Readers who love Leslie Connor and Ann M. Martin will adore this story of a citywide scavenger hunt and a girl who learns that family—and weirdness—is relative. Summer Coding Camp Incoming 7th graders only Eight-week session begins...
Mental illness
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Author:Little, Jody J.Summary: -
Author:Griffin, AdeleSummary:Two teenaged sisters, separated by death but still connected, work through their feelings of loss over the closeness they shared as children that was later destroyed by one's mental illness, and finally make peace with each other.
- Author:Langhorst, BarbaraSummary:
Delphine Almquist and her husband Hugo are living the hobby farm life of her dreams on the Canadian Prairies, far from the world of climate change concerns and global conflict. The only thing missing is a spectacular new kitchen, a tiny...
- Author:Lesage, DianeSummary:
L'existence de la grossophobie dans notre société ou dans votre vie personnelle vous interpelle puisque ce livre est entre vos mains... Cet ouvrage témoigne à partir d'abord du vécu de l'auteure, des impacts de la...
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Author:Green, JohnSummary:"This novel is by far [Green's] most difficult to read. It's also his most astonishing. So surprising and moving and true that I became completely unstrung." - The New York Times "A tender story about learning to cope when the world...
- Author:Pupek, JayneSummary:
Eleven-year-old Ellie Sanders is forced to grow up quickly when her pregnant mother develops health problems and her father's attentions become diverted by a teenage produce peddler. To escape, Ellie creates a secret world of her own,...
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Author:Leung, CarrianneSummary:The Wondrous Woo tells the story of Miramar Woo who is the quintessential Chinese girl: nice, quiet, and reserved. The eldest of the three Woo children, Miramar is ever the obedient sister and daughter ... on the outside. On...
- Author:Forest, Susan, Law, Lucas KSummary:
Twenty-three science fiction and fantasy authors explore the depth and breadth of caring and of giving. They find insight, joy, devastation, and heroism in grand sweeps and in tiny niches. And, like wasps made of stinging words, there...
- Author:Billingsley, ReShonda TateSummary:
Magazine executive Lance Kingston is overjoyed at his recent marriage to beautiful attorney Tia Jiles--then he discovers her dark secret. Tia is bipolar, and her illness creates violent impulses she can't control. Now Tia is pregnant,...
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Author:VINE, BarbaraSummary:Kerstin Kvist didn't quite know what to expect when she took up a job with the Cosway family at their odd, almost grand, house, Lydstep Old Hall, deep in the Essex countryside. All that mattered to her was that it was near London...
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Author:Hogarth, AinslieSummary:Easter Deetz struggles with The Lonely—a debilitating condition that affects all the women in her family. The Lonely makes people sad and it makes them lie. One day, Easter's sister drops a boulder on her in The Woods. As she bleeds to...
- Author:Cahalan, SusannahSummary:
In the 1970s, a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people--sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society--went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Rosenhan's...
- Author:Johnstone, JimSummary:
Praised for his darkly psychological accounts of extreme experiences, Jim Johnstone’s fifth book of poems explores his most difficult terrain to date: mental illness and addiction. Like Coleridge's opium dreams, Johnstone's narratives...
- Author:Saks, Elyn R.Summary:
Professor of psychiatry Elyn R. Saks writes about her struggle with schizophrenia in this unflinching account of her mental illness. Saks draws readers into a nightmare world of medications, a misguided health care system, and social...
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Author:Colfer, EoinSummary:Teenaged criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl must save the underwater fairy metropolis of Atlantis from danger, while battling a psychological affliction known as the Atlantis Complex.
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Author:Brüne, MartinSummary: - Author:Chafe, AidanSummary:
Shiver. Swift whip of wind. / Fangs of the low front / stinging fierce as forest fires. / Frost thickening the stoop. In his debut collection, Short Histories of Light, Aidan Chafe recounts his Catholic upbringing in a household...
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"Migration comes in unlimited shades of colour where we straddle between physical, emotional, and spiritual boundaries within ourselves-and within our worlds and beyond...Who are the shades within us? We are called immigrants, locals,...
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Author:Leigh, GarrettSummary:Roads: Book 2 Sequel to Slide Paramedic Pete Adams lived through the year from hell watching his lover, Ash, fall apart, and the precarious balance between work and home is becoming more strained. His heart is always home, with Ash, but...
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Author:Slater, LaurenSummary:In 1988, at age 26, Lauren Slater lived alone in a basement apartment in Cambridge, depressed, suicidal, unemployed. Ten years later, she is a psychologist running her own clinic, an award-winning writer, and happily married. The...
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