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1) The liar
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English
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Shelby Foxworth lost her husband. Then she lost her illusions...The man who took her from Tennessee to an exclusive Philadelphia suburb left her in crippling debt. He was an adulterer and a liar, and when Shelby tracks down his safe-deposit box, she finds multiple IDs. The man she loved wasn't just dead. He never really existed. Shelby takes her three-year-old daughter and heads south to seek comfort in her hometown, where she meets someone new: Griff...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Paste Magazine Pick for Best New YA Books of August 2022"An addictive, action-packed, scorcher of a read!" --#1 New York Times bestselling author Alyson NoëlSome shadows protect you...others will kill you in this dazzling new fantasy series from award-winning author Abigail Owen.Everything about my life is a lie. As a hidden twin princess, born second, I have only one purpose--to sacrifice my life for my sister if death comes for her. I've been living...
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"For its twentieth anniversary, a stunning Graphic Deluxe Edition of Mary Karr's pathbreaking, award-winning, mega-bestselling memoir, with a new foreword by Lena Dunham When it was first published twenty years ago, 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...
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Will Hurley was an attractive, charming, and impressive student at Dublin's elite St. John's College--and Ireland's most prolific serial killer. Having stalked his five young victims, he drowned them in the muddy waters of the Grand Canal. Sentenced to life imprisonment when he was just nineteen, Will is locked away in the city's Central Psychiatric Hospital. Freshman Alison Smith moved to the Big Smoke to enroll in St. John's and soon fell hard...
5) The liar
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Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2003
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English
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Adrian Healy loves to lie, and already in his public school career, marked by privilege and pederasty, he had lost the ability to differentiate between simple truth and his elaborate fictions.
6) The Liar
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Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Delicately attuned to the complexities of both the natural world and human psychology, this potent classic of twentieth-century Danish literature is narrated by an isolated schoolteacher stuck in a mire of loneliness, deception, and spiritual despair.
One of the greatest works of modern Scandinavian fiction, The Liar tells the story of Johannes Lye, a teacher and parish clerk on tiny Sand Island off the coast of Denmark, a place that...
One of the greatest works of modern Scandinavian fiction, The Liar tells the story of Johannes Lye, a teacher and parish clerk on tiny Sand Island off the coast of Denmark, a place that...
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English
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"The Liar's Dictionary is the book I was longing for. So eudaemonical, so felicific and habile! A harlequinade of cachinnation! It's hilarious and smart and charming and I loved it. Read it. It's the book you're longing for." --Andrew Sean Greer, 2018 Pulitzer Prize winner for Less An exhilarating and laugh-out-loud debut novel from a prize-winning new talent which chronicles the misadventures of a lovelorn Victorian lexicographer and the young woman...
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English
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In this intense and intimate family portrait that moves at a thriller's pace, a troubled woman faces a gripping moral dilemma after rescuing two abandoned children from a hurricane. On the outskirts of North Carolina's Outer Banks sits The Paradise, an apartment complex where renters never stay long enough to call the place "home"--and neighbors are seldom neighborly. It's ideal for Sara Lennox, who moved there to escape a complicated past--and even...
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Series
Jo Beckett volume 03
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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When the country singer ex-wife of a U.S. president is sensationally murdered during a concert performance, forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett endeavors to learn the victim's role in her demise as well as the murder's relevance for the president.
10) The liar's key
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"After harrowing adventure and near-death, Prince Jalan Kendeth and the Viking Snorri ver Snagason find themselves in possession of Loki's Key, an artefact capable of opening any door, and sought by the most dangerous beings in the Broken Empire--including The Dead King. Jal wants only to return home to his wine, women, and song, but Snorri has his own purpose for the key: to find the very door into death, throw it wide, and bring his family back...
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When an author event at the local library ends in murder, Jude finds herself a suspect in the waspishly witty new Fethering mystery. Having been booked to give a talk at Fethering Library, successful author Burton St Clair invites his old friend Jude to come along. Although they haven't met for twenty years, Jude is not surprised to find that St Clair hasn't changed, with his towering ego and somewhat shaky relationship with the truth. What Jude hadn't...
12) The Liar Society
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Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks, Inc
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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When Kate receives a mysterious e-mail from her dead friend Grace, she must prove that Grace's death was not an accident, but finds that her elite private school holds secrets so big people are willing to kill to protect them.
13) The liar's knot
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Rook and rose volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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In Nadežra, peace is a tenuous thing. Corrupt House Indestor has been destroyed, but darkness still weaves through the city's filthy alleys and jewel-bright gardens, visible to those who know where to look. Vargo, Grey and Ren all know. Caught in a knot of secrets and lies, they struggle to decide whom to trust and whom to turn from - a precarious position, even for a ruthless criminal, a notorious vigilante and a brilliant con artist. Because the...
14) The liar
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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From the award-winning author of Waking Lions comes a novel about how one lie can change everything, when a teenaged girl's scream, and the false assumption that comes from it, radiates through a street, a neighborhood, and a city, and turns lives upside down.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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The beloved author at her storytelling best: four wonderful novellas of Americans abroad and Europeans in America. In these absorbing and exquisitely made novellas of relationships at home and abroad, both historical and contemporary, we meet the ferocious Simone Weil during her final days as a transplant to New York City; a vulnerable American grad student who escapes to Italy after her first, compromising love affair; the charming Irish liar of...
16) The liar's room
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Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"A new spine-tingling thriller from the author of The New Neighbors--perfect for fans of Behind Closed Doors, The Perfect Girl, and The Couple Next Door--that takes place over the course of a therapy session, in which neither patient nor therapist are who they claim to be. Two liars. One room. No way out. Susanna Fenton has a secret. Fourteen years ago she left her identity behind, reinventing herself as a therapist and starting a new life. It was...
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Publisher
Rebellion Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Don't trust the Liar.
Do not cross the King.
Never, ever go in the River.
In Red Valley, California, you follow the rules if you want to stay alive. But they won't be enough to protect Sadie now that she's become the Liar, the keeper of the town's many secrets. Friendships are hard-won here, and it isn't safe to make enemies.
And though the Liar has power — power to remake the world, with just a little blood—what
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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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'AMAZING!' Marian Keyes No one deserves to be taken before their time. Do they? Joe McKee - pillar of the Derry community - is dead. As arrangements are made for the traditional Irish wake, friends and family are left reeling at how cancer could have taken this much-loved man so soon. But grief is the last thing that Joe's daughter Ciara and step-daughter Heidi feel. For they knew the real Joe - the man who was supposed to protect them and did anything...
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Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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Want more Julep Dupree? Read this all-new 64-page digital novella told from Julep's point of view. Julep Dupree is a lot of things--fixer, grifter, master of disguise. But one thing she isn't is okay. Dealing with the emotional aftermath of the death of someone close to her is proving difficult, especially for someone who isn't supposed to care. Then a friend of a friend hires Julep's team to stop a cadre of cyber bullies, forcing Julep to run an...
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Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Father is a prophet. Infallible. The Chosen One. Seventeen-year-old Piper will do anything for Father... until the day the government raids the compound and separates her from her siblings, from all of Father's followers-- even Caspian, the boy she loves. Desperate to escape deprogramming after being rescued from the cult, Piper wants to rejoin her family. She's living with a woman They claim is her real mother-- and Piper plans to escape. -- adapted...