Showing results for "The Fraud" in Literature & Fiction

You've heard him on This American Life! Now read his book! Wherever he is, David Rakoff is a fish out of water. Whether impersonating Sigmund Freud in a department store window during the holidays, climbing an icy mountain in cheap loafers, playing an evil modeling agent on a daytime soap opera...

Bridgerton meets The Goldfinch in How to Fake It in Society, a stunning queer romance by rising genre star KJ Charles. It is 1821 and Nicolas-Marc, Comte de Valois de La Motte is making a splash in London Society. The son of Jeanne de Valois de La Motte, infamous for stealing a priceless diamond...

She fell in love with him, they married and then she found out who he was: a conman who was determined to destroy her. The instant bestselling story of Lee Mackenzie, who was a capable and confident young woman, studying broadcast journalism and honing her skills of observation and...

A high society fraud and a scrappy swindler team up to take down Gilded Age New York in this tale of intrigue, drama, and female friendship. The Grand Duchess Marie Charlotte Antonie of Würrtemberg--a turmoil-plagued Germanic nation with closely guarded emerald mines--has taken Gilded Age high...

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.

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.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Updated for the 25th Anniversary with a new introduction by the author The blockbuster debut novel from “a preternaturally gifted” writer (The New York Times) and author of On Beauty and Swing Time—set against London's racial and cultural tapestry, reveling in...

Bank Case Files is a deep dive into real-life banking fraud cases and the compliance failures behind them. In this video, we explain how frauds occur in banks, common mistakes in KYC, AML, documentation, and internal controls, and what lessons bankers and aspirants must learn to avoid such cases. This video is useful for: Bankers & Compliance Officers IBPS, SBI, RBI exam aspirants Banking & Finance students Anyone interested in real bank fraud stories Real banking case file analysis Role of compliance & RBI guidelines Red flags every banker should notice How banks detects & prevent frauds

Jackie Mason, one of the true kings of comedy, and his partner in crime, former federal prosecutor and celebrity attorney, Raoul Felder, go after America's lowlifes, scumbags, and everyone else who really gets on their nerves. Schmucks! combines Mason's and Felder's nails-to-the-wall political...

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.

In this propulsive debut thriller, two women with deep secrets are thrown together by an unexpected meeting that plunges both their lives into chaos. But it’s a sick little girl whose fate hangs in the balance. Motherhood is tough. But then, so is daughterhood. When we first meet Claire...

Don't miss the fireworks in book eight of this fun holiday cozy mystery series! A celebration at the lake is interrupted by, well, more dead bodies. Not everyone is who they say. She planned to tie the knot, but now Charity must unravel a new mystery at the White Ibis Inn.

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.

Greta, a lovely store owner, has yet to find a suitable husband to grow old with. Fearing that her time to love and have children may be running out of time, she places an ad in pursuit of a "mail-order husband". Little does she know that the man who answered her ad is not the man he claims to be. Listen as God guides Greta through this trying time and touches the troubled mail order husband's soul.

Courtney is caught up again, this time with a scaly trail of clues to follow. Despite a soggy challenge at the animal rescue center, and the imminent arrival of her parents for Thanksgiving celebrations, our amateur sleuth cannot escape her unquestionable gift of uncovering foul play in Curly Bay!

From the would-be facist who wants to kill off the free press, comes a brand new book for your outrage and amusement. Or amused outrage. Trump Ninja vs. Fake News, sees our Colluder-in-Chief in mission-impossible mode, trying to figure out how to take down The New York Times server, while saving the world from S.N.O.W.F.L.A.K.E., the conspiracy behind the conspiracies.