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What makes a storyteller? I have always been a reader, books that were true, preposterous, funny, serious, scientific, literary, whatever was on my grandparents' shelves. From being very young, I could enlarge on the truth. I didn't tell fibs, just made the truth more interesting. For a very long time, I've eavesdropped: conversations on trains and buses, overheard mobile phone conversations. One remark can give rise to an idea, which can lead to...
62) Poetry Pond
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'These poems are shaped by the mundane and the extraordinary, all in rhythmic patterns and music that form a chorus from the first to the last poem. Her poems are intimate observations and explorations of the common aspects of our lives, reflections on our ancestry, and on the power of the poetic voice to understand who we have been and who we are now. In these lucid poems, the reader will find the power that drives this dynamic poetic voice.' - Mary-Jane...
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Lucky Harbor novels volume 8
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THERE'S NOTHING LIKE THE REAL THING
After dropping out of pastry school and messing up her big break on a reality cooking show, Leah Sullivan needs to accomplish something in her life. But when she returns home to Lucky Harbor, she finds herself distracted by her best friend, Jack Harper. In an effort to cheer up Jack's ailing mother, Dee, Leah tells a little fib - that she and Jack are more than just friends. Soon pretending to be hot-and-heavy...
After dropping out of pastry school and messing up her big break on a reality cooking show, Leah Sullivan needs to accomplish something in her life. But when she returns home to Lucky Harbor, she finds herself distracted by her best friend, Jack Harper. In an effort to cheer up Jack's ailing mother, Dee, Leah tells a little fib - that she and Jack are more than just friends. Soon pretending to be hot-and-heavy...
64) My begging chart
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Drawn & Quarterly
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2021
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"Keiler Roberts mines the passing moments of family life to deliver an affecting and funny account of what it means to simultaneously exist as a mother, daughter, wife, and artist. Drawn in an unassuming yet charming staccato that mimics the awkward rhythm of life, no one's foibles are left unspared, most often the author's own....Roberts can get lost in the rewarding melodrama of playing barbies with her daughter and will momentarily snap out of...
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Izzy fears she's losing her gal pals, the friends she's had since first grade. Even though she's still part of the friend group, she feels increasingly isolated and disconnected. She's exhausted by all the drama and petty arguments. She wants her friendships to be happy and carefree like they used to be. But to make that happen, Izzy will need to look at herself and ask a difficult question: Am I the one causing all the drama?
Why is Drama Always...
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George and Martha volume 13
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The tales George spins about himself when he volunteers to lead the local pack of Wilderness Troopers are far too tall for Martha's taste. When George refuses to come clean about his self-aggrandizing fibs to a little hero-worshipping hippo, Martha takes it on herself to set the record straight. / Lured by the prospect of winning a lifetime supply of ice cream, George and Martha audition to become the new mascot for the local ice cream company. Buttheir...
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Priscilla lives in an alley behind a restaurant. Her best friend, Rosy, lives across the gutter near an ice cream store. One Sunday evening, Priscilla promises Rosy to visit her first thing in the morning to work on a new puzzle. Then, Prisilla is invited for a boat ride with her friend, Rudolph. Priscilla has never been on a boat so she happily accepts the invitation. But what about her promise to visit with Rosy? She will tell Rosy she is sick!...
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"Emmeline and William Pershing have enjoyed a perfectly convenient marriage for eight years. Their relationship is a seamless blend of their talents and goals. They've settled into separate, well-ordered lives beneath the same roof, and are content to stay that way--or so Emmeline thinks. And if William has secretly longed for a bit more from the woman he adores, he's managed to be content with her supreme skills as a hostess and planner, which has...
69) In Good Company
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Now Playing: The story of the unsinkable Molly Preston. Gone were the glasses, braces and baby fat. Molly Preston had changed heaps since the days they kept company in high school. Since Des O'Donnell had betrayed her. Now, of all the men on the charity auction block, she'd taken the upper hand and secretly bid on him. His Big Scene: Convincing her that with him she was in good company. Seemed Molly had past wrongs she wanted to right. And she believed...
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Fairy Godmothers Inc volume 3
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"Novelist Juniper Blossom has romance down to a science in her bestselling books. But she's not about to settle for just any man-a happy ending looks different for everyone, and she needs to find the guy whose idea of forever matches her own ... Divorce attorney Tomas Rivera is as proud of Juniper's authorial success as she is, but that doesn't mean he buys into her books' premise. His career is proof enough that true love is the real fairy tale-and...
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In pre-Castro Cuba, vacuum cleaner salesman Jim Wormold is a single father whose teenage daughter's spending outstrips his modest salary. To make a little extra money, he agrees to work for the British Secret Service, but lacking any actual inside information, he invents a ring of spies and sends his handlers fictitious reports. Imagine his surprise when the stories he creates start to come true and enemy spies attempt to kill him
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IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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In Transylvania, a boy cries... vampire! Young Ion is bored by life in the village. So to spice things up, the imaginative prankster runs false vampire drills, much to the annoyance of the villagers. But one night, a shadow passes by Ion's window. This time it's no joke. It's a REAL vampire! Have all of Ion's fibs come back to bite him, or can the boy find a way out of this batty situation? In this Far Out Fables adventure, Aesop's The Boy Who Cried...
73) POV
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When first-year film student Spencer O'Toole is asked to make a music video for a band, he leaps at the chance. But Jerry, Spencer's dad, shows up, and somehow the band assumes he's in charge, despite the fact that he has zero background in film. And then there's Scratch, violent gang member turned sleazy music producer, who keeps making big promises but fails to deliver on a single one. Spencer has no idea how he's going to get this thing made. When...
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Can she win the rodeo…
And his heart?
Cowgirl Vivian Bryant needs a winning horse to fulfill her rodeo champion dream, and equestrian trainer Josh Sloan agrees to help. But when Vivian fibs to her family that Josh is her boyfriend, their pretend relationship slowly evolves–while planning a Three Springs, Texas, gala together. She's competing for a trophy that will secure their separate futures, but the real prize just might be finding love…at...
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IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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Ana Ramos may not have a dog of her own, but she does get to walk her neighbor's adorable pug, Osito. One day, at the park, Osito befriends another pug, Pancake, whose owner just happens to be a cute new boy named Calvin. When Calvin assumes that Osito belongs to Ana, she doesn't correct him. No big deal, right?
Ana doesn't realize the trouble she has unleashed until Calvin shows up at her school. Calvin suggests setting up play dates for the two...
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Long before the current preoccupation with "fake news," American newspapers routinely ran stories that were not quite, strictly speaking, true. Today, a firm boundary between fact and fakery is a hallmark of journalistic practice, yet for many readers and publishers across more than three centuries, this distinction has seemed slippery or even irrelevant. From fibs about royal incest in America's first newspaper to social-media-driven conspiracy theories...
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This warm and witty celebration of moms is the perfect gift to share on Mother's Day.
“How to Spot a Mom” is a tongue-in-cheek tribute and ode to all moms, everywhere. Young readers and parents alike can learn all about moms, from what they are (super-humans!), to some of the special skills they have, including detecting fibs, solving mysteries, and conflict resolution.
This beautifully illustrated book is the perfect "Spotter's Guide" to moms....
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I am writing to save my life; it's the only thing that helps, like therapy in a way. I feel like a nurse again with a critical patient, but there is no doc on call, and the patient is me with severe chest pain. The computer desk is my stretcher, coffee is my nitro spray, cigarettes are my O2, and my pen is my IV. No morphine to numb the pain anymore though. My journal is my ECG and rhythm shows ventricular fibrillation. The laptop is my crash cart…clear…c'mon...
79) Pugs and Kisses
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Ana Ramos may not have a dog of her own, but she does get to walk her neighbor's adorable pug, Osito. One day, at the park, Osito befriends another pug, Pancake, whose owner just happens to be a cute new boy named Calvin. When Calvin assumes that Osito belongs to Ana, she doesn't correct him. No big deal, right?
Ana doesn't realize the trouble she has unleashed until Calvin shows up at her school. Calvin suggests setting up play dates for the two...
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Rachel Davis will do anything to get her sister out of a bad relationship with her fiance. Even if it involves a few fibs, a little breaking-and-entering, and blackmailing the fiance's potential boss, Charles, for his help. So what if the handsome Charles happens to be a vampire?
Charles Wright has found the perfect way to trap the man threatening his brother's wife: cozy up to him, get invited along on the skiing trip, and then search for incriminating...
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