Logan, T. M.
Summary: "Six days ago, Joe Lynch was a happily married man, a devoted father, and a respected teacher living in a well-to-do London suburb. But that was before he spotted his wife's car entering a hotel parking garage. Before he saw her in a heated argument with her best friend's husband. Before Joe confronted the other man in an altercation where he left him for dead, bleeding and unconscious. Now,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOGShiga, Jason
Summary: A "choose your own story" graphic novel. In a small medieval coastal town, the residents live in fear of a giant sea creature, the Leviathan, who attacks anyone who lies. Your mission: discover the secrets and defeat the creature before it's too late! How you go about it depends on the choices you make.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022
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Summary: "When Rainbow Fish meets a new friend, Humbert, he isn't sure what to think. Humbert tells all kinds of strange stories: Somewhere at the bottom of the ocean there's a plug! There's a blue whale living near here . . . and he's going to eat up all of our food. But before Rainbow Fish and his friends panic, they realize that Humbert just likes to make up tall tales. Rainbow Fish and his friends...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG PFIGagne, Tammy
Summary: The telephone, the lightbulb, and the airplane are all inventions have changed the world for the better. But many popular stories about the creation of American inventions have gotten some facts wrong and left out others altogether. Fact and Fiction of American Invention dives into the myths about inventors and their inventions and brings the truth to light. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J670 GAGHustad, Douglas
Summary: When Russia sent Sputnik 1 into space, the country launched not only a satellite but a new age. Many popular stories about American advancements during the space age have gotten some facts wrong and left out others altogether. Fact and Fiction of the Space Age dives into the myths about the history of NASA and space exploration and brings the truth to light. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.9 HUSAjayi Jones, Luvvie
Summary: "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. Add the fact that often, people might make you feel like your way of showing up is TOO MUCH. BE TOO MUCH, and use it for good. That is what it means to be a troublemaker. In this book, Luvvie Ajayi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 158.1 JONBlabey, Aaron
Summary: 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).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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Summary: Big lies are told by governments, politicians, and corporations to avoid responsibility, cast blame on the innocent, win elections, disguise intent, create chaos, and gain power and wealth. Big lies are as old as civilization; they corrupt public understanding and discourse, turn science upside down, and reinvent history. The future stewards of our world require a how-to manual for seeing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 177.3 KURContos, Andrea
Summary: Nora and Sophie Linden may be sisters, but they haven't been friends since the party last month. The night Sophie's boyfriend, Garrett, disappeared. Half the town thinks Garrett is dead, the other half believes he ran away, but Sophie knows something no one else does: Garrett left that party with Nora. Then Sophie starts receiving messages from someone who claims to be Garrett, promising...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CONHarper, Jane (Jane Elizabeth)
Summary: "A small town hides big secrets in The Dry. After getting a note demanding his presence, Federal Agent Aaron Falk arrives in his hometown for the first time in decades to attend the funeral of his best friend, Luke. Twenty years ago when Falk was accused of murder, Luke was his alibi. Falk and his father fled under a cloud of suspicion, saved from prosecution only because of Luke's steadfast...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M HARGagne, Tammy
Summary: In the years following Christopher Columbus's expedition, Europeans made homes for themselves in the Americas and pushed out the indigenous peoples already living there. Many popular stories about life in the early American colonies have gotten some facts wrong and left out others altogether. Fact and Fiction of American Colonization dives into the myths about colonization and brings the truth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: 973.2 GAGSummary: Dr. Cal Lightman is the world's leading deception expert who studies facial expressions and involuntary body language to expose the truth behind the lies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LIEGagne, Tammy
Summary: Every year on the Fourth of July, Americans celebrate the birth of the nation and the heroes who brought it about. But many popular stories about the American Revolution have gotten some facts wrong and left out others altogether. Fact and Fiction of the American Revolution dives into the myths about the war fought between the patriots and the redcoats and brings the truth to light....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.3 GAGGriffiths, Elly
Summary: Magician Max Mephisto, now divorced and living in London, is on his way to visit daughter Ruby and her new-born baby when he is hailed by a voice from the past, fellow performer Ted English, aka the Great Deceiver. Ted's assistant, Cherry, has been found dead in her Brighton boarding house and he's convinced that he'll be accused of her murder. Max agrees to talk to his friend, Superintendent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRILockhart, E.
Summary: Each summer the wealthy, seemingly perfect Sinclair family meets on their private island. Cadence, Johnny, Mirren, and Gat are a unit, especially during "summer 15," marking their fifteenth year on Beechwood-- the summer that Cady and Gat fall in love. Cady became involved in a mysterious accident, in which she sustained a blow to the head, and now suffers from debilitating migraines and memory...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LOCPatchett, Ann
Summary: From the creators of Lambslide, comes a hilarious children's story about a scapegoat who escapes blame just in time. The Farmer family has a big problem! Every day their goat escapes, and every day, Mr. Farmer brings him back. So when things start to go awry on the farm, it must be the goat's fault. Who's to blame when Mrs. Farmer's petunias are trampled? Or when all the cupcakes for Archie's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PATVaidhyanathan, Siva
Summary: This is the story of how Facebook devolved from an innocent social site hacked together by Harvard students into a force that, while it may make personal life just a little more pleasurable, makes democracy a lot more challenging. It's an indictment of how "social media" has fostered the deterioration of democratic culture around the world, from facilitating Russian meddling in support of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 302.23 VAIWare, Ruth
Summary: On a cool June morning, Isa Wilde, a resident of the seemingly idyllic coastal village of Salten, is walking her dog along a tidal estuary. Before she can stop him, Isa's dog charges into the water to retrieve what first appears to be a wayward stick, but to her horror, she discovers it's not a stick at all but a human bone. As her three best friends from childhood converge in Salten to comfort...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WARYoung, Dannagal G.
Summary: "In this book, the author offers a new model that identifies social and cultural identity-who we are and who we want to be-as the most important factor driving the American phenomena of being wrong"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305 YOUSummary: Woodcarver Geppetto has pets Figaro the cat and Cleo the fish. He has just made a little wooden puppet called Pinocchio. Wishing upon a star before he goes to bed, Geppetto wishes that Pinocchio would become a real boy. As Geppetto sleeps, the Blue Fairy arrives and partially grants his wish. Pinocchio can come to life, but he must prove himself worthy before becoming a real boy. He will...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2017
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5 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY PINCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PIN RATED GCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: JE DVD PinocchioWinters, Ben H.
Summary: 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 where like-minded Americans retreated after the erosion of truth and the spread of lies made public life and governance impossible. In the Golden State, knowingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINCavanagh, Steve
Summary: They call him the King of Death Row. Randal Korn has sent more men to their deaths than any district attorney in the history of the United States. When a young woman, Skylar Edwards, is found murdered in Buckstown, Alabama, a corrupt sheriff arrests the last person to see her alive, Andy Dubois. It doesn't seem to matter anyone that Andy is innocent. Everyone in Buckstown believes Andy is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orion 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAVDonaghey, Reese.
Summary: Telling the truth can be difficult and upsetting, especially if the outcome could cause trouble. A lie might seem the easier course when youve broken your brothers favorite toy or havent yet cleaned your room, though you were asked to. Readers are introduced to the definition of a lie through accessible language and real-life examples. Then, the benefits of truth telling are presented to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens 2015