The truth isn’t the most comfortable choice, but it’s the only one with any future
Sloan Fredericks can still remember the weeks she spent in the hospital when she was nine, the only survivor of the accident that killed her parents and little brother. Now she lives with her grandmother in the kind of grand old house you’d expect from a family known for both their wealth and their political prowess.
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After the king of the leprechauns bestows on him the Ring of Truth, Patrick O'Kelley no longer expects to win a blarney contest.

Melanie Brown's debut novel Beauty Behind The Mask, is a magical story based on her past life memories of living in the 13th century as a healer always hiding her true self for fear of being condemned as a witch. A man she comes to despise and that man has been arranged to marry her when she comes of age. Her heart lye's with his half-brother Julius. Death, poverty and starvation and disease are rife, secrets hidden, outlaws and fights, tales to be...

The criminals behind a car insurance scam end up in prison, a claim for a lost phone lacks the ring of truth and CCTV causes a personal injury claim to take a tumble.

Stay alert to the ring of truth and reach for solid ground in all aspects of life. John Woolman, a colonial Quaker, advises us to "Dig deep. …Carefully cast forth the loose matter and get down to the rock, the sure foundation, and there hearken to the Divine Voice which gives a clear and certain sound." What if moving ever closer to what rings true were the central principle for organizing our lives? There may be no work that's harder - or more...

An exquisitely original collection of darkly funny stories that explore the panorama of Jewish experience in contemporary Poland, from a world-class contemporary writer Mikolaj Grynberg is a psychologist and photographer who has spent years collecting and publishing oral histories of Polish Jews. In his first work of fiction - a book that has been widely praised by critics and was shortlisted for Poland's top literary prize - Grynberg recrafts those...

From a British author known for "superb" action sequences, a WWII navel thriller set during the Battle of the Java Sea between Allied and Japanese navies (The Observer). 1942. As Japanese invasion fleets sweep across the Pacific, a handful of Allied ships prepare for a last-ditch battle at Surabaya in the Java Sea. Not only are the Allied forces doomed to defeat: any surviving ships will be trapped, since escape routes are blocked by the enemy. ...

"The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"--Peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of the twentieth century. As Ellen Wu shows, liberals argued for the acceptance of these immigrant communities into the national fold, charging that the failure...