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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
20 boy summer 20 boy summer Sarah Ockler While on vacation in California, sixteen-year-old best friends Anna and Frankie conspire to find a boy for Anna's first kiss, but Anna harbors a painful secret that threatens their lighthearted plan … OL11955244W
Freaky green eyes Freaky green eyes Joyce Carol Oates Fifteen-year-old Frankie relates the events of the year leading up to her mother's mysterious disappearance and her own struggle to discover and accept the truth about her parents' relationship. OL14958234W
No visible wounds No visible wounds Mary Susan Miller Does your partner: have sudden outbursts of anger or rage? become jealous without reason? prevent you from seeing friends and family? deny you access to family assets such as bank accounts, credit ca… OL15856247W
Shock point Shock point April Henry Fifteen-year-old Cassie Streng is determined to expose her stepfather after learning that he is giving a dangerous experimental drug to his teenaged psychiatric patients, but he sends her to a boot c… OL16491318W
Lost and found Lost and found Ginny L. Yttrup "Jenna Bouvier is losing everything: beauty, family, and wealth. When her emotionally destructive mother-in-law accuses Jenna of an affair with her spiritual director and threatens to expose them, Je… OL16638643W
The verbally abusive relationship The verbally abusive relationship Patricia Evans In The Verbally Abusive Relationship, you'll find validation, understanding, and encouragement for your decision to change the situation. If you or someone you know answers "yes" to one or more of th… OL1735140W
The nice girl syndrome The nice girl syndrome Beverly Engel How women can overcome the pressure to please others and feel free to be their true selves Are you too nice for your own good? Do family members manipulate you? Do coworkers take advantage of you? … OL1857311W
The Emotionally Abusive Relationship The Emotionally Abusive Relationship Beverly Engel "Engel doesn't just describe-she shows us the way out." -Susan Forward, author of Emotional Blackmail Praise for the emotionally abusive relationship "In this book, Beverly Engel clearly and with… OL1857318W
The followers The followers Rebecca Wait "On the bleak, windswept moors of northern England, a small religious cult has cut itself off from society, believing they have found meaning in a purposeless world. Led by their prophet Nathaniel, t… OL19714769W
The asshole survival guide The asshole survival guide Robert I. Sutton Sutton starts with diagnosis: what kind of asshole problem, exactly, are you dealing with? From there, he provides field-tested, evidence-based, and sometimes surprising strategies for dealing with a… OL19721497W
Vita nostra Vita nostra Марина Дяченко,Sergey Dyachenko,Marina Dyachenko "While vacationing at the beach with her mother, Sasha Samokhina meets the mysterious Farit Kozhennikov under the most peculiar circumstances. The teenage girl is powerless to refuse when this strang… OL19765058W
Girl at the end of the world Girl at the end of the world Elizabeth Esther "I was raised in a homegrown, fundamentalist Christian group--which is just a shorthand way of saying I'm classically trained in apocalyptic stockpiling, street preaching, and the King James Version … OL19977290W
The betrayal bond The betrayal bond Patrick Carnes Exploitive relationships can create trauma bonds--chains that link a victim to someone who is dangerous to them. Divorce, employee relations, litigation of any type, incest and child abuse, family an… OL2654209W
Love and illusion Love and illusion Sheila Z. Stirling Dr. Stirling uncovers the "secrets" that go on behind what we can see in a relationship; where a "social sociopath" is residing. --back cover. OL29231009W
Breaking TWIG Breaking TWIG Deborah Epperson "Set in rural Georgia in the 1960s, BREAKING TWIG is a coming-of-age novel about Becky (Twig) Cooper, a young woman trying to survive the physical and emotional abuse of her mother, Helen, a beautifu… OL31212352W
Sleeping with the enemy Sleeping with the enemy Nancy Price Sara, driven to the brink of despair by the physical and emotional abuse of her obsessive husband, Martin, hits upon a strategy to forge a new identity, independent of his disturbed domination. OL4305644W
The Bully in Your Relationship The Bully in Your Relationship Anne-Renee Testa Are you being bullied in your relationship?Maybe it's your husband, wife, partner, boyfriend, or girlfriend.Maybe you feel you're being belittled or berated, manipulated, or controlled.Maybe you try … OL65247W