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"The Stuff on the Inside" is a coming-of-age novel that follows a young student named Leslie Barclay. During his journey through college, Leslie battles with the finite nature of life, the collapsing health of those closest to him, and struggles to mask his identity crisis. The more the outside world fails him, the more refuge Leslie seeks within the walls of his college. Pursuing any means to cheat death and stay young forever, Leslie sells his soul to the masters that rule on campus. In this attempt to stave off the coming tide of adulthood, Leslie finds himself drowning in a sea of adolescence that he helped create. Only to discover a horrifying truth... you either get old, or you die. This novel touches on many adult conversations surrounding topics such as mental health, self-harm, death denial, and sexual assault. It is not intended for readers under the age of eighteen.
Mystery set in the St. Lawrence Seaway.
It is September 1951 and stunned Betty Wheatley is suffering from PVS (postvirginity syndrome). She just knows she'll be unable to say no to the next amorous advance. She believes that all men can read her weakness-it's written all over her face. She's a harlot at the tender age of nineteen. And it's all Cameron's fault-Cameron with the bedroom eyes. A reluctant Betty, banished to rural schoolism in the isolated mountain town of Narrows, British Columbia (pop. 41), takes hesitant command of the Green School with its knotholed outhouse and traitorous Quebec heater-her first taste of work, her first sniff of responsibility. Betty's pupils, fifteen barn-scented empty heads, test her mettle; Bet...
Collects excerpts from the personal travel journal sketchbooks of forty-three artists, illustrators, and designers.
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Family Bond is a book that captures the true essence of how detrimental emotional scaring can be to one's life. It also displays how letting go of emotional baggage can open you up to a whole new world of possibilities and how blessings can come about once you release that emotional scaring. It depicts how miracles can come about in unexpected forms. We all have had some emotional scaring at one point or another in our lives. It shows you that the key toovercoming emotional scaring is nottobury it, butto workthrough it. Weseem to build our lives around emotional scaring asopposed to learning and growing from it. We become afraidof ourselves,because so many thingscan triggerthat emotional sca...
From the "New York Times" bestselling author and winner of the 2001 NAACP Award for Outstanding Fiction comes a gripping story of a promising young college student with dreams and ambitions far darker than anyone could have imagined.
EIGHTEEN YEARS EARLIER, at a quaint summer camp along the shore of Lake Stockton, four women were butchered in less than a week. Now the camp is being reopened and the camp’s new nurse is savagely killed, forcing Mark Dixon to deal with the memories of his own mother’s violent demise at Camp Stockton long ago. As the body count rises, Dixon reluctantly accepts the assistance of a beautiful acquaintance, determined to stop a vengeful killer. However, when the shocking truth about events, both past and present, is fi nally uncovered, Mark Dixon may well regret ever coming home!
Parris Reed is a smart, young and attractive woman, who just landed her dream job. She's happy with her life, but like most single women, she's looking for a "good" man to make it complete. When Parris meets attorney Victor Baxter through a colleague, she feels like her prayers have been answered. She finally has it all, but demons from her childhood resurface and strange things keep happening that convince her it's all too good to be true. Sometimes your mind can play tricks and people aren't always who they seem. It's a deadly game of who's who and Parris must figure it out before it's too late.
Stumbling Upon Serenity is an adventure of the mind and spirit. It's a novel about Anita Livey, a teenager who is busy making plans for her future when a serial killer enters her world. It's a tale of how tragedy can create invisible wounds that only forgiveness and the courage to love can heal.