truthfulness and falsehood

"[The author]draws on his research into public perception across more than forty countries, offering a sweeping account of the stubborn problem of human delusion: how society breeds it, why it will never go away, and what our misperceptions say about what we really believe"--Amazon.

"When a weary stranger arrives one day with nothing but a suitcase, his new neighbors ask nervous questions about who he is and where he comes from before they are challenged to decide between trusting the newcomer or taking the risk of not believing him"--Provided by publisher.

In the three years since the Virgil County High School Massacre, a story has grown up around one of the victims, Sarah McHale, that says she died proclaiming her Christian faith--but Leanne Bauer was there, and knows what happened, and she has a choice: stay silent and let people believe in Sarah's martyrdom, or tell the truth.

Her mother to a fight much bigger than herself. Her father to grief, fear, and denial. And the truth--to an overbearing government that insists that censorship and secrecy are the only path to peace. But though Meri and her band of truth-seeking Stewards did lose the first battle in their quest to enlighten the public, they have not yet lost the war.

Seventeen-year-old Tabby went into the woods with her boyfriend, but she came out alone. Originally praised as a survivor, Tabby is now widely suspected to be her boyfriend s killer. Tabby didn t even like hiking--why would she have gone into the woods that day? Did she push her boyfriend off the cliff?.

A little dog accidently breaks a vase and struggles to tell the truth.

Seventy-nine-year-old widower and artist Julian Jessop discusses the truth of his lonely life in a green journal and leaves it in a local cafe, as an invitation to others to express their truth. Monica, the cafe owner, finds it and writes her own entry, passing the notebook on to another location in the area. The green notebook touches the hands of seven other individuals from around the world, who express their own struggles and eventually gather together in person at Monica's cafe.

"Marcus is in trouble. He didn't think his friend Laurence would actually believe him when he said that his super brainy aunt built the very first time machine. He only made up the story in a spur-of-the-moment bid to win a silly argument! Now how on earth will he make the story come true? In a quirky new adventure starring the most unexpected of friends--a worm and a bird--Simone Lia pulls out all the theatrical stops to deliver a laugh-out-loud companion to They Didn't Teach This in Worm School!"--Provided by the publisher.

Five kids investigate a series of anonymous notes and lies being spread around Peterswood.

A drive-by shooting occurs in the barrio, and later on Roxie Torres turns up having been shot claiming a drifter did it, but fellow student Ernesto Sandoval does not believe her.