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Saving face : a novel / by Shah, Mansi(Novelist),author.;
"Ami Shah is on the brink of life-changing success. Her skin-care empire, Amala, is set for a dream acquisition by a Fortune 500 company, and she has just been nominated for a ChangeMaker Award, the most revered entrepreneurial honor. There's just one problem: she's a complete and utter fraud. Twenty years ago, abandoned orphan Monica Joseph made a decision that forever changed the course of her life -- she stole her wealthy classmate's identity and moved abroad to build her life on someone else's name. For twenty years, she's managed to hide in plain sight ... until an ambitious fledgling journalist sets out to write the inaugural full-length profile on her. With her carefully constructed persona and life's work now in jeopardy, Monica is left with no other choice: to cover up her tracks once and for all, she must return to the scene of the crime -- and the one place she vowed never to revisit. Home."--
Subjects: Novels.; Fraud; Identity theft; Orphans; Social classes;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Audition A Novel [electronic resource] : by Kitamura, Katie.aut; CloudLibrary;
“A tightly wound family drama that reads like a psychological thriller."—NPR “Bold, stark, genre-bending, Audition will haunt your dreams.”—The Boston Globe One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love. Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, young—young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, rewriting our understanding of the roles we play every day – partner, parent, creator, muse – and the truths every performance masks, especially from those who think they know us most intimately. Taut and hypnotic, Audition is Katie Kitamura at her virtuosic best.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Contemporary Women; Psychological;
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Say this : two novellas / by Levine, Elise,author.;
"It's a cold spring in Baltimore, 2018, when the email arrives: the celebrity journalist hopes Eva will tell him everything about the sexual affair she had as a teen with her older cousin, a man now in federal prison for murder. Thirteen years earlier, Lenore-May answers the phone to the nightmare news that her stepson's body has been found near Mount Hood, and homicide is suspected. Following Eva's unsettling ambivalence towards her confusing relationship, and constructing a portrait of her cousin's victim via collaged perspectives of the slain man's family, these two linked novellas borrow, interrogate, sometimes dismantle the tropes of true crime; lyrically render the experiences of grief and dissociation; and brilliantly mine the fault lines of power and consent, silence, justice, accountability, and class. Say This is a startling exploration of the devastating effects of trauma on personal identity."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Novellas.; Psychological fiction.; Grief; Identity (Psychology); Murder;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Canadian Pacific : the golden age of travel / by Lane, Barry,1952-;
From the construction of Canadian Pacific to the development of the hotels and the building of the shipping line that linked Canada to the rest of the world, Barry Lane recounts the history of the transcontinental railway.LSC
Subjects: Canadian Pacific Railway Company; Canadian Pacific Railway Company; Railroads; Railroads;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Tiny House Nation: S1. by A&E® (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by A&E® in 2014.In TINY HOUSE NATION, renovation experts and hosts John Weisbarth and Zack Giffin travel across America to show off ingenious small spaces and help new families design and construct their own mini dream homes.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.;
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Tiny House Nation. by A&E® (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by A&E® in 2014.In TINY HOUSE NATION, renovation experts and hosts John Weisbarth and Zack Giffin travel across America to show off ingenious small spaces and help new families design and construct their own mini dream homes.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.; Housing.; Reality television programs.;
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Fool proof : how fear of playing the sucker shapes our selves and the social order-and what we can do about it / by Wilkinson-Ryan, Tess,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Moral psychologist Tess Wilkinson-Ryan examines what she calls the "sucker construct," the fear of being taken advantage of--of being a sucker--and its outsized role in the shaping of our lives and our world"--
Subjects: Social influence.; Social pressure.;
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Think again : the power of knowing what you don't know / by Grant, Adam M.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The bestselling author of Give and Take and Originals examines the critical art of rethinking: learning to question your beliefs and to know what you don't know, which can position you for success at work and happiness at home. The difficulty of rethinking our assumptions is surprisingly common--maybe even fundamentally human. Our ways of thinking become habits that we don't bother to question, and mental laziness leads us to prefer the ease of old routines to the difficulty of new ones. We fail to update the beliefs we formed in the past for the challenges we face in the present. But in a rapidly changing world, we need to spend as much time rethinking as we do thinking. Think Again is a book about the benefit of doubt, and about how we can get better at embracing the unknown and the joy of being wrong. Evidence has shown that creative geniuses are not attached to one identity but constantly willing to rethink their stances, that leaders who admit they don't know something and seek critical feedback lead more productive and innovative teams, and that our greatest presidents have been open to updating their views. The new science of intellectual humility shows that as a mindset and a skillset, rethinking can be taught, and Grant explains how to develop the necessary qualities. The first section of the book explores why we struggle to think again and how we can improve individually, and argues that such engines of success as "grit" can actually be counterproductive; the second section discusses how we can help others think again through the skill of "argument literacy"; and the third looks at how institutions like schools, business, and governments fall short in building cultures that encourage rethinking. In the end, it's intellectual humility that makes it possible for us to stop denying our weaknesses so that we can start improving ourselves"--
Subjects: Belief and doubt.; Knowledge, Theory of.; Questioning.; Thought and thinking.;
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Murder in the city of liberty / by McMillan, Rachel,1981-author.;
"Determined to make a life for herself, Reggie Van Buren bid goodbye to fine china and the man her parents expected her to marry and escaped to Boston. What she never expected to discover was that an unknown talent for sleuthing would develop into a business partnership with the handsome, yet shy, Hamish DeLuca. Their latest case arrives when Errol Parker, the leading base-stealer in the Boston farm leagues, hires Hamish and Reggie to investigate what the Boston police shove off as a series of harmless pranks. Errol believes these are hate crimes linked to the outbreak of war in Europe, and he's afraid for his life. Hamish and Reggie quickly find themselves in the midst of an escalating series of crimes. When Hamish has his carefully constructed life disrupted by a figure from his past, he is driven to a decision that may sever him from Reggie forever ... even more than her engagement to wealthy architect Vaughan Vanderlaan."-- Page [4] of cover.
Subjects: Religious fiction.; Historical fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Private investigators; Hate crimes;
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The girl next door / by Rendell, Ruth,1930-;
Sixty years after children play in a tunnel for a summer, construction workers uncover a tin box containing two skeletal hands, drawing the friends back together as they recall those days for the investigating detective.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Memory in old age; Friendship;
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