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Author
Series
Wildstone series volume 7
Language
English
Description
Starting a new life after waking up from a coma, Emma Harris finds her plans of opening up a doggy day care derailed by her childhood nemesis, but she soon learns that life isn't what you are given, it's what you make of it.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The wildly flawed and dysfunctional Kessler family--retired film producer Marty; his daughter Janine, a former child star; granddaughter Hailey; and long-forgotten first wife, Bunny--comes together in Malibu's most exclusive rehab center.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Barbara Covington has one more chance to save her daughter from a devastating addiction: staging an intervention. But when eighteen-year-old Emily disappears on the way to drug treatment--and her interventionist is found dead at the airport where she was last seen--Barbara enters her darkest nightmare of all.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Meg works for a casino in LA, catching cheaters and popping a few too many pain pills to cope, following a far different path than her sister Haley, a famous actress. But suddenly reports surface of Haley dying at the remote rehab facility where she had been forced to go to get her addictions under control. There are whispers of suicide, but Meg can't believe it. She decides that the best way to find out what happened to her sister is to check in...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A gritty, voice-driven thriller about a former getaway driver who thought he had escaped the criminal life who is pulled back in by race, poverty, and his own former life of crime. Beauregard "Bug" Montage is a man with many different titles: husband, father, friend, honest car mechanic. But before he gave it up, Bug used to be known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida as the best Wheel Man on the East Coast. After a series...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. And when the state undertakes
...Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnams Sons
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Six women gather to celebrate their friend Kate's recovery from cancer. Kate strikes a bargain with them: to celebrate her new lease on life, she'll do the one thing that's always terrified her. But if she does, each of them will also do the one thing they always swore they'd never do.
10) Shock point
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Cassie Streng is determined to expose her stepfather after learning that he is giving a dangerous experimental drug to his teenaged psychiatric patients, but he sends her to a boot camp for troubled teens in Mexico in order to keep her quiet.
11) Immortal beloved
Author
Series
Immortal beloved trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After seeing her best friend, a Dark Immortal called Incy, torture a human with magick, Nastasya, a spoiled party girl, enters a home for wayword immortals and finally begins to deal with life, even as she learns that someone wants her dead.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Allison Weiss has a great job...a handsome husband...an adorable daughter...and a secret. Allison Weiss is a typical working mother, trying to balance a business, aging parents, a demanding daughter, and a marriage. But when the website she develops takes off, she finds herself challenged to the point of being completely overwhelmed. Her husband's becoming distant, her daughter's acting spoiled, her father is dealing with early Alzheimer's, and her...
Author
Publisher
Head Of Zeus
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Poppy was six years old when she was rescued from her abusive mother and taken to her grandparents'farm to recover. There, in the Breede Valley, where arid South African scrub exists alongside vineyards and fruit orchards, Poppy succumbs to the magic of their garden. Slowly, her memories fade and her wounds begin to heal.
14) Clean
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A group of teens in a Seattle-area rehabilitation center form an unlikely friendship as they begin to focus less on their own problems with drugs (including alcohol) by reaching out to help a new member, who seems to have even deeper issues to resolve.
15) The good son
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stefan was just seventeen when he went to prison for the drug-fueled murder of his girlfriend, Belinda. Three years later, he's released to a world that refuses to let him move on. Belinda's mother, once Thea's good friend, galvanizes the community to rally against him to protest in her daughter's memory. The media paints Stefan as a symbol of white privilege and indifferent justice. Neighbors, employers, even some members of Thea's own family turn...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When an Antarctic research expedition goes wrong, the consequences are far-reaching - for the men involved and for their families back home. Robert "Doc" Wright, a veteran of Antarctic field work, holds the clues to what happened, but he is no longer able to communicate them. While Anna, his wife, navigates the sharp contours of her new life as a carer, Robert is forced to learn a whole new way to be in the world."--Publisher.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Despite Emily Covington's sobriety, she can't escape her past. Her years of active drug addiction have made her the scapegoat for everything, including a murder. Now she has to identify the real killer to clear her name and protect her family.
18) Counting scars
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, sixteen-year-old Adele finds herself in a complicated love triangle."--
With her mother in rehab and her estranged father unable to take immediate custody, Adele Reimer is spending two weeks at a youth reform camp. Adele's only goal at the camp is to avoid any trouble. When she meets Fergus and Andy, Adele soon finds herself pulled into a complicated love triangle-- and a dangerous situation...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Jeremy Washington couldn't be happier running his therapy program for at-risk teens. Between weekend service projects and hanging out with his faithful rescue dog, Rolo, Jeremy doesn't have time to date--which is fine with him considering the mess his early marriage turned out to be. When he meets new yoga teacher Ava Graham, Jeremy thinks the kids would really benefit from learning yoga, and Ava would be the perfect fit. Ava quickly finds herself...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The coming of age story of Tarzan Brixton, a product of the harsh and merciless Brooklyn projects. After being released from a 5 year prison sentence for an armed robbery gone sideways, he makes a vow to his dying mother to change his ways. With his mother's medical bills piling up, the temptation of the criminal life becomes too real once again. His solution is to escape the rough streets of New York for the equally ruthless beaches of Kingston,...
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