Anna-Marie McLemore

Previously library owned so there are some library labels .

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

"An unforgettable story of trauma and healing, told in achingly beautiful prose with great tenderness and care." —#1 New York Times-bestselling author Karen M. McManus When two teens discover that they were both sexually assaulted at the same party, they develop a cautious friendship through her family’s possibly-magical pastelería, his secret forest of otherworldly trees, and the swallows returning to their hometown, in Anna-Marie McLemore's The Mirror Season... Graciela Cristales’ whole world changes after she and a boy she barely knows are assaulted at the same party. She loses her gift for making enchanted pan dulce. Neighborhood trees vanish overnight, while mirrored glass appears, bringing reckless magic with it. And Ciela is haunted by what happened to her, and what happened to the boy whose name she never learned. But when the boy, Lock, shows up at Ciela’s school, he has no memory of that night, and no clue that a single piece of mirrored glass is taking his life apart. Ciela decides to help him, which means hiding the truth about that night. Because Ciela knows who assaulted her, and him. And she knows that her survival, and his, depend on no one finding out what really happened.

The Mirror Season ⭐️SALE⭐️

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Dave Pelzer

The best-selling author of A Child Called "It" continues the inspirational story of his life as he reveals the story of his struggle through the challenges of adolescence, detailing the taunting he endured from bullies, the joys of making his first real friends, and his desperate quest to escape his difficult home life

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Texas

A Teenager's Story of Longing for Acceptance and Friendship

The author reveals the story of his struggle through the challenges of adolescence, detailing the taunting he endured from bullies, the joys of making his first real friends, and his quest to escape his difficult home life.

The Privilege of Youth

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Girl A

John Cullen

Yasmina Khadra

Colorado

Dr. Amin Jaafari, an Arab-Israeli citizen, is a surgeon at a hospital in Tel Aviv. Dedicated to his work, respected and admired by his colleagues and community, he represents integration at its most successful. He has learned to live with the violence and chaos that plague his city, and on the night of a deadly bombing in a local restaurant, he works tirelessly to help the shocked and shattered patients brought to the emergency room. But this night of turmoil and death takes a horrifyingly personal turn. His wife's body is found among the dead, with massive injuries, the police coldly announce, typical of those found on the bodies of fundamentalist suicide bombers. As evidence mounts that his wife, Sihem, was responsible for the catastrophic bombing, Dr. Jaafari is torn between cherished memories of their years together and the inescapable realization that the beautiful, intelligent, thoroughly modern woman he loved had a life far removed from the comfortable, assimilated existence they shared. From the graphic, beautifully rendered description of the bombing that opens the novel to the searing conclusion, The Attack portrays the reality of terrorism and its incalculable spiritual costs. Intense and humane, devoid of political bias, hatred, and polemics, it probes deep inside the Muslim world and gives readers a profound understanding of what seems impossible to understand.

The Attack

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Indiana

Takes on a journey as two mothers fight for the legacy of their sons in the aftermath of tragedy, bringing division to a small town.

A Promise to Remember

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Eleanor Choukas Anderson

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Novel

Something more troubling than an unhappy marriage calls Rebecca out into a rainy night with no shoes, no plans, and four young children in tow. She arrives unexpectedly at her childhood home, a haunted nineteenth-century mansion. She knocks on the door of her past and sets a year of extraordinary events into motion. Melanie muses that self-reflection is not for the faint of heart. To find grace one must explore all facets of human nature, however dark. She brings temperance, humor and compassion to her relationships and to her work as a psychotherapist. When her place of employment, the Southeast Counseling Center, is destabilized by malevolent leadership, Melanie’s psyche is strained by shadows almost too deep to fathom. After the birth of her second child, Pamela gives up all hope of regaining her lost youth. A numbing mist fills her emptiness as days bleed into years, and she takes on motherhood with impeccable care. But a sleeping ghost is roused when her adolescent son is treated for depression. With a mother’s empathy, Pamela faces her own demons, and in the process her passion is rekindled. With wind in her sails and fifty pounds lighter, she is on a mission to serve children, but her prospects for a new career are complicated by torn loyalties. Set in the mental health system against the vibrant backdrop of Vermont, Out of Her Shadow celebrates the feminine connection and its triumph over dark spells. Layers of despair and betrayal are eased by the love and laughter shared between sisters and their outrageous capacity to trump the law without breaking it.

Out of Her Shadow

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HC with dust jacket. DJ shows minimal wear. Tight binding. Pages in like new condition.

Aftershocks: A Memoir 

Pennsylvania

Twenty years ago, Emma, Mackenzie and Serena bonded over their New York City dreams. Then, each summer, they spent one week together at the lake. It's been five years since Emma has seen her friends, but now she's in desperate need of their support. But when a terrible accident keeps Emma from saying her piece, Serena and Mackenzie begin to learn about the past on their own. Now, to heal their friendship and their broken lives, the three women will have to return to the lake that once united them and discover which relationships are worth holding on to.

A Week at the Lake

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#suspense #thriller #medicalthriller #trauma 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Michael Palmer

Trauma

The #1 New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author who is a shining example of what overcoming adversity really means now shares the lost chapter of his uplifting journey, which has touched the lives of millions. 

From A Child Called “It” to The Lost Boy, from A Man Named Dave to Help Yourself, Dave Pelzer’s inspirational books have helped countless others triumph over hardship and misfortune. In The Privilege of Youth, he shares the missing chapter of his life: as a boy on the threshold of adulthood. With sensitivity and insight, he recounts the relentless taunting he endured from bullies; but he also describes the thrill of making his first real friends—some of whom he still shares close relationships with today. He writes about the simple pleasures of exploring his neighborhood, while trying to forget the hell waiting for him at home.
From high school to a world beyond the four walls that were his prison for so many years, The Privilege of Youth bravely and compassionately charts this crucial turning point in Dave Pelzer’s life and will inspire a whole new generation of readers.

Susanna Sonnenberg

Iowa

A Memoir

Sonnenberg's memoir illuminates her resolve to forge her independence, to become a woman capable of trust and to be a good mother to her own children after being raised by a mother who was a compulsive liar and a drug user.

*ARC* Her Last Death

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Onyi Nwabineli

Arizona

"If you are someone who gravitates toward emotional gut punch reads, allow me to introduce you to this spectacular debut..."--BuzzFeed

"A masterfully woven exposition on love and loss. Nwabineli is magic with words."--Bolu Babalola, internationally bestselling author of Honey and Spice

"An excellent choice for book clubs and for readers who enjoy thought-provoking, deeply emotional fiction."--Booklist *starred review*



Someday, Maybe is a stunning, witty debut novel about a young woman's emotional journey through unimaginable loss, pulled along by her tight-knit Nigerian family, a posse of friends, and the love and laughter she shared with her husband.

 

Here are three things you should know about my husband:
 * He was the great love of my life despite his penchant for going incommunicado.
 * He was, as far as I and everyone else could tell, perfectly happy. Which is significant because...
 * On New Year's Eve, he killed himself.
 * And here is one thing you should know about me:  I found him.
   
   Bonus fact: No. I am not okay.
   
   
   
   "Incisive and witty. I couldn't put it down."--Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström, internationally bestselling author of In Every Mirror She's Black
   
   "Onyi Nwabineli is an author to watch."--Brenda Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of The House on Blueberry Lane
   
   "A blistering debut that packs a punch. Phenomenal."--Melissa Cummings-Quarry, Black Girls Book Club

Someday, Maybe

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Florida

Everyone eventually leaves Wren Plumley. First it was her mother, then her best friend, and then her sister. Now living with only her cop father and her upended dreams, Wren feels stranded, like a songbird falling in a storm.

When Wilder, a sickly housebound teen, moves in next door, Wren finally finds what she's always wanted--a person who can't leave. But a chance meeting with Luca, the talkative, crush-worthy boy in her driver's ed class, has Wren wondering if maybe she's too quick to push people away. Soon, Wren finds herself caught between the safety of a friendship and a love worth fighting for.

Wren starts to dream again. But when postcards begin arriving from her sister, Wren must ultimately confront why her mother left fourteen years before and why her sister followed in her footsteps. For her new life to take flight, Wren will have to reconcile the heartbreaking beauty of lost dreams and the beautiful heartbreak of her new reality.

Postcards for a Songbird

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Minnesota

A political thriller about sexual misconduct in the #MeToo era, onevictim's battle to survive and overcome trauma, and the cable newsmachine that feeds off titillating scandal coverage and inflammatoryconfrontation, Final Table draws upon Dan Schorr's firsthandexperience as a New York sex crimes prosecutor and sexual misconductinvestigator to tackle the worlds of political and media dysfunction. 


Former White House staffer Maggie Raster is struggling to build her ownconsulting firm and overcome a recent sexual assault by an ex-boss.Kyler Dawson, a broke former poker champion, desperately needs to gainentry into a controversial but potentially very lucrative internationalpoker tournament. The host nation faces widespread condemnation for therecent murder of a prominent female US journalist, and a pendingpresidential executive order threatens to prohibit him and others fromparticipating. 


Maggie's chaotic first attempt to promote her new business as atelevision political analyst brings her to Kyler's attention, andconvinces him that her political smarts and connections can provide thehelp he needs. When he approaches her for assistance, she must decidewhether to agree--in return for a portion of the potential $20 millionprize. To succeed, she will have to confront significantadversity--personal and political, foreign and domestic--includingmounting pressure to publicly address the misconduct of her former boss.Kyler also has his own obstacles and upsetting past to overcome, but ifthey each can outmaneuver their daunting challenges, he might win thetournament--and earn them both a fortune.

Final Table

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Terrified of her traumatic past becoming public, renowned life coach Madeline O'Shea, who has inspired thousands of women, discovers that the worst thing that can happen is the one thing she desperately needs. Original.

The First Day of the Rest of My Life

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Beth Revis

Never read. I bought a copy after reading it from the library. Was a good book, but I realize I don’t feel attached to it. As such, would rather pass it on. 

Massachusetts

"After the unexpected loss of his girlfriend, a teenage boy suffering from delusions is convinced that he can travel through time to save her"--

A World Without You

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Kate Walbert

Illinois

From the highly acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award finalist and author of A Short History of Women, a searing and timely novel about a teenaged girl, a charismatic teacher, and a dark, open secret. They were on a lark, three teenage girls speeding across the greens at night on a “borrowed” golf cart, drunk. The cart crashes and one of the girls lands violently in the rough, killed instantly. The driver, Jo, flees the hometown that has turned against her and enrolls at a prestigious boarding school. Her past weighs on her. She is responsible for the death of her best friend. She has tipped her parents’ rocky marriage into demise. She is ready to begin again, far away from the accident. Taut, propulsive, and devastating, His Favorites reveals the interior life of a young woman determined to navigate the treachery in a new world. Told from her perspective many years later, the story cooly describes a series of shattering events and the system that failed to protect her. Walbert, who brilliantly explored a century of women’s struggles for rights and recognition in her award-winning A Short History of Women, limns the all-too-common violations of vulnerability and aspiration in the lives of young women in this suspenseful short novel. From the publisher of the classic A Separate Peace, His Favorites is an urgent book by a “wickedly smart writer” (The New York Times Book Review) whose work is “fascinating, moving and significant” (The Washington Post).

His Favorites

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Oregon

A memoir

Aftershocks 

Robert Meeropol

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One Son's Journey

The son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were executed when he was six years old, describes the gift and burden that was his parents' legacy, including his effort to raise a healthy family and his work as a political activist.

An Execution in the Family

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#hardcover #nonfiction #pelzer #abuse #achildcalledit #trauma 

Gabrielle Bernstein

Richard C. Schwartz

Virginia

The Guided Path from Trauma to Profound Freedom and Inner Peace

** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! **
If you were free from fear, who would you have the freedom to be? #1 New York Times best-selling author Gabrielle Bernstein charts a path to heal trauma, unlearn fear, and remember love.

What if you could wake up every day without anxiety? View your past with purpose, not regret? Live happy, peaceful, and free from fear? You can--and Gabrielle Bernstein will show you the way.
 
Gabby has long been loved by her readers as a spiritual teacher, motivational speaker, and catalyst for profound inner change. Her new book presents her most powerful teaching yet: a plan for transforming the pain of your past, whatever that may be, into newfound strength and freedom.
 
You'll learn:

 * Why most people feel stuck in patterns that make them unhappy--and what to do about it
 * 9 transformational, yet untapped, techniques for serenity and genuine happiness--from techniques for "reparenting" yourself to bodywork practices for freeing the stuck energy of past trauma
 * The mindset shift that can do more for you than decades of personal work
 * How to go into the places that scare you--and come away freer than ever before
 *  
   "This book is my gift to you," Gabby writes. "It will answer your questions about why you feel blocked, scared, anxious, depressed, or alone, and it will liberate you from the belief system that has kept you small for so long. . . . By taking this path you will become the best version of yourself. You will become new."

Happy Days

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My Mother's Life Before Me

"One of those memoirs that remind you why you liked memoirs in the first place... It has the density of a very good novel... As you do with the best writers, you feel lucky to be in Ms. Brockes's company." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times

A chilling work of psychological suspense and forensic memoir, She Left Me the Gun is a tale of true transformation: the story of a young woman who reinvented herself so completely that her previous life seemed simply to vanish, and of a daughter who transcends her mother's fears and reclaims an abandoned past.

"One day I will tell you the story of my life," promises Emma Brockes's mother, "and you will be amazed." Brockes grew up hearing only pieces of her mother's past--stories of a rustic childhood in South Africa, glimpses of a bohemian youth in London--and yet knew that crucial facts were still in the dark. A mystery to her friends and family, Paula was clearly a strong, self-invented woman; glamorous, no-nonsense, and frequently out of place in their quaint English village. In awe of Paula's larger-than-life personality, Brockes never asked why her mother emigrated to England or why she never returned to South Africa; never questioned the source of her mother's strange fears or tremendous strengths.

Looking to unearth the truth after Paula's death, Brockes begins a dangerous journey into the land--and the life--her mother fled from years before. Brockes soon learns that Paula's father was a drunk megalomaniac who terrorized Paula and her seven half-siblings for years. After finally mustering the courage to take her father to court, Paula is horrified to see the malevolent man vindicated of all charges. As Brockes discovers, this crushing defeat left Paula with a choice: take her own life, or promise herself never to be intimidated or unhappy again. Ultimately she chooses life and happiness by booking one-way passage to London--but not before shooting her father five times, and failing to kill him. Smuggling the fateful gun through English customs would be Paula's first triumph in her new life.

She Left Me the Gun carries Brockes to South Africa to meet her seven aunts and uncles, weighing their stories against her mother's silences. Brockes learns of the violent pathologies and racial propaganda in which her grandfather was inculcated, sees the mine shafts and train yards where he worked as an itinerant mechanic, and finds in buried government archives the court records proving his murder conviction years before he first married. Brockes also learns of the turncoat stepmother who may have perjured herself to save her husband, dooming Paula and her siblings to the machinations of their hated father.

Most of all, She Left Me the Gun reveals how Paula reinvented herself to lead a full, happy life. As she follows her mother's footsteps back to South Africa, Brockes begins to find the wellsprings of her mother's strength, the tremendous endurance which allowed Paula to hide secrets from even her closest friends and family. But as the search through cherished letters and buried documents deepens, Brockes realizes with horror that her mother's great success as a parent was concealing her terrible past--and that unearthing these secrets threatens to undo her mother's work.

A beguiling and unforgettable journey across generations and continents, She Left Me the Gun chronicles Brockes's efforts to walk the knife-edge between understanding her mother's unspeakable traumas and embracing the happiness she chose for her daughter.

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Anna-Marie McLemore

The Mirror Season ⭐️SALE⭐️

Dave Pelzer

The Privilege of Youth

Abigail Dean

Girl A

John Cullen; Yasmina Khadra

The Attack

Kathryn Cushman

A Promise to Remember

Eleanor Choukas Anderson

Out of Her Shadow

Nadia Owusu

Aftershocks: A Memoir

Wendy Wax

A Week at the Lake

Daniel Palmer

Trauma

Dave Pelzer

The Privilege of Youth

Susanna Sonnenberg

*ARC* Her Last Death

Onyi Nwabineli

Someday, Maybe

Rebekah Crane

Postcards for a Songbird

Dan Schorr

Final Table

Cathy Lamb

The First Day of the Rest of My Life

Beth Revis

A World Without You

Kate Walbert

His Favorites

Onyi Nwabineli

Someday, Maybe

Nadia Owusu

Aftershocks

Robert Meeropol

An Execution in the Family

Dave Pelzer

The Privilege of Youth

Dave Pelzer

The Privilege of Youth

Gabrielle Bernstein; Richard C. Schwartz

Happy Days

Emma Brockes

She Left Me the Gun

ARC Her Last Death