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  Stop Pretending

  What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy

  by Sonya Sones

  It happens just like that, in the blink of an eye. An older sister has a mental breakdown and has to be hospitalized. A younger sister is left behind to cope with a family torn apart by grief and friends who turn their backs on her. But worst of all is the loss of her big sister, her confidante, her best friend, who has gone someplace no one can reach. In the tradition of The Bell Jar, I Never Promised You a... (more)
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  The Unnamed

  by Joshua Ferris

  He was going to lose the house and everything in it. The rare pleasure of a bath, the copper pots hanging above the kitchen island, his family-again he would lose his family. He stood inside the house and took stock. Everything in it had been taken for granted. How had that happened again? He had promised himself not to take anything for granted and now he couldn't recall the moment that promise had given way... (more)
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  Now You See Her

  by Jacquelyn Mitchard

  Hope has it all: brains, beauty, and acceptance at Starwood, a prestigious arts prep school. A mere sophomore, she has won the lead in Romeo and Juliet , beating out seniors for the role—seniors who have been in movies and on Broadway! And with handsome Logan as her Romeo onstage and off, her life couldn't be more perfect. So why would this talented teen throw everything away? Why would she fake her own... (more)
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  Buried

  by Robin Merrow MacCready

  Winner of the Edgar Award! Careful planning and constant control is Claudine’s protection. Order is her weapon. She’s long buried her own needs and dreams to cover for her alcoholic mom. But when Mom suddenly disappears—another alcoholic binge?—seventeen-year-old Claudine finds herself all alone, and a much darker reality emerges from beneath years of angry denial and enabling behavior. And as the truth comes... (more)
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  Play It as It Lays

  by Joan Didion

  A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil-literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul-it remains more than three decades... (more)
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  The Trick Is to Keep Breathing

  by Janice Galloway

  Drama teacher Joy Stone is losing her grip. In a captivating story of the onset and evolution of depression, her problems accumulate, denial activates, and food becomes a major player. Through the wit and irony that is gaining international applause, Galloway crafts the chicken-or-egg dilemma of life in our times and being depressed. Yet even through her growing obsessions and the metamorphoses of family and... (more)
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  The Subterraneans

  by Jack Kerouac

  Written over the course of three days and three nights, The Subterraneans was generated out of the same ecstatic flash of inspiration that produced another one of Kerouac's early classic, On The Road. Centering on the tempestous breakup of Leo Percepied and Mardou Fox--two denizens of the 1950s San Francsico underground--The Subterraneans is a tale of dark alleys and dark rooms,of artists, of visionaries,
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  Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture

  Media Education for the 21st Century

  by Henry Jenkins

  Many teens today who use the Internet are actively involved in participatory cultures—joining online communities (Facebook, message boards, game clans), producing creative work in new forms (digital sampling, modding, fan videomaking, fan fiction), working in teams to complete tasks and develop new knowledge (as in Wikipedia), and shaping the flow of media (as in blogging or podcasting). A growing body of... (more)
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  Bavian (Baboon)

  by Naja Marie Aidt

  Bavian indeholder femten noveller om det moderne liv med al dens velstand, individualisme, stress, kedsomhed, drømme, utroskab, hverdage og delebørn og om hvor lidt der skal til, før den indre bavian viser sin røde og blå siddepude og stikker næsen frem under det civiliserede menneskes velplejede ansigt.Eksempel 1: En familieindkøbstur ender i et mareridt, da et par glemmer at lægge en slikpose på båndet... (more)
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  My Reading Life

  by Pat Conroy

  Bestselling author Pat Conroy acknowledges the books that have shaped him and celebrates the profound effect reading has had on his life. The beloved American storyteller is a vora­cious reader. He has for years kept a notebook in which he notes words or phrases, just from a love of language. But read­ing for him is not simply a pleasure to be enjoyed in off-hours or a source of inspiration for his own writing. It... (more)
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  Female Trouble: Stories

  by Antonya Nelson

  Female Trouble features thirteen wise, funny, and startlingly perceptive stories about the vagaries and revelations of womanhood. Named by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best writers of her generation, Antonya Nelson explores the broad notion of family from myriad angles in Female Trouble. Set in the vividly rendered Midwest, these moving stories are dark and honest portraits of people in moral... (more)
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  The Twilight Saga: Book 3

  Eclipse

  by Stephenie Meyer

  As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings, Victoria continues her quest for revenge, and Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob-–knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite a war between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more... (more)