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In 1959 Virginia, the lives of two girls on opposite sides of the battle for civil rights will be changed forever. . Sarah Dunbar is one of the first black students to attend the previously all-white Jefferson High School. An honors student at her old school, she is put into remedial classes, spit on and tormented daily. . Linda Hairston is the daughter of one of the towns most vocal opponents of school integration. She has been taught all her life that the races should be kept "separate but equal." . Forced to work together on a school project, Sarah and Linda must confront harsh truths about race, power and how they really feel about one another. . Boldly realistic and emotionally compelling, Lies We Tell Ourselves is a brave and stunning novel about finding truth amid the lies, and finding your voice even when others are determined to silence it.



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Robin Talley

Robin Talley's first novel, Lies We Tell Ourselves (Harlequin Teen, 2014) , about two girls on the front lines of the school desegregation battle in 1959 Virginia, was on the short list for the CILIP Carnegie Medal and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Her second young adult novel, What We Left Behind (Harlequin Teen, 2015) , a contemporary story about love and identity, was called a "must-read" in a starred review from School Library Journal. Her upcoming novel, As I Descended (Harper Teen, September 2016) , is a retelling of Macbeth centering around a girl/girl couple who set out to take down their boarding school's resident queen bee. Robin also contributed a short story to the historical young adult anthology A Tyranny of Petticoats: 15 Stories of Belles, Bank Robbers and Other Badass Girls (Candlewick, 2016) . Robin lives in Washington, D.C., with her wife and their daughter, plus an antisocial cat and a goofy hound dog. You can find her on the web at www.robintalley.com or on Twitter at @robin_talley.



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