Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon--the legacy of P.T. Barnum's 'humbug' culminating with the currency of Donald J. Trump's 'fake news'. Disturbingly, Young finds that fakery is woven from stereotype and suspicion, with race being the most insidious American hoax of all. He chronicles how Barnum came to fame by displaying figures like Joice Heth, a black woman whom he pretended...
Author
Series
Formats
Description
Jane Hawk--fiction's most relentless, resourceful, stunning new heroine--continues her battle against a murderous conspiracy in the riveting sequel to The Silent Corner. "No time to delay. Do what you were born to do. Fame will be yours when you do this." These are the words that ring in the mind of mild-mannered, beloved schoolteacher Cora Gundersun--just before she takes her own life, and many others', in a shocking act of carnage. When the disturbing...
Author
Series
(Dean Ray),Jane Hawk novel volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling words left behind by a man who had everything to live for -- but took his own life. In the aftermath, his widow, Jane Hawk, does what all her grief, fear, and fury demand: find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people admired and happy and sound of mind, have been committing suicide in surprising numbers. When Jane seeks to learn why, she becomes the most-wanted fugitive...
Author
Formats
Description
"At an elite private school in Massachusetts, a wide circle of lives will be forever changed by a devastating series of events in Danielle Steel's riveting new novel. Saint Ambrose Prep is a place where the wealthy send their children for the best possible education, with teachers and administrators from the Ivy League, and graduates who become future lawyers, politicians, filmmakers, and CEOs. Traditionally a boys-only school, Saint Ambrose has just...
Author
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Bina is a woman who's had enough and isn't afraid to say so. "I'm here to warn you, not reassure you," she announces at the book's outset. In a series of taut and urgent missives she attempts to set the record of her life straight, and in doing so, to be useful to others. Yet being useful is what landed her in jail. Empathy is her Achilles' heel. Her troubles seem to stem from an injured stranger named Eddie, and multiply when her charity extends...
12) 27 magic words
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Although Kobi's parents sailed into a storm five years ago, she believes they are alive, and when she is sent from her grandmother's luxurious Paris apartment to live with an uncle in Iowa, Kobi tells lies that soon catch up with her.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Book / House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"A monk leads a simple life. He studies his books late into the evening and searches for truth in their pages. His cat, Pangur, leads a simple life, too, chasing prey in the darkness. As night turns to dawn, Pangur leads his companion to the truth he has been seeking."--
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Follow a sad little fact who is locked away for telling the truth. In its underground prison, it meets other facts, all hidden away because they could not lie. Finally, with the help of a few skillful fact-finders, the facts are set free"--
Author
Series
Cayuga Island kids volume Book 3
Publisher
Cross Your Fingers, a City of Light imprint
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
The Cayuga Island Kids learn about sorting through research and clues to ensure information is factual as they deal with faulty assumptions, missing facts, flour bugs, and chocolate chip cookies.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Charlie Cale is a down-on-her-luck cocktail waitress with an uncanny ability to sniff out the truth. After crossing a bloodthirsty mobster, Charlie hits the road in her trusty Plymouth Barracuda, encountering new friends, unsolved mysteries, and danger everywhere she turns. This 3-disc collection includes every thrilling episode and features amazing guest performances from Academy Award winner Adrien Brody, Judith Light, Chloe Sevigny, Nick Nolte,...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"What if everything you know about the worst night of your life turns out not to be true? Nine years ago, with the world's eyes on her, Charlie Colbert fled. The press and the police called Charlie a 'witness' to the nightmarish events at her elite graduate school on Christmas Eve--events known to the public as 'Scarlet Christmas'--though Charlie knows she was much more than that. Now, Charlie has meticulously rebuilt her life: She's the editor-in-chief...
19) Lifemark
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
David's comfortable world is turned upside down when his birthmother unexpectedly reaches out to him, longing to meet the eighteen-year-old son she's only held once. With the encouragement of his adoptive parents, David embarks on a journey of discovery that leads to a staggering truth about his past.
Author
Series
Publisher
Felony & Mayhem Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Wes Beattie, the hapless young son of a stuffy Toronto family is on trial for murder, and his explanations of what actually happened are too fanciful to convince anyone. But Sidney "Gargoyle" Grant, a young lawyer, resolves to untangle the truth" --
Didn't Find It?
If we don't have what you're looking for, you have 3 options: ask us to bring it in from another library (interlibrary loan), suggest the library purchase it, or call us for assistance.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? You can suggest the library purchase it by submitting a request, or you might find it through our interlibrary loan service. See your options at https://readokaloosa.org/requests. Purchase Suggestion