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All the Ways the World Can End by Abby SherDevastated by her father's terminal cancer and her best friend's move to another city, Lenny envisions world-ending disasters and stockpiles supplies in a backyard bunker before developing an inappropriate crush and finding the courage to reconcile herself to painful changes.
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All the Wrong Chords by Christine Hurley DerisoReluctantly spending the summer with her grandfather after her brother dies from a drug overdose, Scarlett joins a rock band and falls for the group's lead singer while wondering if happiness will remain elusive.
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The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X. R. PanA teen grieving the loss of her mother travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time and search for her mother's spirit while uncovering tragic family secrets and struggling to reconcile the truth about how her mother's life really ended.
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The Beauty That Remains by Ashley WoodfolkBonding over a shared love a music, an artist, a twin and a writer of love songs suffer heartbreaking losses that compel them to seek solace in their musical activities and wonder how to pick up the pieces.
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The Chaos of Standing Still by Jessica BrodyStranded overnight at the Denver airport, Ryn finds courage in the face of kind strangers, a new romance and the almost magical qualities of an unfamiliar place to confront the shattered aspects of her past.
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Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel by Val EmmichA tale inspired by the hit Broadway show follows the experiences of an outcast-turned-social media sensation who perpetuates a lie and bonds with his late best friend's grieving family.
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Everything All at Once by Katrina LenoWhen her struggles with anxiety worsen in the aftermath of a family death, Lottie is bequeathed a series of letters from her late aunt, a best-selling author, who leaves instructions to help Lottie overcome her fears and explore her own literary voice.
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The Fall of Innocence by Jenny Torres SanchezStruggling to move on in the years after a traumatizing attack at the hands of a local boy, 16-year-old Emilia DeJesus takes comfort in the regional crows she credits with helping her survive and is forced to confront shifting truths in the light of new information about her attacker's identity.
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Goodbye Days: A Novel by Jeff ZentnerWhen a simple text causes a fatal crash, ending the lives of his three best friends, a guilt-ridden Carver becomes subject to a criminal investigation and receives support from a few loving people before his friends' families ask him to share a goodbye day with them.
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History is All You Left Me by Adam SilveraHaving lost his first boyfriend in a terrible accident, Griffin, a youth with OCD, forges a friendship with his lost love's ex-boyfriend, Jackson, who exhibits suspicious signs of guilt.
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I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. SánchezWhen the sister who delighted their parents by her faithful embrace of Mexican culture dies in a tragic accident, Julia, who longs to go to college and move into a home of her own, discovers from mutual friends that her sister may not have been as perfect as believed.
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The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire SáenzHaving believed he was happy with his place in the loving Mexican-American family he shares with his adoptive gay father, Sal turns angry and uncertain when his senior year arrives and he realizes that he wants to know more about his biological origins. By the author of Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe.
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The Leaving Year: A Novel by Pam McGaffinAs the Summer of Love comes to an end, 15-year-old Ida Petrovich waits for a father who never comes home. While commercial fishing in Alaska, he is lost at sea, but with no body and no wreckage, Ida and her mother are forced to accept a "presumed" death that tests their already strained relationship. While still in shock over the loss of her father, Ida overhears an adult conversation that shatters everything she thought she knew about him. This prompts her to set out on a search for the truth that takes her from her Washington State hometown to Southeast Alaska, where she works at a salmon cannery, develops love for a Filipino classmate, and befriends a Native Alaskan girl. In this wild, rugged place, she also begins to understand the physical and emotional bonds that took her father north and why he kept them secret--a journey of discovery that ultimately brings her family together and helps them heal. Insightful and heartfelt, The Leaving Year is a tale of love and loyalty, family and friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in our search for meaning.
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The Light Between Worlds by Laura E. WeymouthFive years ago, Evelyn and Philippa Hapwell cowered from air strikes in a London bomb shelter... and were transported to another realm called the Woodlands. In a forest kingdom populated by creatures out of myth and legend, they found temporary refuge. When they finally returned to London, nothing had changed -- except themselves. Overcome with longing, Ev is desperate to return no matter what it takes. Philippa is determined to find a place in this world, and moves to America to escape the memory of what was. When Evelyn goes missing, Philippa wonders if Ev truly did find a way home, or if the weight of their worlds pulled her under.
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A Lite Too Bright by Samuel MillerLosing his college scholarship and sent to live with relatives in the wake of unsettling mental breaks from reality, Arthur Louis Pullman III discovers a journal written by his famous author grandfather, an Alzheimer's patient who died under mysterious circumstances after a fateful week spent traveling across the country by train.
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Love & Other Carnivorous Plants by Florence GonsalvesDiscouraged by a harder-than-anticipated freshman year at Harvard, Danny becomes attracted to an older, edgy girl she met in rehab while undergoing treatment for an eating disorder, developing a relationship that becomes shaped by a tragedy and Danny's struggles with self-destructive tendencies.
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Love Letters to the Dead: A Novel by Ava DellairaA troubled teen writes poignant letters to influential celebrities who died young, confronting in the process her own efforts to fit in, navigate her splintering family and come to terms with a past trauma.
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Me and Earl and the Dying girl: A Novel by Jesse AndrewsSeventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
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A Monster Calls: A Novel by Patrick NessThirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill, but an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.
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Sadie by Courtney SummersResolving to bring her sister's killer to justice, an orphaned teen goes missing while investigating meager clues, before a radio personality learns her story and becomes obsessed with finding her before it is too late.
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The Second Life of Ava Rivers: A Novel by Faith GardnerEighteen-year-old Vera, eager to start college and escape the celebrity her family has endured since her twin's disappearance twelve years earlier, finds her world turned upside-down again when Ava returns.
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Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn BowmanAfter her sister and songwriting partner, Lea, dies in an automobile accident, seventeen-year-old Rumi is sent to Hawaii with an aunt she barely knows while she and her mother grieve separately.
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Th1rteen R3asons Why: A Novel by Jay AsherWhen high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
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We Are Okay: A Novel by Nina LaCourRunning back to college and shutting out everyone from her life in California after a traumatic summer that nobody else knows about, Marin is forced to confront what happened during a lonely, fateful winter break.
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What to Say Next by Julie BuxbaumDistancing herself from her friends when she realizes that nobody she knows will understand the difficulties she is facing in the wake of her father's death, Kit impulsively sits at the lunch table beside longtime loner David, with whom she forges an unexpected connection.
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Understanding Suicide: A National Epidemic by Connie GoldsmithExamines common risk factors of suicide, including mental illness, substance abuse, and bullying, and discusses health care resources to help prevent suicide and coping strategies for those struggling in the wake of a loved one's suicide.
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Brave Face: A Memoir by Shaun David Hutchinson"I wasn't depressed because I was gay. I was depressed and gay." Shaun David Hutchinson was nineteen. Confused. Struggling to find the vocabulary to understand and accept who he was and how he fit into a community in which he couldn't see himself. The voice of depression told him that he would never be loved or wanted, while powerful and hurtful messages from society told him that being gay meant love and happiness weren't for him. A million moments large and small over the years all came together to convince Shaun that he couldn't keep going, that he had no future. And so he followed through on trying to make that a reality. Thankfully Shaun survived, and over time, came to embrace how grateful he is and how to find self-acceptance. In this courageous and deeply honest memoir, Shaun takes readers through the journey of what brought him to the edge, and what has helped him truly believe that it does get better.
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Grief Girl: My True Story by Erin VincentWhen her parents are killed in a car accident, a teenage girl is left to deal with the pain and hardship as she, her seventeen-year-old sister, and three-year-old brother struggle to survive on their own, in a powerful tale about love and loss.
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