deception Game

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Author:
Jordan, Will
Series:
Ryan Drake volume 5
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English
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An unforgettable spy thriller that delves deep into a world of violence, terror, and hidden conflict, from the author of Black List and Redemption. With enemies closing in, time is running out for Ryan Drake. Shaken by a personal tragedy that forces him to return to the UK, he is presented with a dangerous offer-to travel to Libya and kidnap a high-ranking officer in Gaddafi's much-feared intelligence service. In exchange, Drake will be given everything...

4. A Deadly Game of Deceptions

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Author:
Bertram, Jeff
Series:
Deceptions - A Trilogy volume 1
Publisher:
Findaway Voices
Pub. Date:
2025
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English
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A rogue man has just been elected as President to the White House. What he chooses to do next, through a myriad of deceptions, will change the world. It all leads up to a surprising, nail biting conclusion.

5. "Deceptive Game of the Light."

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Author:
Milic, Snezana Pisaric
Publisher:
Babelcube Inc
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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Book description: An exciting story about two women they talk about their fates. Six love stories in a novel. One woman is young, the other old. Events in the Balkans - Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia. The love of Christians and Muslims. The war is over. Translation from Google Translate

6. A Gamble of Hearts: A High Stakes Game of Love and Deception

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Author:
Violette, Amara
Publisher:
Amara Violette
Pub. Date:
2025
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English
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Imagine a world where power and passion are inextricably linked, where the lines between right and wrong are constantly blurred. This is the world Eva Anderson finds herself in, a talented young designer with dreams of independence and a fierce determination to succeed. But when Eva meets Damien Kane, a ruthless billionaire with a reputation for getting what he wants, she's forced to confront the darkest corners of her own desires. Damien offers Eva...

7. Desperate and deceptive

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Author:
Castle, Jayne
Series:
Guinevere Jones collection volume 1
Publisher:
Berkley Books
Pub. Date:
2014
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English
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Meet Guinevere Jones. Previously published in 1986, these stories introduce a woman with a talent for love and trouble. With Zac Justic, her sexy and dangerous partner in crime, Guinevere finds that struggling to keep her temp agency afloat can lead to suspense, danger, and love.

8. Close your eyes and count to 10

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Author:
Unger, Lisa, 1970-
Series:
Thorndike Press large print dynamic drama
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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"Charismatic daredevil and extreme adventurer Maverick Dillan invites you to the ultimate game of hide-and-seek. But as the players gather on Falcao Island, the event quickly spirals into a chilling test of survival. A storm rages as a deadly threat stalks the contestants, turning the challenge into something far more sinister than the social media stunt it was intended to be. Enter Adele, a single mother with a fierce determination to protect her...

9. How to age disgracefully

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Pooley, Clare
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"When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens' Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she'll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards. The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what Lydia was expecting. From Art, a failed actor turned kleptomaniac to Daphne, who has been hiding from her dark past for decades to Ruby, a Banksy-style knitter who gets revenge in yarn, these seniors look deceptively...

10. The never game

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Author:
Deaver, Jeffery
Series:
Colter Shaw volume 1
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English
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"From the bestselling and award-winning master of suspense, the first novel in a thrilling new series, introducing Colter Shaw. "You have been abandoned." A young woman has gone missing in Silicon Valley and her father has hired Colter Shaw to find her. The son of a survivalist family, Shaw is an expert tracker. Now he makes a living as a "reward seeker," traveling the country to help police solve crimes and private citizens locate missing persons....

11. Unintended consequences: [a Stone Barrington novel]

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Author:
Woods, Stuart
Series:
Stone Barrington volume 26
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English
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Stone Barrington is no stranger to schemes and deceptions of all stripes; as an attorney for the premier white-shoe law firm Woodman & Weld, he has seen more than his share. But when he travels to Europe under highly unusual circumstances, Stone finds himself at the center of a mystery that is, even by his standards, most peculiar. While investigating a high-profile murder, he uncovers a puzzling conspiracy involving the European elite and the deadly...

12. The lying game

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Author:
Ware, Ruth
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The text message arrives in the small hours of the night. It's just three words: I need you. Isa drops everything, takes her baby daughter and heads straight to Salten. She spent the most significant days of her life at boarding school on the marshes there, days which still cast their shadow over her. At school Isa and her three best friends used to play the Lying Game. They competed to convince people of the most outrageous stories. Now, after seventeen...

13. Red sparrow: a novel

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Author:
Matthews, Jason, 1951-2021
Series:
Red Sparrow trilogy volume Book 1
Red Sparrow
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English
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Drafted against her will to serve the regime of Vladimir Putin as an intelligence seductress, Dominika Egorova engages in a charged effort of deception and tradecraft with first-tour CIA officer Nathaniel Nash before a forbidden attraction threatens their careers.

14. Portrait of an unknown woman

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Author:
Silva, Daniel, 1960-
Series:
Gabriel Allon volume 22
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English
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"A gripping story of deception in the world of international fine art. Restorer and spy Gabriel Allon embarks on a dangerous hunt across Europe for the secret behind the forgery of a seventeenth-century masterpiece that has fooled experts and exchanged hands for millions"--

15. Lightlark

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Author:
Aster, Alex
Series:
Lightlark saga volume 1
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English
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In order to break a curse on her kingdom, Isla Crown, the young ruler of Wilding, must compete in the Centennial, a deadly game that only the rulers of six realms are invited to play, and to survive she must lie, cheat, and betray--even as love threatens to undo everything.

16. A game for all the family

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Author:
Hannah, Sophie, 1971-
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English
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Pulled into a deadly game of deception, secrets, and lies, a woman must find the truth in order to defeat a mysterious opponent, protect her daughter, and save her own life in this dazzling standalone psychological thriller with an unforgettable ending from the New York Times bestselling author of Woman with a Secret and The Monogram Murders. You thought you knew who you were. A stranger knows better. You've left the city-and the career that nearly...

17. The turn of the key

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Ware, Ruth
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English
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, and The Death of Mrs. Westaway comes Ruth Ware's highly anticipated fifth novel. When she stumbles across the ad, she's looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss--a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten--by...

18. Never have I ever: a novel

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Jackson, Joshilyn
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Amy Whey is proud of her ordinary life and the simple pleasures that come with it, teaching diving lessons, baking cookies for new neighbors, helping her best friend, Charlotte, run their local book club. Her greatest joy is her family: her devoted professor husband, her spirited fifteen-year-old stepdaughter, her adorable infant son. And, of course, the steadfast and supportive Charlotte. But Amy's sweet, uncomplicated life begins to unravel when...

19. The spy who came in from the cold

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Author:
Le Carré, John, 1931-2020
Series:
George Smiley volume 3
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English
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A veteran spy wants to "come in from the cold" to retirement. He undertakes one last assignment in which he pretends defection and provides the enemy with sufficient evidence to label their leader a double agent.

20. Seasonal work: stories

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Author:
Lippman, Laura, 1959-
Series:
Tess Monaghan volume 11.80
Language:
English
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2 stars
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The award-winning master of psychological suspense is in top form in this collection of diverse and diabolically clever stories - including one never-before-published novella. These brilliantly crafted stories of deception, murder, dangerous games, and love gone wrong - irrefutable evidence that Laura Lippman's riveting fiction will more than satisfy any crime reader. Print run 75,000. "In a suspenseful collection of stories featuring fierce women--including...
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