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The Search for Us: A Novel
Susan Azim Boyer - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover
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"A sharp-witted and illuminating, impressive sophomore novel." - Isaac Blum, author of the award-nominated The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen. Two half-siblings who have never met embark on a search together for the Iranian immigrant and U.S. Army veteran father they never knew..... |
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Not About a Boy
Myah Hollis - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover
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"This debut is a gritty teen drama full of mature themes that unfurl in compassionate ways and will resonate with many readers...Heartbreaking and powerful." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Euphoria meets Girl in Pieces in this coming-of-age story of a girl trying to put a grief-stricken... |
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The Opioid Crisis (Opposing Viewpoints)
Erica Grove - Greenhaven Pr
Format: Hardcover(Library Binding)
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In the late 1990s, pharmaceutical companies wrongly assured medical professionals that their opioid pain relievers were not addictive, leading to overprescribing and misuse of these drugs. It was not long before opioid addiction had reached epidemic status, with devastating consequences... |
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Solo
Kwame Alexander - Blink
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestseller!Blade never asked for a life of the rich and famous. In fact, he'd give anything not to be the son of Rutherford Morrison, a washed-up rock star and drug addict with delusions of a comeback. Or to no longer be part of a family known most for lost potential, failure,... |
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A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars
Hakeem Oluseyi - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover
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In this inspiring coming-of-age memoir, a world-renowned astrophysicist emerges from an impoverished childhood and crime-filled adolescence to ascend through the top ranks of research physics.Named One of the Best Books of the Year by Kirkus Reviews"You'll encounter one extraordinary... |
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Addiction: A Problem of Epidemic Proportions
Stephanie Lundquist-Arora
Format: Hardcover
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"Drug addiction is a pervasive problem across the United States. Addiction in the United States is a pandemic. It is taking lives, ruining health, and destroying families"-- |
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Saint Anything
Sarah Dessen - Viking
Format: Print book
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A New York Times bestsellerA TIME Magazine Top 10 Children's Book of 2015 "Saint Anything is a poignant, honest story about how we might suffer the misfortune of someone else's bad choices, how people who love us can become family when we desperately need it, and how starting... |
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Spin Out
Steven Sandor - Lorimer
Format: Hardcover
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The Opioid Epidemic: Tracking a Crisis
New York Times Company - New York Times Edu Pub
Format: Paperback
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The United States is currently suffering the worst addiction crisis in history. Addiction to opioids, including prescription painkillers, heroin, and illegal synthetic opioids, is ravaging the country, destroying families, homes, and communities in its path. This riveting collection of articles... |
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Ultimatum
K M Walton - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Cracked and Empty comes a gripping, emotional story of two brothers who must make the ultimate decision about what's more important: family or their differences.It's not Oscar's fault he's misunderstood. Ever since his mother died, he's been disrespected by his father... |
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Jeannette Walls - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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Now a major motion picture from Lionsgate starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts. MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST The perennially bestselling, extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly)... |
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Dreamland
Sarah Dessen - Speak; 9th Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Love can be a very dangerous thing. After her sister left, Caitlin felt lost. Then she met Rogerson. When she's with him, nothing seems real.But what happens when being with Rogerson becomes a larger problem than being without him? "Another pitch-perfect offering from Dessen."... |
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Dreamland
Sam Quinones - Bloomsbury YA
Format: Hardcover
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As an adult book, Sam Quinones's Dreamland took the world by storm, winning the NBCC Award for General Nonfiction and hitting at least a dozen Best Book of the Year lists. Now, adapted for the first time for a young adult audience, this compelling reporting explains the roots of the current... |
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You'd Be Home Now
Kathleen Glasgow - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover
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For all of Emory's life she's been told who she is. In town she's the rich one--the great-great-granddaughter of the mill's founder. At school she's hot Maddie Ward's younger sister. And at home, she's the good one, her stoner older brother Joey's babysitter.... |
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Heroine
Mindy McGinnis - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover
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An Amazon Best Book of the Month! A captivating and powerful exploration of the opioid crisis - the deadliest drug epidemic in American history - through the eyes of a college-bound softball star. Edgar Award-winning author Mindy McGinnis delivers a visceral and necessary novel about addiction,... |
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White Smoke
Tiffany D Jackson - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover
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Marigold is running from ghosts. The phantoms of her old life keep haunting her, but a move with her newly blended family from their small California beach town to the embattled Midwestern city of Cedarville might be the fresh start she needs. Her mom has accepted a new job with... |
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The New David Espinoza
Fred Aceves - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover
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This own voices story from the acclaimed author of The Closest I've Come unflinchingly examines steroid abuse and male body dysmorphia. Perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Matt De La Pea.David Espinoza is tired of being messed with. When a video of him getting knocked down by a bully's... |
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Far From You
Tess Sharpe - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover
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This beautifully realized debut delves into the emotions of a girl recovering from drug addiction and grief, all wrapped up in a solid mystery. -Kirkus Reviews starred review Sharpe creates a lacerating picture of grief and regret. ...The murder mystery is compelling, and its resolution... |
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Tiny Pretty Things
Sona Charaipotra - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover
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Now a Netflix TV show! Black Swan meets Pretty Little Liars in this soapy, drama-packed novel featuring diverse characters who will do anything to be the prima at their elite ballet school.From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Belles, Dhonielle Clayton, and the author of the acclaimed... |
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Gabi, a Girl in Pieces
Isabel Quintero - Cinco Puntos Press
Format: Paperback
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Named to Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2014Named to School Library Journal Best Books of 2014Gabi Hernandez chronicles her last year in high school in her diary: college applications, Cindys pregnancy, Sebastians coming out, the cute boys, her fathers meth habit, and the food she craves.... |
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Firekeeper's Daughter
Angeline Boulley - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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As a biracial, unenrolled tribal member and the product of a scandal, eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. Daunis dreams of studying medicine, but when her family is struck by tragedy, she puts her future on hold... |
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The Dead Inside: A True Story
Cyndy Etler - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Hardcover
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"[An] unnerving and heartrending memoir..." -- Publishers WeeklyA fast-paced memoir that gives readers a glimpse into the unbelievable reality of a young girl's 16 months in the notorious "tough love" program the ACLU called "a concentration camp for throwaway... |
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The Impossible Knife of Memory
Laurie Halse Anderson - Penguin Group USA
Format: Book
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For the past five years, Hayley Kincaid and her father, Andy, have been on the road, never staying long in one place as he struggles to escape the demons that have tortured him since his return from Iraq. Now they are back in the town where he grew up so Hayley can attend school. Perhaps,... |
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The Revolution of Birdie Randolph
Brandy Colbert - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Crank
Ellen Hopkins - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Paperback
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Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina -- she's fearless. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster:... |
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Roxy
Neal Shusterman - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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The freeway is coming. It will cut the neighborhood in two. Construction has already started, pushing toward this corridor of condemned houses and cracked concrete with the momentum of the inevitable. Yet there you are, in the fifth house on the left, fighting for your life. Ramey, I. The victim... |
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Hey, Kiddo
JARRETT J KROSOCZKA - Graphix
Format: Paperback
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In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where... |
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The Art of Losing
Lizzy Mason - Soho Teen
Format: Hardcover
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The Art of Losing is a compelling debut that explores issues of addiction, sisterhood, and loss.On one terrible night, 17-year-old Harley Langston's life changes forever. At a party she discovers her boyfriend, Mike, hooking up with her younger sister, Audrey. Furious, she abandons... |
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Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard
Echo Brown - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Heavily autobiographical and infused with magical realism, Black Girl Unlimited fearlessly explores the intersections of poverty, sexual violence, depression, racism, and sexism -- all through the arc of a transcendent coming-of-age story for fans of Renee Watson's Piecing Me Together... |
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Not My Problem
Ciara Smyth - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover
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Perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli and Nina LaCour, this queer coming-of-age story from the author of The Falling in Love Montage is wry, multilayered, and unflinchingly honest. Aideen has plenty of problems she can't solve. But when she stumbles upon overachiever Meabh Kowalska... |
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Needlework
Julia Watts - Three Rooms Press
Format: Paperback
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While other sixteen-year-old boys in Morgan, Kentucky, love hunting and football, Kody prefers to spend his time quilting with his grandmother ("Nanny") , watching Golden Girls reruns, and listening to old Dolly Parton albums. Nanny is Kody's main caregiver, but it takes... |
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Addiction (Understanding Brain Diseases and Disorders)
Barbara Gottfried Hollander - Rosen Pub Group
Format: Hardcover
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Addictions explores different kinds of substance and behavioral addictions. Explore psychological and physical symptoms, risk factors, and thought processes. Find out about options for recovering addicts, including treatment programs, anti-addiction medications, and twelve-step programs,... |
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