books about: impostors     books:       Sanctuary19 reviews David and Beverly Lewis Bethany House Publishers, 2007 Lewis - A Name to Remember You can hear the carriages along country roads - smell the food cooking - feel the love of the people for one another and God. Lancaster County is a special place and will always be dear to my heart. I thank Beverly and David Lewis for keeping it so alive.             Shadow Children Boxed Set: Among the Hidden, Among the Impostors, Among the Betrayed, and Among the Barons33 reviews Margaret Peterson Haddix Aladdin, 2004 Shadow Children The Shadow Children boxed set by Margaret Peterson Haddix is a captivating series of stories about the life of "illegal" third children. I purchased the the set for my daughter and found myself reading the entire series unable to put the books down. Haddix leaves the reader wanting more with each book in the series!             The Secret Life of Bryan (Visitation, Book 2)43 reviews Lori Foster Kensington, 2004 Great read! I'll buy any Lori Foster book. Great reading. Can't get enough of her books.             A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers44 reviews V. S. Ramachandran Pi Press, 2005 Humble yet Authoritative Ramachandran - an expert who wisely side-steps the aura of a guru - offers a humble yet authoritative tour of the mind. With notable humanism, Ramachandran given an evolutionary benefit of the doubt to a variety of neurological conundrums (synesthesia, etc.) by examining their evolutionary functional utility, and, in passing, offers a wealth of intriquing hypothesis about the origins of self, ...             Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel41 reviews Rivka Galchen Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 Excellent debut! 4.5 out of 5 stars It's rare that a book gets starred reviews from all four major review publications. Was this book that good; does it really deserve that much attention? Yes, absolutely. I really, really loved it; so much, in fact, that I held off reading the last 20 pages or so for two days because I didn't want it to be over. Psychoanalyst Leo Liebenstein thinks his wife Rema has ...             Among the Impostors (Shadow Children)94 reviews Margaret Peterson Haddix Aladdin, 2002 Among The Third Children Will Luke Get out of Hendricks we will never know till the end of the book! Luke is a kid who is a third child and he wont tell his real name his fake id is lee grant. He goes to school with no windows and locked doors. Some how Luke can get out. My favorite part was when Lee Grant every day he went out side into the woods and Nina she liked to here about jen who got shot in Among ...             Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy40 reviews Bruce Bartlett Doubleday, 2006 Powerful critique of GWB not written by whiney liberal Well written entertaining hard hitting book on the various failures of the Bush presidency. This book is packed with facts and logic supporting the author's thesis that George W. Bush is not a conservative president and has done a bad job from a conservative perspective. Rather GWB has been a highly partisan Republican president in the genre of Richard Nixon in that he has pushed liberal ...             Little White Lies: A Novel of Love and Good Intentions29 reviews Gemma Townley Ballantine Books, 2006 loved it! Gemma Townley definitely knows how to absorb a reader into never letting the book down. Even with the busy schedule I was living,... I finished this book by staying up all night long and not sleeping a wink. This book was something i enjoyed a lot and allowed me to get away from the real world and live a fantasy world just for a day.             Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake282 reviews Stan Redding, Frank W. Abagnale Broadway, 2000 A Real Kick in the Head I gave it 4 stars only because I reserve 5-star ratings for books I could not have lived without reading, so to speak. But it is a fascinating account, and if you like knowing that it's a big world out there with people doing interesting things, you'll probably enjoy this book. Abagnale is obviously intelligent and likes to have fun -- an infectious combination. I'm interested now in reading his ...             Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds56 reviews Charles Mackay Three Rivers Press, 1995 A classic must-read! Very, very insightful! This book identifies and describes phenomena that most would assume to be foreseable and evident when observed as historical event. However such manic human behavior keeps occuring over and over again, which inevitably (as history observes) have destructive consequences. As many others have noted, this book is hard to read and it could certainly be written using much simpler vocabulary and ...             A Treasury of Deception: Liars, Misleaders, Hoodwinkers, and the Extraordinary True Stories of History's ...10 reviews Michael Farquhar Penguin (Non-Classics), 2005 "...he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived." ..Machiavelli Everything in this book is a pack of lies;and every story is true.What a collection of history's Lies,Misleaders,Hoodwinkers,Hoaxes,Fakes,Frauds,Scandals,Misbehaviors,Trickery,Imposters,Chincanery,Falsehoods,Ruses,Monkey Business,Practical Jokes,Deception,Duplicity,Con Men,and all of those things that have been done to snag the gullible down through the ages.It started with an apple in the Garden ...             Brat Farrar31 reviews Josephine Tey Touchstone, 1997 Excellent! Mary Stewart and Dick Francis fans take note Brat Farrer is an English orphan who, after much travel, has decided to come back to England. He is soon mistaken for Simon Ashby of Latchetts by Alec Loding, a cousin of the Ashbys. Brat is talked into impersonating Patrick Ashby, Simon's older twin who allegedly committed suicide when they were ten. Now about to come of age and inherit Latchetts, the plan is for Brat to claim Patrick's ...             The Three Impostors and Other Stories: Vol. 1 of the Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen (Call of Cthulhu ...17 reviews Arthur Machen Chaosium Inc., 2007 More chilling than gore This review is only about the title story, or rather, short novel. It is a circular story, as it ends where it begins. Characters have multiple identities and strange coincidences abound. It is a macabre joke, a foundational book of the cosmic horror a la Lovecraft and his Ctulhu mysteries. It is also a peak of the late Victorian era and much more. What makes it more than a genre story is the ...             The Return of Martin Guerre19 reviews Natalie Zemon Davis Harvard University Press, 1984 Great "Micro- History," a new genre in history At first, Natalie Davis collaborated with the director Daniel Vigne on his film, but she became dissatisfied by how many elements of the story never made it into the movie. Her book adds specific details she thought central to the story; such as, the Guerre's Basque roots, Bertrande first meeting Arnaud du Tilh at an inn outside of the village, and Bertrande's reasons for collaborating with the ...             The Impostor (The Liars Club, Book 2)23 reviews Celeste Bradley St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2003 Couldn't put down I loved this book. Great lite reading and takes your mind to other places and times. I have read both the Pretender and now the Impostor and if I had lived in England during those times I would have been terrified of Lord Liverpool's political control in England. To think that if he thought you were dangerous, you just disappeared is extrememly scary and mind boggling.             Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds and Confusión de Confusiones (A Marketplace Book)11 reviews Charles Mackay, Joseph de la Vega, ... Wiley, 1995 Timeless! This was the warning shot ahead of the internet bubble. Hearing about the Dutch tulip bubble in 1995 (when I first read the book) we should have been well prepared to duck when Amazon, Ebay and their fallen comrades shot to the moon. If only we had listened... The book clearly articulates why "The more things change, the more they stay the same" and helps us understand when to buck the herd. ...             The Prince and the Pauper (Signet Classics)4 reviews Mark Twain Signet Classics, 2002 There's shame of it - not in Heathenesse, but Christian Church This book is a sublime `drama' of errors. The prince and the pauper change clothes and are mistaken by the whole population for one another. The prince lives a life of a vagabond and the pauper a royal one. In other words, all men are equal; one has only to change the garments. And, `So evanescent and unstable are men's works in the world.' This book gives a fair picture of England in the 16th ...             Wolves in Chic Clothing: A Novel41 reviews Carrie Karasyov, Jill Kargman Broadway, 2006 Wonderful Cinderella story The best of funny New York Chick Lit. This Cinderella story has all you need when you curl up with a box of ice cream on a Friday evening.             The Seductive Impostor11 reviews Janet Chapman Pocket, 2004 The Seductive Imposter Janet Chapman is my new favorite author. This book is wonderful. It grabs you from the start and keeps you going. I couldn't put it down. The characters are so fascinating. Where are all these guys? I am ready to move to Maine.             The Mysterious Visitor (Trixie Belden #4)5 reviews Julie Campbell Random House Books for Young Readers, 2003 New Member, New Mystery Diana Lynch and Trixie Belden used to be friends. Ironically, they stopped spending much time together once Di's family because rich and moved out of town closer to Trixie's family. But Honey Wheeler notices that Di is lonely, so she starts to makes friends with the girl. Soon, Di is coming back out of her shell and all ready to join the Bob-Whites. 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