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Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse....
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Secrets of Sweetwater Crossing volume 1
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English
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"A young widow returns to her hometown in Texas Hill Country, never dreaming that the new schoolteacher holds the key both to the mystery surrounding her father's death-and to her heart.Emily Leland sheds no tears when her abusive husband is killed in a bar fight, but what awaits her back home in Sweetwater Crossing is far from the welcome and comfort she expected. First she discovers her father has died under mysterious circumstances. Then the house...
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David Pelzer trilogy volume 1
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[This book] is [an] account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played torturous, unpredictable games - games that left him nearly dead. He had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer considered him a son, but a slave; and no longer a boy, but an "it."...
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Karen Tintori thought she knew her family tree.
Her grandmother Josie had emigrated from Sicily with her parents at the turn of the century. They settled in Detroit, and with Josie's nine siblings, worked to create a home for themselves away from the poverty and servitude of the old country. Their descendants were proud Italian-Americans.
But, Josie had a sister nobody spoke of. Her name was Frances, and at age sixteen, she fell in love with a young...
50) Vinyl moon
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[2022]
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English
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Black Authors of Young Adult Books
Mental Health Awareness - Young Adults
NCSS / CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 9-12 2023
Tayshas List 2023 (Gr. 9+)
Mental Health Awareness - Young Adults
NCSS / CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 9-12 2023
Tayshas List 2023 (Gr. 9+)
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"A teen girl reeling from the scars of a past relationship finds healing and hope in the words of strong Black writers and the new community she builds in Brooklyn, New York"--
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[2021]
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"All Beth wants is for her tight-knit circle of friends--Grace Nakamura, Brandon Lin, Sunny Chen, and Jason Tsou--to stay together. With her family splintered and her future a question mark, these friends are all she has--even if she sometimes wonders if she truly fits in with them. Besides, she's certain she'll never be able to tell Jason how she really feels about him, so friendship will have to be enough. Then Beth witnesses a private act of violence...
52) Una educación
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2018.
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"Westover ha escrito una historia extraordinaria--su propia historia--una formidable epopeya, desgarradora e inspiradora, sobre la posibilidad de ver la vida a través de otros ojos, y de cambiar"--
A "memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University"--
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2003, c2002
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In this book, domestic violence expert Lundy Bancroft uses his perspective as a therapist for abusive and controlling men to help women, their children, and other family members who have been touched by abuse understand why abusers behave the way they do and what can be done about it. Bancroft teaches women how to survive and improve an abusive relationship; how to determine how dangerous an abuser is and when it is impossible to rectify a situation;...
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2019.
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"Solo ella sabe lo que sucedió. Solo yo puedo hacerla hablar. Alicia Berenson, una pintora de éxito, dispara cinco tiros en la cabeza de su marido, y no vuelve a hablar nunca más. Su negativa a pronunciar palabra alguna convierte una tragedia doméstica en un misterio que atrapa la imaginación de toda Inglaterra. Theo Faber, un ambicioso psicoterapeuta forense obsesionado con el caso, está empeñado en desentrañar el misterio de lo que ocurrió...
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Xin jing dian wen ku volume 1408
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2019.
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中文(繁體)
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Simplified Chinese edition of Educated: A Memoir
人们只看到我的与众不同:一个十七岁前从未踏入教室的大山女孩,却戴上一顶学历的高帽,熠熠生辉。 只有我知道自己的真面目:我来自一个极少有人能想象的家庭。我的童年由垃圾场的废铜烂铁铸成,那里没有读书声,只有起重机的轰鸣。不上学,不就医,是父亲要我们坚持的忠诚与真理。父亲不允许我们拥有自己的声音,我们的意志是他眼中的恶魔。...
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Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 163
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1996.
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English
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Provides in-depth analysis of the literary work Wuthering Heights, as well as its importance and critical reception. Includes a chronology of the life and works of the author.
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2019.
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"After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle's talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now. For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant bond...
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Victoria Oliver will do anything to ensure that her troubled son has some semblance of a childhood. Danielle Burton is a dedicated nurse in a pediatric psych ward, but is haunted by a family tragedy. The anniversary of that tragedy approaches, and when veteran Boston police detective D. D. Warren shows up, Danielle realizes it has started again. The lives of these three women connect in unexpected ways as uncovered secrets reveal how tightly blood...
60) Raging bull
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[2005]
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English
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A biographical film about psychologically destructive, violent middleweight champion Jake La Motta.
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