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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A girl is found hiding in a secret room in a house being renovated after a terrible crime. For weeks, she has survived by sneaking out at night, stealing food for herself and two dogs that are kept in the garden. The nurses at the hospital where she is taken call her "Angel Face" because she won't tell anyone her name, or her age, or where she came from. Maybe she is 12, maybe 15, or somewhere in between. She doesn't appear on any missing person's...
Author
Publisher
Candelwick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
174 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Marcus is in trouble. He didn't think his friend Laurence would actually believe him when he said that his super brainy aunt built the very first time machine. He only made up the story in a spur-of-the-moment bid to win a silly argument! Now how on earth will he make the story come true?
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Professor Olivia Sweetman has worked hard to achieve the life she loves, with a high-flying career as a TV presenter and historian, three children, and a talented husband. But as she stands before a crowd at the launch of her new bestseller she can barely pretend to smile. Her life has spiraled into deceit, and if the truth comes out, she'll lose everything. Only one person knows what Olivia has done. Vivian Tester is the socially awkward sixty-year-old...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
AD 810L
Language
English
Description
Alice loves using her amber wand to invent glitering, new musical insturments. This year, Alice is invited to invent an incredible instrument for a musical extravaganza: the Showstopper Specatcular! But what will she do when things don't go to plan?
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Language
English
Description
Laura has returned to work at Morris and Wood after her maternity leave, only to discover that the woman she brought in to cover for her isn't planning on going anywhere. Despite her close relationship with the agency's powerful CEO, Harry Wood, she feels sidelined--and outmaneuvered--as she struggles to balance the twin demands of work and motherhood. Mia was only supposed to be a temporary hire at Morris and Wood, but she's managed to make herself...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Vacuum repairman and self-appointed mayor of Prometto, Italy (population 212), Signor Speranza has a problem: unless he can come up with 70,000 euros to fix the town's pipes, the water commission will shut off the water to the village and all its residents will be forced to disperse. So in a bid to boost tourism--and revenue--he spreads a harmless rumor that movie star Dante Rinaldi will be filming his next project nearby. Unfortunately, the plan...
67) The little lie
Author
Series
Billie B. Brown volume 11
Pub. Date
2014
Lexile measure
490L
Physical Desc
43 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Billie has broken her arm! It's going to be the best story ever for show and tell. Especially if she adds in a crocodile ..."--Back cover.
68) The lies we told
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Clara's boyfriend, Luke, disappears, Clara is desperate to find him. And the deeper Clara digs into Luke's mysterious disappearance, the more convinced she is that Luke's life is in danger because of secrets his family has kept" -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Ruby St. James returns to her hometown, it's under the worst circumstances. Her old classmate Danny is dead, and at his funeral, she is confronted with the friends she left behind and the secret that tore them apart ten years ago. Now, Ruby isn't sure how to bridge the space her lies have created. And what's worse, she isn't the only one who's been lying.
70) June: a novel
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Danvers is holed up in her family's crumbling mansion in rural St. Jude, Ohio, mourning the loss of the woman who raised her--her grandmother, June. But a knock on the door forces her out of isolation. Cassie has been named the sole heir to legendary matiňe idol Jack Montgomery's vast fortune. How did Jack Montgomery know her name? Could he have crossed paths with her grandmother all those years ago? What other shocking...
71) Pig the fibber
Author
Series
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
Pig the Pug often lies to get what he wants, and blames Trevor the sausage dog for his own misdeeds--but when his latest lie results in an accident and the loss of a tooth he finally learns his lesson (maybe).
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
431 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Mary Kay Andrews delivers another treasure of a comic novel. Little Bitty Lies is a tantalizing tale about an abandoned Atlanta housewife and mother who tells one tiny white lie that sets her world spiraling outrageously out of control. This winning and wonderful romp focuses on about all the important things in life: marriage and divorce, mothers and daughters, friendship and betrayal. Throw in small town secrets,...
73) Liar
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Lexile measure
HL 470L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Compulsive liar Micah promises to tell the truth after revealing that her boyfriend has been murdered.
74) Tell me no lies
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teenage sisters Nora and Sophie's bond is tested when Sophie's boyfriend Garrett goes missing after a party, and Nora, possibly the last person to see him, becomes the primary suspect.
75) Stolen secrets
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The quiet community of Red Rock is upset by an apparent abduction attempt on two middle school girls.
76) It's true!
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
AD 500L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations. ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Little Critter learns quickly that lying has consequences and that telling the truth, no matter how hard, is always the right thing to do.
77) Good husbands
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Jessica, Stephanie and Priyanka are complete strangers, but they have one thing in common: they've each received a letter accusing their husbands of committing a sexual assault more than two decades prior. Is the accusation true or is there more to the story? It was a secret that remained buried for years. With their worlds suddenly turned upside down, they don't know who to trust ... The three women come together to embark on a hunt for the truth,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the three years since the Virgil County High School Massacre, a story has grown up around one of the victims, Sarah McHale, that says she died proclaiming her Christian faith--but Leanne Bauer was there, and knows what happened, and she has a choice: stay silent and let people believe in Sarah's martyrdom, or tell the truth.
79) Disclose
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"Meri Buckley has lost everything. She lost her mother to a fight much bigger than herself. Her father to grief, fear, and denial. And the truth--to an overbearing government that insists that censorship and secrecy is the only path to peace. But though Meri and her band of truth-seeking Stewards did lose the first battle in their quest to enlighten the public, they have not yet lost the war. Meri can start the revolution she seeks, if the powerful...
Author
Publisher
William Heinemann
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Peter Winceworth, a disaffected Victorian lexicographer, inserts false entries into a dictionary - violating and subverting the dictionary's authority - in an attempt to assert some sense of individual purpose and artistic freedom. In the present day, Mallory, a young overworked and underpaid intern employed by the dictionary's publishing house, is tasked with uncovering these entries before the work is digitised. As the novel progresses and their...