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Author
Publication Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After enduring his father's suicide, his own suicide attempt, broken friendships, and more in the Bronx projects, Aaron Soto, sixteen, is already considering the Leteo Institute's memory-alteration procedure when his new friendship with Thomas turns to unrequited love.
Author
Publisher
Books4pocket
Publication Date
2021.
Language
Spanish
Description
¿Y si pudieras borrar de tu mente los recuerdos que te impiden ser feliz? El Bronx, Nueva York, en un futuro no muy lejano... Aaron Soto, de dieciséis años, lucha por encontrar la felicidad a pesar de las cicatrices que arrastra, tanto físicas como emocionales: el suicidio de su padre, su propio intento fallido de abandonar este mundo, una vida de necesidades y, para colmo, la inquietante atracción que siente por Thomas, su nuevo y ambiguo amigo......
Author
Publication Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Laura Clery makes a living by sharing inappropriate comedy sketches with millions of strangers on the Internet. She writes songs about her anatomy, talks trash about her one-eyed rescue pug, and sexually harasses her husband, Stephen. And it pays the bills! Now, in her first-ever book, Laura recounts how she went from being a dangerously impulsive, broke, unemployable, suicidal, cocaine-addicted narcissist, crippled by fear and hopping from one toxic...
Author
Series
Publication Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In a near-future New York City where a service alerts people on the day they will die, teenagers Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio meet using the Last Friend app and are faced with the challenge of living a lifetime on their End Day.
Author
Publication Date
2016
Language
English
Description
""Everyone We've Beenis a dazzling love story with mystery and dizzying twists. Sarah Everett's puzzle of a debut will easily hook readers as they piece together this consuming tale of hope and heartbreak." -Adam Silvera,New York Timesbestselling author of More Happy Than Not "Addictive, charming, and full of surprises, EVERYONE WE'VE BEEN is a gorgeously written novel about our mistakes and how we recover from them." --Adi Alsaid, author of LET'S...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Publication Date
2016
Language
English
Description
From Lois Metzger, the acclaimed author of A Trick of the Light, comes a work of speculative fiction set in the near future about a teen girl who gains a new perspective on her life. Perfect for readers who enjoyed Adam Silvera's More Happy than Not.
Rose has changed. She still lives in the same neighborhood and goes to the same high school with the same group of kids, but when she woke up today, something was a little different. Her clothes
...8) Aftermath
Author
Publication Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Three years after losing her brother Luka in a school shooting, Skye Gilchrist is moving home. But there's no sympathy for Skye and her family because Luka wasn't a victim; he was a shooter. Jesse Mandal knows all too well that the scars of the past don't heal easily. The shooting cost Jesse his brother and his best friend--Skye. Ripped apart by tragedy, Jesse and Skye can't resist reopening the mysteries of their past. But old wounds hide darker...
Author
Publication Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Adam is a recently diagnosed schizophrenic and journals to his therapist about family, friends, and first loves as he undergoes a new drug trial for the mental illness that allows him to keep his secret for only so long"-- Provided by publisher.
Adam is a recently diagnosed schizophrenic; he sees and hears people who aren't there. He journals to his therapist as he undergoes a new drug trial. Maya, a fiercely intelligent girl he meets, makes Adam...
Author
Publication Date
2025
Language
English
Description
Inspired by true events-a thoughtful, timely, and emotionally compelling story about coming of age, coming out, and coming into your own…
So much of who I was had to be hidden. I wondered how it would feel to let that part of me be on full display. Maybe I'd be given the chance to feel. To forget. Or even to breathe…
For most sixteen year olds, life is all about friends, fun, and family. But for Matt Franco, it's different. Because Matt and...
Author
Publication Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful (albeit illegal) graffiti mural. Her supposed best friend snitches, the principal expels her, and her two mothers set Julia up with a one-way ticket to a "mainstream" school in the suburbs, where she's treated like an outcast as the only deaf student. The last thing she has left is her art, and not even Banksy...
Author
Publication Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Adrienne Cahill cares about three things: getting into a great college; becoming a revered journalist like her idol, Sydney Declay; and making her late father proud of her. So when Adrienne is offered the chance to write an article that will get her into her dream school and debunk her foolish stepfather's belief that a legendary family of hermits is living in the Siberian wilderness, there's no question that she's going to fly across the world. But...
Author
Publication Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"After River Dean's girlfriend breaks up with him, he stumbles upon a teen group and unintentionally fakes an addiction"-- Provided by publisher.
River doesn't know what to do with himself when Penny breaks up with him. He lives in LA, and Penny was his ride; he never bothered getting a license. Okay, he's got to learn to drive. But first he starts walking. And he stumbles upon a support group for teens with various addictions, fakes his way into...
Author
Series
Publication Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"The people of Cedar Cove know how to celebrate Christmas. Like Grace and Olivia and everyone else, Beth Morehouse expects this Christmas to be one of her best. Her small Christmas tree farm is prospering, her daughters and her dogs are happy and well, and her new relationship with local vet Ted Reynolds is showing plenty of romantic promise. But-- someone recently left a basket filled with puppies on her doorstep, puppies she's determined to place...
Author
Series
Publication Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The love story we're all familiar with ends with " … and they lived happily ever after." But how often do we hear a nonmonogamous love story with that ending? In all kinds of contexts, nonmonogamous happiness is erased. From the ubiquitous "friend who tried it once and it didn't end well" to Dan Savage's long-term jokes about never being invited to a polyamorous third wedding anniversary, we are repeatedly assured that nonmonogamy leads to misery.
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Author
Publication Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Happy is good. Holy is better.
Your marriage is more than a sacred covenant with another person. It is a spiritual discipline designed to help you know God better, trust him more fully, and love him more deeply. What if God's primary intent for your marriage isn't to make you happy . . . but holy?
Sacred Marriage doesn't just offer techniques to make a marriage happier. It does contain practical tools, but what married Christians most need is help...
17) Afternoon Tea Is the New Happy Hour: More than 75 Recipes for Tea, Small Plates, Sweets and More
Author
Publication Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Afternoon tea is more than a meal-it's a moment, an aesthetic, a pose. Afternoon Tea is the New Happy Hour features more than 75 recipes to make your tea time memorable.
Inside you'll find easy-to-follow recipes to create tea sandwiches, scones, breads, cakes, dips, and of course-tea. Whether you're throwing a vintage tea party or looking for high tea food ideas, there's something for everyone.
Bestselling author Gail Greco also shares cooking and...
Author
Publication Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Forty Days of Life Changing Joy...
Embark on a transformative odyssey with Journey in Joy: A Lifestyle of More than Happiness--a profound forty-day guide that explores the essence of joy beyond conventional happiness. Discover secrets for a joy-filled life backed by timeless wisdom and the author's experience. Follow the roadmap for a meaningful and joyful existence, offering insights to navigate life's challenges and savor its pleasures. Crafted...
Author
Series
Publication Date
2022
Language
English
Description
In this audio Bible study, Sacred Marriage, writer and speaker Gary Thomas invites you to see how God can use marriage as a discipline and a motivation to reflect more of the character of Jesus.
In this six-session audio Bible study, Sacred Marriage, writer and speaker Gary Thomas invites you to see how God can use marriage as a discipline and a motivation to reflect more of the character of Jesus.
Your marriage is much more than a union between...
Author
Publication Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Your life is not a reality show. It's actual reality. But too many of us spend our lives on trivial pursuits--media, money, perpetual youth, and a culture of constant entertainment. We try to avoid the realities of pain, depression, loneliness, and mortality by filling our lives with diversions. Even worse, our churches that might use the reality of pain and suffering to point us to the cross instead dress the gospel up in the world's clothing so...




