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62) Pinojo
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Ten cuidado: si dices mientiras, ¡podría crecerte la NARIZ! En esta reinterpretación de granja de un cuento de hadas clásico, Pinojo es un marioneta que desea ser un cerdo de verdad. Con la ayuda de un hada, ¡Pinojo encuentra la manera de resolver un problema!" -- Back cover.
"Be careful - if you lie, your SNOUT could grow! In this farmyard twist on a classic fairy tale, Pignocchio is a puppet who longs to be a real pig. Full page illustrations...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A filthy, uproarious, outrageous novel from the brilliant and twisted mind of John Waters"--
"Marsha Sprinkle: Suitcase thief. Scammer. Master of disguise. Dogs and children hate her. Her own family wants her dead. She's smart, she's desperate, she's disturbed, and she's on the run with a big chip on her shoulder. They call her Liarmouth--until one insane man makes her tell the truth."--Book jacket.
64) The lying room
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In this thrilling standalone from the internationally bestselling author of the Frieda Klein series, a married woman's affair with her boss spirals into a dangerous game of chess with the police when she discovers he's been murdered and she clears the crime scene of all evidence. One little secret between a married woman, her lover, and a killer. It should have been just a mid-life fling. A guilty indiscretion that Neve Connolly could have weathered....
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Language
English
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Formats
Description
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 through big lies and thinking critically, because big lies...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When a woman conceals her sister's death to claim their joint inheritance, her deception exposes a web of dangerous secrets.
"Robin Voigt is dead. If Leslie had arrived at her sister's cramped Las Vegas apartment just hours earlier, this would have been their first reunion in a decade. In the years since Robin ran away from home as a teenager, Leslie has stayed in New Mexico, taking care of their dying father even as she began building a family of...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2021
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 digitized. As the novel progresses and their...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Brenae Brazil is a rising star at Los Angeles Art College, the most prestigious art school in the country, and a pupil of the institution's equally famous and influential director, Hal Giroux. Brenae's path to art world stardom is all but assured, so why did she kill herself shortly after completing a provocative documentary about female bodies, violence, and self-defence? Maggie Richter's return to LA and her old job at the Rocque Museum was supposed...
70) Trust
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning writer of absorbing, sophisticated fiction delivers a stylish and propulsive novel rooted in early 20th century New York, about wealth and talent, trust and intimacy, truth and perception. In glamorous 1920s New York City, two characters of sophisticated taste come together. One is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; the other, the brilliant daughter of penniless aristocrats. Steeped in affluence and grandeur, their marriage excites...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon &Schuster Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
At the school gates, Faiza fits in. It took a few years, but now the snobbish mothers who mistook her for the nanny treat her as one of their own. She's learned to crack their subtle codes, speak their language of handbags and haircuts and discreet silver watches. You'd never guess, at the glamorous kids' parties and the leisurely coffee mornings, that Faiza's childhood was spent following her parents round the Tooting Cash'n'Carry. When her husband...
73) Harriet spies
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Harriet Wermer investigates more mysteries during her stay on Marble Island"--
74) Número cero
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
Somebody preparing a newspaper intended, rather than to information, to blackmail... An editor, paranoid, wandering around a haunted Milan (or a hallucination of a normal Milan), traces the history of fifty years against the backdrop of a plan built around the sulfurous rotten corpse of a pseudo Mussolini. And in the shadows... the assassination of Pope Luciani, the coup of Junio Valerio Borghese, the CIA, the terrorists caught red handled by private...
75) Starsight
Author
Series
Skyward (Brandon Sanderson) volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. The rumors of his cowardice are true - he deserted his flight during battle against the Krell. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them. Spensa is sure there's more to the story. And she's sure that whatever happened to her father in his starship could...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A gripping thriller about a man who may or may not have dementia--and who may or may not be a serial killer--from a master of twists and turns, in the tradition of Laura Lippman and Gillian Flynn An obsessive young woman has been waiting half her life--since she was twelve years old--for this moment. She has planned. Researched. Trained. Imagined every scenario. Now she is almost certain the man who kidnapped and murdered her sister sits in the passenger...
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Arlo Dilly is young, handsome and eager to meet the right girl. He also happens to be DeafBlind, a Jehovah's Witness, and under the strict guardianship of his controlling uncle. His chances of finding someone to love seem slim to none. And yet, it happened once before: many years ago, at a boarding school for the Deaf, Arlo met the love of his life-a mysterious girl with onyx eyes and beautifully expressive hands which told him the most amazing stories....
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Quix
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Goddess Girls are on their way to the Sparkle City Pet Show when they discover a cute, pink kitten on the Hello Brick Road. Two boys, Prince Paris and Odysseus, both claim the kitten is theirs. Can Artemis figure out which boy is telling the truth and get the sweet kitty back home?"--
79) Cats!
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A book made up of 75% truths and 25% lies, challenging kids to spot what is false in this fun reader about cats"--
80) Pawcasso
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Every Saturday, Pawcasso trots into town with a basket, a shopping list, and cash in paw to buy groceries for his family. One day, he passes eleven-year-old Jo, peering out the window of her house, bored and lonely. Astonished by the sight of an adorable basket-toting dog on his own, Jo follows Pawcasso, and when she's seen alongside him by a group of kids from her school, they mistake her for Pawcasso's owner. Excited to make new friends, Jo reluctantly...
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