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James is a liar. He enjoys inventing fantastic stories about his family, particularly his mother. Margaret is orderly, stubborn, and judgmental - a woman who throws rocks at hungry bears and never misses four o'clock Mass. She loves her children but has always struggled with James. Like his deceased father, he's fascinated by the darker aspects of life - car crashes, illness, and crime. Dr. Murphy, the family physician who dabbles in psychiatry, believes that James' lying is harmless. His mother, however, thinks otherwise.

Spinning a page-turning story of literary suspense that begins in the present and unwinds back more than half a century, this unforgettable debut channels the haunting allure of Atonement as its masterfully woven web of lies, secrets, and betrayals unravels to a shocking conclusion. Veteran con...

St. Elizabeth's is a home for unwed mothers in the 1960s. Life there is not unpleasant, and for most, it is temporary. Not so for Rose, a beautiful, mysterious woman who comes to the home pregnant but not unwed. She plans to give up her baby because she knows she cannot be the mother it needs...

"Narrator Tavia Gilbert expertly creates an atmosphere of suspense as she delivers a story of the complicated entanglement of two people who have plenty of dark secrets between them...This thriller will have listeners holding their breath, and Tavia Gilbert keeps it all together." — AudioFile...

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 the title novella, who gets more out of life than most of us; and Thomas Mann, opening the heart of a high-school kid in America.

Brought to you by Penguin. Don't trust the Liar. Don't go in the River. Do not cross the King. In Red Valley, California, you follow the rules if you want to stay alive. But even that isn't enough to protect Sadie now that she's unexpectedly become the Liar: the keeper and maker of Red Valley's...

For William ‘Billy’ Fisher, an energetic imagination makes life tolerable, but well-nigh intolerable for all around him. He lies his way into and out of every situation, making any promise to get him out of trouble, thereby creating ever more tortuous entanglements to be wriggled out of in the future. Billy dreams of escaping the dull drudgery of his life at home with his parents and grandmother in the monotony of his stifling Yorkshire hometown.

תומס היקר, אני אומללה ואין לזה פתרון. אל תנסה למצוא אותי. אני לא חוזרת הביתה. מצטערת שלקחתי את המכונית. רוז". בפתק הקצר הזה רוז בת ה־22 נפרדת מבעלה ויוצאת למסע בהול בכבישים מהירים. הרחק מביתה שבקליפורניה, ועד האביט שבלב קנטאקי, היא נוהגת לילות וימים בדודג' דארט מאובקת ובעיניים טרוטות, כדי להגיע למקום מחסה – למנזר סנט אליזבת.