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  Dave Pelzer's Memoirs: Book 2

  The Lost Boy

  A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family

  by Dave J. Pelzer

  The boy lost out as the most important book on the dedication and affection only to social services and foster families provide to our children at risk. Dave Pelzer is certainly a living testament to persistence, personal responsibility and the triumph of human spirit. " John Bradshaw, author of the successes editorials, Bradshaw On: The Family, Homecoming and Family Secrets Imagine a boy who never had a home. His... (more)
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  Chicken Soup for the Soul

  Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Tough Stuff

  Stories of Tough Times and Lessons Learned

  by Kimberly Kirberger, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen

  This latest offering in the best-selling Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul series explores a host of challenges faced by today's teens. Within its pages teens will find portraits of life's complexities expressed from the viewpoint of their peers. Teen contributors share their thoughts and feelings on difficult issues, ranging from poor self-image to thoughts of suicide, from family discord to coping with the loss,... (more)
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  The Problem of Pain

  How Human Suffering Raises Almost Intolerable Intellectual Problems

  by C. S. Lewis

  Why must humanity suffer? In this elegant and thoughtful work, C. S. Lewis questions the pain and suffering that occur everyday and how this contrasts with the notion of a God that is both omnipotent and good. An answer to this critical theological problem is found within these pages.
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  Hazelwood High School: Book 3

  Darkness Before Dawn

  by Sharon M. Draper

  Has Keisha found happiness at last? In her senior year, things are finally looking a little brighter for Keisha. Still haunted by the suicide of her ex-boyfriend, Andy, she finds comfort in the attentions of the new track coach, twenty-three-year-old Jonathan Hathaway, the principal's son. How can Keisha not be swept off her feet by a tall, dark, handsome "lemon drop wrapped in licorice" who treats her like a... (more)
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  Bruiser

  The Impossible Hurts

  by Neal Shusterman

  Gr 8 Up–Tennyson, 16, is upset When his twin sister, Brontë, befriends their shy and withdrawn classmate Brewster “Bruiser” Rawlins, he is concerned that her relationship with this boy from the wrong side of the tracks will prove somehow dangerous. After he spies Bruiser changing in the locker room and notices that his back is covered in scars and welts, he becomes even more certain that the teen and his family... (more)
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  Bloom

  by Elizabeth Scott

  There's a difference between falling and letting go. Lauren has a good life: decent grades, great friends, and a boyfriend every girl lusts after. So why is she so unhappy? It takes the arrival of Evan Kirkland for Lauren to figure out the answer: She's been holding back. She's been denying herself a bunch of things (like sex) because staying with her loyal and gorgeous boyfriend, Dave, is the "right" thing to... (more)
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  The New Prophecy: Book 5

  Twilight

  by Erin Hunter

  Before there is peace, blood will spill blood, and the lake will run red...New territory brings new troubles for the fierce cats of the warrior Clans, who are still uncovering secrets of their new home around the lake. Dangers they have never faced before are lurking in the twilight shadows, and former allies are acting strangely hostile. As divisions between the Clans grow deeper, Firestar's daughters... (more)
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  Lords of the Underworld: Book 3

  The Darkest Pleasure

  by Gena Showalter

  HE CAN BEAR ANY PAIN BUT THE THOUGHT OF LOSING HER...Reyes is a man possessed. Bound by the demon of pain, he is forbidden to know pleasure. Yet he craves a mortal woman, Danika Ford, more than breath and will do anything to claim her--even defy the gods.Danika is on the run. For months she's eluded the Lords of the Underworld, immortal warriors who won't rest until she and her family have been... (more)
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  The Giver Trilogy: Book 1

  The Giver

  by Lois Lowry

  Jonas' world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the Community. When Jonas turns twelve, he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life. Now, it is time for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no turning back.
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  The Illumination

  by Kevin Brockmeier

  From best-selling and award-winning author Kevin Brock­meier: a new novel of stunning artistry and imagination about the wounds we all bear and the light that radiates from us all.   What if our pain was the most beautiful thing about us? In the aftermath of a fatal car accident, a private journal of love notes written by a husband to his wife passes into the keeping of a hospital patient, and from there through... (more)
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  Some Girls Are

  by Courtney Summers

  Climbing to the top of the social ladder is hard--falling from it is even harder.  Regina Afton used to be a member of the Fearsome Fivesome , an all-girl clique both feared and revered by the students at Hallowell High... until vicious rumors about her and her best friend's boyfriend start going around.  Now Regina's been "frozen out" and her ex-best friends are out for revenge.  If Regina was guilty, it would... (more)
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  My Story

  A Child Called It / The Lost Boy / A Man Named Dave

  by Dave J. Pelzer

  A CHILD CALLED 'IT': Dave Pelzer's story is of a child beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games that left one of her three sons nearly dead. No longer considered a son, or a boy, but an 'it', Dave had to learn how to play these games in order to survive. His bed was an old army cot in the basement and when he was allowed food it was scraps... (more)
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  No Right Turn

  by Terry Trueman

  Three years after his father's suicide, Jordan is a self–described zombie. With no friends and no interests, Jordan has made sure he is invisible and alone because it's easier to get by that way. But then salvation comes in the most unlikely form. It's gorgeous, and it's sexy–a 1976 Corvette! Drawn by this beautiful car and the doors it opens for him, Jordan realizes that maybe he can start living. But on the path... (more)
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  Lords of the Underworld: Book 4

  The Darkest Whisper

  by Gena Showalter

  Bound by the Demon of Doubt, Sabin unintentionally destroys even the most confident of lovers. So the immortal warrior spends his time on the battlefield instead of the bedroom, victory his only concern until he meets Gwendolyn the Timid. One taste of the beautiful redhead, and he craves more. Gwen, an immortal herself, always thought she'd fall for a kind human who wouldn't rouse her darker side. But when Sabin... (more)
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  The Forest of Hands and Teeth: Book 2

  The Dead-Tossed Waves

  by Carrie Ryan

  Gabry lives a quiet life. As safe a life as is possible in a town trapped between a forest and the ocean, in a world teeming with the dead, who constantly hunger for those still living. She’s content on her side of the Barrier, happy to let her friends dream of the Dark City up the coast while she watches from the top of her lighthouse. But there are threats the Barrier cannot hold back. Threats like the secrets... (more)
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  Shades of Blue

  by Karen Kingsbury

  Brad Cutler, twenty-eight, is a rising star at his New York ad agency, about to marry the girl of his dreams. Anyone would agree he has it all; a great career, a beautiful and loving fiance, and a fairy tale life ahead of him, when memories of a high school girlfriend begin to torment him. Lost innocence and one very difficult choice flood his conscience, and he is no longer sure what the future will bring except... (more)
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  The Twilight Saga: Book 4

  Breaking Dawn

  by Stephenie Meyer

  When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved? It would cost you your life. How could you leave the person you love the most, when you know it'll hurt them the most as well?To be irrevocably in love with... (more)
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  The Burn Journals

  by Brent Runyon

  I don’t want to get out of bed. I’m so stupid. I did so many things wrong. I don’t know what to do. I’m going to be in so much trouble. What am I going to do? I’m completely screwed. In 1991, fourteen-year-old Brent Runyon came home from school, doused his bathrobe in gasoline, put it on, and lit a match. He suffered third-degree burns over 85% of his body and spent the next year recovering in hospitals and... (more)
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  Fruits Basket -- The Complete Series

  23 Volumes

  by Natsuki Takaya

  Complete Collective Works of Fruits Basket, volumes 1-23.
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  Skinned Trilogy: Book 1

  Skinned

  by Robin Wasserman

  Lia Kahn was perfect: rich, beautiful, popular -- until the accident that nearly killed her. Now she has been downloaded into a new body that only looks human. Lia will never feel pain again, she will never age, and she can't ever truly die. But she is also rejected by her friends, betrayed by her boyfriend, and alienated from her old life. Forced to the fringes of society, Lia joins others like her. But they... (more)