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261) Victim: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A hustler from a family of hustlers, Javi Perez, after college graduation, writes a viral essay embellishing his life story, which lands him a gig at a legendary magazine, but when his childhood best friend is released from prison, Javi offers to cut him in on the deal in exchange for his silence.
"Javier Perez is a hustler from a family of hustlers. He learns from an early age how to play the game to his own advantage, how his background--murdered...
262) Pants on fire
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Jack Parker is a charming fifteen-year-old who has always skated by on his lies, especially the one about Mikey, an underprivileged (and made-up) teenwho Jack 'tutors'. Mikey provides a ready-made excuse for chores, homework,tardiness, and general mayhem. It's a great plan, until one day 'Mikey' showsup for real. And then all Jack's other lies, from his super-possessive girlfriend to the roving band of alien body snatchers, start to come true as well....
265) Zebra forest
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Annie first started lying to her social worker, she had been taught by an expert: Gran. She told Annie and her little brother, Rew, the one thing they know about their father: that he was killed in a fight with an angry man who was sent away. Annie tells stories, as she and Rew laze under the birches and oaks of Zebra Forest -- stories about their father the pirate, or pilot, or secret agent. But then something shocking happens...
267) Back on track
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Addison Jones would love to try out for the track team, and she knows that she is faster than the other girls, but her single mom is working two jobs and every day after school Addison has to take care of her little brother--without telling her mom Addison and her best friend, Sofia, work out a plan that will allow her to run, but soon the strain and guilt of lying to her mother begins to take its toll.
270) Perfect mendacity
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Samuel French acting edition.
Language
English
Description
"Walter Kreutzer, a microbiologist for a defense contractor, is being investigated by his employers over an incriminating memo that was leaked to the media. Walter thinks his Moroccan wife may have done the whistle-blowing, and to protect her--and himself--Walter needs to learn how to beat a lie detector, and fast. D'avore Peoples, a polygraph consultant, is happy to help--for a price, of course. But D'avore's technique will require Walter to look...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Moisés Naím's The Revenge of Power is an urgent, thrilling, and original look at the future of democracy. It illuminates one of the most important battles of our time: the future of freedom and how to contain and defeat the autocrats mushrooming around the world. In his New York Times bestselling book The End of Power, Moisés Naím examined power-diluting forces. In The Revenge of Power, Naím turns to the trends, conditions, and behaviors...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Marley is comfortable with being gay in Winston-Salem, but he never had any real passions until he met Christopher, son of a bigoted television evangelist; the two become an inseparable couple until Christopher's parents send him to a religious program intended to "cure" him of being gay, and outraged Marley tells a very big lie--and then has to deal with the repercussions.
274) Liars' room
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Simon is a liar. Stella and Alex know this about their new stepbrother, so they aren't bothered by his stories about their new house. Wildwyck, a former schoolhouse for misbehaved boys, might have plenty of creaks and shadows, but the twins know that ghosts aren't real. But Simon is getting harder and harder to ignore, as his cries for attention become increasingly dangerous and difficult to explain. Stella and Alex have to consider . . . could Simon...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
""When you're the subject of an embarrassing rumor-and that rumor is false-how would you respond? In this illustrated choose-your-own-ending picture book, Harper's friends spread a rumor that she wets the bed. Will Harper confront them or let it go? Will she forgive her friends? Readers make choices for Harper and read what happens next, with each story path leading to different outcomes. Includes four different endings and discussion questions. Expressive...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hector Macdonald has spent much of his career exploring the ways that two completely true statements about the same thing can give wildly different impressions to the people listening. Combining great storytelling with practical takeaways and a litany of fascinating, funny, and insightful case studies, this book offers a sobering and engaging read about how profoundly our mindsets and actions are influenced by the truths we are told.
277) Little white lies
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Description
Following a motorcycle accident that leaves a charismatic member of their group in an intensive care unit, a close-knit circle of friends embark on their annual summer getaway to Cape Ferrat in the southwest of France. Staying at wealthy family man Max's spacious vacation home, the sunny beachside idyll quickly becomes the backdrop of heated tensions and outbursts among the old acquaintances as the little white lies just beneath the surface of their...
279) All my lies are true
Author
Series
Ice cream girls volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Verity is telling lies... and that's why she's about to be arrested for attempted murder. Serena has been lying for years. . . and that may have driven her daughter, Verity, to do something unthinkable. Poppy's lies have come back to haunt her . . . so, will her quest for the truth hurt everyone she loves? Everyone lies. But whose lies are going to end in tragedy? --
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