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One Of Us Is Lying

Breakfast Club with a twist

An award-winning young adult, mystery/suspense novel by author Karen M. McManus. One of Us Is Lying is the story of what happens when five students, with contrasting personalities walk into detention and only four walk out alive. Bronwyn the brain. Addy the beauty. Nate the criminal. Cooper the athlete and Simon the outcast. The victim, known for exposing everyone’s darkest secrets through a gossip app, has plenty of enemies, but who has the biggest motive? Everyone is a suspect, and everyone has something to hide and one of them is definitely lying. Pay close attention and you might solve this. Everyone has secrets, right? What really matters is how far you would go to protect them.

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Lying is an inherent part of being human and we all do it, take a deeper look in our Why We Lie Pod View

PODCASTS

Interview with Karen McManus

(28 mins)

Learn more about the author Karen McManus as she is interviewed by B&N Young Adult Podcast. They talked to McManus about One of Us is Lying and also about her follow up book. They talk about she developed her writing skills, what inspires her, how she plots a sprawling story, and how she finds time to write.

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Podcast Review

(18 mins)

Two and a Half Librarians, discuss “One of Us is Lying” by Karen McManus. Two and a Half Librarians is a podcast by the Prescott Valley Public Library. Spoiler Alert !

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Liar, Liar, Liar

(29 mins)

We all lie. But what separates the average person from the infamous cheaters we see on the news? Dan Ariely says we like to think it’s character — but in his research he’s found it’s more often opportunity. Dan Ariely is a professor at Duke University and the author of the book, The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone — Especially Ourselves.

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VIDEOS

BookTalk with One Of Us Is Lying author Karen McManus!

(8 mins )

An interview with Karen McManus about her inspiration behind the story, developing the backstory for the characters in the book and her recommended thrillers.

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Why do people lie and how often are you lied to?

(6 mins)

Why do we lie? And how often are you lied to? Well, sorry to break it to you, but it’s probably more than you think. People lie to avoid punishment, for personal gain or because they get a kick out of it. Basically there are lots of reasons that people lie (and everybody does it). From BBC Ideas.

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ARTICLES

One of Us Is Lying – An Interview With Karen McManus

An interview with the author by Tabitha Lord for Bookclubbabble.com

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These Are History’s Most Notorious Liars

From scientists to presidents, famous people throughout history have told infamous lies. By Claudia Kalb for National Geographic.

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Karen McManus Website

Educated

Astonishing self-invention

Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days in rural Idaho with radical survivalist Mormon parents. She didn’t get a birth certificate until she was nine and had no medical records because her father did not believe in doctors. She and her six older siblings worked in her father’s junkyard. As she grew older, her father’s beliefs became more extreme and one of her brothers grew violent.

At 17, she decided to educate herself as a means of escape. Within 10 years she had earned a PhD in intellectual history and political thought from Cambridge but was estranged from her parents and half of her siblings. Now 31 and still living in Cambridge, Educated is her first novel and is about the transformative power of education and the price she had to pay for it.

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Dear Mrs Bird

Uplifting tale of friendship

London, 1941. Amid the falling bombs Emmeline Lake dreams of becoming a fearless Lady War Correspondent. Unfortunately, Emmy instead finds herself employed as a typist for the formidable Henrietta Bird, the renowned agony aunt at Woman’s Friend magazine. Mrs Bird refuses to read, let alone answer, letters containing any form of Unpleasantness, and definitely not those from the lovelorn, grief-stricken or morally conflicted.

But the thought of these desperate women waiting for an answer at this most desperate of times becomes impossible for Emmy to ignore. She decides she simply must help and secretly starts to write back – after all, what harm could that possibly do?

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Recursion

Mind-bending thriller

Recursion is a New York Times Bestseller by Blake Crouch, author of Dark Matter and the Wayward Pines triology. Described as mind-bending, action-packed and deeply emotional, Recursion is science fiction thriller set in New York, exploring love, grief and the nature of memories.

When Barry Sutton fails to stop the suicide of a women suffering with False Memory Syndrome, a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived, his search for the truth is more terrifying than any disease. Neuroscientist Helena Smith, whose mother has Alzheimer’s disease, has dedicated her life to creating a technology that will preserve our most precious memories forever. As their stories collide, Barry and Helena are trapped together in a loop of ever-growing chaos.

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One Of Us Is Lying

Breakfast Club with a twist

PODCASTS

Interview with Karen McManus

(28 mins)

Podcast Review

(18 mins)

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Liar, Liar, Liar

(29 mins)

VIDEOS

BookTalk with One Of Us Is Lying author Karen McManus!

(8 mins )

Why do people lie and how often are you lied to?

(6 mins)

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ARTICLES

One of Us Is Lying – An Interview With Karen McManus

These Are History’s Most Notorious Liars

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Karen McManus Website

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