A Good Liar

Author : Nicholas Searle
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062407511

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Now a major motion picture starring Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen. “A superb thriller and a truly engrossing read.”—Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Woman in Cabin 10 When Roy meets a wealthy widow online, he can hardly believe his luck. Just like Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley, Roy is a man who lives to deceive—and everything about Betty suggests she’s an easy mark. He’s confident that his scheme to swindle her will be a success. After all, he’s done this before. As this remarkable feat of storytelling weaves together Roy’s and Betty’s futures, it also unwinds the past. Dancing across more than half a century—decades that encompass unthinkable cruelty, extraordinary resilience, and remarkable kindness—it takes us right back to the beginning of their very different lives, following the twists and turns through childhood, an adolescence and young adulthood indelibly marked by war, and an adult existence carved out amid a world still reeling from its aftermath. As Roy’s sins stack up against the burdens Betty carries, it becomes a story of salvation, and survival—and for Roy and Betty, there is a reckoning to be made when the endgame of Roy’s crooked plot plays out. Some things can never be forgotten. Or forgiven.

Author : Catherine McKenzie
Publisher : Lake Union Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Book clubs (Discussion groups)
ISBN : 1503951634

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Includes book club questions and author interview.

Author : Sue Wallman
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781728283487

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Such a Good Liar by Sue Wallman Pdf

She's faking her way into the most exclusive social circles for revenge. But how long can her lies hold up? Seventeen-year-old Lydia Cornwallis has arrived on an exclusive Caribbean island populated only by the ultra-rich and their staff. The Harrington sisters rule the island, throwing lavish parties and treating everyone around them like toys for their amusement, and Lydia simply can't wait to meet them. Because she's not Lydia Cornwallis. And the Harringtons have hell to pay for what they've done. When a storm hits the island and all routes to the mainland are cut off, Lydia is given the perfect opportunity to exact her murderous revenge. With time running out and her identity about to be exposed, Lydia will need to draw on epic nerve, quicksilver adaptability, and sly cunning to carry out her deadly plans.

Author : Gregory Maguire
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0395906970

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The Good Liar by Gregory Maguire Pdf

Now an old man living in the United States, Marcel recalls his childhood in German-occupied France, especially the summer that he and his older brother Rene befriended a young German soldier. By the author of Five Alien Elves.

Author : Tanen Jones
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984821232

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The Better Liar by Tanen Jones Pdf

“Jones’s sensational debut has the bones of a thriller but reads like literary fiction: lean, shrewd, and gratifyingly real.”—Entertainment Weekly When a woman conceals her sister’s death to claim their joint inheritance, her deception exposes a web of dangerous secrets in this addictive new thriller for fans of Megan Abbott, Gillian Flynn, and Paula Hawkins. An ID Book Club Selection Leslie Flores has the perfect life—a loving husband, a happy newborn, and a New Mexico home straight out of a magazine. She’s been the perfect daughter, too, taking care of her ailing father in his final days. But Leslie has a dark secret—and it’s an expensive secret to keep. When she discovers she won’t receive a penny of her inheritance unless she finds her estranged sister, Robin, she sets out to track her down. Instead, upon arriving at Robin’s apartment, Leslie discovers her body. Just as Leslie begins to panic, she meets a charismatic aspiring actress named Mary who bears a striking resemblance to Robin—and has every reason to leave her past behind. The two women make a bargain: Mary will impersonate Robin for a week in exchange for Robin’s half of the cash. Neither realizes how high the stakes will become when Mary takes a dead woman’s name. Even as Mary begins to suspect Leslie is hiding something, and Leslie realizes the stranger living in her house has secrets of her own, Robin’s wild, troubled legacy threatens to eclipse them both. Fans of Megan Abbott, Gillian Flynn, and Paula Hawkins will relish this darkly addictive portrait of the ties that bind and the secrets we all keep from one another.

Author : Rebecca Stead
Publisher : Wendy Lamb Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375899539

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Liar & Spy by Rebecca Stead Pdf

The instant New York Times bestseller from the author of the Newbery Medal winner When You Reach Me: a story about spies, games, and friendship. The first day Georges (the S is silent) moves into a new Brooklyn apartment, he sees a sign taped to a door in the basement: SPY CLUB MEETING—TODAY! That’s how he meets his twelve-year-old neigh­bor Safer. He and Georges quickly become allies—and fellow spies. Their assignment? Tracking the mysterious Mr. X, who lives in the apartment upstairs. But as Safer’s requests become more and more demanding, Georges starts to wonder: how far is too far to go for your only friend? “Will touch the hearts of kids and adults alike.” —NPR Winner of the Guardian Prize for Children’s Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and more!

Author : E. Lockhart
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780375984402

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We Were Liars by E. Lockhart Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist, and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart. Don't miss the #1 New York Times bestselling prequel, Family of Liars. A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret. Lies upon lies. True love. The truth. Read it. And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE. "Thrilling, beautiful, and blisteringly smart, We Were Liars is utterly unforgettable." —John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars

Author : Thomas Christopher Greene
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250128041

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The Perfect Liar by Thomas Christopher Greene Pdf

"A taut, well-written thriller...The pace is crisp, the surprises keep coming, and there are two big ones that readers are unlikely to see coming." - Associated Press A seemingly perfect marriage is threatened by the deadly secrets husband and wife keep from each other. Susannah, a young widow and single mother, has remarried well: to Max, a charismatic artist and popular speaker whose career took her and her fifteen-year-old son out of New York City and to a quiet Vermont university town. Strong-willed and attractive, Susannah expects that her life is perfectly in place again. Then one quiet morning she finds a note on her door: I KNOW WHO YOU ARE. Max dismisses the note as a prank. But days after a neighborhood couple comes to dinner, the husband mysteriously dies in a tragic accident while on a run with Max. Soon thereafter, a second note appears on their door: DID YOU GET AWAY WITH IT? Both Susannah and Max are keeping secrets from the world and from each other—secrets that could destroy their family and everything they have built. Thomas Christopher Greene's The Perfect Liar is a thrilling novel told through the alternating perspectives of Susannah and Max with a shocking climax that no one will expect, from the bestselling author of The Headmaster’s Wife.

Author : Ruth Sutton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0952387174

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A Good Liar by Ruth Sutton Pdf

Jessie Thompson had been lying to her mother all her life'...and the lies continue as Jessie gives away her baby in the chaos of Barrow during the Great War, changes her name and escapes to the glorious landscape of west Cumberland where the River Esk winds into the Irish Sea. Driven by loneliness, and despite her better judgment, Jessie embarks on a love affair that threatens her security, while a ghost from her past moves ever closer.Set in what is now the Lake District National Park, Ruth Sutton's first novel introduces us to a fascinating cast of characters, in the first half of the last century, when oil lamps lit the houses and horses ploughed the fields. Life was different then, but the passions and risks that shape our lives were just as real. This is the first part of a trilogy 'Between the Mountains and the Sea' tracing Jessie's life through the dramatic decades from the Great War through the thirties into the Second War and on into the gloom of post-war England and the dawn of the nuclear age in Cumberland.

Author : Amelia Kahaney
Publisher : Walker Books Australia
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781760656096

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All the Best Liars by Amelia Kahaney Pdf

A dark, modern psychological thriller of obsession, manipulation and the intensity of friendship. Tic tac toe, three girls in a row. Nine years old and inseparable. Friends for life, or so they think... Best friends Syd, Rain and Brie grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in the stifling California desert, desperately wishing for a way out. In the end, each of them will escape, but not in the way they expect. One will do it by dying, another by lying, a third by taking the fall. A deadly fire is set two weeks before the end of their senior year of high school and nothing will ever be the same. With gorgeous, taut prose and twists to the very last page, All the Best Liars switches between the present and the past to unravel the truth behind the fire and the cost of the secrets at the heart of their friendship.

Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393338690

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Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis Pdf

The author recounts his experiences on the lucrative Wall Street bond market of the 1980s, where young traders made millions in a very short time, in a humorous account of greed and epic folly.

Author : Gary Paulsen
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375866111

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Liar, Liar by Gary Paulsen Pdf

Kevin doesn't mean to make trouble when he lies. He's just really good at it, and it makes life so much easier. But as his lies pile up, he finds himself in big—and funny—trouble with his friends, family, and teachers. He's got to find a way to end his lying streak—forever.

Author : Sylvie Stewart
Publisher : Rolling Hearts Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781947853287

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The Last Good Liar by Sylvie Stewart Pdf

I know his type: slick, stupid, and so far up his own ass it’s a miracle he can still breathe. In other words, he’s exactly what I’m looking for. ANDIE: Love is fake and so are most people. That’s why I prefer to keep it real by speaking my mind, using posers for my own devices, and protecting what’s mine. So when Ponch Amante swaggers up to my front door with his smirky face and annoying charm, all I see is a solution to a problem. If he agrees to be my fake boyfriend, I can get out from under my parents’ blackmail scheme to pair me up with one of their sanctimonious Ivy League spawns of Satan. Anything would be preferable to that—even putting up with Ponch for a few days. I, of all people, can resist a guy like him, right? PONCH: I know her type: frigid ballbuster with a huge chip on her shoulder. She wouldn’t know good sex if it hit her between her creamy white thighs. But the family she works for owns half the town, including the building I want to rent for my new motorcycle gear shop. One word from her can get me the shop, so if she needs a fake boyfriend for whatever crazy plan she has, I’ll be her fricking Prince Charming on a white Harley. It’s a no-risk investment as far as I’m concerned because there’s no way in hell I’d ever fall for someone like Andie. And that’s no lie. Although The Last Good Liar is part of an interconnected romantic comedy series set at the beach, it can be enjoyed as a standalone novel.

Author : Stephen J. Ceci,Michelle DeSimo Leichtman,Maribeth Putnick,Michelle Leichtman,Mary E. Putnick
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134765454

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Cognitive and Social Factors in Early Deception by Stephen J. Ceci,Michelle DeSimo Leichtman,Maribeth Putnick,Michelle Leichtman,Mary E. Putnick Pdf

The understanding of early deception is important for both theoretical and practical purposes. Children's deceptive behaviors provide a window into their models and theories of mind. On a practical level, childhood deception poses challenges for the legal system as well as parents and schools. In this volume, contributors from diverse areas of psychology -- social, cognitive, and developmental -- as well as philosophy and law examine the determinants of deception among preschoolers. In addition to a wealth of new empirical findings dealing with gender, motivation, and context in children's use of deception, evidence is provided for recursivity of awareness in children as young as three years of age. With chapters and commentaries written by leading scholars in the United States, England, and Australia, this book reflects a growing concern with ecological validity in developmental studies and may prompt rethinking of traditional models of mind based exclusively on data from laboratory experiments.

Author : Mort Weisinger,Arthur Henley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0806502649

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The Complete Alibi Handbook by Mort Weisinger,Arthur Henley Pdf