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1) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness
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"From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health-and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood. After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social...
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"Set in contemporary Nigeria, Uche Okonkwo's A Kind of Madness is a collection of ten stories concerned with literal madness but also those private feelings that, when left unspoken, can feel like a type of madness: desire, desperation, hunger, fear, sadness, shame, longing. In these stories, a young woman and her mother bask in the envy of their neighbors when the woman receives an offer of marriage from the family of a doctor living in Belgium-though...
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"A nail-biting story of sisterhood, suspicion, and suspense. When She Was Me weaves together past and present seamlessly to create a twist you won't see coming." — Tracy Sierra, author of Nightwatching
There's only one way out of these woods...
Ever since that night, twin sisters Cassie and Lenora have been inseparable. As the sole permanent
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2024.
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"World-renowned soprano and arts/health advocate Renee Fleming curates a collection of essays from leading scientists, creative arts therapists, educators, healthcare providers and artists about the powerful impacts of music and the arts on health and the human experience A compelling and growing body of research has shown music and arts therapies to be effective tools for addressing a widening array of conditions, from providing pain relief, to enhancing...
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Nouvel emballage pour une dystopie troublante qui soulève de grandes questions morales…
Joseph, surnommé l'Amiral, se réveille dans un village ctier o rien ne lui semble familier. À sa surprise, les habitants sont convaincus qu'il est « celui que tout le monde attendait ». Lui, un sauveur annoncé par une prophétie ?
Son premier devoir : exécuter la sentence d'un condamné à mort. Mais Joseph n'est pas un tueur… Son refus de disposer...
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It's a bad day.You have offended the wrong people.A million dollars has been offered for your life.So what do you do?Why, make a run for it, of course.But where to? Well, why not that house youknew as a boy when it was a ruin?Bleakridge.Perfect. They'll never find you there.But sometimes things get a littleconfused at Bleakridge.Past and present overlap, get mixed up.At such times you're not sure where you are.Or when. Or even who.Maybe you should...
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How does a young man learn to deal with being victim to a silver bullet from another pretty jaded lass? This is the journey of his descent to rock bottom as he is relegated to the mental asylum where he further endures, relating to his experience of learning to live with himself in his new surroundings. He meets many curious characters in this journey and finds himself a victim again to the shiny silver bullets that land on him-shot from another jaded...
8) Clown Shoes
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After New York attorney Will Ross gains acquittal for a child abuser and the child is subsequently killed, he resolves to abandon law and become a children's entertainer. Will's change of heart and career is a catalyst for his lover, Clara, who quits her prestigious job to pursue documentary film-making. While the couple are united in their fervor for their nascent careers in art, unexpected challenges rip them apart. Feeling abandoned, Will ventures...
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From Francis Levy, author of Seven Days in Rio, which The New York Times called "a fever dream of a novel," comes The Kafka Studies Department, a highly original collection of short, parable-like stories infused with dark humor, intellect, and insight about the human condition. While the book's style is deceptively simple and aphoristic, it carries a hallucinatory moral message. A prism of interconnected and intertwined tales, inspired by Kafka, the...
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Brie Lake, a woman shrouded in mystery, has spent a lifetime trapped within the confines of the enigmatic Mental Health Facility at Mearsea Hospital. She has never seen the light of day, until she gives birth to her baby boy, Jax, and is released.
Jax soon learns of his mother's pending passing and rushes to her bedside. Little does he know that her final words will unleash a haunting quest for the truth. "I'm not as crazy as everyone says I am....
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"Today's Athens is a city of contradictions and complexity--it is grand and scruffy, ancient and modern, full of strivers, refugees and old-timers--and nowhere more so than the neighborhood of Plaka, where the Parthenon looms overhead and two women grapple with what is right and what is true, and how to live your life when you are running out of time. Searching for connection to her parents' heritage, Greek-American Anna works at an Athens gallery...
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In the shadow of New York's skyline, behind the looming walls of Rikers Island, a tale of resilience, hope, and the indomitable human spirit unfolds.
Shalise Simmons' world is turned upside down when she finds herself incarcerated in the infamous Rikers Island jail. Trapped in a system designed to break her, Shalise discovers strength she never knew she had. As she navigates the complexities of prison life, she encounters a cast of characters...
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I'll turn into f…. Houdini and disappear.When the woman he loves says that she no longer wants to see him, M÷ doesn't know what to do, what to say. Instead of pleading, he walks away while trying to keep the pieces of his broken heart together. Around him, the world is spinning out of control.A new war has started, the Queen has died, Elon has bought Twitter, Tate is trying to escape the agents of the Matrix, while the mysterious Invisible Hand...
15) Shattered Lives
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Love, it's the strongest emotional bond that forms enduring relationships between families, lovers, and friends. But when love is given to those who are underserving of it and to those who view it as possession and control rather than a gift, the end result can be fatal. This page-turner is the story of a beautiful, vibrant wife and mother, Diana Jackson, shot to death in front of her five-year old son on a hot humid summer night. Dionne Jackson was...
16) Passion Play
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His livelihood is polo-not the millionaire's team sport, but the life-threatening duel of clashing horsemen. The prize is more than money and honor; it is the awareness of having drawn upon every resource of body and mind, of man and horse in danger.
Passion Play is a masterpiece of violence and seduction, love and loss, by one of the world's greatest writers.
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Both The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning were international bestsellers and made into acclaimed films. The prolific, award-winning author wrote over fifty books, including the three novels collected in this volume: a hard-won love story, a father-son tale of love and war, and a dystopian satire. Her Victory: Finally leaving her brutish husband, Pam flees to London, where she takes refuge in a lonely, sparsely...
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The bestselling British novel about love, marriage, family, secrets, and how the power of faith can transform lives even in the midst of inconsolable loss After being paralyzed in a rugby accident, twenty-year-old, wheelchair-bound Lenny Barnes feels he has nothing left to live for and is putting his affairs in order before committing suicide. As lively Mazey Day celebrations take place in the Cornish town of Penzance, Lenny summons a parish priest...
19) Mortal Leap
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A merchant seaman is the sole survivor when his ship is sunk in a battle in the South Pacific. Badly burned, he is stripped of every shred of identity and cast into the sea, naked, faceless, nameless. Rescued and lying in a Pearl Harbor hospital, he is mistakenly identified as the missing Lt. Ben Davenant by Davenant's wife. In the moment, the man decides to go along, to take on Davenant's identity, to return with her to California and take on his...
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When anger and bad thoughts start to overwhelm every aspect of his life, Mr. Naismith decides to seek help. After his self-help exploration with psychiatrist Dr. Cochran, he is able to unlock a hidden door to his past that has been closed for a very long time. Once unlocked, Mr. Naismith walks through into a world that takes him from an innocent little boy into a vindictive killer seeking closure. Armed with newly discovered memories, Mr. Naismith...