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[2013], ©2013.
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English
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"It's nerd-turned-jock Felton Reinstein's last year before college, and the choices he makes now will affect the rest of his life. That's a lot of pressure. Before leaving home forever, Felton will have to figure out just who he is, even if, sometimes, it sucks to be him"--
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"Peeling apples for tartes tatin, an Ohio mother wonders how to exist in a world of distraction and fake facts, besieged by a tweet-happy president and trigger-happy neighbors, all of them oblivious to what Dupont has dumped into the rivers and what's happening at the factory farm down the interstate--not to mention what was done to the land's first inhabitants. A torrent of consciousness, narrated in a single sentence by a woman whose wandering thoughts...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Annie should be at ease, safe in her new Kauai home with her husband and son. She hopes proximity to her family can provide them all with a sense of belonging and calm. But soon items from her past start turning up--her dog's collar, a bracelet that disappeared years ago, and she has the unnerving sensation she's being watched. Reality begins to fracture, and Annie's panic attacks return. When, during a brewing storm, a woman appears on her doorstep...
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Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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"Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, and finds herself being greeted by Father Jeff, who assumes she's there for a job interview. Too embarrassed to correct him, Gilda is abruptly hired to replace the recently deceased receptionist Grace....
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Helen Zhang hasn’t seen Grant Shepard once in the thirteen years since the tragic accident that bound their lives together forever. Now a bestselling author, Helen pours everything into her career. She’s even scored a coveted spot in the writers’ room of the TV adaptation of her popular young adult novels, and if she can hide her imposter syndrome and overcome her writer’s block, surely the rest of her life will fall into place too. LA is...
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Six years ago, Moss Jefferies' father was murdered by an Oakland police officer. Along with losing a parent, the media's vilification of his father and lack of accountability has left Moss with near crippling panic attacks. Now, in his sophomore year of high school, Moss and his fellow classmates find themselves increasingly treated like criminals in their own school. New rules. Random locker searches. Constant intimidation and Oakland Police Department...
10) Supermarket
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"A stunning debut novel from one of the most creative voices of our generation, Bobby Hall--a.k.a. Logic. Flynn is stuck--depressed, recently dumped, and living at his mom's house. The supermarket was supposed to change all that. An ordinary job, routine hours, a steady check. Work isn't work when it's saving you from yourself. But things aren't quite as they seem in these aisles. Arriving to work one day to a crime scene, Flynn's world begins to...
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Series
Animal antics A to Z volume 10
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Jeremy Jackrabbit discovers that doing what jackrabbits do best--jumping--will help him overcome jitters and, perhaps, win a trip to Japan.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First Catapult edition.
Language
English
Description
A young woman attends a play about the fall of the Berlin Wall--and realizes she is the only Black person in the audience. She and her boyfriend hang out by a lake outside Berlin--and four neo-Nazis show up. In New York, she is having sex with a stranger on the night of the 2016 presidential election--and wakes up to panicked texts from her friends in Germany about Donald Trump’s unlikely victory. Engaging in a witty Q&A with herself--or is it...
15) The warning
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Like most high school seniors, Alexandra Lucas is caught between living in the moment and an unknown future. Her anxiety disorder doesn't make that any easier. But she's coping-until her train stops on the way home from a concert with her boyfriend. At first, she's worried about breaking curfew. Then terror echoes through their train car. A mysterious doorway has appeared beside the tracks, and a hologram claiming to be a human from the future shares...
16) In the ring
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Atlanta has a fight club. And I'm standing in the middle of it. When Rose's therapist recommends she join a boxing gym to cope with her anxiety, she finds herself sucked into an underground fight club and the charms of its ringleader. Will the fight world unravel her already fragile mental state or will it unearth a strength she never knew she had? A gritty, raw, and binge-worthy, young adult romance about a queer teen with anxiety who literally...
18) Ripe: a novel
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley start-up, Cassie finds herself trapped in a corporate nightmare. Between the long hours, toxic bosses, and unethical projects, she also struggles to reconcile the glittering promise of a city where obscene wealth lives alongside abject poverty and suffering. Ivy League grads complain about the snack selection from a conference room with a view of unhoused people bathing in the bay. Start-up...
19) Don't touch
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"16-year-old Caddie struggles with OCD, anxiety, and a powerful fear of touching another person's skin, which threatens her dreams of being an actress--until the boy playing Hamlet opposite her Ophelia gives her a reason to overcome her fears."--
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