Ergebnis für "The Fraud" in Literatur & Belletristik

It is 1873. Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper - and cousin by marriage - of a once famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr Charles Dickens, of being a bully and a moralist; and England of being a land of facades, in which nothing is quite what it seems.

Read by Bill Nighy. From the minds of Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and Terry Jones (Monty Python) comes Starship Titanic, the hilarious novelization of the third-best adventure game of 1999. Welcome on board the Starship Titanic. The Ship that Cannot Possibly Go Wrong. At...

The wry and the heartfelt join in David Rakoff's prose to resurrect that most neglected of literary virtues: wit. As he finds himself in all the far-flung hinterlands of our culture, this fish out of water winds up satirizing himself more than his subject matter, to hilarious effect.

It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper—and cousin by marriage—of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully and a moralist; and England of being a land of facades, in which nothing is quite what it seems.

From the bestselling author of The Girlfriend, now a number one Amazon Original series. 'A thriller that will have you gripped' - Closer He loves you. He loves you not. Amy is fiercely independent, with a high-powered career, a flat of her own and tight-knit friendships. But as she approaches...

Every curse has a beginning. Every curse has an end. But no curse is fulfilled without sacrifice. Someone has been lying to Porschia Grant, someone she loves. And the secrets withheld might spell disaster for her and the world. Much like curses, lies can hurt. They can ruin everything. When everything falls apart, is happily ever after even a possibility? Hunger is deceitful. Fraud is the fifth and final audiobook of The Frenzy Series.

Eleven years together and today, I find out...I don't know the first thing about the man I'm sleeping beside every night. My marriage is built on a bed of lies.... Nothing is real. Each day, I'm barely surviving, falling deeper into despair and loneliness. Meeting Hayes Taylor is not in my plan. Younger, beautiful, and broken - just like me. I feel a connection with him I've never experienced before.

So, I Met This Guy . . . Well, isn’t that how every love story starts? But what we don’t know is, how will it end? For Maggie, she certainly didn’t expect it to involve discovering the supposed love-of-her-life has stolen her life-savings, along with her home, heart and self-esteem. So...

From Jeffrey Archer, the bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles and Kane and Abel, comes his captivating sixth collection of short stories, And Hereby Hangs a Tale, full of magnificent characters and shocking plot twists. In ‘High Heels’ discover what happens in a loss adjuster’s...

Author of the bestselling Clifton Chronicles, Jeffrey Archer, gives us fourteen gripping and rewarding short stories for readers to return to time and again. Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to solve a murder and the...

Motherhood is tough. But then, so is daughterhood. When we first meet Claire, she’s living in Sedona, Arizona, with her boyfriend Cal and ducking calls from her mother. Her mom is a world class psychic on the East Coast, and Claire doesn’t want her to discover the truth. Claire works in the family business and calls herself a psychic, but she doesn’t really have “the gift” and hasn’t for a long time. She’s a fraud.

Samantha Song has always dreamed of having her own by-line in a high-society magazine. But the death of her father and the constant struggle to help her mum make ends meet make it feel like a distant fantasy. Instead, she works at a drab PR firm and lives vicariously through her socialite co-worker Anya Chen. Then she meets Timothy Kingston: the disillusioned son of one of Singapore's elite families, and Sam's one chance at infiltrating the world to which she so desperately wants to belong. To Sam's surprise, Tim and Anya both agree to help her make a name for herself.

For as long as she can remember, Samantha Song has dreamed of writing for a high-society magazine—and she’d do anything to get there. But the constant struggle to help her mom make ends meet and her low social status cause her dream to feel like a distant fantasy. Now Samantha finds herself working at a drab PR firm. Living vicariously through her wealthy coworker and friend, Anya Chen, is the closest she’ll get to her ideal life. Until she meets Timothy Kingston: the disillusioned son of one of Singapore’s elite families.

PARAÍSO E INFIERNO PUEDEN IR DE LA MANO... ... Y LA PAREJA “PERFECTA” ESTÁ A PUNTO DE DESCUBRIRLO. Lucía se convierte, en menos de dos meses, en la cuarta víctima del misterioso Asesino del Guante. Información filtrada a la prensa y muchas especulaciones, pero nada lo suficientemente revelador para los inspectores Vega Martín y Daniel Haro, hasta que una cámara de seguridad ubicada en el lugar idóneo los acercará a la sorprendente verdad.

Anna Bright is committing fraud. But nobody knows it yet. Not the board of her multibillion-dollar company, not her investors, not the public breathlessly anticipating the launch of BrightSpot, and not the media—including Jamie Roman, a hardworking journalist for BusinessBerry. But when Jamie does learn about Anna’s misconduct, she embarks on a bicoastal journey to expose the crimes and make a name for herself as a journalist. It’s not long before Anna learns what the reporter is up to, however—and she’ll do anything to stop Jamie. Especially now that BrightLife’s IPO is days away.

1923: Faced with impending personal and political scandals (corrupt cabinet members, drinking, gambling, failing health made worse by a quack physician, blackmailers attempting to exploit his numerous affairs and bastard children, murders, and suicides), President Warren G. Harding embarks on a cross-country train trip, from Washington D.C. to Alaska, in an effort to rehabilitate his chances for re-election - something he is unsure he even wants. But the GOP have lost faith in Warren.

Cinco contos curtinhos de Lima Barreto aqui reunidos! Nos três primeiros, "A fraude eleitoral", "Firmeza política" e "Projeto de lei", a crítica do autor é dirigida à classe política. "O ideal", por sua vez, traz a narrativa do reencontro das amigas Inês e Irene, abordando, com muito bom humor, o tema do casamento. Por fim, "As teorias do Dr. Caruru" faz uma sátira à ciência, na figura do notório cientista Caruru, que é desmentido publicamente por um simples observador.

A glamorous woman is murdered in her ultra-luxurious London mansion and her husband goes missing. But according to public records, neither of them exists. The only leads police have are several objects arranged around the woman’s body, including a set of keys and a book called How to Process a Murder by Laughton Rees—a book that appears to have helped the killer forensically cleanse the crime scene.

Corre el año 1873. La escocesa Eliza Touchet es la prima y ama de llaves de William Ainsworth, un novelista antaño famoso pero ahora en decadencia, con quien vive desde hace treinta años. Mujer de múltiples intereses —la literatura, la justicia, el abolicionismo, las clases sociales y las esposas de su primo—, Eliza se entusiasma con un intrigante juicio que está levantando encendidas pasiones en Londres: sir Roger Tichborne, heredero de un enorme imperio y desaparecido en el mar años antes, ha reaparecido de repente y reclama lo que le corresponde.

Schmucks! combines Mason's and Felder's nails-to-the-wall political satire. They combine impeccable timing with insightful observations on the foibles of modern life to create material that will leave you crying with laughter.