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Language
English
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When Helen Graham and her young son move into Wildefell Hall, her neighbor Gilbert Markham finds himself drawn to the woman, but when gossip about Helen's reclusive behavior circles the village, Gilbert begins to wonder if his trust in her is misplaced.
Author
Series
Joey Pigza books volume 2
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Joey, who is still taking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinking father he has never known and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win the championship.
4) Burned
Author
Series
Burned volume 1
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.
5) Moon pie
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Eleven-year-old Martha tries to keep her family together after her mother's death as her father struggles with alcoholism.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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"When Tim and Alice begin to fall in love, Tim thinks he is finally on the right track, until the unexpected consequences of his drug-addicted and alcoholic past throw a wrench in his new life"--
7) Gone
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
214 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While eighteen-year-old Janie ponders her future with Cabe, knowing that her being a dream-catcher means eventual blindness and crippling, she encounters her past as the father she never knew is hospitalized with brain trauma and seems to need her help.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant on his doorstep and disrupts his plans. Their reunion sets her own life down a startling path. Vivid, tender, darkly funny, and beautifully rendered, The Five Wounds spans the...
9) Rainbow boys
Author
Series
Rainbow trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
233 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Three high school seniors, a jock with a girlfriend and an alcoholic father, a closeted gay, and a flamboyant gay rights advocate, struggle with family issues, gay bashers, first sex, and conflicting feelings about each other.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Majella is happiest out of the spotlight, living a quiet life away from neighbors' stares and the gossips of the small town in Northern Ireland where she grew up during the Troubles. But underneath her seemingly predictable existence, she doesn't know where her father is, and every person in her town has been changed by the lingering divide between Protestants and Catholics. When Majella's grandmother dies, she comes to realize there may be more...
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Description
In the last months of high school, charismatic eighteen-year-old Sutter Keely lives in the present, staying drunk or high most of the time, but that could change when starts working to boost the self-confidence of a classmate, Aimee.
12) Shadow tag
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Harper Perennial ed.
Physical Desc
253 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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"When Irene America discovers that her artist husband, Gil, has been reading her diary, she begins a secret Blue Notebook, stashed securely in a safe-deposit box. There she records the truth about her life and marriage, while turning her Red Diary--hidden where Gil will find it--into a manipulative charade. As Irene and Gil fight to keep up appearances for their three children, their home becomes a place of increasing violence and secrecy. And Irene...
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
382 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a novel told in two voices, Veronica and Sawyer become partners for their senior project and soon they are helping each other battle the ghosts that haunt them--her illness causing blinding migraines and his adrenaline addiction.
Veronica sees ghosts-- specifically, her mother's-- thanks to the blinding migraines that consume her whole life. Sawyer is handsome and popular, a state champion swimmer, but this All-American is hiding an adrenaline...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Maverick Falconer is just starting middle school and he wishes he were a hero like his father because maybe then he could deal with his mother's drinking and series of abusive boyfriends, not to mention the kids who bully him in middle school (pretty much the same ones who bullied him in elementary school)--but as the year passes he begins to realize that other kids have problems too, and maybe if they can all survive sixth-grade things will get better....
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Language
English
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Description
In September 1973, as the school year begins in his depressed Ohio town, high-school senior Kurt Shoemaker determines to be "normal," despite his chaotic home life with his volatile, alcoholic mother and the deep loyalty and affection he has for his friends in the therapy group dubbed the Madman Underground.
16) The nest
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonably cold afternoon in New York City as Melody, Beatrice, and Jack Plumb gather to confront their charismatic and reckless older brother, Leo, freshly released from rehab. Months earlier, an inebriated Leo got behind the wheel of a car with a nineteen-year-old...
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Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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"Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's war on heavy industry has put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie's mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for his artistic brother and practical sister. She dreams of...
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