Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award: Fiction Bonus e-book content includes two out-takes from the novel -- how Antonio Garcia got his beautiful horse and how Miguel Orozco...
Swindlers and swindling
- Auteur:Hough, RobertSommaire:
- Auteur:Robertson, MelvinSommaire:
The law of retribution is one force you can't get around, no matter what. You don't even realize when retribution takes its toll, you're only aware of misfortune. Remember the saying what goes around, comes around?...
- Auteur:Gogol, NikolaiSommaire:
The striving, vulgar Chichikov travels around the countryside collecting “dead souls” (deceased serfs still on the tax rolls) from landowners as a way to inflate his social standing. His travels give rise to bitingly satirical episodes...
- Auteur:Knowles, MikeSommaire:
Wilson spent his entire life under the radar. Few people knew who he was and even less knew how to find him. Only two people even knew what he really did. He worked jobs for one very bad man. Illegal jobs no one could ever know about....
- Auteur:Rigetti, SusanSommaire:
A Most Anticipated by Entertainment Weekly, Marie Claire, and Parade! "[A] juicy tale of stolen identities and ever-increasing fraud ... The book ended with a wallop that made me literally gasp?and admire debut author Susan Rigetti...
- Auteur:Bower, TomSommaire:
The riveting tale of how the wanabee aristo Conrad Black and his social-mountaineering wife Barbara gulled their way into the City, the Tory party, Wall Street and High Society.
- Auteur:Telfer, ToriSommaire:
The art of the con has a long and venerable tradition, and its female practitioners are some of the best, or worst in history. But what about today? Spoiler alert: these "artists" are still conning.
- Auteur:Thompson, VictoriaSommaire:
When a day at the races reveals sabotage and subterfuge, Elizabeth Miles must use every ounce of her craftiness to even the score in this all-new Counterfeit Lady novel from USA Today bestselling author Victoria Thompson. Wealthy but...
- Auteur:Sands, KevinSommaire:
An NPR Best Book of the Year! Eleven meets The False Prince in this thrilling heist story for young readers, in which five kids with unusual talents are brought together to commit an impossible crime. Failure is unacceptable, but...
- Auteur:Sands, KevinSommaire:
In this conclusion to the thrilling Thieves of Shadow series, bestselling author Kevin Sands delivers a jaw-dropping heist that sees five young thieves masterminding a prison break from the empire's most impenetrable island...
- Auteur:Redding, Stan, Abagnale, Frank W.Sommaire:
The uproarious, bestselling true story of the world's most sought-after con man, immortalized by Leonardo DiCaprio in DreamWorks' feature film of the same name. Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and...
- Auteur:Saxon, RobinSommaire:
For the last ten years, James Mitchell has conned numerous groups by impersonating a religious guide. No longer able to take the guilt of scamming people, he decides to call it quits. A trip might be the best way to heal his bruised...
- Auteur:Lemaître, PierreSommaire:
"Pour le commerce, la guerre présente beaucoup d'avantages, même après." Au lendemain du plus grand carnage du xxe siècle, deux rescapés des tranchées, passablement abîmés, prennent leur revanche en réalisant une...
- Auteur:Mamet, DavidSommaire:
David Mamet's gift for storytelling and forging poetry from both the plain-spoken and profane turns an ill-conceived scheme to steal a rare coin into a triumph of dramatic art. In a junk shop, three men of different generations plan...
- Auteur:Choldenko, GenniferSommaire:
Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, faces new challenges when his father is promoted to Associate Warden.
- Auteur:Nyamnjoh, FrancisSommaire:
Set in the fictional and reluctantly bilingual land of Mimbo in contemporary Africa, this story revolves around the tragedy of the haunting Prospre, a semi-literate Mimbolander who is searching for the finer things in life. The novel...
- Auteur:Smiley, JaneSommaire:
When eighth grader Abby Lovitt looks out at those pure-gold rolling hills, she knows there's no place she'd rather be than her family's ranch--even with all the hard work of tending to nine horses. But some chores are no work at all,...
- Auteur:Ferguson, WillSommaire:
Step into the world's most insidious Internet scam that begins with a single email: "Dear Sir, I am the son of an exiled Nigerian diplomat, and I need your help ... ". When Laura's father gets caught up in one such swindle and pays with...
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