Author: Henry Arthur JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
A comedy of manners concerning the Victorian moral codes of the day.
The Liars
Author: Henry Arthur JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
A comedy of manners concerning the Victorian moral codes of the day.
The Liars' Club
Author: Mary KarrPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143035746
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
#4 on The New York Times’ list of The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of a hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation “Wickedly funny and always movingly illuminating, thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet’s ear.” —Oprah.com The Liars’ Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level, bringing about a dramatic revival of the form. Karr’s comic childhood in an east Texas oil town brings us characters as darkly hilarious as any of J. D. Salinger’s—a hard-drinking daddy, a sister who can talk down the sheriff at age twelve, and an oft-married mother whose accumulated secrets threaten to destroy them all. This unsentimental and profoundly moving account of an apocalyptic childhood is as “funny, lively, and un-put-downable” (USA Today) today as it ever was.
The liars, an original comedy
Author: Henry Arthur JonesThe Liars' Guide to Escaping Reality
Author: Mohawk MikePublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1434399095
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
During 1963, as the United States was yielding to the second British invasion, master painter Marc Chagall exhibited his work La Revolution in Europe, demonstrating his unique genius, a blending Russian Expressionism with French Cubist influences. Though it is almost a certainty that the chivalrous artist had no intention that fateful morning of rescuing a lady in distress on the boardwalk of Nice, their serendipitous affair would inspire him to create, perhaps, his most colorful masterpiece of all La Reine du Carnival de Nice. Fast-forward to the mid-1990's. The Berlin Wall had long since fallen, Marc Chagall had died, his painting was worth a fortune, and it was about to become the center of an odyssey, a twisting and turning saga where a murder results in freedom from a callous prison, an enchanted journey of champagne dreams and white lightning nightmares of reality, a magnetic story that would involve an international cast of interesting, sympathetic, and sinister characters. None of them seemed to know all the facts surrounding the valuable artwork, but each player intended to become wealthy. The fascinating events spanned over forty years and captivated people from three continents. Discover how the artist Marc Chagall, the last great survivor of the School of Paris, his Russian beauty, a California entrepreneur, an Ophthalmologist, a Polish ex-convict, and his gullible brother all converge in an adventure that will end when only one person finally has The Lost Chagall.
A Study Guide for Mary Karr's "The Liar's Club"
Author: Gale, Cengage LearningPublisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410351092
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
The Liars Society
Author: Alyson GerberPublisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338859234
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
A USA Today bestseller! The Inheritance Games and One of Us is Lying for middle grade -- beloved author Alyson Gerber's new series is an unforgettable mystery featuring a secret society, a mysterious island, and dangerous family secrets. Weatherby is a fish out of water. When she lands a scholarship to the prestigious Boston School, she's excited to be in the same world as her dad, whom she's never met, and make real friends. But Weatherby has a secret she'll risk everything to protect, one that could destroy her new life. Every member of Jack's wealthy and privileged family has made their mark at the Boston School. Everyone, that is, except for Jack, who is entirely mediocre. He's desperate to prove his worth to his influential father. But Jack has a secret of his own . . . one with the power to ruin everything. When the money for their school trip to a private island-exclusive to Boston students-is stolen, Jack and Weatherby are invited to play a high-stakes game and solve the mystery of the missing money. If they win, they'll be selected to join the oldest, most powerful secret society in the world-and they'll be Boston royalty forever. If they lose . . . well, they better not lose. Beloved author Alyson Gerber crafts an unforgettable mystery that asks-are some secrets and lies impossible to overcome?
The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars
Author: Lixing SunPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691245738
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A natural history of cheating from selfish genes to lying politicians Nature is rife with cheating. Possums play possum, feigning death to cheat predators. Crows cry wolf to scare off rivals. Amphibians and reptiles are inveterate impostors. Even genes and cells cheat. The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars explores the evolution of cheating in the natural world, revealing how dishonesty has given rise to wondrous diversity. Blending cutting-edge science with a wealth of illuminating examples—from microscopic organisms to highly intelligent birds and mammals—Lixing Sun shows how cheating in nature relies on two basic rules. One is lying, by which cheaters exploit honest messages in communication signals and use them to serve their own interests. The other is deceiving, by which cheaters exploit the biases and loopholes in the sensory systems of other creatures. Sun demonstrates that cheating serves as a potent catalyst in the evolutionary arms race between the cheating and the cheated, resulting in a biological world teeming with complexity and beauty. Brimming with insight and humor, The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars also looks at the prevalence of cheating in human society, identifying the kinds of cheating that spur innovation and cultural vitality and laying down a blueprint for combatting malicious cheating such as fake news and disinformation.
Michael and his lost angel. The liars. Mrs. Dane's defence. The hypocrites
Author: Henry Arthur JonesThe Liar's Revelation
Author: Karl WalshPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 059532827X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
This is the second work by Karl A. Walsh written to help those who have problems with lying. Learn how and why compulsive liars act and behave the way they do, experience events and scenarios from the perspective of a compulsive liar, and understand why they react as they do to certain situations. This work has been designed so readers can modify the methods and techniques within to their own situations, developing solutions that are right for them.
How to Tell the Liars from the Statisticians
Author: Robert HookePublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1498710441
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This book shows how statistical reasoning affects all aspects of our lives. It touches on drug testing, discrimination, sports, political polls, compulsive gambling, gun detectors, cancer research, crime and punishment, opinion surveys, advertising, mass production, and doctors' waiting rooms.