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Author
Publisher
Powerhouse Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Navigating the landscape of young adulthood is fraught with challenges big, small, and existential that leave even the best of us screaming internally. Guac Is Extra But So Am I: The Reluctant Adult's Handbook explains the realities of life people expect you to know--but aren't usually spelled out--through humorous, biting commentary, illustrations, and guidance from those who have seen it all. Packed with discussions, tips, and advice on everything...
Author
Publisher
NBM Graphic Novels
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
It's about life in our time, about being a young adult woman in the early twenty first century. Conxita, in her twenties, the latest representative of a whole generation, lost her heart somewhere between Madrid and Barcelona. A 'real spitfire' according to her mother, she faces everyday events with great courage. A former student of Fine Arts, she draws her every adventure, from her apartment that she shares with a girl who's her mirror image, her...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"There is a young adult mental health crisis in America. So many twentysomethings are struggling-especially with anxiety, depression, and substance use-yet, as a culture, we are not sure what to think or do about it. Perhaps, it is said, young adults are snowflakes who melt when life turns up the heat. Or maybe, some argue, they're triggered for no reason at all. Yet, even as we trivialize twentysomething struggles, we are quick to pathologize them...
26) Little family
Author
Language
English
Description
"A powerful novel about five young people, struggling to replace the homes they have lost with the one they have created together, from the internationally bestselling author of A Long Way Gone. Hidden away from a harsh and chaotic outside world, five young people have cobbled together a home for themselves in an abandoned airplane, a relic of their country's tumult. At seventeen, Elimane, the bookworm, is as street-smart as he is wise: the group's...
27) Los combatientes
Author
Series
Narrativas hispánicas volume 643
Publisher
Anagrama
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Español
Description
"Esto va de una juventud rabiosa que βota entre los restos del naufragio; de un grupo de actores teatrales que se convierten en actores políticos y deciden que la realidad solo se puede retratar a través de la ridiculización, y que esta, para ser creíble y eαcaz, debe empezar por uno mismo y alcanzar a nuestros maestros literarios. Quiénes son los combatientes: los que saltan a la comba (como los boxeadores en sus entrenamientos), los integrantes...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"What's wrong with me? I feel so stuck. Is this all there is? Satya Doyle Byock hears these refrains regularly in her psychotherapy practice, Quarterlife Counseling, where she works exclusively with individuals between the ages of eighteen to thirty-five. She understands their frustration. Some clients have seemingly done everything "right": earn a degree, get a job, meet a partner, settle down. Yet, even after checking these boxes, they are left...
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A shot of encouragement, a kick in the ass, and a loving push for young people who have no idea what they want or how to get it Career Rookie is a book for every grad, student, and 20-something who feels lost, overwhelmed, and anxious. It tackles the emotional and logistical WTF-ness of starting your career, answering questions like, What if I don't have any experience? What if I went to school for something I hated? What if I have NO IDEA what I...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Old secrets come to light when four friends gather on Nantucket for a life-changing reunion in this heartwarming novel of love and self-discovery by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer. When four strangers rent bargain-basement rooms in an old hotel near the beach, they embark on the summer of their lives. First there's Ariel Spencer, who has big dreams of becoming a writer and is looking for inspiration in Nantucket's high society. Her...
35) Archienemigos
Author
Series
Renegades volume 2
Publisher
Vergara y Riba Editoras
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
37) The revolution generation: how millennials can save America and the world (before it's too late)
Author
Publisher
Enliven Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
It tells the unlikely love story of Maddy, a smart, curious and imaginative eighteen-year-old who due to an illness cannot leave the protection of the hermetically sealed environment within her house, and Olly, the boy next door who won't let that stop them. Maddy is desperate to experience the much more stimulating outside world, and the promise of her first romance.
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