Nadia's bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 21 Jul 2023 14:15:15 -0700 60 Nadia's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Captive 24385975 Room, Captive is a gripping, emotional thriller about a woman’s terrifying kidnapping and captivity.


Emma has an unremarkable life: a mundane job, very little contact with her family, and no significant relationships. Night after night she drinks tequila to forget until one evening she is jolted out of her routine. She’s kidnapped by two masked men and wakes up in a concrete room furnished with only a mattress on the floor and a ceiling lamp. Suffering extreme thirst and alcohol withdrawal, Emma is seized by real emotion for the first time in a long time. At first, she tries to make sense of what is happening to her, where she is, and who kidnapped her, but as the days, weeks, and possibly months stretch on, she develops a new routine that involves stretching, drawing on the walls, running in circles, and drinking the strange solution that is provided to her by some unseen person. It occurs to her that life in the room is much like the life she had while she was free. Just as Emma begins to find comfort in her routine, she wakes to find a man in the room with her. Though she is initially disturbed and frightened by his presence, a connection slowly develops between the two. Emma comes to rely on the man as the two are subjected to various tests, including sensory deprivation, and they come up with a daring plan to escape.



Captive is a suspenseful, emotional thriller about apathy, freedom, and the importance of living meaningfully and truthfully.]]> 200 Claudine Dumont 1487000510 Nadia 0 to-read 3.33 2013 Captive
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]]> <![CDATA[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll]]> 22012932 Librarian note: The rest of the editions with Arthur Rackham's illustrations is separated into another work title: 50867087
The classic now available for Kindle owners. Long overdue...]]> 122 Lewis Carroll Nadia 0 to-read 3.95 1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
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]]> <![CDATA[Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #2)]]> 83346 228 Lewis Carroll 0688120490 Nadia 0 to-read 4.05 1871 Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #2)
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]]> Actual Air 160653 David Berman is a young Virginian poet with a sly,
intense regard for the past. He comes on like a prankster, restocking the imperial orations of Wallace Stevens and the byzantine monologues of John Ashbery with the pop- cultural bric-a-brac of a new generation: "I am not cub scout seduced by Iron Maiden's mirror worlds." But his words have an easy, eloquent gait; each line needs to be a line. The landscapes are crisply American, and history, especially Southern history, casts a shadow. � The New Yorker

David Berman's poems are beautiful, strange, intelligent and funny. They are narratives that freeze life in impossible contortions. They take the familiar and make it new, so new the reader is stunned and will not soon forget. I found much to savor on every page of Actual Air. It's a book for everyone. � James Tate]]> 96 David Berman 1890447048 Nadia 0 to-read 4.38 1999 Actual Air
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]]> What She Saw... 105778
Plagued with weird parents, an underdeveloped body, and a mind on the verge of self-deconstruction, Phoebe Fine feels ill-equipped for a journey through the hardening chambers of the late twentieth-century heart. But from fifth grade and Roger Mancuso, equal parts baby Brando and court jester, through her early adult life with New Media executive Neil Schmertz, a babytalker who prefers spooning to sex, Phoebe trudges defiantly through guyland, armed with a tart tongue, and propelled by an insatiable desire to be loved.]]> 304 Lucinda Rosenfeld 0385498233 Nadia 0 to-read 3.13 2000 What She Saw...
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]]> Rx 183087 Thyme Gilchrest is an honors student.
Thyme Gilchrest is popular.
Thyme Gilchrest is on student council.
Thyme Gilchrest is a drug dealer.

Like piecing together a logic puzzle, Thyme has organized a complex trading system that enables her to obtain the meds her friends need. They all come to her to diagnose their problems and provide the "cure" -- be it Prozac, Ritalin, Vicodin...She's therapist, doctor, and pharmacist all in one. She helps people. And that makes her feel a little more in control -- a little more capable of dealing with her own frantic high school life. Because Thyme Gilchrest is nothing if not good at dealing.]]> 262 Tracy Lynn 1416911553 Nadia 0 3.52 2005 Rx
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]]> Orientation and Other Stories 10204616
Daniel Orozco leads the reader through the hidden lives and moral philosophies of bridge painters, men housebound by obesity, office temps, and warehouse workers. He reveals the secret pleasures of late-night supermarket trips for cookie binges, exceptional data entry, and an exiled dictator’s occasional piss on the U.S. embassy. A love affair blooms between two officers in the impartially worded pages of a police blotter; a new employee’s first-day office tour includes descriptions of other workers� most private thoughts and actions; during an earthquake, the consciousness of the entire state of California shakes free for examination.

Orientation introduces a writer at the height of his powers, whose work surely invites us to reassess the landscape of American fiction.

Orientationis a Kirkus Reviews Best of 2011Short Story Collectionstitle.]]> 162 Daniel Orozco 0865478538 Nadia 0 3.80 2011 Orientation and Other Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction]]> 137918 Prozac Nation, to astonishing literary acclaim. A cultural phenomenon by age twenty-six, she had fame, money, respecteverything she had always wanted except that one, true thing: happiness.
For all of her professional success, Wurtzel felt like a failure. She had lost friends and lovers, every magazine job she'd held, and way too much weight. She couldn't write, and her second book was past due. But when her doctor prescribed Ritalin to help her focus-and boost the effects of her antidepressants -- Wurtzel was spared. The Ritalin worked. And worked. The pills became her sugar...the sweetness in the days that have none. Soon she began grinding up the Ritalin and snorting it. Then came the cocaine, then more Ritalin, then more cocaine. Then I need more. I always need more. For all of my life I have needed more...
More, Now, Again is the brutally honest, often painful account of Wurtzel's descent into drug addiction. It is also a love story: How Wurtzel managed to break free of her relationship with Ritalin and learned to love life, and herself, is at the heart of this ultimately uplifting memoir that no reader will soon forget.]]> 336 Elizabeth Wurtzel 0743223314 Nadia 0 currently-reading 3.88 2000 More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction
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]]> <![CDATA[Diary of a Haunting (Diary of a Haunting, #1)]]> 24885765
She chalks it up to her rural surroundings, but it’s harder to ignore the strange things happening around the house, from one can of ravioli becoming a dozen, to unreadable words appearing in the walls. Soon Paige’s little brother begins roaming the house at all hours of the night, and there’s something not right about the downstairs neighbor, who knows a lot more than he’s letting on.

Things only get creepier when she learns about the sinister cult that conducted experimental rituals in the house almost a hundred years earlier.
The more Paige investigates, and the deeper she digs, the clearer it all becomes: whatever is in the house, whatever is causing all the strange occurrences, has no intention of backing down without a fight.

Found in the aftermath, Diary of a Haunting collects the journal entries, letters, and photographs Paige left behind.]]> 313 M. Verano 1481430696 Nadia 0 3.36 2015 Diary of a Haunting (Diary of a Haunting, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[My Awesome Place: Autobiography of Cheryl Burke]]> 16065411
An unlikely story for someone whose guidance counselor recommended a career as a toll taker on the New Jersey Turnpike, Burke was determined to escape her circumstances by any means available–physical, intellectual or psychotropic. Her rise to prominence as the spoken word artist known as Cheryl B brought with it a series of desctructive girlfriends and boyfriends and a dependence on drugs and alcohol that would take nearly a decade to shake.

In the months following her death, members of Burke’s close-knit writing group, who had met continuously for nine years, worked to compile her drafts, essays and emails into a completed manuscript which was eventually synthesized into its final form by Burke’s close friend, novelist Sarah Schulman. This autobiography tracks her struggle to transcend her working class New Jersey roots and define herself as an artist against the backdrop of an unforgiving city, a series of disastrous girlfriends and boyfriends, and an intense, intimate relationship with drugs and alcohol. By the time Burke got sober in 2001, she had witnessed–and made major contributions to� one of the most remarkable artistic transformations that New York City has ever experienced.]]> 208 Cheryl Burke 0983242240 Nadia 0 to-read 4.17 2012 My Awesome Place: Autobiography of Cheryl Burke
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]]> <![CDATA[How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir]]> 16057339 How Poetry Saved My Life is a powerful account of survival and the transformative power of literature.

Amber Dawn's acclaimed first novel Sub Rosa, a darkly intoxicating fantasy about a group of magical prostitutes who band together to fend off bad johns in a fantastical underworld, won a Lambda Literary Award in 2011. While the plot of the book was wildly imaginative, it was also based on the author's own experience as a sex worker in the 1990s and early 2000s, and on her coming out as lesbian.

How Poetry Saved My Life, Amber Dawn's sophomore book, reveals an even more poignant and personal landscape—the terrain of sex work, queer identity, and survivor pride. This memoir, told in prose and poetry, offers a frank, multifaceted portrait of the author's experiences hustling the streets of Vancouver, and the how those years took away her self-esteem and nearly destroyed her; at the crux of this autobiographical narrative is the tender celebration of poetry and literature, that—as the title suggests—acted as a lifeline during her most pivotal moments.]]> 156 Amber Dawn 1551525003 Nadia 0 to-read 4.15 2013 How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir
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]]> Dead Girls 829259
Written in taut, unflinching prose, these stories are edgy and dark, sharply observed and uniquely imagined. As provocative as it is brilliant, Dead Girls introduces Nancy Lee as an astonishing and original new literary talent.]]> 296 Nancy Lee 0771052502 Nadia 0 to-read 3.95 2002 Dead Girls
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]]> Helpless 80967 When a summer blackout plunges the city into darkness and confusion, Rachel is taken from her home. A full-scale search begins, but days pass with no solid clues, only a phone call Celia receives from a woman whose voice she has heard before but cannot place. And as Celia fights her terror and Rachel starts to trust in her abductor's kindness, the only other person who knows where she is wavers between loyalty to the captor and saving the child. Will Rachel be found before her abductor's urge to protect and cherish turns to something altogether less innocent?
Tapping into the fear that lies just below the surface of contemporary city life, Barbara Gowdy draws on her trademark empathy and precision to create a portrait of love at its most consuming and ambiguous and to uncover the volatile point at which desire gives way to the unthinkable.]]> 307 Barbara Gowdy 0805082883 Nadia 0 to-read 3.38 2007 Helpless
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]]> Mothers and Other Strangers 31945232
Thus begins this riveting story of a woman's quest to understand her recently deceased mother, a glamorous, cruel narcissist who left her only child, Elsie, an inheritance of debts and mysteries. While coping with threats that she suspects are coming from the cult-like spiritual program her mother belonged to, Elsie works to unravel the message her dying mother left for her, a quest that ultimately takes her to the South African family homestead she never knew existed.]]> 318 Gina Sorell 1938849892 Nadia 0 to-read 3.57 2017 Mothers and Other Strangers
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]]> <![CDATA[The Merciless (The Merciless, #1)]]> 18667769 Forgive us, Father, for we have sinned

Brooklyn Stevens sits in a pool of her own blood, tied up and gagged. No one outside of these dank basement walls knows she’s here. No one can hear her scream.

Sofia Flores knows she shouldn’t have gotten involved. When she befriended Riley, Grace, and Alexis on her first day at school, she admired them, with their perfect hair and their good-girl ways. They said they wanted to save Brooklyn. They wanted to help her. Sofia didn’t realize they believed Brooklyn was possessed.

Now, Riley and the girls are performing an exorcism on Brooklyn—but their idea of an exorcism is closer to torture than salvation. All Sofia wants is to get out of this house. But there is no way out. Sofia can’t go against the other girls . . .unless she wants to be next. . . .

In this chilling debut, Danielle Vega delivers blood-curdling suspense and terror on every page. By the shockingly twisted end, readers will be faced with the most haunting question of all: Is there evil in all of us?]]> 279 Danielle Vega 1595147225 Nadia 0 3.61 2014 The Merciless (The Merciless, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Merciless III: Origins of Evil (The Merciless, #3)]]> 32510206
Her parents and friends assure her the call was probably a prank but Brooklyn has always had a tendency to take over, whether someone has asked for help or not.

She discovers the call came from Christ First Church and finds herself plunged into the cultish community of its youth group. She's especially drawn to Gavin, the angelic yet tortured pastor's son.

Torn between an unstoppable attraction to Gavin and her obsession with the truth, Brooklyn is forced to make a devastating choice to rid Christ Church of evil once and for all. . . . But the devil has plans for Brooklyn's soul.]]> 304 Danielle Vega 0448493527 Nadia 0 to-read 3.99 2017 The Merciless III: Origins of Evil (The Merciless, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Merciless II: The Exorcism of Sofia Flores (The Merciless, #2)]]> 27209488 Danielle Vega—YA’s answer to Stephen King—once again brings major scares in the spine-tingling sequel to horror hitThe Merciless, which MTV calls �Mean Girls meets The Exorcist.�

Sofia is still processing the horrific truth of what happened when she and three friends performed an exorcism that spiraled horribly out of control. Ever since that night, Sofia has been haunted by bloody and demonic visions. Her therapist says they’re all in her head, but to Sofia they feel chillingly real. She just wants to get out of town, start fresh someplace else . . . until her mother dies suddenly, and Sofia gets her wish.

Sofia is sent to St. Mary’s, a creepy Catholic boarding school in Mississippi. There, seemingly everyone is doing penance for something, most of all the mysterious Jude, for whom Sofia can’t help feeling an unshakeable attraction. But when Sofia and Jude confide in each other about their pasts, something flips in him. He becomes convinced that Sofia is possessed by the devil. . . . Is an exorcism the only way to save her eternal soul?

Readers won’t be able to look away from this terrifying read full of twists and turns that will leave them wondering, Is there evil in all of us?]]> 320 Danielle Vega 1595147268 Nadia 0 to-read 3.86 2016 The Merciless II: The Exorcism of Sofia Flores (The Merciless, #2)
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]]> Survive the Night 23281665 We're all gonna die down here. . . .

Julie lies dead and disemboweled in a dank, black subway tunnel, red-eyed rats nibbling at her fingers. Her friends think she’s just off with some guy—no one could hear her getting torn apart over the sound of pulsing music.

In a tunnel nearby, Casey regrets coming to Survive the Night, the all-night underground rave in the New York City subway. Her best friend Shana talked her into it, even though Casey just got out of rehab. Alone and lost in the dark, creepy tunnels, Casey doesn’t think Survive the Night could get any worse . . .

. . . until she comes across Julie’s body, and the party turns deadly.

Desperate for help, Casey and her friends find themselves running through the putrid subway system, searching for a way out. But every manhole is sealed shut, and every noise echoes eerily in the dark, reminding them they’re not alone.

They’re being hunted.

Trapped underground with someone—or something—out to get them, Casey can’t help but listen to her friend’s terrified refrain: “We’re all gonna die down here. . . .� in this bone-chilling sophmore novel by the acclaimed author ofThe Merciless.]]> 263 Danielle Vega 1595147241 Nadia 0 to-read 3.21 2015 Survive the Night
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]]> With Your Crooked Heart 469957 256 Helen Dunmore 0802137709 Nadia 0 3.38 1995 With Your Crooked Heart
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]]> Where the Moon Isn't 17286816 Winner of the 2013 Costa First Novel Award (under the title The Shock of the Fall)

While on vacation with their parents, Matthew Homes and his older brother snuck out in the middle of the night. Only Matthew came home safely. Ten years later, Matthew tells us, he has found a way to bring his brother back...

What begins as the story of a lost boy turns into a story of a brave man yearning to understand what happened that night, in the years since, and to his very person. Unafraid to look at the shadows of our hearts, Nathan Filer's rare and brilliant debut Where the Moon Isn't shows us the strength that is rooted in resilience and love.]]> 310 Nathan Filer 1250026989 Nadia 0 to-read 3.62 2013 Where the Moon Isn't
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]]> Girls' Poker Night 7576523 Girls� Poker Night is a twenty-first-century His Girl Friday and a re-freshingly upbeat look at friendship, work, and love.From the Hardcover edition.]]> 147 Jill A. Davis 1588362256 Nadia 3 3.10 2002 Girls' Poker Night
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]]> Zoe Letting Go 12926813 Wintergirls meets The Sixth Sense.

Zoe knows she doesn’t belong in a hospital—so why is she in one?

Twin Birch isn’t just any hospital. It’s a strange mansion populated by unnerving staff and glassy-eyed patients. It’s a place for girls with serious problems; skinny, spindly girls who have a penchant for harming themselves.

Zoe isn’t like them. And she can’t figure out why she was sent here. Writing letters to her best friend Elise keep her sane, grounded in the memories of her past—but mired in them, too. Elise never writes back.

Zoe is lost without her, unsure of how to navigate tenuous new friendships and bizarre rules without Elise by her side. But as her letters intertwine with journal entries chronicling her mysterious life at Twin Birch, another narrative unfolds. The hidden story of a complicated friendship; of the choices we make, the truths we tell others, and the lies we tell ourselves. The story of a friendship that has the potential to both save—and damage beyond repair. And Zoe finds she must confront the truth about her past once and for all, before she can finally let go.

Nora Price’s debut novel is a heart-wrenching meditation on the bonds of friendship with a gripping psychological twist.]]> 279 Nora Price 1595144668 Nadia 0 to-read 3.68 2012 Zoe Letting Go
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]]> The Blue Girl (Newford, #15) 182332
But trouble shows up anyway. Imogene quickly catches the eye of Redding's bullies, as well as the school's resident teen ghost. Then she gets on the wrong side of a gang of malicious fairies. When her imaginary childhood friend, Pelly, actually manifests, Imogene realizes that the impossible is all too real. And it's dangerous. If she wants to survive high school—not to mention stay alive—she has to fall back on the skills she picked up in her hometown, running with a gang. Even with Maxine and some unexpected allies by her side, will her new friend be able to make it?]]> 368 Charles de Lint 0142405450 Nadia 0 to-read 3.94 2004 The Blue Girl (Newford, #15)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)]]> 186074
The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, and his life as a fugitive after the murder of a king form a gripping coming-of-age story unrivaled in recent literature.

A high-action story written with a poet's hand, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that will transport readers into the body and mind of a wizard.]]> 662 Patrick Rothfuss 075640407X Nadia 0 to-read 4.52 2007 The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The River Killings (A Zoe Hayes Mystery #2)]]> 1883312
Someone along Boathouse Row is a multiple murderer, but who? And why?

One night, after Zoe’s boyfriend, Detective Nick Stiles, goes to the river but doesn’t return, Zoe and Molly go looking for him and, unexpectedly, Zoe uncovers a sinister plot, far broader and deadlier than she has anticipated, and far more difficult to escape.]]> 336 Merry Jones 0312330413 Nadia 0 to-read 3.56 2006 The River Killings (A Zoe Hayes Mystery #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Nanny Murders (A Zoe Hayes Mystery #1)]]> 1940575
One of Zoe’s neighbors (but which one?) seems to be a serial killer. Zoe and a mysteriously scarred detective named Nick Stiles team up to catch the killer when suddenly Zoe becomes the prey�.]]> 352 Merry Jones 0312998627 Nadia 0 to-read 3.48 2005 The Nanny Murders (A Zoe Hayes Mystery #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Replacement Child (Gil Montoya Mystery #1)]]> 4824844 Capital Tribune newsroom. The caller is the notorious Scanner Lady---an anonymous elderly tipster whose hobby is to phone the newspaper with gossip from her police scanner. The old woman tells Lucy she heard two Santa Fe cops discussing a dead body. But when Lucy checks out the tip, she discovers Scanner Lady has been killed.

She tries to enlist the help of Detective Gil Montoya, but his mind is on another death. He has just been handed the case of Melissa Baca, a seventh-grade teacher whose body was thrown off the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge. Over the course of the next few days, as Lucy and Gil hunt down the culprits in each murder, they discover their cases are intertwined in the most intimate ways.

Rich with details of New Mexico and the peoplewho live there, The Replacement Child is the perfect novel for anyone who has fallen in love with the Southwest that Tony Hillerman described so artfully in his Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries.]]> 288 Christine Barber 0312385544 Nadia 0 to-read 3.34 2008 The Replacement Child (Gil Montoya Mystery #1)
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]]> A Thousand Cuts 7327811 A stunning debut novel that unravels the hidden story behind a school shooting

It should be an open-and-shut case. Samuel Szajkowski, a recently hired history teacher, walked into a school assembly with a gun and murdered three students and a colleague before turning the weapon on himself. It was a tragedy that could not have been predicted. Szajkowski, it seems clear, was a psychopath beyond help. Yet as Detective Inspector Lucia May- the only woman in her high-testosterone office in the Criminal Investigations Department-begins to piece together the testimonies of the various witnesses, an uglier and more complex picture emerges, calling into question the innocence of others. But no one, including Lucia's boss, is interested.

As the pressure to close the case builds and her colleagues' sexism takes a sinister turn, Lucia begins to realize that she has more in common with the killer than she could have imagined, and she becomes deter­mined to expose the truth. Brilliantly interweaving the witnesses' accounts with Lucia's own perspective, A Thousand Cuts is a narrative tour de force from a formidable new voice in fiction.



]]> 295 Simon Lelic 0670021504 Nadia 0 to-read 3.49 2009 A Thousand Cuts
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]]> Alice I Have Been 6540352 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Now, in this spellbinding historical novel, we meet the young girl whose bright spirit sent her on an unforgettable trip down the rabbit hole–and the grown woman whose story is no less enthralling.

But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful?

Alice Liddell Hargreaves’s life has been a richly woven tapestry: As a young woman, wife, mother, and widow, she’s experienced intense passion, great privilege, and greater tragedy. But as she nears her eighty-first birthday, she knows that, to the world around her, she is and will always be only “Alice.� Her life was permanently dog-eared at one fateful moment in her tenth year–the golden summer day she urged a grown-up friend to write down one of his fanciful stories.

That story, a wild tale of rabbits, queens, and a precocious young child, becomes a sensation the world over. Its author, a shy, stuttering Oxford professor, does more than immortalize Alice–he changes her life forever. But even he cannot stop time, as much as he might like to. And as Alice’s childhood slips away, a peacetime of glittering balls and royal romances gives way to the urgent tide of war.

For Alice, the stakes could not be higher, for she is the mother of three grown sons, soldiers all. Yet even as she stands to lose everything she treasures, one part of her will always be the determined, undaunted Alice of the story, who discovered that life beyond the rabbit hole was an astonishing journey.

A love story and a literary mystery, Alice I Have Been brilliantly blends fact and fiction to capture the passionate spirit of a woman who was truly worthy of her fictional alter ego, in a world as captivating as the Wonderland only she could inspire.]]> 345 Melanie Benjamin 0385344139 Nadia 0 to-read 3.63 2009 Alice I Have Been
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]]> Various Positions 10803071
This dynamic is nowhere more obvious than in Georgia's relationship with Artistic Director Roderick Allen. As Roderick singles her out as a star and subjects her to increasingly vicious training, Georgia obsesses about becoming his perfect student, disciplined and sexless. But a disturbing incident with a stranger on the subway, coupled with her dawning recognition of the truth of her parents' unhappy marriage, causes her to radically reassess her ideas about physical boundaries--a reassessment that threatens both Roderick's future at the academy and Georgia's ambitions as a ballerina.]]> 368 Martha Schabas 0385668767 Nadia 0 to-read 3.05 2011 Various Positions
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]]> A Dance of Sisters 682911 288 Tracey Porter 0064407519 Nadia 0 to-read 3.78 2002 A Dance of Sisters
author: Tracey Porter
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average rating: 3.78
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]]> Dancing on the Inside 12072163 2011 Reader Views Reviewers Choice Award

" This story written for 'Tweens' is so good that it will transcend that age group. The story plot seems deceptively simple, but it unfurls with complexity. And Jenny is a character you can take into your heart. One that is vulnerable and shackled by her shyness, but who struggles to stay close to the thing she loves most...any way she can. Overcoming pride, guilt, and inadequacy, she moves painstakingly toward her goal. This is my first read by author Glen C. Strathy and I highly recommend his style and voice. His ability to get inside the head and heart of his young subject, Jenny, is a spark of pure talent, with just a sprinkle of magical insight. BE SURE TO PUT THIS ONE ON YOUR CHILD'S READING SHELF. " - Lynda Coker, Review from Here

Sidelined by a paralyzing anxiety, a twelve-year-old girl uses determination and friendship to pursue her dream of becoming a ballet dancer in this uplifting middle-grade novel.

" An excellent story for the young girl reader. The story is about ballet and what it means to love to dance, friendship, rivalry - a big part in any dance class - and doing what you love.. ."-- awolfe at LibraryThing

" Wow what an amazing book ! I love anything to do with Ballet but this book went beyond that. I loved Jenny and could really relate to her but her friend Ara was the amazing one in this book too who supported her friend and helped her to overcome obstacles. Can't give to much info here or it will spoil it for others. All I can say is this is a book that most people should read! "
- Jane(Janelba) on ŷ]]> 236 Glen C. Strathy 1462018718 Nadia 0 to-read 4.10 2011 Dancing on the Inside
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]]> Audition 10637301 458 Stasia Ward Kehoe 0670013196 Nadia 0 to-read 3.33 2011 Audition
author: Stasia Ward Kehoe
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]]> You Are My Only 10421534
Fourteen years later, Sophie, a homeschooled, reclusive teenage girl is forced to move frequently and abruptly from place to place, perpetually running from what her mother calls the "No Good." One afternoon, Sophie breaks the rules, ventures out, and meets Joey and his two aunts. It is this loving family that gives Sophie the courage to look into her past. What she discovers changes her world forever. . . .

The riveting stories of Emmy and Sophie—alternating narratives of loss, imprisonment, and freedom regained—escalate with breathless suspense toward an unforgettable climax.]]> 240 Beth Kephart 1606842722 Nadia 0 to-read 3.49 2011 You Are My Only
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]]> Like Mandarin 8574517

From the Hardcover edition.]]> 320 Kirsten Hubbard 0385739354 Nadia 0 to-read 3.55 2011 Like Mandarin
author: Kirsten Hubbard
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average rating: 3.55
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]]> Hold Still 6373717
dear caitlin, there are so many things that i want so badly to tell you but i just can’t.

Devastating, hopeful, hopeless, playful . . . in words and illustrations, Ingrid left behind a painful farewell in her journal for Caitlin. Now Caitlin is left alone, by loss and by choice, struggling to find renewed hope in the wake of her best friend’s suicide. With the help of family and newfound friends, Caitlin will encounter first love, broaden her horizons, and start to realize that true friendship didn’t die with Ingrid. And the journal which once seemed only to chronicle Ingrid’s descent into depression, becomes the tool by which Caitlin once again reaches out to all those who loved Ingrid—and Caitlin herself.]]> 230 Nina LaCour 0525421556 Nadia 0 to-read 3.99 2009 Hold Still
author: Nina LaCour
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]]> Manicpixiedreamgirl 15705311 off stage.

Seventeen-year-old Tyler Darcy's dream of being a writer is starting to feel very real now that he's sold his first short story to a literary journal. He should be celebrating its publication with his two best friends who've always had his back, but on this night, a steady stream of texts from his girlfriend Sidney keep intruding. So do the memories of his dream girl, Becky, who's been on his mind a little too much since the first day of high school. Before the night is over, Ty might just find the nerve to stop all the obsessing and finally take action.]]> 256 Tom Leveen 0375870059 Nadia 0 to-read 3.35 2013 Manicpixiedreamgirl
author: Tom Leveen
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]]> OCD, the Dude, and Me 15721669 The Big Lebowski, Danielle's resolve to keep everyone at arm's length starts to crumble.]]> 240 Lauren Roedy Vaughn 0803738439 Nadia 0 to-read 3.48 2013 OCD, the Dude, and Me
author: Lauren Roedy Vaughn
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]]> Shallow Pond 16096307
Barbara “Babie� Bunting is constantly mistaken for her sisters, but she’s determined not to end up like her family. She doesn’t plan to stick around Shallow Pond after graduation, and she certainly won’t be ruined by a broken heart. That is, until fellow orphan Zach Faraday walks into the picture, and Babie can’t deny their chemistry.

When her oldest sister, Annie, comes down with a mysterious illness—initially dismissed as “love sickness”—Babie and Zach start investigating what exactly killed the girls� mother and why their late father became so consumed by grief. What they find changes everything.]]> 336 Alissa Grosso 0738730718 Nadia 0 to-read 3.39 2013 Shallow Pond
author: Alissa Grosso
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]]> Tell the Wolves I'm Home 12875258
1987. There's only one person who has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus, and that's her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can only be herself in Finn's company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So when he dies, far too young, of a mysterious illness her mother can barely speak about, June's world is turned upside down. But Finn's death brings a surprise acquaintance into June's life—someone who will help her to heal, and to question what she thinks she knows about Finn, her family, and even her own heart.

At Finn's funeral, June notices a strange man lingering just beyond the crowd. A few days later, she receives a package in the mail. Inside is a beautiful teapot she recognizes from Finn's apartment, and a note from Toby, the stranger, asking for an opportunity to meet. As the two begin to spend time together, June realizes she's not the only one who misses Finn, and if she can bring herself to trust this unexpected friend, he just might be the one she needs the most.

An emotionally charged coming-of-age novel, Tell the Wolves I'm Home is a tender story of love lost and found, an unforgettable portrait of the way compassion can make us whole again.]]> 360 Carol Rifka Brunt 0679644199 Nadia 0 to-read 4.01 2012 Tell the Wolves I'm Home
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]]> Where'd You Go, Bernadette 13526165
When her daughter Bee claims a family trip to Antarctica as a reward for perfect grades, Bernadette, a fiercely intelligent shut-in, throws herself into preparations for the trip. But worn down by years of trying to live the Seattle life she never wanted, Ms. Fox is on the brink of a meltdown. And after a school fundraiser goes disastrously awry at her hands, she disappears, leaving her family to pick up the pieces--which is exactly what Bee does, weaving together an elaborate web of emails, invoices, and school memos that reveals a secret past Bernadette has been hiding for decades. Where'd You Go Bernadette is an ingenious and unabashedly entertaining novel about a family coming to terms with who they are and the power of a daughter's love for her mother.]]> 330 Maria Semple 0316204277 Nadia 0 to-read 3.87 2012 Where'd You Go, Bernadette
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]]> <![CDATA[Raven of the Sea (The O'Brien Tales, #1)]]> 30749890
Branna O’Mara never expected to be orphaned at the age of twenty-three. When she lost her father, Major Brian O’Mara, USMC in the Second Battle of Fallujah, she thought she’d taken the worst life had to give. She never imagined she would lose her mother to cancer, six years later. The life of a military child prepared her for the challenges of relocating, but for the first time, she’d be doing it alone. Where do you go when you’re the last man standing? The solution came to her when she received an email with a real estate listing in County Clare, Ireland. Having inherited her parents� rental properties, she knew the value of a diamond in the rough. A secluded cottage in the land of her ancestors was just the fresh start she needed. What she wasn’t prepared for was another buyer, after the deal had been struck. As she becomes intertwined with the people, the music, and the spirit of the small town, she understands that she’s finally found somewhere to belong. Michael O’Brien and the entire O’Brien clan are a force to be reckoned with, but she will not allow them to take her new home.

Michael O’Brien is a local hero and rescue swimmer for the Irish Coast Guard. He has lived in the small coastal village of Doolin, in County Clare, all of his life. Emerging from the ashes of a failed marriage, and living with his parents, is not where he expected to be at the age of twenty-nine. All he really wants is to buy the local Kelly cottage, fix it up, and live in peace. After two years on the market, he never imagined there would be a competing bidder. He certainly didn’t expect some little yank to swoop in to town, and try to buy it right out from under him. He finds himself drawn into an unlikely battle with a fiery, young American woman, neither of them willing to bend. But as her secrets unravel and the woman is revealed, will he be able to push her out of the cottage, the town, and out of his life?]]> 494 Stacey Reynolds 1539725723 Nadia 0 to-read 4.57 2016 Raven of the Sea (The O'Brien Tales, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales]]> 18623474
� On the island of Skye, an antlered girl and a tiger-tailed boy resolve never to be friends � but can they resist their unique connection?

� In an alternative 19th-century Paris, a love triangle emerges between a man, a woman, and a coin-operated boy.

� A teenager deals with his sister’s death by escaping from their tiny Scottish island � but will she let him leave?

� In 1920s New Orleans, a young girl comes of age in her mother’s brothel.

Some of these stories are radical retellings of classic tales, some are modern-day fables, but all explore substitutions for love.]]> 143 Kirsty Logan 1907773754 Nadia 0 to-read 3.82 2014 The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales
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]]> By Light We Knew Our Names 20949596 224 Anne Valente 1936873621 Nadia 0 to-read 4.00 2014 By Light We Knew Our Names
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]]> The Bad Girl 28010021 156 L. Donsky-Levine 0996678719 Nadia 0 to-read 3.76 2015 The Bad Girl
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]]> Black Flowers 10138245 320 Steve Mosby 1409101118 Nadia 0 to-read 3.72 2011 Black Flowers
author: Steve Mosby
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]]> When She Was Bad 28551938 You see the people you work with every day.

But what can't you see?

Amira, Sarah, Paula, Ewan and Charlie have worked together for years - they know how each one likes their coffee, whose love life is a mess, whose children keep them up at night. But their comfortable routine life is suddenly shattered when an aggressive new boss walks in ....

Now, there's something chilling in the air.

Who secretly hates everyone?

Who is tortured by their past?

Who is capable of murder? ]]> 384 Tammy Cohen Nadia 0 to-read 3.82 2016 When She Was Bad
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]]> The Lies We Tell 26026701 You can never escape your past�

�The Lies We Tell has a sense of tension and skewed reality from page one. Delightfully creepy and skilfully plotted � it's a can’t-wait-to-get-back-to-it book and I thoroughly enjoyed it.� Hilary Boyd, author of Thursdays in the Park.

‘After a dramatic opening, The Lies We Tell develops into an intriguing story full of slow-burning suspense.' Sophie McKenzie, author of Close My Eyes and Here We Lie.

The last time Katy saw Jude was on a school trip, when Jude was attacked by a stranger and Katy ran away. Twenty years later, Jude is back, and her reappearance coincides with a series of unsettling incidents: a stranger appears in the downstairs flat; Katy’s house is vandalised; her mother is mugged and her home ransacked.

And Jude seems to know an uncomfortable amount about Katy’s current life�

Forced to revisit the same rocky waters of friendship and power they inhabited when they were fifteen, Jude and Katy realise that when it comes to memory, truth and family � nothing and no-one are what they seem.

For fans of I Let You Go, The Girl With No Past and Behind Closed Doors, THE LIES WE TELL is an explosive and completely gripping psychological thriller in which present and past intertwine to devastating effect.

Meg Carter worked as a journalist for twenty years before turning her hand to fiction. Her features have appeared in many newspapers, magazines and online with contributions to titles including You magazine, Independent, Guardian, Financial Times, and Radio Times. She is on the advisory committee of Women in Journalism. The Lies We Tell is her first novel.]]> 295 Meg Carter 191085901X Nadia 0 to-read 3.20 2015 The Lies We Tell
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]]> The Bad Seed 467032
What happens to ordinary families into whose midst a child serial killer is born? This is the question at the center of William March's classic thriller. After its initial publication in 1954, the book went on to become a million–copy bestseller, a wildly successful Broadway show, and a Warner Brothers film. The spine–tingling tale of little Rhoda Penmark had a tremendous impact on the thriller genre and generated a whole perdurable crop of creepy kids. Today, The Bad Seed remains a masterpiece of suspense that's as chilling, intelligent, and timely as ever before.]]> 256 William March 0060795484 Nadia 0 to-read 4.04 1954 The Bad Seed
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]]> <![CDATA[Beware the Night: A New York City Cop Investigates the Supernatural]]> 1906576 317 Ralph Sarchie 0312977379 Nadia 0 to-read-unusually, to-read 3.51 2001 Beware the Night: A New York City Cop Investigates the Supernatural
author: Ralph Sarchie
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]]> <![CDATA[Point of Origin (Kay Scarpetta, #9)]]> 6531 A farmhouse destroyed by fire
A body amongst the ruins

Dr Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner and consulting pathologist for the federal law enforcement agency ATF, is called out to a farmhouse in Virginia which has been destroyed by fire. In the ruins of the house she finds a body which tells a story of a violent and grisly murder.

The fire has come at the same time as another even more incendiary horror: Carrie Grethen, a killer who nearly destroyed the lives of Scarpetta and those closest to her, has escaped from a forensic psychiatric hospital. Her whereabouts is unknown, but her ultimate destination is not, for Carrie has begun to communicate with Scarpetta, conveying her deadly - if cryptic - plans for revenge.

Chillingly mesmeric in tone, labyrinthine in structure, Point of Origin is Patricia Cornwell at her most dazzling.]]> 440 Patricia Cornwell 0751530484 Nadia 5 4.05 1998 Point of Origin (Kay Scarpetta, #9)
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average rating: 4.05
book published: 1998
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]]> White Oleander 32234 White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes--each its own universe, with its own laws, its own dangers, its own hard lessons to be learned--becomes a redeeming and surprising journey of self-discovery.]]> 446 Janet Fitch 0316182540 Nadia 5 4.00 1999 White Oleander
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average rating: 4.00
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]]> Life-Size 415673
Darkly comic and crackling with energy, Life-Size is a deeply affecting story for anyone whose life is diminished by the tyranny of thinness.]]> 308 Jenefer Shute 0380730219 Nadia 5 3.88 1992 Life-Size
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]]> Gone Girl 19288043 What have we done to each other?

These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they weren't made by him. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone.

So what did happen to Nick's beautiful wife?]]> 415 Gillian Flynn 0307588378 Nadia 5 4.22 2012 Gone Girl
author: Gillian Flynn
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average rating: 4.22
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]]> <![CDATA[White Is for Magic (Blue is for Nightmares, #2)]]> 493124 I'm watching you...

A year has passed since Stacey Brown saved her best friend from a horrible death. Now she's having nightmares again, haunted by ghosts of the brutally murdered . . . and by a crazed stalker.

As she desperately casts healing spells, a new student named Jacob enters her world. Beautiful and mysterious, he reveals that he is also having dreams. To stop a killer, they must join together.

But can Jacob be trusted? Or will this new love cause her darkest dreams to come true?]]> 301 Laurie Faria Stolarz 0738704431 Nadia 0 to-read 4.02 2004 White Is for Magic (Blue is for Nightmares, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Silver Is for Secrets (Blue is for Nightmares, #3)]]> 493123 I'll make you pay...

School is over, and now Stacey, her boyfriend Jacob, and their friends have rented a beach cottage for the summer. No more stress, secrets, or stalkers. But then Stacey's nightmares return—predicting the cruel death of Clara, a mysterious girl with a secret.

And now Jacob, the only one who understands Stacey's magic, is keeping secrets, too. Is he betraying Stacey's trust or protecting her from revenge and tragedy?]]> 277 Laurie Faria Stolarz 0738706310 Nadia 0 to-read 4.08 2005 Silver Is for Secrets (Blue is for Nightmares, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[Blue is for Nightmares (Blue is for Nightmares, #1)]]> 477338 I know your secret...

Stacey's junior year at boarding school isn't easy. She's not the most popular girl at school, or the smartest, or the prettiest. She's got a crush on her best friend's boyfriend, and an even darker secret that threatens to ruin her friendships for good. And now she's having nightmares again.

Not just any nightmares � these dreams are too real to ignore, like she did three years ago. The last time she ignored them, a little girl died. This time they're about Drea, her best friend who's become the target of one seriously psycho stalker. It started with weird e-mails and freaky phone calls.

Now someone's leaving Drea white lilies � the same death lilies that have been showing up in Stacey's dreams. Everybody thinks it's just a twisted game . . . until another girl at school is brutally murdered. There are no witnesses. Worst of all, no one has a perfect alibi. With everyone as a potential suspect, Stacey turns to the one secret weapon she can trust � the folk magic taught to her by her grandmother.

Will Stacey's magic be strong enough to expose the true killer, or will the killer make her darkest nightmares come true?

In this Deluxe Spellbook Edition you'll find:

Spells created by You and other keepers of secrets-poems, spells and meditations contributed by fans of this popular series. Extras also include an interview with the author.

]]> 284 Laurie Faria Stolarz 0738703915 Nadia 4 3.83 2003 Blue is for Nightmares (Blue is for Nightmares, #1)
author: Laurie Faria Stolarz
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]]> <![CDATA[Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking]]> 8520610 The book that started the Quiet Revolution

At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams. It is to introverts—Rosa Parks, Chopin, Dr. Seuss, Steve Wozniak—that we owe many of the great contributions to society.

In Quiet, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so. She charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal throughout the twentieth century and explores how deeply it has come to permeate our culture. She also introduces us to successful introverts—from a witty, high-octane public speaker who recharges in solitude after his talks, to a record-breaking salesman who quietly taps into the power of questions. Passionately argued, superbly researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet has the power to permanently change how we see introverts and, equally important, how they see themselves.

Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader’s guide and bonus content.]]> 333 Susan Cain 0307352145 Nadia 0 to-read 4.07 2012 Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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]]> Secret for a Song 17689281
She ate her first needle when she was seven. Now, at nineteen, she’s been kicked out of college for poisoning herself with laxatives. The shrinks call it Munchausen Syndrome. All Saylor knows is that when she’s ill, her normally distant mother pays attention and the doctors and nurses make her feel special.

Then she meets Drew Dean, the leader of a local support group for those with terminal diseases. When he mistakes her for a new member, Saylor knows she should correct him. But she can’t bring herself to, not after she’s welcomed into a new circle of friends. Friends who, like Drew, all have illnesses ready to claim their independence or their lives.

For the first time, Saylor finds out what it feels like to be in love, to have friends who genuinely care about her. But secrets have a way of revealing themselves. What will happen when Saylor’s is out?]]> 206 S.K. Falls Nadia 0 to-read 3.64 2013 Secret for a Song
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]]> The Disappearing Girl 17609789
Last year, Kayla’s world imploded. Her beloved father died, leaving her alone with a narcissistic mother who is quick to criticize her daughter’s appearance. During her winter break from college, Kayla’s dangerous obsession with losing weight begins.

Kayla feels like her world changes for the better overnight. Being skinny seems to be the key to the happiness she has desperately been seeking. Her mother and friends shower her with compliments, telling her how fantastic she looks. Kayla is starving, but no one knows it.

Cameron Bennett explodes into Kayla’s life. He’s sexy and kind—he has every quality she has been looking for in a guy. As Cameron grows closer to Kayla and learns of how far she’s willing to go to stay thin, he becomes desperate to save her.

Kayla’s struggles with anorexia and bulimia reach a breaking point and she is forced to confront her body image issues in order to survive. She wonders if Cameron could be the one to help heal her from the pain of her past.

New Adult Contemporary-Ages 17+ due to language and sexual situations.]]> 248 Heather Topham Wood 1483906779 Nadia 4 3.87 2013 The Disappearing Girl
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average rating: 3.87
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rating: 4
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]]> The Forgotten Girl 20893334
The past has arrived uninvited at Jason Danvers’s door in the form of his younger sister, Hayden, a former addict who severed all contact with her family as her life spiraled out of control. Now she’s clean and sober but in need of a desperate favor—she asks Jason and his wife to take care of her teenage daughter for forty-eight hours while she handles some business in town.

But Hayden never returns.

Her disappearance brings up more unresolved problems from Jason’s past, including the abrupt departure of his best friend on the night of their high school graduation twenty-seven years earlier. When a body is discovered in the woods, the mysteries of his sister’s life—and possible death—deepen. One by one these events will shatter every expectation Jason has ever had about families, about the awful truths that bind them, and the secrets that should be taken to the grave.]]> 448 David Bell 0451417526 Nadia 0 to-read 3.47 2014 The Forgotten Girl
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]]> Beautiful Monsters 24981125
Hollywood: Movie Capital of the World, La La Land, Tinseltown, Hollyweird, Gomorrah, Land of Broken Dreams...Hell.

Makeup artist Riley Rinaldi has it all: beauty, wealth, talent, and undeniable sex appeal. But besieged by her past and the very attributes so many envy, she lives a lonely life devoid of the one commodity she cannot grasp--love. When sexy heartthrob Keller Cross swaggers onto the set of Beautiful Monsters, Riley's self-protective veneer cracks wide open. Her dormant passion ignites as the bad-boy actor thrusts her onto the volatile glass stage of Hollywood celebrity--and down into the depths of his sordid sexual deviancy. Against a backdrop of studio politics, fame, jealousy, and unrequited love, their white-hot chemistry explodes onto the film set, incinerating their former lives and exposing the unseemly underbelly of La La Land. But does love stand a chance among the beautiful monsters?]]> 416 Cynthia Ogren 0986141100 Nadia 0 currently-reading 4.75 2014 Beautiful Monsters
author: Cynthia Ogren
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]]> The Passion of Alice 76329 suffering and passion come from the same root," observes Alice Forrester, the wry heroine of this poignant and sardonically witty debut. And who would know better than twenty-five-year-old Alice, passionately committed to her own suffering--an all-consuming addiction to food deprivation--as a divine form of self-knowledge?

After an episode of heart failure, Alice arrives in the eating disorder clinic of Seaview Hospital, where she detachedly watches a circus unfold . . . starring her perfectionist mother, Syd ("she'd been a synchronized swimmer in college"), her counselors ("the therapists are like tuning forks for epiphanies"), and the resident anorexics, bulimics, and compulsive eaters. But it is newcomer Maeve Sullivan, at once raucous and tender, with her fleshy body and hedonistic appetites, who turns Alice's adventure beyond her own distorted looking glass into a new perception of herself--and who wakens an attraction that touches Alice's soul and changes her life forever.

Praise for The Passion of Alice

"A smart, funny, wonderful book that will contain truth for every reader."-- Los Angeles Times Book Review

"[A] tart and edgy first novel . . . A rarity--an examination of a twenty-five-year-old woman's peculiar inner life, wrapped in a sharp comedy of manners."--Harper's Bazaar

"Stephanie Grant's first novel is as grim as it is powerful, stripped entirely of the convenient life-affirming consolations and breakthroughs that can make 'social issue' fiction easier to take. Her prose style is relentlessly cool and stark, serving as x-ray vison that registers the hardest truths without prettification."--The Boston Globe]]> 274 Stephanie Grant 0553378619 Nadia 4 3.62 1995 The Passion of Alice
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]]> Still Missing 7159515
Still Missing interweaves the year Annie spent as the captive of a psychopath in a remote mountain cabin, which unfold through sessions with her psychiatrist, with a second narrative following the events after her escape—her struggle to piece her shattered life back together and the ongoing police investigation into the identity of her captor.

Still Missing is a shocking, visceral, brutal and beautifully crafted novel.]]> 342 Chevy Stevens 0312595670 Nadia 4 3.98 2010 Still Missing
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]]> Pretty Bones 10130083 160 Aya Tsintziras 155277712X Nadia 4 3.47 2011 Pretty Bones
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]]> The Elementals 13538834
The Elementalsis on one level a contemporary story about a young woman, Ariel Silverman, facing the challenges of her first years away at college in Berkeley, California, while her mother battles cancer at home in Los Angeles. But the book takes on deeper, stranger meanings when we contend with Ariel's obsession with the disappearance of her best friend, Jeni, who vanished without a trace a few years before. Her emptiness of spirit seems finally to find some healing with three mysterious, beautiful and seductive young people living in a strange old house in the Berkeley hills. But at what price?]]> 265 Francesca Lia Block 1250005493 Nadia 0 to-read 3.37 2012 The Elementals
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]]> The Girl on the Train 22557272
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.]]> 336 Paula Hawkins 1594633665 Nadia 0 to-read 3.97 2015 The Girl on the Train
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]]> Vanishing Girls 22465597
When Dara vanishes on her birthday, Nick thinks Dara is just playing around. But another girl, nine-year-old Madeline Snow, has vanished, too, and Nick becomes increasingly convinced that the two disappearances are linked. Now Nick has to find her sister, before it's too late.]]> 357 Lauren Oliver 0062224107 Nadia 0 to-read 3.57 2015 Vanishing Girls
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]]> <![CDATA[Biting Anorexia: A Firsthand Account of an Internal War]]> 6324589 My name is Lucy. I am in recovery from anorexia nervosa and major depression, each of which almost killed me.

So begins Biting Anorexia, an extraordinary account of a teenage girl's descent into the tortured existence of anorexia and her arduous, remarkable recovery. Much of this unflinchingly candid memoir is ripped directly from the pages of author Lucy Howard-Taylor's diary as she struggled with the torturous condition, offering a rare glimpse into the thoughts and fears that grip the minds of those struggling with anorexia, the most fatal of all psychiatric illnesses.

Tinged with a wicked sense of humor, Lucy's beautifully written, penetrating insights capture the overpowering anxiety that comes with anorexia and reveal the challenge of recovery. This courageous and compelling story will inspire and support those troubled with the condition, and their family and friends, the world over.

� a graphic yet poetic insight into the pain and suffering experienced by sufferers of eating disorders.
—Claire Vickery, CEO and founder of The Butterfly Foundation]]> 192 Lucy Howard-Taylor 1572247029 Nadia 0 to-read-unusually, to-read 3.75 2009 Biting Anorexia: A Firsthand Account of an Internal War
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]]> Goodbye, Paper Doll 1180950
That was the doctor's diagnosis. But seventeen-year-old Rosemary Norton knew better. She wasn't sick; the doctor and her parents were only worryworts. Jason, who said he loved her, was just like the rest of the boys; all he cared about was her looks. And Trudy and her other so-called friends at school were simply jealous, because Rosemary alone had the willpower to diet and exercise to the limit.

Rosemary had never looked or felt better. she was paper-thin and brimming with energy. And she was smart- smart enough to get around the doctor's threats to put her in the hospital; to trick her parents into thinking she was eating; to beat the enemies who would like to see her fat. Rosemary thought she was smart enough to beat them all...but she didn't know she was on the brink of destroying herself.]]> 155 Anne Snyder 0451159438 Nadia 0 3.86 1980 Goodbye, Paper Doll
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]]> Unwell 1648655
"A riveting and sensitive journey into the world of a teenage girl plagued by Anorexia Nervosa. A detailed, realistic account of the internal struggles and conflicts that exist in the mind of someone with an eating disorder. An important book to read for anyone dealing with a loved one with anorexia." -Jane Karp, MD Psychiatrist

"Lipton's 'Unwell' is extremely well written and invites the reader into the candid journey of an eating disordered girl and her thoughts. This is a valuable read for parents as they try to understand this complicated illness from the inside out." -Lynn Grefe CEO, National Eating Disorders Association]]> 312 Leslie Lipton 0595859267 Nadia 0 to-read-unusually, to-read 3.87 2006 Unwell
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]]> After the Strawberry 6545199
Jesse’s camera follows Lydia as she’s hospitalized for anorexia, as she walks the line between hoping for death and wanting life, as her weight continues to fall. With the camera running, Lydia shifts from the viewfinder’s object to the eye behind the camera. In doing so, she discovers how she wants to see her world.

After the Strawberry is a novel about a girl who disappears while trying to be seen.]]> 520 Kathryn Pope 9780615288 Nadia 0 to-read 3.53 2009 After the Strawberry
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]]> More Than You Can Chew 714627
Marty's ability to find a way to live, despite the powerful lure of anorexia, is the core of this fine, insightful novel.

Marnelle Tokio's semi autobiographical story will resonate with every teenager who faces issues of family, body image, and self-confidence.]]> 234 Marnelle Tokio 0887766390 Nadia 0 to-read 3.82 2003 More Than You Can Chew
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]]> <![CDATA[Insatiable: The Compelling Story of Four Teens, Food and Its Power]]> 331018 292 Eve Eliot 1558748180 Nadia 0 to-read 3.74 2001 Insatiable: The Compelling Story of Four Teens, Food and Its Power
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]]> <![CDATA[Exit Ghost (Complete Nathan Zuckerman, #9)]]> 703163
Walking the streets like a revenant, he quickly makes three connections that explode his carefully protected solitude. One is with a young couple with whom, in a rash moment, he offers to swap homes. They will flee post-9/11 Manhattan for his country refuge, and he will return to city life. But from the time he meets them, Zuckerman also wants to swap his solitude for the erotic challenge of the young woman, Jamie, whose allure draws him back to all that he thought he had left behind: intimacy, the vibrant play of heart and body.

The second connection is with a figure from Zuckerman’s youth, Amy Bellette, companion and muse to Zuckerman’s first literary hero, E. I. Lonoff. The once irresistible Amy is now an old woman depleted by illness, guarding the memory of that grandly austere American writer who showed Nathan the solitary path to a writing vocation.

The third connection is with Lonoff’s would-be biographer, a young literary hound who will do and say nearly anything to get to Lonoff’s “great secret.� Suddenly involved, as he never wanted or intended to be involved again, with love, mourning, desire, and animosity, Zuckerman plays out an interior drama of vivid and poignant possibilities.

Haunted by Roth’s earlier work The Ghost Writer, Exit Ghost is an amazing leap into yet another phase in this great writer’s insatiable commitment to fiction.]]> 292 Philip Roth 0618915478 Nadia 0 to-read 3.50 2007 Exit Ghost (Complete Nathan Zuckerman, #9)
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]]> Annabel 7984373
Kathleen Winter’s luminous debut novel is a deeply affecting portrait of life in an enchanting seaside town and the trials of growing up unique in a restrictive environment.

In 1968, into the devastating, spare atmosphere of Labrador, Canada, a child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor fully girl, but both at once. Only three people are privy to the secret—the baby’s parents, Jacinta and Treadway, and their trusted neighbor and midwife, Thomasina. Though Treadway makes the difficult decision to raise the child as a boy named Wayne, the women continue to quietly nurture the boy’s female side. And as Wayne grows into adulthood within the hypermasculine hunting society of his father, his shadow-self, a girl he thinks of as “Annabel,� is never entirely extinguished.

When Wayne finally escapes the confines of his hometown and settles in St. John’s, the anonymity of the city grants him the freedom to confront his dual identity. His ultimate choice will once again call into question the integrity and allegiance of those he loves most.

Kathleen Winter has crafted a literary gem about the urge to unveil mysterious truth in a culture that shuns contradiction, and the body’s insistence on coming home. A daringly unusual debut full of unforgettable beauty, Annabel introduces a remarkable new voice to American readers.]]> 464 Kathleen Winter 0887842364 Nadia 0 to-read 3.84 2010 Annabel
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]]> Sister 8196732 358 Rosamund Lupton 0749942010 Nadia 4 3.77 2010 Sister
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]]> I Am Jennie 13260073
Drunk and high, holed up in a hotel room with a beautiful blonde she barely knew, Jennie Ketcham was thirty-six hours away from entering rehab. Her on-camera alter ego, Penny Flame, was a rising star. Her personal life, however, had been getting worse for years and finally hit an all-time low.

Guys are gonna want one thing from you. To Jennie’s young ears, her father’s advice meant one You can use your sexuality to control men. Life was imploding around her parents� divorce, their spiraling addictions, her deteriorating relationships with them. She lost her virginity at thirteen and began a game of initiating boys her age into manhood. For the fleeting moments she spent in bed with them, she got to be the center of attention.

Eventually, Jennie found porn—that enticing world of immediate gratification, endless drugs, and seemingly endless money—and became Penny Flame. Divorced from her feelings, tempted into a lifestyle she couldn’t afford, financially or emotionally, she entered Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew to boost her career. But when Dr. Drew and his staff insisted she go by her real name, the once indestructible walls she had built around herself began to burn down.

Two stories make up this direct and disarming that of a troubled girl desperately fleeing intimacy and herself, and that of a woman courageously breaking down emotional barriers to build a new life. Many will recognize Jennie’s confusing sex with self-worth, addiction with love, detachment with strength. Ultimately, I Am Jennie is a tale of a woman who considers herself a work in progress but who finally understands that the only person she can truly afford to be is herself.

***

I had never allowed myself to wonder why i ran from people, from connection, from what Dr. Drew was labeling as intimacy. I had never questioned why I habitually hurt the men I dated, or the people in my family. I had never Jennie, why are you doing this?

In the past, I had simply acted, and then moved forward. If I felt like crying, I shut the emotions down. This quality made me a good porn star. But it suddenly didn’t seem like a great way to live.

“It’s a wall,� I whispered.

“What do you think is behind that wall?� Dr. Drew said.

He looked directly in my eyes. The thought of something existing behind this impenetrable wall was horrifying, exhausting. I grabbed a Kleenex, thinking if I could make the perfect triangle, I could dab my inner eyes without disrupting the glue that held my fake eyelashes in place.

“Hopefully, a caring, sensitive person who can have meaningful relationships,� I said.]]> 352 Jennie Ketcham 1451644760 Nadia 0 to-read 3.80 2012 I Am Jennie
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]]> The Quality of Silence 23310342
More isolated with each frozen mile they cover, they travel deeper into an endless night. And Ruby, deaf since birth, must brave the darkness where sight cannot guide her.

She won't abandon her father. But winter has tightened its grip, and there is somebody out there who wants to stop them.

Somebody tracking them through the dark.]]> 340 Rosamund Lupton 0349408122 Nadia 0 to-read 3.57 2015 The Quality of Silence
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]]> It's Kind of a Funny Story 248704
Craig's suicidal episode gets him checked into a mental hospital, where his new neighbors include a transsexual sex addict, a girl who has scarred her own face with scissors, and the self-elected President Armelio. There, Craig is finally able to confront the sources of his anxiety.

Ned Vizzini, who himself spent time in a psychiatric hospital, has created a remarkably moving tale about the sometimes unexpected road to happiness.]]> 444 Ned Vizzini 078685197X Nadia 5 4.08 2006 It's Kind of a Funny Story
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]]> The Asylum 15814529 The Ghost Writer and The Seance.

Confused and disoriented, Georgina Ferrars awakens in a small room in Tregannon House, a private asylum in a remote corner of England. She has no memory of the past few weeks. The doctor, Maynard Straker, tells her that she admitted herself under the name Lucy Ashton the day before, then suffered a seizure. When she insists he has mistaken her for someone else, Dr. Straker sends a telegram to her uncle, who replies that Georgina Ferrars is at home with him in “Your patient must be an imposter.�

Suddenly her voluntary confinement becomes involuntary. Who is the woman in her uncle’s house? And what has become of her two most precious possessions, a dragonfly pin left to her by her mother and a writing case containing her journal, the only record of those missing weeks? Georgina’s perilous quest to free herself takes us from a cliffside cottage on the Isle of Wight to the secret passages of Tregannon House and into a web of hidden family ties on which her survival depends.

Another delicious read from the author praised by Ruth Rendell as having “a gift for creating suspense, apparently effortlessly, as if it belongs in the nature of fiction.”]]> 257 John Harwood 0544003470 Nadia 0 to-read 3.36 2013 The Asylum
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]]> Asylum 23352307
Their meaning, the pictures they paint in the minds of those that hear they’re not always the same and to me at least, that makes them meaningless.

Take for instance the phrase ‘black widow�. Those words conjure the image of a spider, an eight-legged creature with the red imprint of an hourglass on its abdomen.

However, instead of speaking of an arachnid, of the resident of a spindly and dew-laden web, the people who whisper those words are talking about something much different.

They’re talking about me.

From what I’m told, I’m called the Black Widow because no man I’ve ever loved has survived.

Yet, I have no memory of any of it.

My new home leads me to the definition of another vague and meaningless word.

It’s a place where I’m supposed to seek refuge.

A place of retreat and security.

It’s a place where I’m supposed to be kept safe because I’m sick.

But the definition for this place is wrong and the word becomes meaningless when you’re tucked away and made silent by drugs and pretty white jackets.

My name is Alexandra Sutton and this is the story of what happened when I was imprisoned inside an Asylum.]]> 263 Lily White 0986313904 Nadia 0 to-read 3.91 2014 Asylum
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]]> Asylum 895479
But Stella's knowledge of Edgar's crime is no hindrance to the volcanic attraction that ensues--a passion that will consume Stella's sanity and destroy her and the lives of those around her.]]> 254 Patrick McGrath 0679781382 Nadia 0 to-read 3.68 1996 Asylum
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]]> Because I Am Furniture 4294292 352 Thalia Chaltas 0670062987 Nadia 0 to-read 3.84 2009 Because I Am Furniture
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]]> The Adderall Diaries 6397953
In the spring of 2007, a brilliant computer programmer named Hans Reiser stands accused of murdering his estranged wife, Nina. Despite a mountain of circumstantial evidence against him, he proclaims his innocence. The case takes a twist when Nina’s former lover, and Hans’s former best friend, Sean Sturgeon, confesses to eight unrelated murders that no one has ever heard of.

At the time of Sturgeon’s confession, Stephen Elliot is paralyzed by writer’s block, in the thrall of Adderall dependency, and despondent over the state of his romantic life. But he is fascinated by Sturgeon, whose path he has often crossed in San Francisco’s underground S&M scene. What kind of person, he wonders, confesses to a murder he likely did not commit? One answer is, perhaps, a man like Elliott’s own father.

So begins a riveting journey through a neon landscape of false confessions, self-medication, and torturous sex. Set against the backdrop of a nation at war, in the declining years of the Silicon Valley tech boom and the dawn of Paris Hilton’s celebrity, The Adderall Diaries is at once a gripping account of a murder trial and a scorching investigation of the self. Tough, tender, and unflinchingly honest, it is the breakout book by one of the most daring writers of his generation.
]]> 208 Stephen Elliott 1555975380 Nadia 0 to-read 3.47 2009 The Adderall Diaries
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]]> Cruddy 29015 Now the truth can finally be revealed about the mysterious day long ago when the authorities found a child, calmly walking in the boiling desert, covered with blood.
The girl is Roberta Rohbeson, and her rant against a world bounded by "the cruddy top bedroom of a cruddy rental house on a very cruddy mud road" soon becomes a detailed account of another story, one that she has kept silent since she was eleven.
Darkly funny and resonant with humanity, Cruddy, masterfully intertwines Roberta's stories -- part Easy Rider and part bipolar Wizard of Oz. These stories, the backbone of Roberta's short life, include a one-way trip across America fueled by revenge and greed and a vivid cast of characters, starring Roberta's dangerous father, the owners of the Knocking Hammer Bar-cum-slaughterhouse, and runaway adolescents. With a teenager's eye for freakish detail and a nervous ability to make the most horrible scenes seem hilarious, Cruddy is a stunning achievement.]]> 305 Lynda Barry 068483846X Nadia 0 to-read 4.16 1999 Cruddy
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]]> Just One Look 85418
When Grace Lawson picks up a newly developed set of family photographs, there is a picture that doesn't belong-a photo from at least twenty years ago with a man in it who looks strikingly like her husband, Jack. And though Jack denies it's him, he disappears that night, taking the photo with him. Now, to save her family from a fierce, silent killer who will stop at nothing to get the photo, Grace must confront the dark corners of her own tragic past....]]> 390 Harlan Coben 0451213203 Nadia 0 to-read 3.99 2004 Just One Look
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]]> Hold Tight 6086300
The bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix dramas Stay Close and The Stranger delivers a #1 New York Times bestseller that asks how well parents really know their children—and puts them on a technological roller coaster of their worst fears.

“We’re losing him.� With those words, Mike and Tia Baye decide to spy on their sixteen-year-old son Adam, who has become increasingly moody and withdrawn since the suicide of his best friend. The software they install on his computer shows them every Web site visited, every e-mail sent or received, every instant message. And each keystroke draws them deeper and deeper into a maze of mayhem and violence that could destroy them all....]]> 488 Harlan Coben 045122650X Nadia 0 to-read 3.85 2008 Hold Tight
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]]> Bird by Bird 12543 A newer edition of this title can be found here.

"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. [It] was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said. 'Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.'"

With this basic instruction always in mind, Anne Lamott returns to offer us a new gift: a step-by-step guide on how to write and on how to manage the writer's life. From "Getting Started,' with "Short Assignments," through "Shitty First Drafts," "Character," "Plot," "Dialogue." all the way from "False Starts" to "How Do You Know When You're Done?" Lamott encourages, instructs, and inspires. She discusses "Writers Block," "Writing Groups," and "Publication." Bracingly honest, she is also one of the funniest people alive.

If you have ever wondered what it takes to be a writer, what it means to be a writer, what the contents of your school lunches said about what your parents were really like, this book is for you. From faith, love, and grace to pain, jealousy, and fear, Lamott insists that you keep your eyes open, and then shows you how to survive. And always, from the life of the artist she turns to the art of life.

]]> 238 Anne Lamott Nadia 5 4.24 1994 Bird by Bird
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]]> White Bird in a Blizzard 205014 When Katrina Connors' mother walks out on her family, Kat is surprised but not shocked; the whole year she has been "becoming sixteen" - falling in love with the boy next door, shedding her babyfat, discovering sex - her mother has been slowly withdrawing.

As Kat and her impassive father pick up the pieces of their daily lives, she finds herself curiously unaffected by her mother's absence. But in dreams that become too real to ignore, she's haunted by her mother's cries for help.

Finally, she must act on her instinct that something violent and evil has occurred - a realization that brings Kat to a chilling discovery.

]]> 240 Laura Kasischke 0786863668 Nadia 0 to-read 3.55 1999 White Bird in a Blizzard
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]]> Music for Chameleons 60483 Music for Chameleons is Handcarved Coffins, a ‘nonfiction novel� based on the brutal crimes of a real-life murderer. Taking place in a small Midwestern town in America, it offers chilling insights into the mind of a killer and the obsession of the man bringing him to justice. Also in this volume are six short stories and seven ‘conversational portraits� including a touching one of Marilyn Monroe, the ‘beautiful child� and a hilarious one of a dope-smoking cleaning lady doing her rounds in New York.]]> 262 Truman Capote 0141184612 Nadia 0 to-read 4.10 1980 Music for Chameleons
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]]> <![CDATA[Strawberries for Dessert (Coda, #4; Strawberries for Dessert, #1)]]> 8578533
Their arrangement may be casual, but Jonathan soon learns that when it comes to Cole Fenton, nothing is easy. Between Cole’s fear of intimacy and his wandering lifestyle, Jonathan wonders if their relationship may be doomed from the start—but the more Cole pushes him away, the more determined Jon is to make it work.

]]> 242 Marie Sexton 1615815511 Nadia 0 to-read 4.16 2010 Strawberries for Dessert (Coda, #4; Strawberries for Dessert, #1)
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]]> My Booky Wook 2063563 339 Russell Brand 0340936150 Nadia 0 to-read 3.44 2007 My Booky Wook
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]]> <![CDATA[Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper]]> 29486 The Late Show to be the pick of “Dave’s Book Club 2006,� Candy Girl is the story of a young writer who dared to bare it all as a stripper. At the age of twenty-four, Diablo Cody decided there had to be more to life than typing copy at an ad agency. She soon managed to find inspiration from a most unlikely source� amateur night at the seedy Skyway Lounge. While she doesn’t take home the prize that night, Diablo discovers to her surprise the act of stripping is an absolute thrill. This is Diablo’s captivating fish-out-of-water story of her yearlong walk on the wild side, from quiet gentlemen’s clubs to multilevel sex palaces and glassed-in peep shows. In witty prose she gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at this industry through a writer’s keen eye, chronicling her descent into the skin trade and the effect it had on her self-image and her relationship with her now husband.

]]> 212 Diablo Cody 1592402739 Nadia 0 3.57 2005 Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper
author: Diablo Cody
name: Nadia
average rating: 3.57
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]]> A Writer's Diary 14948
Included are entries that refer to her own writing, and those that are relevant to the raw material of her work, and, finally, comments on the books she was reading. The first entry included here is dated 1918 and the last, three weeks before her death in 1941. Between these points of time unfolds the private world—the anguish, the triumph, the creative vision—of one of the great writers of the twentieth century.

� A Writer’s Diary . . . is Virginia Woolf . . . The whole vibrates with the ups and downs of a passionate relationship . . . in the intensities, variations, alarms and excursions, panics and exaltations of her relationship to her art.”� New York Times Book Review

Edited and with a Preface by Leonard Woolf.]]> 355 Virginia Woolf 0156027917 Nadia 0 to-read 4.16 1953 A Writer's Diary
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]]> What Work Is: Poems 29934
“This collection amounts to a hymn of praise for all the workers of America. These proletarian heroes, with names like Lonnie, Loo, Sweet Pea, and Packy, work the furnaces, forges, slag heaps, assembly lines, and loading docks at places with unglamorous names like Brass Craft or Feinberg and Breslin’s First-Rate Plumbing and Plating. Only Studs Terkel’s Working approaches the pathos and beauty of this book. But Levine’s characters are also significant for their inner lives, not merely their jobs. They are unusually artistic, living ‘at the borders of dreams.� One reads The Tempest ‘slowly to himself�; another ponders a diagonal chalk line drawn by his teacher to suggest a triangle, the roof of a barn, or the mysterious separation of ‘the dark from the dark.� What Work Is ranks as a major work by a major poet . . . very accessible and utterly American in tone and language.�
—Daniel L. Guillory, Library Journal]]> 77 Philip Levine 0679740589 Nadia 0 4.28 1991 What Work Is: Poems
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]]> Ruby Sparks 18158335 She's out of his mind. Zoe Kazan Nadia 0 to-read 4.28 Ruby Sparks
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]]> Beautiful Monsters 22860332
Hollywood: Movie Capital of the World, La La Land, Tinseltown, Hollyweird, Gomorrah, Land of Broken Dreams...Hell.

Makeup artist Riley Rinaldi has it all: beauty, wealth, talent, and undeniable sex appeal. But besieged by her past and the very attributes so many envy, she lives a lonely life devoid of the one commodity she cannot grasp--love. When sexy heartthrob Keller Cross swaggers onto the set of Beautiful Monsters, Riley's self-protective veneer cracks wide open. Her dormant passion ignites as the bad-boy actor thrusts her onto the volatile glass stage of Hollywood celebrity--and down into the depths of his sordid sexual deviancy. Against a backdrop of studio politics, fame, jealousy, and unrequited love, their white-hot chemistry explodes onto the film set, incinerating their former lives and exposing the unseemly underbelly of La La Land. But does love stand a chance among the beautiful monsters?]]> 396 Cynthia Ogren 0692221093 Nadia 0 to-read 4.88 2014 Beautiful Monsters
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]]> <![CDATA[Write YOUR Book. A No-Nonsense Guide To Writing Fiction]]> 11681038 Book by de Bethune, Ziana 138 Ziana de Bethune 0973255056 Nadia 0 to-read 4.00 2010 Write YOUR Book. A No-Nonsense Guide To Writing Fiction
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]]> The Hollow Dolls 19507910
It is to the Man-Rabbit’s island in a shared psychosis (Folie à Deux) where they are sent on a mission of revenge: Eliminate predators of young girls. The Man-Rabbit also demands that in order to succeed they must learn to love. Melanie and Winnie know that their love is only a game; a borrowed phantom melancholy complete with Winnie’s crocodile tears, and Melanie’s dominant affectations of her dark princess. Unable to love or feel, they are Hollow Dolls. And so the struggle begins; a journey from their child-like masquerade of love to a new world of real love.

The girls end up in the notorious Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, Canada where Melanie is searching for her birth father. Melanie needs desperately to find out what happened in her youth, but at the same time everything is catching up—the police, the demands of her mission with the Man-Rabbit, and her fracturing psyche.

Real love tempts The Hollow Dolls, mind and body. They refuse to believe anything short of absolute, and so they test love. Through the looking glass, Melanie and Winnie dance on psychic tenterhooks in a realm filled with passion. Their mission of murder and vengeance mingles with their unquenchable desire as they explore domination and submission together and with others. An ancestral aching for blood sport grows in Winnie, awakening her true self. Melanie watches her dark blood princess and the gateway to real love opens ever so slowly.

And as though one needed to delve into flesh itself to dissect and prove love, Melanie and Winnie find themselves in the Blood Sister Parlor Plains, where Love holds court and the greatest wishes of human kind are granted.]]> 332 Marilyn Talia Dahl Nadia 0 to-read 3.29 2013 The Hollow Dolls
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