The Forger's Wife

The Forger's Wife
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 150
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ISBN-10 : BL:A0017482965
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis The Forger's Wife by : John Lang

The Forger's Daughter

The Forger's Daughter
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Publisher : Grove Atlantic
Total Pages : 194
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ISBN-10 : 9780802149275
ISBN-13 : 0802149278
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis The Forger's Daughter by : Bradford Morrow

The author of the acclaimed suspense novel The Forger returns to the dangerously rarified world of literary forgery in this tense sequel. When a scream shatters the summer night outside their country house in the Hudson Valley, reformed literary forger Will and his wife Meghan find their daughter Maisie shaken and bloodied, holding a parcel her attacker demanded she present to her father. Inside is a literary rarity the likes of which few have ever handled, and a letter laying out impossible demands regarding its future. After twenty years on the straight and narrow, Will finds himself ensnared in a plot to counterfeit the rarest book in American literature: Edgar Allan Poe’s Tamerlane, of which only a dozen copies are known to exist. Facing threats from his former nemesis Henry Slader, Will must rely on the artistic skills of his older daughter Nicole to help create a flawless forgery of this Holy Grail of American letters. Part mystery, part case study of the shadowy side of the book trade, and part homage to the writer who invented the detective tale, The Forger’s Daughter draws readers into the diabolically clever—and, for some, inescapable—world of literary forgery.

The Forgers

The Forgers
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Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages : 181
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ISBN-10 : 9780802191922
ISBN-13 : 0802191924
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis The Forgers by : Bradford Morrow

A brutal murder incites paranoia in the rare-book world in a “brilliantly written . . . lethally enthralling” novel of literary suspense (Joyce Carol Oates). The bibliophile community is stunned when a reclusive collector, Adam Diehl, is found on the floor of his Montauk home: hands severed, surrounded by valuable inscribed books and original manuscripts that have been vandalized beyond repair. Adam’s sister, Meghan, and her lover, Will—a convicted if unrepentant literary forger—struggle to come to terms with the incomprehensible murder. But when Will begins receiving threatening handwritten letters, seemingly penned by Henry James and A. Conan Doyle, he’s drawn into a web of deception with which he’s unnervingly familiar. Yet this time, it’s putting his own life in jeopardy. “From its provocative opening line . . . [The Forgers] takes on a knowing, nourish tone, like a crime movie by the Coen brothers” (The Miami Herald), while “quite skillfully, paying homage to one of Agatha Christie’s most famous whodunits. Yet even then, [Morrow] offers a few twists of his own and will keep all but the most astute mystery aficionado guessing . . . until the end” (The Washington Post).

The Forger's Wife

The Forger's Wife
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Publisher : DigiCat
Total Pages : 163
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ISBN-10 : EAN:8596547321101
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Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis The Forger's Wife by : John Lang

The Forger's Wife is an adventurous love story by John Lang. Lang was an Australian lawyer and was Australia's first native born novelist. Excerpt: "Over his pipe and his glass, in the back parlour of a tavern, Captain Harcourt would sit gloomily. He appeared to have something on his mind, and to feel relieved by these stolen visits to the various public-houses. The aroma consequent on smoking and drinking he dispelled by chewing lemon-peel previous to rejoining his wife; and from this the reader will conclude that the Captain was not altogether destitute of consideration for Emily's feelings."

The Forger's Forgery

The Forger's Forgery
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Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Total Pages : 269
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781632993687
ISBN-13 : 1632993686
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis The Forger's Forgery by : Clay G. Small

When Art Mimics Life, Somebody’s Going to Get What’s Coming to Them Henry Lindon's flight across the north Atlantic was turbulent and sleepless. His plane has just touched down in Amsterdam, where he’s come to work as a visiting professor. Lindon is torn about leaving his troubled wife, Marylou, behind in Dallas, but relieved and excited to start a new chapter in a lively city. The taxi drops him off at an elegant building at Roetersstraat 8-1, where he’s greeted by his university liaison and soon-to-be neighbor, the lovely and spunky art professor, Bernadette Gordon. After settling into his apartment, Lindon changes clothes and sets out to explore canals and cafés, wondering what the dinner invitation from Bernadette means for his fresh start. But troubles from the past soon cross the Atlantic. Lindon discovers that notorious Dutch art forger Han van Meegeren, born in 1899, is about to play a part in Lindon’s own personal drama. With evil closing in, Lindon, Bernadette, and Marylou find that secrets of the art world may hold the key to settling old scores and putting a predator away for good. Whether you are familiar with the world of Henry Lindon from author Clay Small’s first book, Heels Over Head, or this is your introduction to his works, you’re in for an exciting and unusual international adventure with characters that will live on in your memory long after you’ve finished the book.

Camille Desmoulins and His Wife

Camille Desmoulins and His Wife
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Publisher : London : Smith, Elder
Total Pages : 506
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015003496281
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Camille Desmoulins and His Wife by : Jules Claretie

The Forgers

The Forgers
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Publisher : Basic Books
Total Pages : 343
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781541619845
ISBN-13 : 1541619846
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis The Forgers by : Roger Moorhouse

The secret history of one of the largest—and least-known—rescue operations of World War II Between 1940 and 1943, a group of Polish diplomats in Switzerland engaged in a wholly remarkable—and until now, completely unknown—humanitarian operation. In concert with Jewish activists, they masterminded a systematic program of forging passports and identity documents for Latin American countries, which were then smuggled into German-occupied Europe to save the lives of thousands of Jews facing extermination in the Holocaust. With the international community failing to act, the operation was one of the largest actions to aid Jews of the entire war. The Forgers tells this extraordinary story for the first time. We follow the desperate bids of Jews to obtain these lifesaving documents as the Nazi death machine draws ever closer. And we witness the quiet heroism of a group of ordinary men who decided to do something rather than nothing and saved thousands of lives.

Adolfo Kaminsky

Adolfo Kaminsky
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Publisher : Doppelhouse Press
Total Pages : 232
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0997003405
ISBN-13 : 9780997003406
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Adolfo Kaminsky by : Sarah Kaminsky

The gripping true story of a life-long forger working for the French Resistance and clandestine organizations, told to his daughter.

Veritas

Veritas
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Publisher : Anchor
Total Pages : 433
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780525433897
ISBN-13 : 0525433899
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis Veritas by : Ariel Sabar

From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author comes the gripping true story of a sensational religious forgery and the scandal that shook Harvard. In 2012, Dr. Karen King, a star religion professor at Harvard, announced a breathtaking discovery just steps from the Vatican: she’d found an ancient scrap of papyrus in which Jesus calls Mary Magdalene “my wife.” The mysterious manuscript, which King provocatively titled “The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife,” had the power to topple the Roman Catholic Church. It threatened not just the all-male priesthood, but centuries of sacred teachings on marriage, sex, and women’s leadership, much of it premised on the hallowed tradition of a celibate Jesus. Award-winning journalist Ariel Sabar covered King’s announcement in Rome but left with a question that no one seemed able to answer: Where in the world did this history-making papyrus come from? Sabar’s dogged sleuthing led from the halls of Harvard Divinity School to the former headquarters of the East German Stasi before landing on the trail of a Florida man with an unbelievable past. Could a motorcycle-riding pornographer with a fake Egyptology degree and a prophetess wife have set in motion one of the greatest hoaxes of the century? A propulsive tale laced with twists and trapdoors, Veritas is an exhilarating, globe-straddling detective story about an Ivy League historian and a college dropout—and how they worked together to pass off an audacious forgery as a long-lost piece of the Bible.

The Book of Lost Names

The Book of Lost Names
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 416
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781982131906
ISBN-13 : 198213190X
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis The Book of Lost Names by : Kristin Harmel

Eva Traube Abrams, a semiretired librarian in Florida, is at the returns desk one morning when her eyes lock on to a photograph in a newspaper nearby. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in sixty-five years--a book she recognizes as the Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article describes the looting of libraries across Europe by the Nazis during World War II--an experience Eva remembers all too well. As a graduate student in 1942, Eva was forced to flee Paris after the arrest of her father, a Polish Jew. Finding refuge in a small mountain town in the Free Zone, she begins forging identity documents for Jewish children fleeing to neutral Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a price, and along with a mysterious, handsome forger named Rémy, Eva decides she must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are too young to remember who they really are. The records they keep in the Book of Last Names will become even more vital when the Resistance cell they work with is betrayed and Rémy disappears. As the Germans close in, Eva records a last, vital message in the book. Decades later, does she have the strength to seek out its answer--and help reunite those lost during the war?