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Language
English
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"My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I'm allergic to the world. I don't leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla. But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He's tall, lean and wearing all black -- black T-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers, and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looking...
Author
Language
English
Description
"An indelible and haunting new novel that explores the loss of childhood, intergenerational conflict, and humanity's complacency in the face of its own demise. Lydia Millet's multilayered new novel - her first since the National Book Award Longlist Sweet Lamb of Heaven -- follows a group of children and their families on summer vacation at a lakeside mansion. The teenage narrator Eve and the other children are contemptuous of their parents, who spend...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
"Practical, dialogue-based advice for parents of teenagers from the author of the bestselling "Get of My Life, But First Can You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall?" Anthony Wolf applies his philosophy and humor to a wide variety of everyday situations, showing both the way interactions tend to go (not so well) and why, then offers parents a script and guidance on how to achieve the most satisfying outcomes. Wolf deals with all the things that have dramatically...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
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.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive reference for parents and educators explains the origins of substance abuse while offering advice for how to identify risk factors and take steps to prevent vulnerable teens from developing an addiction disorder.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"An urgently needed guide to help parents understand their teenagers' emotional highs and lows--and how to support their sons and daughters through this critical development stage--from the New York Times bestselling author of Untangled and Under Pressure. In teenagers, powerful emotions are the rule, not the exception. Unfortunately, many of today's parents now regard their teens' negative feelings as disruptive, dangerous, or diagnosable, thanks...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The story of a group of high school teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the Internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image, and their love lives. Each character and each relationship is tested, and shows the variety of roads people choose; some tragic, some hopeful.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
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.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
"How do you know if you're on the verge of a nervous breakdown? For seventeen-year-old Stacy Black, it all begins with the smashing of a window. After putting her fist through the glass, she checks into a mental hospital. Stacy hates it there but despite herself slowly realizes she has to face the reasons for her depression to stop from self-destructing. Based on the author's experiences, How I Made it to Eighteen is a frank portrait of what it's...
11) Freaky Friday
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
When a mother, Katherine, and daughter, Ellie, are at the most stressful of times, they can only imagine how the other's problems could be more difficult. Thanks to the magic from their late father's hourglass, their imagination becomes a reality when they switch bodies and see what it's like to be the other person.
12) Boys To Men?
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this moving follow-up to the critically-acclaimed Hoop Dreams, award-winning filmmaker Frederick Marx continues his exploration of the lives of ordinary young men and the extraordinary challenges they face. Boys to Men? - the second in a proposed trilogy about masculinity in America - trains its focus on the pressures and expectations faced by a diverse group of young urban males. This program consists of four films. Are You Listening? features...
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