truthfulness and falsehood

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truthfulness and falsehood

Arthur C. Clarke's venus prime

2000
Sparta, the first product of advanced biotech engineering, risks her life and identity to solve the mystery of who stole a plaque found on Mars--the only real evidence of extraterrestrial life.

On bullshit

2005
Philosopher and Princeton professor Harry G. Frankfurt presents a definition of "bullshit," explains how "bullshitting" differs from lying, and explores reasons for "bullshit's" contemporary prevalence.

A tangled web

1978
Annie shares a fantasy with a classmate, swearing it to be true, and thus weaves a tangled web of deception which permeates her life and causes her much fear and misery.

A children's book about cheating

1988
Explains what cheating is and why you should not cheat.

The whisperer

1994
Shea Fallon needs to keep up her grades in order to retain her full-tuition scholarship, so she steals an exam from her science professor's desk, but someone knows what Shea did and is blackmailing her into performing some nasty little tricks on her classmates.

Howard B. Wigglebottom and the monkey on his back

a tale about telling the truth
2010
Howard B. Wigglebottom learns valuable lessons about ethical conduct after he deals with a number of difficult situations by telling lies, but discovers how much better things are when he finally finds the courage to tell the truth.

The facttracker

2008
The town of Tra?kerfaxx is known for producing all of the world's facts, but when it begins sending out lies, a young boy decides to get to the bottom of the mystery and set the town right once again.

Zebra Forest

2013
Eleven-year-old Annie and her younger brother are being raised by their Gran and are surrounded by family secrets, but everything changes when an escaped criminal shows up at their house and takes them all hostage.

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