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Penguin Publishing Group
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English
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John Waters is a happy husband and father. But before he was married, he escaped an obsessive love affair which he feared would consume him. When he married, his former lover disappeared and he heard that she had been murdered in New Orleans. Now, a woman he meets stuns him with a secret only his former lover would have known. When the woman is murdered, Water's quiet life becomes a whirlwind of guilt and suspicion, and the terror that can result...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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"Mine is a story of craving: an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free television was delivered...." Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally rolls into young womanhood...
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Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
1994.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles--as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror...
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Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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"Jaquira Díaz writes an unflinching account of growing up as a queer biracial girl searching for home as her family splits apart and her mother struggles with mental illness and addiction. From her own struggles with depression and drug abuse to her experiences of violence to Puerto Rico's history of colonialism, every page vibrates with music and lyricism"--
"In this searing memoir, Jaquira Díaz writes fiercely and eloquently of her challenging...
6) Jane Eyre
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Publisher
Wilder Publications
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
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"Orphaned Jane Eyre endures an unhappy childhood, hated by her aunt and cousins and then sent to comfortless Lowood School. But life there improves and Jane stays on as a teacher, though she still longs for love and friendship. At Mr. Rochester's house, where she goes to work as a governess, she hopes she might have found them"--Publisher.
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