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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"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 of living life on the straight and narrow,...
2) The forgers
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English
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The murderer of Adam Diehl, a reclusive rare-book collector, begins to stalk Adam's sister's lover Will -- a convicted literary forger -- under the guise of letters from long-dead authors, and soon Will realizes that this killer threatens everything he holds dear.
"The rare book world 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...
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Columbia Global Reports
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English
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The buying and selling of citizenship has become a legitimate, thriving business in just a few years. Entrepreneurs are renouncing America and Europe in favor of tax havens in the Caribbean with the help of a cottage industry of lawyers, bankers, and consultants that specialize in expatriation. But as journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian discovered, the story of twenty-first century citizenship is bigger than millionaires buying their second or third...
4) Wolfwood
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Indigo finds a series of paintings made by her mother that could be the solution to their financial insecurities; however, her mother refuses to revive the series, so Indigo secretly takes up the brush herself and falls into the paintings' dangerous world which blurs fantasy and reality.
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English
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'When Shai is caught replacing the Moon Scepter with her nearly flawless forgery, she must bargain for her life. An assassin has left the Emperor Ashraven without conciousness, a circumstance concealed only by the death of his wife. If the emperor does not emerge after his hundred-day mourning period, the rule of the Heritage Faction will be forgeit and the empire will fall into chaos. Shai is given an impossible task: to create--to Forge--a new...
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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 14
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English
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A North Korean ICBM crashes into the Sea of Japan. A veteran CIA officer is murdered in Ho Chi Minh City. A package of forged documents goes missing. The pieces are there, but assembling the puzzle will cost Jack Ryan, Jr. and his fellow Campus agents precious time. Time they don't have. The challenge facing President Jack Ryan is an old one with a terrifying new twist. The international stalemate with North Korea continues into its seventh decade....
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Publisher
Signature Books
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English
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This book looks at Mark W. Hofmann, a con artist and consummate forger who confessed in plea bargaining to murder and fraud. He eluded exposure by American document authenticators, as well as FBI technicians, Library of Congress curators, historians and polygraph experts. To date, total sales of his forgeries amounted to over $3 million. He created manuscripts, printed documents and currency, including letters and autographs prported to be those of...
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English
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The gripping true story of a life-long forger working for the French Resistance and clandestine organizations, told to his daughter.
As seen on 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper
"[An] engrossing literary debut. ... Writing in Adolfo's voice gives this suspenseful narrative candor and...
As seen on 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper
"[An] engrossing literary debut. ... Writing in Adolfo's voice gives this suspenseful narrative candor and...
Author
Publisher
Phaidon Press Ltd
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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The Art of Forgery: Case Studies in Deception explores the stories, dramas and human intrigues surrounding the world's most famous forgeries - investigating the motivations of the artists and criminals who have faked great works of art, and in doing so conned the public and the art establishment alike.
13) Great forgers and famous fakes: the manuscript forgers of America and how they duped the experts
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English
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ISBN 0517540762 LCCN 8013516.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A dizzying novel of deception and metempsychosis by the author of the National Book Award finalist Far North Whatever this is, it started when Nicholas Slopen came back from the dead. In a locked ward of a notorious psychiatric hospital sits a man who insists that he is Dr. Nicholas Slopen, failed husband and impoverished Samuel Johnson scholar. Slopen has been dead for months. Yet nothing can make this man change his story. What begins as a tale...
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English
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On 21 November 1953, one of the most fascinating puzzles in science was finally solved. Three scientists--Joseph Weiner, Kenneth Oakley, and Wilfrid Le Gros Clark--described their investigations into the important fossilized human remains found at Piltdown in Sussex in the early 1900s. Their conclusion was stunning: the remains, and the accompanying materials that supposedly verified them as ancient fossils, had all been faked. The discovery of Piltdown...
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Schriften der Monumenta Germaniae Historica volume Bd. 33
Publisher
Hahnsche Buchhandlung
Pub. Date
1988-90
Language
Deutsch
Author
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English
Description
A North Korean ICBM crashes into the Sea of Japan. A veteran CIA officer is murdered in Ho Chi Minh City. A package of forged documents goes missing. The pieces are there, but assembling the puzzle will cost Jack Ryan, Jr. and his fellow Campus agents precious time. Time they don't have. The challenge facing President Jack Ryan is an old one with a terrifying new twist. The international stalemate with North Korea continues into its seventh decade....
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