The Great Fraud of Ulster
Author | : Timothy Michael Healy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Ireland |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Timothy Michael Healy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Ireland |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Yingyu Zhang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : HISTORY |
ISBN | : 9780231178631 |
The Book of Swindles, a seventeenth-century story collection, offers a panoramic guide to the art of deception. Ostensibly a manual for self-protection, it presents a tableau of criminal ingenuity in late Ming China. Each story comes with commentary by the author, who expounds a moral lesson while also speaking as a connoisseur of the swindle.
Author | : Gordon Korman |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0545457386 |
Ocean's 11 . . . with 11-year-olds, in a super stand-alone heist caper from Gordon Korman!After a mean collector named Swindle cons him out of his most valuable baseball card, Griffin Bing must put together a band of misfits to break into Swindle's compound and recapture the card. There are many things standing in their way -- a menacing guard dog, a high-tech security system, a very secret hiding place, and their inability to drive -- but Griffin and his team are going to get back what's rightfully his . . . even if hijinks ensue. This is Gordon Korman at his crowd-pleasing best, perfect for readers who like to hoot, howl, and heist.
Author | : E. Lockhart |
Publisher | : Delacorte Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2017-09-05 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0385391382 |
"A brilliant, twisty thriller--I loved it!" —KAREN M. MCMANUS, bestselling author of One of Us is Lying From the author of We Were Liars, which John Green called "utterly unforgettable," comes a mind-bending, New York Times bestselling thriller told in reverse. "Compulsively readable." —Entertainment Weekly "An addictive and shocking feminist thriller." —Lena Dunham Imogen lives at the Playa Grande Resort in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. She spends her days working out in the hotel gym and telling other guests how she was forced out of Stanford. But Imogen isn't really Imogen. She's Jule. And she's on the run from something. Or someone. Which means . . . where is the real Imogen? Rewind: Jule and Imogen are the closest of friends. Obsessed with each other, even. Imogen is an orphan, an heiress; she and Jule spend a summer together in a house on Martha's Vineyard, sharing secrets they'd never reveal to another soul. But that was months ago. Where is Immie now? And why is Jule using her name? "You will devour it." —Gayle Forman, bestselling author of If I Stay “Fans of E. Lockhart’s We Were Liars will love this . . . and definitely won’t see the ending coming.” —HelloGiggles Online “Tangled secrets, diabolical lies and, ultimately, a mind-blowing outcome are crafted with the plotted precision we expect (and love!) from E. Lockhart.” —Justine Magazine “Moves at a breakneck speed.” —Marie Claire “As with E. Lockhart's previous novel, the best-selling "We Were Liars," [readers] will likely finish the last page and flip right back to the beginning to search for clues they missed.” —Chicago Tribune Don't miss, Family of Liars, the eagerly anticipated prequel to the New York Times Bestselling phenomenon, We Were Liars. Available in May 2022!
Author | : Douglas Jerrold |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Swindlers and swindling |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Douglas Jerrold |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1839 |
Genre | : Swindlers and swindling |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Victoria Abbott |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2013-12-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101627204 |
Jordan Kelly is delighted to make money tracking down rare and valuable mystery novels for her employer, Vera Van Alst, an avid collector and the most difficult woman in Harrison Falls, New York. But now her boss’s complete set of Dorothy Sayers is missing, and finding them may lead Jordan to a murder suitable for Sayers’s esteemed sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey… When Jordan manages to locate her boss’s missing books, they are in the possession of Randolph Adams, an elderly man in a nearby town. Offering a valuable Hemingway first edition as an incentive, Jordan thinks she’s about to seal the deal—but some of Randolph’s relatives think he should hold out for more. Then the entire family disappears—and a dead body shows up. It’s up to Jordan to collect the clues—and make sure a killer gets booked.
Author | : Arthur Allen Leff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Henrik Ibsen |
Publisher | : Ardent Media |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2017-05-23 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
Excerpt from The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen ON the 3lst of May 1880, Henrik Ibsen wrote to his publisher, Frederik Hegel, that he had begun a little book in which he intended to give some account of the outward and inward conditions under which each one of his works had come into being (letter It was to be called From Simian, to Rome, and was to give descriptions of his life at Skien and Grimstad, Bergen and Christiania, Dresden, Munich, and Rome. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.