Brooke's bookshelf: all en-US Sat, 21 Sep 2024 18:27:06 -0700 60 Brooke's bookshelf: all 144 41 https://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Cutters Don't Cry (SoCal, #1) 10302287 132 Christine Dzidrums 0982643535 Brooke 0 to-read 4.02 2022 Cutters Don't Cry (SoCal, #1)
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average rating: 4.02
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]]> Holier Than Thou 13480258 'What do you want, Hol?' Abby looks into my eyes.

'I ... I want to know that I'm using my powers for good and -'

'You want to make a dead man proud.'

'Whoa!'

'You want to put bandages over severed arteries that really need to be sewn shut. You want the moral high ground.'

Holly Yarkov has a boyfriend who is a gift from the universe. She has a job that fulfils her even as it wears her down. She has a core group of friends from high school. And she has a layer of steel around her heart that is beginning to tarnish. Just as she is reaching for a future she can't quite see, Holly is borne back into the past by memories of her beloved father, and of the boy-who-might-have-been...]]> 291 Laura Buzo 1741759986 Brooke 0 to-read 3.72 2012 Holier Than Thou
author: Laura Buzo
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2012
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]]> Invisible Monsters 22290
Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from being a real woman, who will teach her that reinventing yourself means erasing your past and making up something better, and that salvation hides in the last place you'll ever want to look.

The narrator must exact revenge upon Evie, her best friend and fellow model; kidnap Manus, her two-timing ex-boyfriend; and hit the road with Brandy in search of a brand-new past, present and future.]]> 297 Chuck Palahniuk 0099285444 Brooke 0 didnt-finish 3.97 1999 Invisible Monsters
author: Chuck Palahniuk
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1999
rating: 0
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]]> Perfect (Impulse, #2) 9917945
Cara's parents' unrealistic expectations have already sent her twin brother Conner spiraling toward suicide. For her, perfect means rejecting their ideals to take a chance on a new kind of love. Kendra covets the perfect face and body—no matter what surgeries and drugs she needs to get there. To score his perfect home run—on the field and off—Sean will sacrifice more than he can ever win back. And Andre realizes that to follow his heart and achieve his perfect performance, he'll be living a life his ancestors would never understand.

Everyone wants to be perfect, but when perfection loses its meaning, how far will you go? What would you give up to be perfect?]]> 622 Ellen Hopkins 1416983244 Brooke 0 didnt-finish 4.32 2011 Perfect (Impulse, #2)
author: Ellen Hopkins
name: Brooke
average rating: 4.32
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]]> Hush 7890134
A richly detailed and nuanced book, one of both humor and depth, understanding and horror, this story explains a complex world that remains an echo of its past, and illuminates the conflict between yesterday's traditions and today's reality.]]> 340 Eishes Chayil 0802720889 Brooke 4 3.96 2010 Hush
author: Eishes Chayil
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2010
rating: 4
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]]> Luna 316445 A groundbreaking novel about a transgender teen, selected as a National Book Award Finalist!

Regan's brother Liam can't stand the person he is during the day. Like the moon from whom Liam has chosen his female name, his true self, Luna, only reveals herself at night. In the secrecy of his basement bedroom Liam transforms himself into the beautiful girl he longs to be, with help from his sister's clothes and makeup. Now, everything is about to change: Luna is preparing to emerge from her cocoon. But are Liam's family and friends ready to welcome Luna into their lives?

Compelling and provocative, this is an unforgettable novel about a transgender teen's struggle for self-identity and acceptance.]]> 248 Julie Anne Peters 0316011274 Brooke 4 3.83 2004 Luna
author: Julie Anne Peters
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2004
rating: 4
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]]> Twisted 123106
In Twisted, the acclaimed Laurie Halse Anderson tackles a very controversial subject: what it means to be a man today. Fans and new readers alike will be captured by Tyler’s pitch perfect, funny voice, the surprising narrative arc, and the thoughtful moral dilemmas that are at the heart of all of the author’s award-winning, widely read work.]]> 250 Laurie Halse Anderson 0670061018 Brooke 0 read-first, currently-reading 3.82 2007 Twisted
author: Laurie Halse Anderson
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2007
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]]> <![CDATA[Get Well Soon (Anna Bloom, #1)]]> 457060
But wait! Being trapped in a loony bin isn’t supposed to be about making friends, losing weight, and having a crush, is it?

In her fiction debut, Julie Halpern finds humor in the unlikeliest of places, and presents a character whose voice—and heart—will resonate with all of us who have ever felt just a little bit crazy.]]> 208 Julie Halpern 0312367953 Brooke 0 3.75 2007 Get Well Soon (Anna Bloom, #1)
author: Julie Halpern
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.75
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]]> Living Dead Girl 2954411
Once upon a time, my name was not Alice.

Once upon a time, I didn't know how lucky I was.

When Alice was ten, Ray took her away from her family, her friends -- her life. She learned to give up all power, to endure all pain. She waited for the nightmare to be over.

Now Alice is fifteen and Ray still has her, but he speaks more and more of her death. He does not know it is what she longs for. She does not know he has something more terrifying than death in mind for her.

This is Alice's story. It is one you have never heard, and one you will never, ever forget.]]> 170 Elizabeth Scott 1416960597 Brooke 4 3.78 2008 Living Dead Girl
author: Elizabeth Scott
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2008
rating: 4
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]]> Will Grayson, Will Grayson 6567017
It's not that far from Evanston to Naperville, but Chicago suburbanites Will Grayson and Will Grayson might as well live on different planets. When fate delivers them both to the same surprising crossroads, the Will Graysons find their lives overlapping and hurtling in new and unexpected directions. With a push from friends new and old - including the massive, and massively fabulous, Tiny Cooper, offensive lineman and musical theater auteur extraordinaire - Will and Will begin building toward respective romantic turns-of-heart and the epic production of history's most awesome high school musical.]]> 320 John Green 0525421580 Brooke 0 3.69 2010 Will Grayson, Will Grayson
author: John Green
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.69
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]]> The Sky Is Everywhere 6604794
Join Lennie on this heartbreaking and hilarious journey of profound sorrow and mad love, as she makes colossal mistakes and colossal discoveries, as she traipses through band rooms and forest bedrooms and ultimately right into your heart.

As much a celebration of love as a poignant portrait of loss, Lennie's struggle to sort her own melody out of the noise around her is always honest, often uproarious, and absolutely unforgettable.]]> 288 Jandy Nelson 0803734956 Brooke 0 3.96 2010 The Sky Is Everywhere
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name: Brooke
average rating: 3.96
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]]> Thirteen Reasons Why 1217100 You can’t stop the future.
You can’t rewind the past.
The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play.

Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker–his classmate and crush–who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah’s voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he’ll find out why.

Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. He becomes a firsthand witness to Hannah’s pain, and as he follows Hannah’s recorded words throughout his town, what he discovers changes his life forever.]]> 288 Jay Asher 1595141715 Brooke 0 4.00 2007 Thirteen Reasons Why
author: Jay Asher
name: Brooke
average rating: 4.00
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]]> Breathless 6449903 320 Jessica Warman 0802798497 Brooke 0 3.67 2009 Breathless
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name: Brooke
average rating: 3.67
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]]> Impulse (Impulse, #1) 270805 Sometimes you don't wake up. But if you happen to, you know things will never be the same.

Three lives, three different paths to the same destination: Aspen Springs, a psychiatric hospital for those who have attempted the ultimate act—suicide.

Vanessa is beautiful and smart, but her secrets keep her answering the call of the blade.

Tony, after suffering a painful childhood, can only find peace through pills.

And Conner, outwardly, has the perfect life. But dig a little deeper and find a boy who is in constant battle with his parents, his life, himself.

In one instant each of these young people decided enough was enough. They grabbed the blade, the bottle, the gun—and tried to end it all. Now they have a second chance, and just maybe, with each other's help, they can find their way to a better life—but only if they're strong and can fight the demons that brought them here in the first place.]]> 666 Ellen Hopkins 1416903569 Brooke 0 read-first 4.25 2007 Impulse (Impulse, #1)
author: Ellen Hopkins
name: Brooke
average rating: 4.25
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]]> Willow 4570768
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. But Willow has found a way to survive, to numb the new reality of her life: She is secretly cutting herself.

And then she meets Guy, a boy as sensitive and complicated as she is. When Guy discovers Willow's secret, he pulls her out of the solitary world she's created for herself, and into a difficult, intense, and potentially life-changing relationship.

Julia Hoban has created an unflinching story about cutting, grieving, and starting anew. But above all, she has written an unforgettable tale of first love.]]> 329 Julia Hoban 0803733569 Brooke 1 didnt-finish 3.90 2009 Willow
author: Julia Hoban
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2009
rating: 1
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]]> Six 9432184
Six people, six points of view.

But only one outcome.]]> 228 Karen Tayleur 1742031552 Brooke 0 didnt-finish 3.46 2010 Six
author: Karen Tayleur
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.46
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]]> The Chosen One 5303373
But when the Prophet decrees that Kyra must marry her sixty-year-old uncle - who already has six wives - she must make a desperate choice in the face of violence and her own fears of losing her family forever.]]> 213 Carol Lynch Williams 0312555113 Brooke 0 didnt-finish 3.85 2009 The Chosen One
author: Carol Lynch Williams
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.85
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]]> Cut 662597
Now she's at Sea Pines, a "residential treatment facility" filled with girls struggling with problems of their own. Callie doesn't want to have anything to do with them. She doesn't want to have anything to do with anyone. She won't even speak.

But Callie can only stay silent for so long...]]> 151 Patricia McCormick 0439324599 Brooke 3 3.77 2000 Cut
author: Patricia McCormick
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2000
rating: 3
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]]> Zelah Green (Zelah Green #1) 7965963
I spend most of my life running away from germs. And dirt. And people. And I’m just about doing OK and then my stepmother packs me off to some kind of hospital to live with a load of strangers. It’s stuck in the middle of nowhere. Great. There’s Alice who’s anorexic. Caro who cuts herself. Silent Sol who has the cutest smile. And then there’s me.]]> 250 Vanessa Curtis 1405255056 Brooke 1 didnt-finish 3.73 2009 Zelah Green (Zelah Green #1)
author: Vanessa Curtis
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2009
rating: 1
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]]> The Day Before 8922087
Amber’s life is spinning out of control. All she wants is to turn up the volume on her iPod until all of the demands of family and friends fade away. So she sneaks off to the beach to spend a day by herself.

Then Amber meets Cade. Their attraction is instant, and Amber can tell he’s also looking for an escape. Together they decide to share a perfect day: no pasts, no fears, no regrets.

The more time that Amber spends with Cade, the more she’s drawn to him. And the more she’s troubled by his darkness. Because Cade’s not just living in the now—he’s living each moment like it’s his last.]]> 307 Lisa Schroeder 1442417439 Brooke 3 read-first 3.99 2011 The Day Before
author: Lisa Schroeder
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2011
rating: 3
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]]> Marilyn Manson 37852 192 Kurt Reighley 0312181337 Brooke 0 to-read 3.39 1998 Marilyn Manson
author: Kurt Reighley
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.39
book published: 1998
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]]> <![CDATA[Beautiful Disaster (Beautiful, #1)]]> 11505797
Travis Maddox, lean, cut, and covered in tattoos, is exactly what Abby needs—and wants—to avoid. He spends his nights winning money in a floating fight ring, and his days as the ultimate college campus charmer. Intrigued by Abby’s resistance to his appeal, Travis tricks her into his daily life with a simple bet. If he loses, he must remain abstinent for a month. If Abby loses, she must live in Travis’s apartment for the same amount of time. Either way, Travis has no idea that he has met his match.]]> 432 Jamie McGuire Brooke 0 to-read 4.02 2011 Beautiful Disaster (Beautiful, #1)
author: Jamie McGuire
name: Brooke
average rating: 4.02
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]]> Losing It 13245023 264 Julia Lawrinson 014320565X Brooke 0 to-read 3.60 2012 Losing It
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average rating: 3.60
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]]> <![CDATA[Dare You To (Pushing the Limits, #2)]]> 13561164 Ryan lowers his lips to my ear. "Dance with me, Beth."

"No." I whisper the reply. I hate him and I hate myself for wanting him to touch me again....

"I dare you..."

If anyone knew the truth about Beth Risk's home life, they'd send her mother to jail and seventeen-year-old Beth who knows where. So she protects her mom at all costs. Until the day her uncle swoops in and forces Beth to choose between her mom's freedom and her own happiness. That's how Beth finds herself living with an aunt who doesn't want her and going to a school that doesn't understand her. At all. Except for the one guy who shouldn't get her, but does....

Ryan Stone is the town golden boy, a popular baseball star jock-with secrets he can't tell anyone. Not even the friends he shares everything with, including the constant dares to do crazy things. The craziest? Asking out the Skater girl who couldn't be less interested in him.

But what begins as a dare becomes an intense attraction neither Ryan nor Beth expected. Suddenly, the boy with the flawless image risks his dreams-and his life-for the girl he loves, and the girl who won't let anyone get too close is daring herself to want it all....]]> 456 Katie McGarry 0373210639 Brooke 0 to-read 4.14 2013 Dare You To (Pushing the Limits, #2)
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average rating: 4.14
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]]> <![CDATA[By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead]]> 6609549
While she’s on the site, Daelyn blogs about her life, uncovering a history of bullying that goes back to kindergarten. When she’s not on the Web, Daelyn’s at her private school, where she’s known as the freak who doesn’t talk.

Then, a boy named Santana begins to sit with her after school while she’s waiting to for her parents to pick her up. Even though she’s made it clear that she wants to be left alone, Santana won’t give up. And it’s too late for Daelyn to be letting people into her life... isn't it?

National Book Award finalist Julie Anne Peters shines a light on how bullying can push young people to the very edge.]]> 200 Julie Anne Peters 1423116186 Brooke 2 3.85 2009 By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
author: Julie Anne Peters
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.85
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rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[One More Little Problem (Zelah Green, #2)]]> 7965962
Summer’s supposed to be good, right? But I’m stuck at home with a lousy laptop, stacks of homework to start and dad being more useless than ever. And then Caro turns up out of the blue, all heavy metal and piercings and attitude and my boring summer’s turned upside down. It’s like she knows just what to say to wind me up, sending my OCD right out of control...]]> 229 Vanessa Curtis 1405240547 Brooke 0 to-read 3.46 2010 One More Little Problem (Zelah Green, #2)
author: Vanessa Curtis
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.46
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]]> <![CDATA[The Long Hard Road Out of Hell: A shocking, candid memoir tracing Marilyn Manson's rise from frightened Christian schoolboy to feared rock superstar]]> 37847 Der Großvater, der sich als Frau verkleidet, ein Junge, der die Nachbarskinder sexuell belästigt, ein Gesundbeter, der seinen Klienten eine Gehirnwäsche verpasst, und ein Lehrer, der in Rocksongs nach satanischen Botschaften sucht - das sind nur einige der vielen merkwürdigen Charaktere, die Marilyn Mansons bizarre Kindheit bevölkern.
Sein Lebensweg ist eine wilde Reise, die aus dem Backstage-Raum in der Gefängniszelle, aus dem Tonstudio zur Notaufnahme und aus den Abgründen der Verzweiflung an die Spitze der Hitparaden führt. Marilyn Manson hat seinen Aufstieg mit dem Verlust der Menschlichkeit bezahlt. Sein Leben gleicht dem Abstieg in die Höklle, wie ihn Dante in seiner "Göttlichen Komödie" beschrieben hat. Der Leser wird in einen Strudel gezogen, in dem Lust, Gewalt und Verrat regieren.
Marilyn Mansons Autobiographie ist ein Kultbuch allererster Güte, liebevoll ausgestattet mit zahlreichen bislang unveröffentlichten Fotos, Illustrationen, philosophischen Lesefrüchten und dem Tagebuch der skandalträchtigen Dead To The World -Tour, mit der Marilyn Manson Ende der Neunziger Jahre die amerikanische Öffentlichkeit gegens ich aufbrachte.
Die zehnte Auflage bringt das Buch mit einem Update des Musikjournalisten Maik Koltermann und einer ergänzten Diskografie auf den Stand von 2006.]]> 275 Marilyn Manson 0060987464 Brooke 4 favourites 3.81 1998 The Long Hard Road Out of Hell: A shocking, candid memoir tracing Marilyn Manson's rise from frightened Christian schoolboy to feared rock superstar
author: Marilyn Manson
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average rating: 3.81
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]]> Right Behind You 514771 304 Gail Giles 0316166367 Brooke 0 to-read 4.02 2007 Right Behind You
author: Gail Giles
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average rating: 4.02
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]]> An Abundance of Katherines 49750 Katherine X just wanted to be friends
Katherine XVIII dumped him in an e-mail
K-19 broke his heart

When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type happens to be girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact.

On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy-loving best friend riding shotgun--but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl.

Love, friendship, and a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself.]]> 229 John Green 0525476881 Brooke 4 3.54 2006 An Abundance of Katherines
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]]> <![CDATA[God, If You're Not Up There, I'm F*cked]]> 11210802 Bossypants meets David Carr’s The Night of the Gun in Darrell Hammond’s groundbreaking memoir, God, If You’re Not Up There, I’m F*cked—a raw look inside the troubled life and mind of an American comic genius. By turns poignant and hilarious, Hammond takes readers from the set of Saturday Night Live, where he was the show’s longest-tenured cast member, to the drug-ridden streets of Harlem and into the twisting corridors of his own unflaggingly humorous consciousness. Mingling behind-the-scenes stories from television’s best-loved comedy series with a dark look inside a world-class funnyman, God If You’re Not Up There,I’m F*cked is a book sure to resonate with anyone who shares a talent for performance, a love of comedy, or a desire to know how an artist can climb from the deepest despair to the very top of his profession.]]> 273 Darrell Hammond 006206455X Brooke 2 3.74 2011 God, If You're Not Up There, I'm F*cked
author: Darrell Hammond
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.74
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]]> <![CDATA[Pushing the Limits (Pushing the Limits, #1)]]> 10194514 "I won't tell anyone, Echo. I promise." Noah tucked a curl behind my ear. It had been so long since someone touched me like he did. Why did it have to be Noah Hutchins? His dark brown eyes shifted to my covered arms. "You didn't do that-did you? It was done to you?" No one ever asked that question. They stared. They whispered. They laughed. But they never asked.

So wrong for each other...and yet so right.

No one knows what happened the night Echo Emerson went from popular girl with jock boyfriend to gossiped-about outsider with "freaky" scars on her arms. Even Echo can't remember the whole truth of that horrible night. All she knows is that she wants everything to go back to normal. But when Noah Hutchins, the smoking-hot, girl-using loner in the black leather jacket, explodes into her life with his tough attitude and surprising understanding, Echo's world shifts in ways she could never have imagined. They should have nothing in common. And with the secrets they both keep, being together is pretty much impossible. Yet the crazy attraction between them refuses to go away. And Echo has to ask herself just how far they can push the limits and what she'll risk for the one guy who might teach her how to love again...]]> 392 Katie McGarry 0373210493 Brooke 4 favourites 4.04 2012 Pushing the Limits (Pushing the Limits, #1)
author: Katie McGarry
name: Brooke
average rating: 4.04
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rating: 4
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]]> Sweethearts 2020935
When Cameron suddenly reappears, they are both confronted with memories of their shared past and the drastically different paths their lives have taken.

From the National Book Award nominated author of Story of a Girl, Sweethearts is a story about the power of memory, the bond of friendship, and the quiet resilience of our childhood hearts.]]> 217 Sara Zarr 0316014559 Brooke 0 to-read 3.63 2008 Sweethearts
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average rating: 3.63
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]]> The Lucky Kind 8887261
Alyssa B. Sheinmel has written a powerfully gripping story about family secrets, falling in love, and finding luck in unexpected—and sometimes unwelcome—circumstances.]]> 208 Alyssa Sheinmel 0375867856 Brooke 0 to-read 3.36 2011 The Lucky Kind
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]]> Other Words for Love 8253694
When an unexpected inheritance enables Ari to transfer to an elite Manhattan prep school, she makes a wealthy new friend, Leigh. Leigh introduces Ari to the glamorous side of New York—and to her gorgeous cousin, Blake. Ari doesn't think she stands a chance, but amazingly, Blake asks her out. As their romance heats up, they find themselves involved in an intense, consuming relationship. Ari's family worries that she is losing touch with the important things in life, like family, hard work, and planning for the future.

When misfortune befalls Blake's family, he pulls away, and Ari's world drains of color. As she struggles to get over the breakup, Ari must finally ask herself: were their feelings true love . . . or something else?]]> 355 Lorraine Zago Rosenthal 038573901X Brooke 0 to-read 3.88 2011 Other Words for Love
author: Lorraine Zago Rosenthal
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.88
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]]> <![CDATA[The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)]]> 2118745
But how do you escape when your pursuers can hear your every thought?]]> 479 Patrick Ness 1406310255 Brooke 0 to-read 3.95 2008 The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)
author: Patrick Ness
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.95
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]]> <![CDATA[Alice in Zombieland (White Rabbit Chronicles, #1)]]> 11300302 She won't rest until she's sent every walking corpse back to its grave. Forever.

If anyone had told Alice Bell that her entire life would change course between one heartbeat and the next, she would have laughed. From blissful to tragic, innocent to ruined? Please. But that's all it took. One heartbeat. A blink, a breath, a second, and everything she knew and loved was gone.

Her father was right. The monsters are real.

To avenge her family, Ali must learn to fight the undead. To survive, she must learn to trust the baddest of the bad boys, Cole Holland. But Cole has secrets of his own, and if Ali isn't careful, those secrets might just prove to be more dangerous than the zombies.]]> 404 Gena Showalter 0373210582 Brooke 0 to-read 4.04 2012 Alice in Zombieland (White Rabbit Chronicles, #1)
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average rating: 4.04
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]]> The Fault in Our Stars 11870085
Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green's most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.]]> 313 John Green Brooke 4 favourites 4.13 2012 The Fault in Our Stars
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]]> Because I Am Furniture 4294292 352 Thalia Chaltas 0670062987 Brooke 0 to-read 3.84 2009 Because I Am Furniture
author: Thalia Chaltas
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.84
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]]> Skin Game 47067 Skin Game employs clear language and candid reflection to grant general readers as well as students an uncensored profile of a complex and unsettling disorder. "[This] mesmeric memoir examines the obsession with cutting that is believed to afflict somewhere around two million Americans, nearly all of them female," Francine Prose noted in Elle. "[Kettlewell's] language soars and its intensity deepens whenever she is recalling the lost joys and the thrilling sensation of sharp steel against her tender skin."
]]> 192 Caroline Kettlewell 0312263937 Brooke 0 to-read 3.76 1999 Skin Game
author: Caroline Kettlewell
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.76
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]]> Everything Left Unsaid 14622354
Tai and Juliet have been best friends forever – since they met at kindy and decided to get married in first grade.

They understand each other in the way that only best friends can.

They love music, beach walks, energy drinks and, they are slowly discovering, each other.

As they dream of adventures beyond the HSC – a future free of homework, curfews and parents, a life together – their plans are suddenly and dramatically derailed.

For Tai is sick.

And not everything you wish for can come true.

A poignant story of first love, hope, grief, family, and the twistedness of life.]]> 301 Jessica Davidson 0330424955 Brooke 0 to-read 4.04 2012 Everything Left Unsaid
author: Jessica Davidson
name: Brooke
average rating: 4.04
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]]> <![CDATA[Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep]]> 13629711 An engrossing examination of the science behind the little-known world of sleep.

Like many of us, journalist David K. Randall never gave sleep much thought. That is, until he began sleepwalking. One midnight crash into a hallway wall sent him on an investigation into the strange science of sleep.

In Dreamland, Randall explores the research that is investigating those dark hours that make up nearly a third of our lives. Taking readers from military battlefields to children 's bedrooms, Dreamland shows that sleep isn't as simple as it seems. Why did the results of one sleep study change the bookmakers odds for certain Monday Night Football games? Do women sleep differently than men? And if you happen to kill someone while you are sleepwalking, does that count as murder?

This book is a tour of the often odd, sometimes disturbing, and always fascinating things that go on in the peculiar world of sleep. You ll never look at your pillow the same way again.]]> 290 David K. Randall 039308020X Brooke 0 to-read 3.69 2012 Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep
author: David K. Randall
name: Brooke
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]]> Exposed 8320987 In the dim light of the darkroom, I'm alone, but not for long.
As white turns to gray, Kate is with me.
The background of the dance studio blurred, so the focus is all on her
legs extended in a perfect soaring split.
The straight line to my squiggle,
my forever-best friend.

Sixteen-year-old Liz is Photogirl—sharp, focused and confident in what she sees through her camera lens. Confident that she and Kate will be best friends forever.

But everything changes in one blurry night. Suddenly, Kate is avoiding her, and people are looking the other way when she passes in the halls. As the aftershocks from a startling accusation rip through Liz's world, everything she thought she knew about photography, family, friendship and herself shifts out of focus. What happens when the picture you see no longer makes sense? What do you do when you may lose everything you love most? Told in stunning, searingly raw free verse, Exposed is Kimberly Marcus's gut-wrenching, riveting debut and will appeal to fans of Ellen Hopkins, Laurie Halse Anderson and Virginia Euwer Wolff.]]> 255 Kimberly Marcus 0375866930 Brooke 0 to-read 3.72 2011 Exposed
author: Kimberly Marcus
name: Brooke
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]]> Lark 9266790 192 Tracey Porter 0061122874 Brooke 0 to-read 3.40 2011 Lark
author: Tracey Porter
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.40
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]]> Miles from Ordinary 8814993 seems so much better these days, and they really do need the money. But as the hours tick by and memories come flooding back, a day full of hope spins terrifyingly out of control...

Now this award-winning YA author brings us an equally gripping story of a girl who loves her mother, but must face the truth of what life with that mother means for both of them.]]> 197 Carol Lynch Williams 0312555121 Brooke 0 to-read 3.47 2011 Miles from Ordinary
author: Carol Lynch Williams
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.47
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]]> Speechless 13069681 Everyone knows that Chelsea Knot can't keep a secret

Until now. Because the last secret she shared turned her into a social outcast—and nearly got someone killed.

Now Chelsea has taken a vow of silence—to learn to keep her mouth shut, and to stop hurting anyone else. And if she thinks keeping secrets is hard, not speaking up when she's ignored, ridiculed and even attacked is worse.

But there's strength in silence, and in the new friends who are, shockingly, coming her way—people she never noticed before; a boy she might even fall for. If only her new friends can forgive what she's done. If only she can forgive herself.]]> 288 Hannah Harrington 0373210523 Brooke 0 to-read 3.97 2012 Speechless
author: Hannah Harrington
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.97
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]]> Only Ever Always 10920730 This city's crumbling to nothing, to rubble around me. I walk and walk and scour and soft and quarry. I find what's left.

Claire lives in an ordinary world where everything is whole. But inside, Claire is broken, so she retreats into a dreamscape.

Clara's world has always been broken. She avoids the seamy side when she can, but with powerful people pulling the strings, it's not always possible.

Clair's and Clara's paths are set to collide, and each has much to lose - or gain]]> 157 Penni Russon 174175044X Brooke 1 didnt-finish 3.50 2011 Only Ever Always
author: Penni Russon
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.50
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rating: 1
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I didn't actually finish this it just wasnt the kinda book I found intresting but the way it's written is quite intresting and enjoyable to read . However after a while I just lost intrest and decided not to finish it because I really hate finishing a book just because I feel I have to. I still think that others might enjoy it it just wasnt my kinda book .
]]> If I Stay (If I Stay, #1) 4374400 208 Gayle Forman 0525421033 Brooke 2 3.92 2009 If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
author: Gayle Forman
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.92
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rating: 2
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It was meh. It had nothing that really kept me reading in the end I just finished it because I had already read half .It wasnt bad though I just felt as though it was lacking something but I kinda enjoyed it ,some parts were good and I still might read the next book 'where she went ' . It was OK.
]]> Before I Go to Sleep 9736930 359 S.J. Watson 0062060554 Brooke 0 to-read 3.90 2011 Before I Go to Sleep
author: S.J. Watson
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.90
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]]> Crazy 6376527
Both heartbreaking and funny, Crazy lives up to the intense and compelling characters Han Nolan is praised for. As Jason himself teeters on the edge of insanity, Nolan uncovers the clever coping system he develops for himself and throws him a lifeline in the guise of friendship.]]> 352 Han Nolan 0152051090 Brooke 0 to-read 4.02 2010 Crazy
author: Han Nolan
name: Brooke
average rating: 4.02
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]]> Identical 2241059 Or in a better place?

Kaeleigh and Raeanne are identical down to the dimple. As daughters of a district-court judge father and a politician mother, they are an all-American family—on the surface. Behind the facade each sister has her own dark secret, and that's where their differences begin.

For Kaeleigh, she's the misplaced focus of Daddy's love, intended for a mother whose presence on the campaign trail means absence at home. All that Raeanne sees is Daddy playing a game of favorites—and she is losing. If she has to lose, she will do it on her own terms, so she chooses drugs, alcohol, and sex.

Secrets like the ones the twins are harboring are not meant to be kept—from each other or anyone else. Pretty soon it's obvious that neither sister can handle it alone, and one sister must step up to save the other, but the question is—who?]]> 565 Ellen Hopkins 1416950052 Brooke 0 to-read 4.29 2008 Identical
author: Ellen Hopkins
name: Brooke
average rating: 4.29
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]]> <![CDATA[So Much to Tell You (So Much to Tell You, #1)]]> 51167 150 John Marsden 184428946X Brooke 0 to-read 3.83 1987 So Much to Tell You (So Much to Tell You, #1)
author: John Marsden
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1987
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]]> Babe in Boyland 8101452 and girls in ways she never expected-especially when she falls for her dreamy roommate, Emilio. How can she show him she likes him without blowing her cover?]]> 292 Jody Gehrman 0803732740 Brooke 0 to-read 3.66 2011 Babe in Boyland
author: Jody Gehrman
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.66
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]]> Where Things Come Back 8563789
In the summer before Cullen's senior year, a nominally-depressed birdwatcher named John Barling thinks he spots a species of woodpecker thought to be extinct since the 1940s in Lily, Arkansas. His rediscovery of the so-called Lazarus Woodpecker sparks a flurry of press and woodpecker-mania. Soon all the kids are getting woodpecker haircuts and everyone's eating "Lazarus burgers." But as absurd as the town's carnival atmosphere has become, nothing is more startling than the realization that Cullen’s sensitive, gifted fifteen-year-old brother Gabriel has suddenly and inexplicably disappeared.

While Cullen navigates his way through a summer of finding and losing love, holding his fragile family together, and muddling his way into adulthood, a young missionary in Africa, who has lost his faith, is searching for any semblance of meaning wherever he can find it. As distant as the two stories seem at the start, they are thoughtfully woven ever closer together and through masterful plotting, brought face to face in a surprising and harrowing climax.

Complex but truly extraordinary, tinged with melancholy and regret, comedy and absurdity, this novel finds wonder in the ordinary and emerges as ultimately hopeful. It's about a lot more than what Cullen calls, “that damn bird.” It’s about the dream of second chances.]]> 228 John Corey Whaley 1442413336 Brooke 0 to-read 3.80 2011 Where Things Come Back
author: John Corey Whaley
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.80
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]]> Thyla (Thyla, #1) 10295809
A thrilling paranormal tale of shapeshifting, a centuries-old war, and finding out who you really are when your memories betray you.]]> 279 Kate Gordon 1864718811 Brooke 0 to-read 3.68 2011 Thyla (Thyla, #1)
author: Kate Gordon
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.68
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]]> Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1) 10429045 I have a curse
I have a gift

I am a monster
I'm more than human

My touch is lethal
My touch is power

I am their weapon
I will fight back

Juliette hasn't touched anyone in exactly 264 days.

The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal. As long as she doesn't hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don't fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.

The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war—and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she's exactly what they need right now.

Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.]]> 338 Tahereh Mafi 0062085484 Brooke 0 to-read 3.86 2011 Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
author: Tahereh Mafi
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.86
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]]> All Unquiet Things 6370307
Neily: Dumped by Carly for a notorious bad boy, Neily didn't answer the phone call she made before she died. If he had, maybe he could have helped her. Now he can't get the image of her lifeless body out of his mind.

Audrey: She's the reason Carly got tangled up with Brighton's fast crowd in the first place, and now she regrets it,”especially since she's convinced the police have put the wrong person in jail. Audrey thinks the murderer is someone at Brighton, and she wants Neily to help her find out who it is.

As reluctant allies Neily and Audrey dig into their shared past with Carly, her involvement with Brighton's dark goings-on comes to light. But figuring out how Carly and her killer fit into the twisted drama will force Audrey and Neily to face hard truths about themselves and the girl they couldn't save.]]> 337 Anna Jarzab 0385738358 Brooke 0 to-read 3.83 2009 All Unquiet Things
author: Anna Jarzab
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.83
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]]> <![CDATA[What Happened to Cass McBride?]]> 315884 Kyle Kirby has planned a cruel and unusual revenge on Cass McBride, the most popular girl in school, for the death of his brother David. He digs a hole. Drugs Cass. Kidnaps her. Puts her in a box-underground. He buries her alive. But Kyle makes a fatal error: Cass knows the power of words. She uses fear as her weapon to keep her nemesis talking - and to keep herself breathing during the most harrowing 48 hours of her life.

A vivid, complex, and insightful work of suspense.

]]> 240 Gail Giles 0316166391 Brooke 0 to-read 3.72 2006 What Happened to Cass McBride?
author: Gail Giles
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.72
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]]> <![CDATA[The Gospel According to Larry (Gospel According to Larry, #1)]]> 319421
Josh Swensen is not your average 17-year-old. At the age of two, he was figuring out algebraic equations with colored magnetic numbers. He is a prodigy who only wants to make the world a better place. Josh’s wish comes true when his virtual alter ego, Larry, becomes a huge media sensation. Larry has his own Web site where he posts sermons on anti-consumerism and has a large following of adults and teens. Meanwhile, Larry’s identity is a mystery to everyone. While it seems as if the whole world is trying to figure out Larry’s true identity, Josh feels trapped inside his own creation. What will happen to the world, and to Larry, if he is exposed?]]> 240 Janet Tashjian 0141318341 Brooke 0 to-read 3.76 2001 The Gospel According to Larry (Gospel According to Larry, #1)
author: Janet Tashjian
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2001
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]]> What Happened to Lani Garver 347639
Claire McKenzie isn't up to tormenting Lani with the rest of the high school elite. Instead, she befriends the intriguing outcast. But within days of Lani's arrival, tragedy strikes and Claire must deal with shattered friendships and personal demons--and the possibility that angels may exist on earth.]]> 336 Carol Plum-Ucci 0152050884 Brooke 0 to-read 4.05 2002 What Happened to Lani Garver
author: Carol Plum-Ucci
name: Brooke
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2002
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]]> Glimpse 7164005 it is over.

In one moment
it is gone.

The morning grows
thin, grey
and our lives—
how they were—
have vanished.

Our lives have
changed
when I walk in
on Lizzie
my sister

holding a shotgun.

Twelve year old girl Hope's life is turned upside down when her older sister Lizzie becomes an elective mute and is institutionalized after trying to kill herself.

With raw and haunting writing reminiscent of Ellen Hopkins and Elizabeth Scott, Carol Lynch Williams is a promising new YA voice.]]> 487 Carol Lynch Williams 141699730X Brooke 0 to-read 3.85 2010 Glimpse
author: Carol Lynch Williams
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.85
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]]> <![CDATA[The Declaration (The Declaration, #1)]]> 1722717 320 Gemma Malley 1599901196 Brooke 0 to-read 3.71 2007 The Declaration (The Declaration, #1)
author: Gemma Malley
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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]]> Such a Pretty Girl 162086 212 Laura Wiess 1416521836 Brooke 0 to-read, read-first 3.87 2007 Such a Pretty Girl
author: Laura Wiess
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.87
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]]> Between Here and Forever 9559665
Until the accident.

Now Tess is in a coma, and Abby’s life is on hold. It may have been hard living with Tess, but it's nothing compared to living without her.

She's got a plan to bring Tess back though, involving the gorgeous and mysterious Eli, but then Abby learns something about Tess, something that was always there, but that she’d never seen.

Abby is about to find out that truth isn't always what you think it is, and that life holds more than she ever thought it could...]]> 250 Elizabeth Scott 141699484X Brooke 0 to-read 3.71 2011 Between Here and Forever
author: Elizabeth Scott
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.71
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]]> Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List 23230 And she's kinda in love with him.

Ely loves Naomi.
But he prefers to be in love with boys.

Naomi and Ely have been inseparable since childhood - partially because they've grown up across the hall from each other in the same Manhattan apartment building, and also because they're best friends. Soul mates. Or are they? Just to be safe, they've created a NO KISS LIST - their list of people who are absolutely off-kissing-limits for both of them. The NO KISS LIST protects their friendship and ensures that nothing will rock the foundation of Naomi and Ely: the institution.

Until Ely kisses Naomi's boyfriend. And a fateful piece of chewing gum in the wrong place at the wrong time changes everything.

Soon a rift of universal proportions threatens to destroy their friendship, and it remains to be seen whether Naomi and Ely can find their way toward new soul-mate prospects...and back to one another.

Rachel Cohn and David Levithan have written a love story about love of all kinds, one that reminds us that any great friendship can be as confusing, treacherous, inspiring, and wonderful as any great romance.]]> 230 Rachel Cohn 0375844406 Brooke 0 to-read 3.43 2007 Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
author: Rachel Cohn
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.43
book published: 2007
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]]> XVI (XVI, #1) 6933141 Every girl gets one.
An XVI tattoo on the wrist--sixteen.

Some girls can't wait to be sixteen, to be legal. Nina is not one of them. Even though she has no choice in the matter, she knows that so long as her life continues as normal, everything will be okay.

Then, with one brutal strike, Nina's normal is shattered; and she discovers that nothing that she believed about her life is true. But there's one boy who can help--and he just may hold the key to her past.

But with the line between attraction and danger as thin as a whisper, one thing is for sure...

For Nina, turning sixteen promises to be anything but sweet]]> 325 Julia Karr 0142417718 Brooke 0 to-read 3.46 2011 XVI (XVI, #1)
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name: Brooke
average rating: 3.46
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]]> Red Tears 1310455 240 Joanna Kenrick 0571234836 Brooke 0 to-read 3.90 2007 Red Tears
author: Joanna Kenrick
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]]> Lessons from a Dead Girl 451220
Leah Greene is dead. For Laine, knowing what really happened and the awful feeling that she is, in some way, responsible set her on a journey of painful self-discovery. Yes, she wished for this. She hated Leah that much. Hated her for all the times in the closet, when Leah made her do those things. They were just practicing, Leah said. But why did Leah choose her? Was she special, or just easy to control? And why didn’t Laine make it stop sooner? In the aftermath of the tragedy, Laine is left to explore the devastating lessons Leah taught her, find some meaning in them, and decide whether she can forgive Leah and, ultimately, herself.]]> 215 Jo Knowles 0763632791 Brooke 0 to-read 3.85 2007 Lessons from a Dead Girl
author: Jo Knowles
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.85
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]]> I Don't Want To Be Crazy 32377
This is a true story of growing up, breaking down, and coming to grips with a psychological disorder. When Samantha Schutz first left home for college, she was excited by the possibilities -- freedom from parents, freedom from a boyfriend who was reckless with her affections, freedom from the person she was supposed to be. At first, she revelled in the independence ... but as pressures increased , she began to suffer anxiety attacks that would leave her mentally shaken and physically incapacitated. Thus began a hard road of discovery and coping, powerfully rendered in this poetry memoir.]]> 280 Samantha Schutz 043980518X Brooke 0 to-read 3.81 2006 I Don't Want To Be Crazy
author: Samantha Schutz
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2006
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]]> Paper Towns 2914097 Who is the real Margo?

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows. After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew...]]> 305 John Green 0525478183 Brooke 0 to-read 4.00 2008 Paper Towns
author: John Green
name: Brooke
average rating: 4.00
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]]> Sarah's Key 556602
Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's sixtieth anniversary, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist, is asked by her Paris-based American magazine to write an article about this black day in France's past. Julia has lived in Paris for nearly twenty-five years, married a Frenchman, and she is shocked both by her ignorance about the event and the silence that still surrounds it. In the course of her investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connects her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl's ordeal, from the terrible days spent shut in at the Vel' d'Hiv' to the camps and beyond. As she probes into Sarah's past, she begins to question her own place in France and to reevaluate her marriage and her life.

Writing about the fate of her country with a pitiless clarity, Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and denial surrounding this painful episode in French history.
(front flap)]]> 294 Tatiana de Rosnay 0312370830 Brooke 0 to-read 4.18 2006 Sarah's Key
author: Tatiana de Rosnay
name: Brooke
average rating: 4.18
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]]> <![CDATA[The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight]]> 10798416
Today should be one of the worst days of seventeen-year-old Hadley Sullivan's life. Having missed her flight, she's stuck at JFK airport and late to her father's second wedding, which is taking place in London and involves a soon-to-be stepmother Hadley's never even met. Then she meets the perfect boy in the airport's cramped waiting area. His name is Oliver, he's British, and he's sitting in her row.

A long night on the plane passes in the blink of an eye, and Hadley and Oliver lose track of each other in the airport chaos upon arrival. Can fate intervene to bring them together once more?

Quirks of timing play out in this romantic and cinematic novel about family connections, second chances, and first loves. Set over a twenty-four-hour-period, Hadley and Oliver's story will make you believe that true love finds you when you're least expecting it.]]> 236 Jennifer E. Smith 0316122386 Brooke 0 to-read 3.75 2012 The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
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average rating: 3.75
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]]> The BFG 6319
When Sophie hears that they are flush-bunking off in England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going to help her!]]> 199 Roald Dahl 0141311371 Brooke 2 4.23 1982 The BFG
author: Roald Dahl
name: Brooke
average rating: 4.23
book published: 1982
rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes]]> 6331 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and Dahl's other books, with easy, step-by-step recipes that range from the delectable to the truly revolting. Quentin Blake's illustrations combine with full-color photographs of the luscious results to perfectly capture Roald Dahl's wicked sense of fun.

"Deliciously playful. Dahl, one suspects, would have been tickled." -- Publishers Weekly

The late Roald Dahl was one of the most beloved storytellers of all time. Quentin Blake has illustrated more than a dozen books by Roald Dahl.]]> 64 Roald Dahl 0140378200 Brooke 2 3.95 1994 Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes
author: Roald Dahl
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1994
rating: 2
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]]> Fury 8159643 Not just the facts I know you want to hear.
If I’m going to tell you my story,
I’m telling it my way.

Strap yourself in...

Eliza Boans has everything.
A big house.
A great education.
A bright future.

So why is she sitting in a police station confessing to murder?]]> 280 Shirley Marr 1742031323 Brooke 0 to-read 3.62 2010 Fury
author: Shirley Marr
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.62
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]]> Before I Die 1314332
Tessa has just months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, drugs with excruciating side-effects, Tessa compiles a list. It’s her To Do Before I Die list. And number one is Sex. Released from the constraints of ‘normal’ life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up. Tessa’s feelings, her relationships with her father and brother, her estranged mother, her best friend, and her new boyfriend, all are painfully crystallised in the precious weeks before Tessa’s time finally runs out.]]> 336 Jenny Downham 0385613466 Brooke 0 to-read 3.84 2007 Before I Die
author: Jenny Downham
name: Brooke
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]]> <![CDATA[The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks]]> 1629601
Frankie Landau-Banks at age 15: A knockout figure. A sharp tongue. A chip on her shoulder. And a gorgeous new senior boyfriend: the supremely goofy, word-obsessed Matthew Livingston.

Frankie Landau-Banks, at age 16: No longer the kind of girl to take "no" for an answer and possibly a criminal mastermind. This is the story of how she got that way.

Frankie Landau-Banks. No longer the kind of girl to take "no" for an answer. Especially when "no" means she's excluded from her boyfriend's all-male secret society. Not when her ex-boyfriend shows up in the strangest of places. Not when she knows she's smarter than any of them. When she knows Matthew's lying to her. And when there are so many, many pranks to be done.]]> 342 E. Lockhart 0786838183 Brooke 0 to-read 3.80 2008 The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
author: E. Lockhart
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.80
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]]> Please Ignore Vera Dietz 6665671  
So when Charlie dies in dark circumstances, Vera knows a lot more than anyone—the kids at school, his family, even the police. But will she emerge to clear his name? Does she even want to?
 
Edgy and gripping, Please Ignore Vera Dietz is an unforgettable smart, funny, dramatic, and always surprising.]]> 327 A.S. King 0375865861 Brooke 0 to-read 3.87 2010 Please Ignore Vera Dietz
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name: Brooke
average rating: 3.87
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]]> The Sweetest Thing 8887183
But Sheridan is convinced finding her mom will solve all her problems—only her dad’s about to get a cooking show in New York, which means her dream of a perfect family will be dashed.]]> 336 Christina Mandelski 1606841297 Brooke 0 to-read 3.61 2011 The Sweetest Thing
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]]> <![CDATA[A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life]]> 110733
Then her birth mother contacts her. Simone’s always known she was adopted, but she never wanted to know anything about it. She’s happy with her family just as it is, thank you.

She learns who her birth mother was–a 16-year-old girl named Rivka. Who is Rivka? Why has she contacted Simone? Why now? The answers lead Simone to deeper feelings of anguish and love than she has ever known, and to question everything she once took for granted about faith, life, the afterlife, and what it means to be a daughter.]]> 240 Dana Reinhardt 0385746989 Brooke 0 to-read 3.73 2006 A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life
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name: Brooke
average rating: 3.73
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]]> Awaken (Awaken, #1) 8665876
Suddenly, Maddie feels something awakening inside her—a feeling that maybe there is a different, better way to live. But with society and her parents telling her otherwise, Maddie is going to have to learn to stand up for herself if she wants to change the path her life is taking.

In this not-so-brave new world, two young people struggle to carve out their own space.]]> 309 Katie Kacvinsky 0547371489 Brooke 0 to-read, read-first 3.90 2011 Awaken (Awaken, #1)
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name: Brooke
average rating: 3.90
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]]> Darkwater 8539683
Her body was found floating facedown by the riverbank, and no one knows what happened. As rumours fly and fear grows, it seems that everyone suspects Lyndon, one of Amanda's friends. He's known for his temper, his cruelty and his criminal family - and now the police want to talk to him.

It's the end of summer, 1973, the heat is enough to melt asphalt and a sleepy riverside suburb is losing some of its innocence. Fifteen-year-old Winter went to the same school and hung out in the same places as Amanda. As she finds herself alone in trying to defend Lyndon, Winter learns that you can never really know someone - and the answers she has been looking for are closer than she has ever wanted to believe.]]> 278 Georgia Blain Brooke 0 to-read 3.42 2010 Darkwater
author: Georgia Blain
name: Brooke
average rating: 3.42
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]]> Hard Love 790289 Since his parents' divorce, John's mother hasn't touched him, her new fiancé wants them to move away, and his father would rather be anywhere than at Friday night dinner with his son. It's no wonder John writes articles like "Interview with the Stepfather" and "Memoirs from Hell." The only release he finds is in homemade zines like the amazing Escape Velocity by Marisol, a self-proclaimed "Puerto Rican Cuban Yankee Lesbian." Haning around the Boston Tower Records for the new issue of Escape Velocity, John meets Marisol and a hard love is born.


While at first their friendship is based on zines, dysfunctional families, and dreams of escape, soon both John and Marisol begin to shed their protective shells. Unfortunately, John mistakes this growing intimacy for love, and a disastrous date to his junior prom leaves that friendship in ruins. Desperately hoping to fix things, John convinces Marisol to come with him to a zine conference on Cape Cod. On the sandy beaches by the Bluefish Wharf Inn, John realizes just how hard love can be.


With keen insight into teenage life, Ellen Wittlinger delivers a story of adolescence that is fierce and funny — and ultimately transforming — even as it explores the pain of growing up.

]]> 224 Ellen Wittlinger 068984154X Brooke 0 to-read 3.77 1999 Hard Love
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]]> A Straight Line to My Heart 11293784 A funny, poignant, realistic story of Tiffany's first love and first job, and the inevitability of change in the first summer out of school School is over, not just for the year, but forever. Tiff and Kayla are free, which is what they've always wanted, but now summer is nearly at an end and that means life decisions. Tiff is hoping her job at the local paper will lead to something more, but "The Shark" soon puts her straight on what it takes to become a hard-nosed reporter like him. At home, Reggie—the only grandad she's ever known—has quit smoking and diagnosed himself as a cactus, and then Kayla hits her with some big news. And into all this stumbles Davey, who plays rugby but quotes Truman Capote, and is the first boy who has ever really wanted to know her. Tiff is smart with words and rarely does tears, but in one short week she discovers that words don't always get you there; they don't let you say all the stuff from deep in your heart.]]> 228 Bill Condon 1742377300 Brooke 0 to-read 3.68 2011 A Straight Line to My Heart
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name: Brooke
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]]> <![CDATA[Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist]]> 25373
This he said/she said romance told by YA stars Rachel Cohn and David Levithan is a sexy, funny roller coaster of a story about one date over one very long night, with two teenagers, both recovering from broken hearts, who are just trying to figure out who they want to be- and where the next great band is playing.

Told in alternating chapters, teeming with music references, humor, angst, and endearing side characters, this is a love story you'll wish were your very own. Working together for the first time, Rachel Cohn and David Levithan have combined forces to create a book that is sure to grab readers of all ages and never let them go.]]> 183 Rachel Cohn 0375835318 Brooke 0 to-read 3.71 2006 Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
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name: Brooke
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]]> Twenty Boy Summer 5231173 "Don’t worry, Anna. I’ll tell her, okay? Just let me think about the best way to do it."
"Okay."
"Promise me? Promise you won’t say anything?"
"Don’t worry.” I laughed. “It’s our secret, right?"

According to Anna’s best friend, Frankie, twenty days in Zanzibar Bay is the perfect opportunity to have a summer fling, and if they meet one boy every day, there’s a pretty good chance Anna will find her first summer romance. Anna lightheartedly agrees to the game, but there’s something she hasn’t told Frankie–she’s already had her romance, and it was with Frankie’s older brother, Matt, just before his tragic death one year ago.

TWENTY BOY SUMMER explores what it truly means to love someone, what it means to grieve, and ultimately, how to make the most of every beautiful moment life has to offer.]]> 290 Sarah Ockler 0316051594 Brooke 0 to-read 3.89 2009 Twenty Boy Summer
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name: Brooke
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]]> <![CDATA[Wither (The Chemical Garden, #1)]]> 8525590
When Rhine is kidnapped and sold as a bride, she vows to do all she can to escape. Her husband, Linden, is hopelessly in love with her, and Rhine can't bring herself to hate him as much as she'd like to. He opens her to a magical world of wealth and illusion she never thought existed, and it almost makes it possible to ignore the clock ticking away her short life. But Rhine quickly learns that not everything in her new husband's strange world is what it seems. Her father-in-law, an eccentric doctor bent on finding the antidote, is hoarding corpses in the basement. Her fellow sister wives are to be trusted one day and feared the next, and Rhine is desperate to communicate to her twin brother that she is safe and alive. Will Rhine be able to escape--before her time runs out?

Together with one of Linden's servants, Gabriel, Rhine attempts to escape just before her seventeenth birthday. But in a world that continues to spiral into anarchy, is there any hope for freedom?]]> 358 Lauren DeStefano 1442409053 Brooke 0 to-read 3.80 2011 Wither (The Chemical Garden, #1)
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name: Brooke
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]]> The Everafter 6371243 Her first kiss.

A trip to Disney World.

Her sister's wedding.

A disastrous sleepover.

In reliving these moments, Maddy learns illuminating and frightening truths about her life - and death.

]]> 248 Amy Huntley 0061776793 Brooke 0 to-read 3.72 2009 The Everafter
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name: Brooke
average rating: 3.72
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]]> Hold Still 6373717
dear caitlin, there are so many things that i want so badly to tell you but i just can’t.

Devastating, hopeful, hopeless, playful . . . in words and illustrations, Ingrid left behind a painful farewell in her journal for Caitlin. Now Caitlin is left alone, by loss and by choice, struggling to find renewed hope in the wake of her best friend’s suicide. With the help of family and newfound friends, Caitlin will encounter first love, broaden her horizons, and start to realize that true friendship didn’t die with Ingrid. And the journal which once seemed only to chronicle Ingrid’s descent into depression, becomes the tool by which Caitlin once again reaches out to all those who loved Ingrid—and Caitlin herself.]]> 230 Nina LaCour 0525421556 Brooke 0 to-read 3.99 2009 Hold Still
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]]> Revolting Rhymes 6328 Revolting Rhymes.

This book is filled with revolting rhymes.
(Be warned: It's no ordinary Once upon a time).

There's poor Cindy whose heart was torn to shreds, because her Prince, he chops off heads!

Snow White's dwarfs although awfully nice, are guilty of one shocking vice . . .

And what becomes of Goldilocks, that nasty thieving little louse, when she goes sneaking around the three bear's house . . .

Listen to REVOLTING RHYMES and other Roald Dahl audiobooks read by some very famous voices, including Kate Winslet, David Walliams and Steven Fry - plus there are added squelchy soundeffects from Pinewood Studios!

Look out for new Roald Dahl apps in the App store and Google Play- including the disgusting TWIT OR MISS! inspired by the revolting Twits.]]> 32 Roald Dahl 0142302260 Brooke 5 favourites 4.14 1982 Revolting Rhymes
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name: Brooke
average rating: 4.14
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rating: 5
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]]> The Roald Dahl Treasury 6329 448 Roald Dahl 067003665X Brooke 4 favourites 4.41 1995 The Roald Dahl Treasury
author: Roald Dahl
name: Brooke
average rating: 4.41
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rating: 4
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]]> The Witches 6327 Note: This edition shares ISBN 0590032496 with another edition.

This is not a fairy-tale. This is about real witches. Real witches don't ride around on broomsticks. They don't even wear black cloaks and hats. They are vile, cunning, detestable creatures who disguise themselves as nice, ordinary ladies. So how can you tell when you're face to face with one? Well, if you don't know yet you'd better find out quickly-because there's nothing a witch loathes quite as much as children and she'll wield all kinds of terrifying powers to get rid of them.]]> 208 Roald Dahl 0590032496 Brooke 4 4.18 1983 The Witches
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name: Brooke
average rating: 4.18
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]]> Matilda 39988 “The Trunchbull” is no match for Matilda!

Matilda is a little girl who is far too good to be true. At age five-and-a-half she's knocking off double-digit multiplication problems and blitz-reading Dickens. Even more remarkably, her classmates love her even though she's a super-nerd and the teacher's pet. But everything is not perfect in Matilda's world...

For starters she has two of the most idiotic, self-centered parents who ever lived. Then there's the large, busty nightmare of a school principal, Miss ("The") Trunchbull, a former hammer-throwing champion who flings children at will, and is approximately as sympathetic as a bulldozer. Fortunately for Matilda, she has the inner resources to deal with such annoyances: astonishing intelligence, saintly patience, and an innate predilection for revenge.

Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter-pilot, chocolate historian, and medical inventor. He was also the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG, and many more brilliant stories. He remains the World's No. 1 Storyteller.]]> 240 Roald Dahl 043512398X Brooke 3 4.34 1988 Matilda
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name: Brooke
average rating: 4.34
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]]> Matched (Matched, #1) 7735333
Cassia has always trusted their choices. It’s hardly any price to pay for a long life, the perfect job, the ideal mate. So when her best friend appears on the Matching screen, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is the one…until she sees another face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. Now Cassia is faced with impossible choices: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she’s known and a path no one else has ever dared follow—between perfection and passion.

Matched is a story for right now and storytelling with the resonance of a classic.]]> 369 Ally Condie 0525423648 Brooke 0 to-read 3.62 2010 Matched (Matched, #1)
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name: Brooke
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]]> <![CDATA[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)]]> 6310 (back cover)]]> 176 Roald Dahl 0142403881 Brooke 4 4.16 1964 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)
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name: Brooke
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1964
rating: 4
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]]> Finding Alice 1036074
On the surface, Alice Laxton seems no different from any other college girl: bright, inquisitive, excited about the life ahead of her. But for years, a genetic time bomb has been ticking away. Because of Alice’s near-genius intelligence, teachers and counselors have always made excuses for her “little idiosyncrasies.” But during a stress-filled senior year at college, a new world of voices, visions, and unexplainable “knowledge” causes Alice to begin to lose her grip on reality.

As Alice’s schizophrenia progresses, she experiences a disturbing religious “awakening,” believing that God and angels and demons are speaking to her. When others attempt to intervene, Alice is subjected to a wide range of “treatments” even more frightening and painful than her illness.

Powerfully raw and brutally honest, Finding Alice is a story of individual suffering and hope, a family’s shared ordeal, and a search for true mental and spiritual healing.]]> 384 Melody Carlson 1578567734 Brooke 0 to-read, read-first 4.04 2003 Finding Alice
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]]> <![CDATA[I Never Promised You a Rose Garden]]> 45220 I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is the story of a sixteen-year-old who retreats from reality into the bondage of a lushly imagined but threatening kingdom, and her slow and painful journey back to sanity.

Chronicles the three-year battle of a mentally ill, but perceptive, teenage girl against a world of her own creation, emphasizing her relationship with the doctor who gave her the ammunition of self-understanding with which to help herself.

"I wrote this novel, which is a fictionalized autobiography, to give a picture of what being schizophrenic feels like and what can be accomplished with a trusting relationship between a gifted therapist and a willing patient. It is not a case history or study. I like to think it is a hymn to reality." —Joanne Greenberg]]> 252 Hannah Green 0451160312 Brooke 0 to-read, read-first 3.88 1964 I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
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]]> Bossypants 9418327
She has seen both these dreams come true.

At last, Tina Fey's story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon—from the beginning of this paragraph to this final sentence.

Tina Fey reveals all, and proves what we've all suspected: you're no one until someone calls you bossy.]]> 283 Tina Fey Brooke 0 to-read 3.97 2011 Bossypants
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]]> Scars 7531478 Scars is the unforgettable story of one girl's frightening path to the truth.]]> 248 Cheryl Rainfield 193481332X Brooke 0 to-read 4.15 2010 Scars
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average rating: 4.15
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]]> Suicide Notes 3097601 I'm not crazy. I don't see what the big deal is about what happened. But apparently someone does think it's a big deal because here I am. I bet it was my mother. She always overreacts.

Fifteen-year-old Jeff wakes up on New Year's Day to find himself in the hospital. Make that the psychiatric ward. With the nutjobs. Clearly, this is all a huge mistake. Forget about the bandages on his wrists and the notes on his chart. Forget about his problems with his best friend, Allie, and her boyfriend, Burke. Jeff's perfectly fine, perfectly normal, not like the other kids in the hospital with him. Now they've got problems. But a funny thing happens as his forty-five-day sentence drags on: the crazies start to seem less crazy.

Compelling, witty, and refreshingly real, Suicide Notes is a darkly humorous novel from award-winning author Michael Thomas Ford that examines that fuzzy line between "normal" and the rest of us.]]> 295 Michael Thomas Ford 0060737557 Brooke 0 to-read 3.80 2008 Suicide Notes
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average rating: 3.80
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]]> Speak 439288
In Laurie Halse Anderson's powerful novel, an utterly believable heroine with a bitterly ironic voice delivers a blow to the hypocritical world of high school. She speaks for many a disenfranchised teenager while demonstrating the importance of speaking up for oneself.]]> 202 Laurie Halse Anderson 014131088X Brooke 0 to-read 4.01 1999 Speak
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name: Brooke
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1999
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