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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"The King of Yusan may be the greatest liar of them all. His sister's ring is in his sights, and he will do anything to get what he wants. Even manipulating the five blades to steal it... Bonded by a common enemy, then divided by deceit, the blades must rely on their skills to pull off King Joon's pursuit or risk his legendary wrath. A foreign rule of law stands between them and Quilimar, the Queen of Khitan. Now they have one month to steal the powerful...
2) Happy place
Author
Language
English
Description
"Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college--they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now--for reasons they're still not discussing--they don't. They broke up six months ago. And still haven't told their best friends. Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group's yearly getaway for the last decade. Their annual respite...
3) Golden State
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A veteran of the Speculative Service in an alternate-world California where the law and truth are valued above all else uses his rare authority to question the facts when truth enforcement is manipulated for corrupt purposes.
In a strange alternate society that values law and truth above all else, Laszlo Ratesic is a nineteen-year veteran of the Speculative Service. He lives in the Golden State, a nation standing where California once did, a place...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
207 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
From Tom Gilling-The New York Times Notable author of The Adventures of Miles and Isabel-comes a skillful, compulsively readable modern thriller about re-inventing one's identity. It was just a harmless lie-to say he was driving Danny Grogan's car when it was caught speeding down the Sydney streets on New Year's Eve-and Danny's father, a billionaire real estate tycoon, has promised to make it worth his while. But when former reporter Nick Carmody...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Lisa lives for her daughter Ava, her job and her best friend Marilyn. But when a handsome client shows an interest in her, Lisa starts daydreaming about sharing her life with him, too. Maybe she's ready now. Maybe she can trust again. Maybe it's time to let her terrifying secret past go. But when her daughter rescues a boy from drowning and their pictures are all over the news for everyone to see, Lisa's world explodes. As she finds everything she...
Author
Series
Will Trent volume 12
Language
English
Description
"For GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton, McAlpine Lodge seems like the ideal getaway to celebrate their honeymoon. Set on a gorgeous, off-the-grid mountaintop property, it's the perfect place to unplug and reconnect. Until a bone-chilling scream cuts through the night. Mercy McAlpine, the manager of the Lodge, is dead. With a vicious storm raging and the one access road to the property washed out, the murderer must be someone...
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Series
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (48 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Language
English
Description
Examines the various reasons why people lie, and the physical, social, and psychological consequences of lying. Also explores recent scandals in which people were caught lying. Includes color photographs, critical thinking questions, an activity, a glossary, and further resources.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of friendship quizzes to determine how truthful you are and offers tips to become a better friend. Describes the damage that lying can inflict on someone and includes a glossary and an index.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When 22-year-old Kat Bird wakes up from a coma, she sees her mirror image: Jude, her twin sister. Jude's face and name are the only memories Kat has from before her accident. As Kat tries to relearn her history and identity, she trusts Jude will provide all the answers. But as the months progress, Kat begins to fear that, maybe, Jude has been lying to her. Recruit. Hunt. Perform or perish. Growing up in a sophisticated New Age cult, isolated from...
10) The soulmate
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Get ready for a thrilling, addictive novel about marriage, betrayal, and the secrets that push us to the edge in Sally Hepworth's The Soulmate. There's a cottage on a cliff. Gabe and Pippa's dream home in a sleepy coastal town. But their perfect house hides something sinister. The tall cliffs have become a popular spot for people to end their lives. Night after night Gabe comes to their rescue, literally talking them off the ledge. Until he doesn't....
11) The sequel
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Anna Williams-Bonner has taken care of business. That is to say, she's taken care of her husband, bestselling novelist Jacob Finch Bonner, and solved the mystery of the anonymous plagiarism accusations that tormented him. Now she is living her life, content to enjoy her husband's royalty checks in perpetuity, but literary celebrity continues to beckon, and this time the book in question is her own debut novel, The Afterword. After all, how hard can...
12) The lying game
Author
Language
English
Description
The text message arrives in the small hours of the night. It's just three words: I need you. Isa drops everything, takes her baby daughter and heads straight to Salten. She spent the most significant days of her life at boarding school on the marshes there, days which still cast their shadow over her. At school Isa and her three best friends used to play the Lying Game. They competed to convince people of the most outrageous stories. Now, after seventeen...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Ember Lee Cardinal has not always been a liar, not for anything that counted. But when her résumé is rejected thirty-seven times, she takes matters into her own hands. She gets creative listing her work experience and answers the ethnicity question on all job applications with a lie. No one wanted Native American Ember, but Caucasian Ember landed her dream accounting job on Park Avenue (Oklahoma). Accountant Ember thrives in corporate life--and...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Abigail Baskin never thought she would fall in love with a millionaire. Then she met Bruce Lamb. He's a good guy, stable, levelheaded, kind--a refreshing change from her previous relationships. But right before the wedding, Abigail has a drunken one-night stand on her bachelorette weekend. She puts the incident--and the sexy guy who wouldn't give her his real name--out of her mind, and now believes she wants to be with Bruce for the rest of her life....
15) The good sister
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the outside, everyone might think Fern and Rose are as close as twin sisters can be: Rose is the responsible one, with a home and a husband and a fierce desire to become a mother. Fern is the quirky one, the free spirit, the librarian who avoids social interaction and whom the world might just describe as truly odd. But the sisters are devoted to one another and Rose has always been Fern's protector from the time they were small. Fern needed...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
29 pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Children are shown that although being honest can be hard sometimes, it is worth it. Everyone likes people who speak the truth and keep their word. Kids learn that when we all practice being honest, the world becomes a fairer and happier place to live in.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Sara Murray had never met her mothers parents and was surprised to learn after her death that they were Amish living in Pennsylvania. When she is finally able to make the trip to meet them, she is shocked to learn someone else has been living with them and pretending to be Sara. Sara cant understand how quickly her grandparents are willing to forgive the impostor. Secrets and deceit seem to follow Sara, and she is so tired of it. Though soon she...
18) Faker
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Trey knows the drill: His dad gets him into a school full of kids with rich parents. Trey makes friends, and his dad makes connections. Soon, there's the con, where Trey's dad suckers the other parents into investing in one of his schemes. Once the money's in the bank, Trey, his sister, and their dad are on the run... until they set up somewhere else and start again. Trey believes his father when he says no one's getting hurt. After all, these parents...
20) The lying club
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Language
English
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"At an elite private school nestled in the Colorado mountains, a tangled web of lies draws together three vastly different women. Natalie, a young office assistant, dreams of having a life like the school moms she deals with every day. Women like Brooke--a gorgeous heiress, ferociously loving mother and serial cheater--and Asha, an overachieving and overprotective mom who suspects her husband of having an affair. Their fates are bound by their relationships...