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Language
English
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Ben Dibbuk has a good job, an accomplished wife, a bright college-age daughter, and a patient young mistress. Even as he goes through the motions of everyday life, however, inside he feels nothing. The explanation for this emotional void lies in the years he spent as a blacked-out drunk before pulling his life together--years in which he knows he committed acts he doesn't remember. Then a woman from his past turns up at a gala for his wife's new gig...
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
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A series of tragedies, including the death of her baby brother, her parent's divorce, her mother's nervous breakdown, and her own rape at the age of thirteen, leaves Dolores Price wounded both mentally and physically, but she miraculously finds the strength to give herself one more chance at life and love.
10) Squarehead
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
George only likes things that are square like himself until a dream reminds him of how nice round can be.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.
13) Spinky sulks
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Spinky believes his family does not love him or understand him and nothing they say will convince him otherwise.
Author
Publisher
IVP Books, an imprint of InterVarsity Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
As you journey deeper in the Christian pilgrimage, you come to realize that the Christian life is more than merely replicating particular spiritual disciplines or practices. You begin to understand that at the core of Christian faith is the transformation of your very identity. M. Robert Mulholland Jr. exposes the false selves that you may be tempted to hide behind and helps you to instead discover the true self that comes from being hidden with Christ...
16) Them And Us
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Nice, reasonable people like us are “we,” and strangers with weird beliefs are “they.” This is how many of us see the world. But every “us” is somebody else’s “them.” Those who hold hidden assumptions or stereotypes consider them a recognition of reality, not a prejudice. A common reaction is “you might be prejudiced”, but “I’m a realist”. What is prejudice for “them” is merely a recognition of “the way things are”...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With the help of his teacher, a young boy realizes that he not only shares his birthday and similar physical appearance with Abraham Lincoln, but that he is like him in other ways as well.
19) We are mayhem
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Birdie must overcome her desire to blend in so she can help new friend Abigail Rose take her family's amateur wrestling promotion in a new, more feminist direction.
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