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  Cut

  by Patricia McCormick

  Callie cuts herself. She doesn't do it to kill herself, but rather to take away the pain of life. Eventually, she finds herself in Sea Pines, a residential treatment facility. She is in group therapy with girls with eating disorders and substance abuse issues, but no one else has self-mutilation problems. Until Amanda comes. Before Amanda came to Sea Pines, Callie did not talk in group therapy, and no one besides... (more)
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  Emo Boy Volume 1: Nobody Cares About Anything Anyway, So Why Don't We All Just Die?

  by Stephen Emond

  Poor Emo Boy- he's unpopular. Unloved. He has no family. Not only does he need to deal with things like pondering suicide and questioning his sexual identity, but on top of that he's got these emo super powers that only seem to bring destruction and disaster, causing everyone to hate him more than they already do. His first love suffers a head explosion, the football team wants him dead, and he got an F in... (more)
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  Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture

  by Leslie Simon

  What is emo? For starters it's a form of melodic, confessional, or EMOtional punk rock. But emo is more than a genre of music–it's the defining counterculture movement of the '00s. EVERYBODY HURTS is a reference book for emo, tracing its angsty roots all the way from Shakespeare to Holden Caufield to today's most popular bands. There's nothing new about that perfect chocolate and peanut butter... (more)
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  Ghostgirl: Book 1

  Ghostgirl

  by Tonya Hurley

  Invisibility seems fun, not when you are actually there though. But what happens when death by gummy bear is engraved on your gravestone and then you realize your dead. Things were going Charlotte's way, for a start dreamboat Damen had asked her to tutor him and they were now physics partners...well were. All Charlotte wanted was to be popular, to be on the inside looking out and not the other way around.When she... (more)
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  Emo Boy Volume 2: Walk Around With Your Head Down

  by Stephen Emond

  Emo Boy has finally found the love of his life... and loses her in about ten pages. Thus begins the downward spiral of emo that carries Emo Boy through. Emo Boy has his heart broken, seeks therapy, starts an emo-zombie plague, gets the Christmas spirit beat into him, writes a school play and loses every friend he has. Not to mention a "Choose Your Own Emo" adventure that carries him through space and time! Talk... (more)
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  Heart's Delight

  by Per Nilsson

  Heart’s Delight opens with a 16-year-old boy poised over a desk. He is alone in the room, going through the left over items of a relationship with his ex-girlfriend, Ann-Kathrin. As he systematically destroys each object, he replays a scene from their relationship that relates to it. By the end of this moving story, he has gotten rid of everything; he’s torn up the bus pass from the station where they met, blown... (more)
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  Fallen: Book 1

  Fallen

  by Lauren Kate

  Some Angels are Destined to FallThere’s something achingly familiar about Daniel Grigori.Mysterious and aloof, he captures Luce Price’s attention from the moment she sees him on her first day at the Sword & Cross boarding school in sultry Savannah, Georgia. He’s the one bright spot in a place where cell phones are forbidden, the other students are all screw-ups, and security cameras watch... (more)
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  Emily the Strange - Series 1 (Dark Horse Comics): Book 1

  The Boring Issue

  Chairman of the Bored

  by Rob Reger, Jessica Gruner, Buzz Parker, Brian Brooks

  For more than 10 years, pop culture cultists have revered and adored a mysterious, brooding 13 year-old girl named Emily the Strange. Nobody knows much about the young girl with a porcelain face and huge eyes framed by black bangs, and her ever-present brood of black cats only adds to the intrigue - but that hasn't stopped a generation of rabid fans from letting Emily put her spell upon them. Now, for the first... (more)
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  The Twilight Saga: Book 2

  New Moon

  by Stephenie Meyer

  Edward and Bella have fallen in love. They can't stay away from each other until all of a sudden Edward starts acting a little strange. When he tells Bella he's decided to leave her Bella is heartbroken and doesn't know what to do with her life. Until she meets Jacob an old friend.
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  Nothing Feels Good

  Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo

  by Andy Greenwald

  Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo tells the story of a cultural moment that's happening right now-the nexus point where teen culture, music, and the web converge to create something new. While shallow celebrities dominate the headlines, pundits bemoan the death of the music industry, and the government decries teenagers for their morals (or lack thereof) earnest, heartfelt bands like Dashboard... (more)
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  The Twilight Saga: Book 1

  Twilight

  by Stephenie Meyer

  When Bella's mother remarries she grudgingly decides to go live with her father in the sunless, perpetually rainy city of Forks, Washington. It's the middle of the semester at a new school and the most she can hope for is to blend in. Then she sees the mysterious Edward Cullen. He's handsome, intriguing and he happens to be a vampire. Despite the risk to her life, Bella and Eward are drawn together and their... (more)
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  Uglies: Book 3

  Specials

  by Scott Westerfeld

  "Special Circumstances": The words have sent chills down Tally's spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumor --frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, and breathtakingly fast. Ordinary pretties might live their whole lives without meeting a Special. But Tally has never been ordinary. And now she has been turned into one of them: a superamped fighting machine,... (more)
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  The Twilight Saga

  Twilight / New Moon / Eclipse / Breaking Dawn

  by Stephenie Meyer

  Bella Swan moves back to Forks, Washington to live with her dad. On her first day of school she is breathless when she meets Edward Cullen, the most beautiful boy you will ever lay eyes on. Until she finds out his secret that puts her life in danger.
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  The Professor in Ruins

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  The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Book 2

  Ninth Grade Slays

  by Heather Brewer

  Freshman year stinks for Vlad Tod. Bullies still harass him. The photographer from the school newspaper is tailing him. And failing his studies could be deadly. A trip to Siberia gives “study abroad” a whole new meaning as Vlad connects with other vampires and advances his mind-control abilities, but will he return home with the skills to recognize a vampire slayer when he sees one? In this thrilling sequel to... (more)
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  Wish You Were Here

  An Essential Guide to Your Favorite Music Scenes-Punk to Indie and Everything in Between

  by Leslie Simon

  A snarky, fact-filled look at the people and places that made the indie/punk scene what it is today The American underground music scene is exploding everywhere—not just in New York City and L.A. (although we've got those cities covered too!): In Washington, D.C. . . . Ian MacKaye and Fugazi inspired the straightedge culture, which had kids everywhere drawing black X's on their hands in magic marker. ... (more)
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  Willow

  by Julia Hoban

  Published as Willow in the US and Scarred in the UK.Seven months ago on a rainy March night, Willow's parents drank too much wine at dinner and asked her to drive them home. But they never made it--Willow lost control of the car, and both of her parents were killed.Now seventeen, Willow is living with her older brother, who can barely speak to her. She has left behind her old home, friends, and school.... (more)
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  NANA: Book 20

  Nana (Volume 20)

  by Ai Yazawa

  The all-time best-selling shojo title in Japan R to L (Japanese Style). Ren's drug use is spiraling out of control and he doesn't want to drag Trapnest down with him. Neither Takumi nor Reira are willing to let Ren quit the band, and both do their best to give him the time he needs to get it together. But Ren isn't sure this is something he can handle on his own. Will he turn to Nana for help, or will their... (more)
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  Hey! Nietzsche! : Leave them kids alone

  by Craig Schuftan

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  Thirteen Reasons Why

  by Jay Asher

  Seven cassette tapes, thirteen stories, thirteen reasons why Hannah Baker committed suicide. Clay Jensen, Hannah's former classmate, arrives home from school one day to find a box on his front doorstep. The box is addressed to him, but bears no return address. Inside the box he discovers seven cassette tapes labeled with numbers 1-13 in what he assumes to be blue nail polish. He begins to listen to the mysterious... (more)