Liar's Landscape

Author: Malcolm Bradbury
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 033052576X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452

Book Description
What is written lives far longer than we do -- or so we would like to think.' From unfinished novel to unsent letters, from prose to play, from Macclesfield to the New Year's Honours List, Liar's Landscape is evidence of the late great author's versatility, wit and passion for the written word. When Sir Malcolm Bradbury died in 2000, he left behind a lifetime's work; some of it published and some of it not; fiction and non-fiction; short stories and novels; completed work, work in progress, work barely begun; plans, sketches, notes, titles. Given shape and coherence by his son, Dominic, that work has now become Liar's Landscape, a book about books, about writing and writers, about being a writer and, of course, about being Malcolm Bradbury. 'Liar's Landscape is essential reading for all admirers of Malcolm Bradbury and, for those who don't know his work, an invaluable sampler of his worldly-wise humour and satirical wit' Tom Rosenthal, Independent

Liar's Bench

Author: Kim Michele Richardson
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 149673422X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
Includes recipes and a reading group guide (pages [254]-261).

Liar’s Poker

Author: Instaread
Publisher: Instaread
ISBN: 1945048174
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 29

Book Description
Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis | Summary & Analysis Preview: Liar's Poker is the story of the investment banking firm Salomon Brothers during the tenure of CEO John Gutfreund, lasting from 1978-1991, and to a lesser extent, a description of the wider financial world of the 1980s. The growth of Wall Street firms like Salomon Brothers was boosted by government deregulation which allowed for the growth and creation of risky mortgage-backed securities and high-yield junk bonds during this period. During the 1980s, Salomon Brothers was the largest investment banking firm in the United States… PLEASE NOTE: This is key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Inside this Instaread Summary of Liar’s Poker · Overview of the book · Important People · Key Takeaways · Analysis of Key Takeaways

Liar's Candle

Author: August Thomas
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501172867
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 331

Book Description
In this brilliant debut thriller, reminiscent of the works of John le Carre and Olen Steinhauer and infused with the authenticity of the author’s travels, a young American State Department intern based in Turkey becomes “the woman who knows too much” and is marked for death. Penny Kessler, an intern at the US Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, wakes up in a hospital on the morning of July 5th to find herself at the center of an international crisis. The day before, the Embassy was the target of a devastating terrorist attack that killed hundreds of Penny’s friends and colleagues. Not only has a photograph of Penny as she emerged from the rubble become the event’s defining image, but for reasons she doesn’t understand, her bosses believe she’s a crucial witness. Suddenly, everyone is intensely interested in what Penny knows. But what does she know? And whom can she trust? As she struggles to piece together her memories, she discovers that Zach Robson, the young diplomat she’d been falling for all summer, went missing during the attack. And one of the CIA’s most powerful officials, Christina Ekdahl, wants people to believe Zach was a traitor. What actually happened? Penny barely has time to ask before she discovers that her own government wants her dead. Soon, with only a single ally—a rookie intelligence officer fresh out of the Navy—she is running a perilous gauntlet, ruthlessly pursued by Turkey’s most powerful forces and by the CIA. To survive, Penny must furiously improvise. Tradecraft takes a lifetime to master. She has less than thirty-six hours. And she’s only twenty-one years old. This is her first real test—one she can’t fail.

Liar's Moon

Author: Elizabeth C. Bunce
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545388198
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
Prisons, poisons, and passions combine in a gorgeously written fantasy noir by the author of the Morris Award-winning A Curse Dark As Gold. As a pickpocket, Digger expects to spend a night in jail every now and then. But she doesn't expect to find Lord Durrel Decath there as well--or to hear he's soon to be executed for killing his wife. Durrel once saved Digger's life, and when she goes free, she decides to use her skills as a thief, forger, and spy to investigate his case and return the favor. But each new clue only opens up more mysteries. While Durrel's marriage was one of convenience, his behavior has been more impulsive than innocent. His late wife had an illegal business on the wrong side of the civil war raging just outside the city gates. Digger keeps finding forbidden magic in places it has no reason to be. And it doesn't help that she may be falling in love with a murderer . . .

The Shameless Liar's Guide

Author: Duke Christoffersen
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402250258
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 113

Book Description
Let's face it, you're going to lie. Now, for the first time, there's a book to help you get good at it. (If you're saying you're going to STOP lying, then you're just lying to yourself.) This hilarious manual takes you through: --The five laws of lying well (Law #1: Don't feel bad about lying, feel bad about the bad things you do that you have to lie about) --Preparing your conscience in advance --The ABCDE's of lying --The importance of knowing when to lie (even more important than knowing HOW to lie) --How to know when someone is lying to you --And much more... The Shameless Liar's Guide is the first in a series of Anti-Self-Help books, dedicated to helping readers get in touch with their inner inadequacies and to accept, feel good about and laugh at their inherent human flaws.

Tall Stories From the Liar's Bench

Author: Paul R. Wonning
Publisher: Mossy Feet Books
ISBN: 1311327371
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 57

Book Description
These funny tall tales are anything but true. This classic collection of homespun humor as told by the two men on the Liar’s Bench in Seldon’s Barbershop amuses and sometimes astounds the other occupant of the barbershop, Jason Wells. You will laugh at the hilarious tales spun by the rascals on the liar’s bench. tall tale, hilarious, funny fiction, humor, collection, tall story

The Liar's Diary

Author: Patry Francis
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101213620
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
A seductive psychological thriller about a woman facing the dark truths at the heart of her family Jeanne Cross’s contented suburban life gets a jolt of energy from the arrival of Ali Mather, the stunning new music teacher at the local high school. With a magnetic personality and looks to match, Ali draws attention from all quarters, including Jeanne’s husband and son. Nonetheless, Jeanne and Ali develop a deep friendship based on their mutual vulnerabilities and long-held secrets that Ali has been recording in her diary. The diary also holds a key to something darker: Ali’s suspicion that someone has been entering her house when she is not at home. Soon their friendship will be shattered by violence—and Jeanne will find herself facing impossible choices in order to protect the people she loves.

Arizona Liar's Journal

Author: Jim Cook
Publisher: Cowboy Miner Productions
ISBN: 9781931725033
Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
A humor columnist presents a series of "facts" about Arizona, including the name of the artist that painted the Painted Desert, where to find the moonshine saguaro, and the exact wording of Arizona's new Truth-in-Lying Law

Liar's Poker

Author: Michael Lewis
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393066258
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 313

Book Description
The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker. Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street’s premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-day gold rush. Liar’s Poker is the culmination of those heady, frenzied years—a behind-the-scenes look at a unique and turbulent time in American business. From the frat-boy camaraderie of the forty-first-floor trading room to the killer instinct that made ambitious young men gamble everything on a high-stakes game of bluffing and deception, here is Michael Lewis’s knowing and hilarious insider’s account of an unprecedented era of greed, gluttony, and outrageous fortune.