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Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam "West" Weston for access to subsidized family housing while at UCLA. She also thought she'd signed divorce papers when the graduation caps were tossed, and they both went on their merry ways. Three years later, Anna is a starving artist living paycheck to paycheck while West is a Stanford professor. He may be one of four heirs to the Weston Foods conglomerate, but he has little interest in working for the...
Author
Series
Pandava volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she'll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, waiting for her mom to return from her latest archeological trip. Is it any wonder that Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur? One day, three...
4) Escape goat
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
From the international bestselling author of Bel Canto and The Dutch House, Ann Patchett, and the bestselling illustrator of the Fancy Nancy series, Robin Preiss Glasser, comes a hilarious and heartwarming story about a goat who keeps getting all the blame, but ultimately teaches one family about the importance of honesty and owning up to your mistakes.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ruthie loves tiny things and when she finds a tiny camera on the playground she is very happy, but after she lies and says the camera belongs to her, nothing seems to go right.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Ant, stuck in a family that she does not like, copes by pretending that her "real" parents are coming to rescue her, by loving her dog Pistachio, by volunteering at the zoo, and by bending the truth and telling lies.
Author
Series
Princess Posey books volume 7
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
83 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Posey has asked Santa for a real magic wand, but when an accident leads her to tell a white lie, she begins to wonder if Santa will come at all.
Author
Series
Junie B. Jones series volume 9
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This edition is only available for distribution through the school market"--P. [4] of cover.Originally published: New York : Random House, 1997.Junie B. Jones experiences glee while showing off her new furry mittens in kindergarten, but disaster strikes when they disappear from the playground. "Early Chapter Books" collection--look for orange spine label.
9) Liar
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
376 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Compulsive liar Micah promises to tell the truth after revealing that her boyfriend has been murdered.
10) Zebra forest
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
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...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 53 min., 49 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Program highlights What is your biggest source of power in any negotiation? How to redraw the boundaries of a negotiation in your favour? How focusing on the upside improves your deal. It's better to receive the first offer than to give it. Honesty is the best negotiating policy. Don't ever let them see you sweat. Professor Neale convincingly debunks these common beliefs as she shares the results of empirical research on negotiating strategies and...
12) The big fib
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
After playing with Miss Finn's discarded boxes and making a mess, her young neighbors first lie about their misdeed and then make things right.
13) Snowglobe
Author
Series
Snowglobe duology volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Enclosed under a vast dome, Snowglobe is the last place on Earth that’s warm. Outside Snowglobe is a frozen wasteland, and every day, citizens face the icy world to get to their jobs at the power plant, where they produce the energy Snowglobe needs. Their only solace comes in the form of twenty-four-hour television programming streamed directly from the domed city.
The residents of Snowglobe have everything: fame, fortune, and above all, safety...
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Quix
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Aladdin Quix hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this version of the Andersen tale the vain principal of P.S. 88 is persuaded by two tailors that they will make him an amazing, one-of-a-kind suit that will be visible only to intelligent people who are good at their jobs.
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jennifer Cole has just been told that she has a terminal blood disorder and has just three months to live--ninety days to say goodbye to friends and family, and to put her affairs in order. Ninety days to come to terms with a diagnosis that is unfair, unexpected, and completely unpronounceable. Focusing on the positives (she won't have to go on in a world without Bowie or Maya Angelou; she won't get Alzheimer's or Parkinson's like her parents, or...
16) Cursed
Author
Series
Gilded duology volume 2
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When the true intentions of the Erlking are revealed, which could forever alter the mortal realm, Serilda and Gild must foil the Erlking's evil agenda by solving the mystery of Gild's forgotten name in order to protect their unborn child"--
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
"A story about a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendship, and even love. "Everybody lies about their lives. What would happen if you shared the truth?" This is the question that Julian Jessop, an eccentric, seventy-nine-year-old artist, poses within a pale green exercise book that he labels The Authenticity Project, before leaving it behind in Monica's Café. When Monica discovers Julian's abandoned...
18) Gilded
Author
Series
Gilded duology volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When one of Serilda's outlandish tales draws the attention of the sinister Erlking and his undead hunters, she finds herself swept away into a grim world where ghouls and phantoms prowl the earth and hollow-eyed ravens track her every move. The king orders Serilda to complete the impossible task of spinning straw into gold, or be killed for telling falsehoods. In her desperation, Serilda unwittingly summons a mysterious boy to her aid. He agrees to...
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xix, 252 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this young readers edition of her New York Times bestseller Professional Troublemaker, Luvvie Ajayi Jones uses her honesty and humor to inspire teens to be their bravest, boldest, truest selves, in order to create a world they would be proud to live in"--
"The world can feel like a dumpster fire, with endless things to be afraid of. It can make you feel powerless to ask for what you need, use your voice, and show up truly as your whole self....
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