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"A stunning portrayal of platonic love, the forces that push people apart, and the pains of growing out into the world. The plot unravels slowly, woven in beautiful prose." - Kirkus Reviews
"Miller's style is languid and portentous...This is for readers who enjoy poetic, character-driven fiction and don't mind some gauziness to their grit." - Booklist
Praise for LITTLE WRECKS: "Darkly atmospheric and brutally honest, LITTLE WRECKS depicts girls...
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When Queen Samara Rani fulfills the promise she made to Emperor Valentin Kos to visit his court and meet with his advisors, she knows they won't welcome her with open arms, especially when she's been tasked with discovering the traitors within their ranks-traitors she tricked out of five million credits.
As soon as Samara begins her investigation it becomes clear that Valentin's advisors want her gone and they aren't picky about how. After their...
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TMW Media
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (19 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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In this program we’ll learn the history of lying and why we lie. We’ll learn how lying affects relationships and your job and we’ll explore effective approaches to eliminate the use of lying. Since the dawn of mankind, to avoid confrontation or embarrassment, our ancestors had to learn how to cooperate. In order to survive, they found a powerful tool that would get results by conveying a false impression. They discovered lying. It's ironic....
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Changeling Press LLC
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2023
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Gil struggles to hide his loss of status from Jack, but when he finally confesses, Jack turns around and blurts out his own secret. Who can Gil trust now?
Jack knows he screwed up but he believes in honesty above everything else. Well, almost. Running the risk of losing Gil, Jack must learn to lie convincingly or he'll lose SearchLight, his life, and Gil, as well.
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Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novella: In a bizarre future metropolis where even the most trivial fib cannot be uttered, a man must learn to lie-or lose what he loves most Truth reigns supreme in the city-state of Veritas. Not even politicians lie, and weirdly frank notices abound-such as warning: this elevator maintained by people who hate their jobs: ride at your own risk. In this dystopia of mandatory candor, every preadolescent citizen is...
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A foolproof guide both to lying and to detecting deception, The CIA Guide to Lying and Lie Detection will teach you how the pros can tell if and when somebody is lying.
People lie all the time. Studies show that the average American lies between six and twenty times a day. Most lies are of the "little white" variety or are meant to spare a person's feelings. But what about the big lies? What about the consequential ones? You have a right to know...
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A poignant and riotous tale of family and revolution in postcolonial Africa, from the winner of the French Voices grand prize and finalist for the Man Booker International Prize
Pointe-Noire, a bustling port town on Congo's southwestern coast, is host to Alain Mabanckou's astonishing cycle of novels that is already being hailed as one of the grandest, funniest fictional projects of our time. His novels have been twice short-listed for the Man Booker...
10) Run, Run, Run
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Run, Run, Run' is a crime thriller, a novel that never lets up, taking an ordinary couple into a life they could never envisage. After giving evidence against a gangster in a murder trial, Dan Thompson is whisked away into the Witness Protection Scheme. But even that can't protect him and his wife, Sally. Somebody knows their new identity - somebody who shouldn't. Frank Tong is an artist who finds inspiration for his paintings from the violence of...
11) Tom at the Farm
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Following the accidental death of his lover, and in the throes of his grief, urban ad executive Tom travels to the country to attend the funeral and to meet his mother-in-law, Agatha, and her son, Francis - neither of whom know Tom even exists. Arriving at the remote rural farm, and immediately drawn into the dysfunction of the family's relationships, Tom is blindsided by his lost partner's legacy of untruth. With the mother expecting a chain-smoking...
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Parents are beginning to realize that deficiencies in ethics and character are becoming a big problem among our nation’s children. For example, late-breaking research shows that: Kids learn to lie when they’re about 3, and by 8 have a habit that’s hard to break By the time they are pre-teens or adolescents, most children are Fully Skilled Lie Tellers 60% of 12-17 years old say they have friends who cheat at school. 98% of teens lie to their...
13) Liar Detector
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Become A Human Lie And Truth Detector
Lying is an ingrained instinct. Humans learn to lie by the age of three and just keep on lying into adulthood. On average, people will lie 3 times or more in a ten minute conversation with a stranger or acquaintance.
Does this sound unbelievable? Or maybe, you just don't know how to spot the lies. There are many types of lies in this world: little white lies, big lies, small lies, omissions, exaggerations, and...
14) Taming Papa
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Mélie doesn't know how to relate to her father, a political prisoner whom she has never met, when he is released and joins her family in Montreal.
Mélie doesn't know how to relate to her father, a political prisoner in another country whom she has never met, when he is released and immigrates to join her family in Montreal.
"Where I come from, you have to say the same things as everyone else or keep quiet," Mélie's mother tells her. "And your...
15) First lie wins
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"Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn't exist. The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she's given a name and location by her mysterious boss Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle...
16) Lies, Half-Truths, and More Lies: the Truth Behind 250 "Facts" You Learned in School (and Elsewhere)
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Skyhorse
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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History is replete with stories of great people and extraordinary events that either never happened or didn't happen the way we were told they did. Such news or embellishment thereof are part of what we consider common knowledge – information taught in schools and passed down to us. And they are wrong. How about these gems:
The winter of 1777-78 was the coldest winter in Valley Forge in years, and many Continental soldiers died from the ...
17) The lying game
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Four girls are best friends and inseparable at Salten, a second-rate boarding school near the cliffs of the England Channel. They are notorious for playing the Lying Game, telling lies to both fellow boarders and faculty. Their little game has consequences when they soon learn their shared past was not as safely buried as they had once hoped.
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In March 2019, the Viking Sky cruise ship was struck by a bomb cyclone in the North Atlantic. Rocked by 50-foot swells and 40-knot gales, the ship lost power and began to drift straight toward the notoriously dangerous Hustadvika coast in Norway. This is the suspenseful, harrowing, funny, touching story by one passenger who contemplated death aboard that ship.
Chaney Kwak is a travel writer used to all sorts of mishaps on the road, but this is a...
20) Lies, Half-Truths, and More Lies: The Truth Behind 250 "Facts" You Learned in School (and Elsewhere)
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History is replete with stories of great people and extraordinary events that either never happened or didn't happen the way we were told they did. Such news or embellishment thereof are part of what we consider common knowledge – information taught in schools and passed down to us. And they are wrong.
Lies, Lies, and More Lies is a humorous, witty, and charming collection of anecdotes surrounding history, pop culture, and more. It is a book that...
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