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The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy & Goth Girl: Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy And Goth Girlby Barry LygaISBN 0618723927 (0-618-72392-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Bitch Posseby Martha O'ConnorISBN 0312333935 (0-312-33393-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Blade Silver: Color Me Scarredby Melody CarlsonISBN 1576835359 (1-57683-535-9)
Softcover, Navpress Pub Group
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Bloodletting: A Memoir of Secrets, Self-Harm, & Survivalby Victoria LeathamISBN 1572244577 (1-57224-457-7)
Softcover, New Harbinger Pubns Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bloodletting: A Memoir of Secrets, Self-Harm, & Survival'Book summary:[via]On the outside, she appears to have it all. She's creative, beautiful, confident. But inside Victoria Leatham struggles with silent, secret, and unbearable pain. In her late teens, Leatham is struck with an undeniable urge to cut herself. Oddly, the wounds she inflicts on herself mute the pain she feels inside.
This memoir, a darkly humorous and often chilling account, vividly details Leatham's ordeal and reveals her most intimate thoughts as she struggles with cutting and a range of other psychological problems including eating disorders, sexual promiscuity, substance abuse, and bipolar disorder. And finally, it describes her discovery of the psychological secret that helps her escape from this spiral of self-destruction.
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Bodies Under Siege: Self-Mutilation and Body Modification in Culture and Psychiatryby Armando R. FavazzaISBN 0801853001 (0-8018-5300-1)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bodies Under Siege: Self-Mutilation and Body Modification in Culture and Psychiatry'Book summary:Although instances of deliberate skin-cutting are recorded as far back as the old and New Testaments of the Bible the behavior has generally been regarded as a symptom of various mental disorders. With the publication of Bodies Under Siege, a book described in the New York Times Magazine (July 17, 1997) as "the first to comprehensively explore self-mutilation," Dr. Armando Favazza has pioneered the study of the behavior as significant and meaningful unto itself. Drawing from the latest case studies from clinical psychiatry he broadens our understanding of self-mutilation and body modification and explores their surprising connections to the elemental experiences of healing, religions, salvation, and social balance.
Favazza makes sense out of seemingly senseless self-mutilative behaviors by providing both a useful classification and examination of the ways in which the behaviors provide effective but temporary relief from troublesome symptoms such as overwhelming anxiety, racing thoughts, and depersonalization. He offers important new information on the psychology and biology of self-mutilation, the link between self-mutilation and eating disorders, and advances in treatment. An epilogue by Fakir Musafar, the father of the Modern Primitive movement, describes his role in influencing a new generation to "experiment with the previously forbidden 'body side' of life" through piercing, blood rituals, scarification, and body sculpting in order to attain a state of grace.
The second edition of Bodies Under Siege is the major source of information about self-mutilation, a much misunderstood behavior that is now coming into public awareness.
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Bodily Harm: The Breakthrough Healing Program for Self-Injurersby Karen Conterio, Wendy Lader, Jennifer Kingson BloomISBN 0786885041 (0-7868-8504-1)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Painby Marilee StrongISBN 0140280537 (0-14-028053-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain'Book summary:"A bright red scream" is how one of the subjects Marilee Strong interviews in this chilling yet compassionate study of self-mutilation describes the sensation of intentionally inflicting pain upon oneself. It is a compulsion that, while shocking and bewildering to most people, affects 2 million or more Americans and countless others around the globe--one of whom, the late Princess Diana, also suffered from the eating disorders that characterize between 35 to 80 percent of all cutters. Rejecting the classic psychiatric wisdom that views self-mutilation as a species of suicidal behavior, Strong links the phenomenon instead to the will to live--often in the face of such overwhelming childhood abuse that the resulting dissociative behaviors are something akin to posttraumatic stress disorder. Strong touches on other issues as well: Why are most cutters women? And is the current fascination with tattooing and piercing, from its most extreme forms in the "alternative" culture to its growing mainstream acceptance, a sublimation of the cutters' instinct? Through interviews with more than 50 self-injurers, Strong tells the moving story not only of their rage and self-punishment, but also of the courageous journey towards reintegration. (The book also contains an introduction by psychiatrist Armando R. Favazza, author of Bodies Under Seige, one of the leading clinical experts on self-mutilation.) --Patrizia DiLucchio [via]
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Crossesby Shelley Stoehr, Shelley R. Stoehr-McCarthyISBN 0595269524 (0-595-26952-4)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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Cutby Patricia McCormickISBN 1886910618 (1-886910-61-8)
Hardcover, Boyds Mills Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cut'Book summary:Burdened with the pressure of believing she is responsible for her brother's illness, 15-year-old Callie begins a course of self-destruction that leads to her being admitted to Sea Pines, a psychiatric hospital the "guests" refer to as Sick Minds. Although initially she refuses to speak, her individual and group therapy sessions trigger memories and insights. Slowly, she begins emerging from her miserable silence, ultimately understanding the role her dysfunctional family played in her brother's health crisis.
Patricia McCormick's first novel is authentic and deeply moving. Callie suffers from a less familiar teen problem--she cuts herself to relieve her inner frustrations and guilt. The hope and hard-won progress that comes at the conclusion of the novel is believable and heartening for any teen reader who feels alone in her (or his) angst. Along with Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak and E.L. Konigsburg's Silent to the Bone, McCormick's Cut expertly tackles an unusual response to harrowing adolescent trouble. (Ages 14 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilationby Steven LevenkronISBN 0393319385 (0-393-31938-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Dangerous Visionsby Harlan EllisonISBN 1596870206 (1-59687-020-6)
Softcover, ibooks, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dangerous Visions'Book summary:The best and most honoured science fiction anthology of all time, newly restored and introduced by its revolutionary editor, Harlan Ellison. This massive anthology contains 34 short stories, including Nebula-Award winning stories by Samuel R. Delany and Fritz Leiber and Hugo-Award winning stories by Fritz Leiber and Philip Jose Farmer. Includes stories by some of the best science-fiction writers who ever lived, writing at the height of their storytelling powers. All stories were chosen originally by Ellison. [via]
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The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Thingsby Carolyn MacKlerISBN 0763620912 (0-7636-2091-2)
Softcover, Candlewick Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Earth, My Butt, And Other Big Round Things'Book summary:An overweight teen is sure that shes the weakest link in her high-powered family - until her handsome, athletic, star-student brother has a shocking fall from grace.
Fifteen-year-old Virginia Shreves has a larger-than-average body and a plus-size inferiority complex. She lives on the Web, snarfs junk food, and follows the "Fat Girl Code of Conduct." Her stuttering best friend has just moved to Walla Walla (of all places). Her new companion, Froggy Welsh the Fourth (real name), has just succeeded in getting his hand up her shirt, and she lives in fear that hell look underneath. Then there are the other Shreves: Mom, the successful psychologist and exercise fiend; Dad, a top executive who ogles thin women on TV; and older siblings Anaïs and rugby god Byron, both of them slim and brilliant. Delete Virginia, and the Shreves would be a picture-perfect family. Or so shes convinced. And then a shocking phone call changes everything.
With irreverent humor, insight, and surprising gravity, Carolyn Mackler creates an endearingly blunt heroine whose story will speak to every teen who struggles with family expectations - and serve as a welcome reminder that the most impressive achievement is to be true to yourself. [via]More editions of The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things:
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Fusing Fabric: Creative Cutting, Bonding And Mark-making With the Soldering Ironby Margaret BealISBN 0713489561 (0-7134-8956-1)
Hardcover, B T Batsford Ltd
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Good Griefby Lolly WinstonISBN 0446694843 (0-446-69484-3)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Grief'Book summary:Some widows face their loss with denial. Sophie Stanton's reaction is one of pure bafflement. "How can I be a widow?" Sophie asks at the opening of Lolly Winston's sweet debut novel, Good Grief. "I'm only thirty-six. I just got used to the idea of being married." Sophie's young widowhood forces her to do all kinds of crazy things--drive her car through her garage door, for instance. That's on one of the rare occasions when she bothers to get out of bed. The Christmas season especially terrifies her: "I must write a memo to the Minister of Happier Days requesting that the holidays be cancelled this year." But widowhood also forces her to do something very sane. After the death of her computer programmer husband, she reexamines her life as a public relations agent in money-obsessed Silicon Valley. Sophie decides to ease her grief, or at least her loneliness, by moving in with her best friend Ruth in Ashland, Oregon. But it's her difficult relationship with psycho teen punker Crystal, to whom she becomes a Big Sister, that mysteriously brings her at least a few steps out of her grief. Winston allows Sophie life after widowhood: The novel almost indiscernibly turns into a gentle romantic comedy and a quirky portrait of life in an artsy small town. At all stops on her journey from widow to survivor, Sophie is a lively, crabby, delightfully imperfect character. --Claire Dederer [via]
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The Great Stinkby Clare ClarkISBN 0156030888 (0-15-603088-8)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Stink'Book summary:It takes a world of confidence to name your debut novel The Great Stink, and to set it in a sewer. Not even a modern sewer--charmless though that may be--but the crumbling, cholera-laden, rat-infested, fungus-rich sewers of London in the mid-Victorian period, from which pockets of deadly gas frequently burbled to the surface. Clare Clark's unsavory but completely absorbing first novel is a Dantean tour of this reeking underworld and its denizens: both the scavengers--human and animal--and the reformers, who brave the tunnels in the service of public hygiene and social progress after the 1858 Act of Parliament that called for the rebuilding of the sewer system.
The Great Stink juxtaposes two darknesses, both embodied in the filthy tunnels: the lawless desperation of the very poor, and the despair of madness. One of the junior engineers most useful in mapping the existing sewer is William May, a studious, methodical veteran of the Crimean War who manages to conceal from everyone but his wife the horrors he brought out of battle with him. The tunnels don't frighten William; they provide isolation and silence for the bloody rites that keep the Mr. Hyde in him at bay. It seems only a matter of time before William's self-destruction turns outward. Long Arm Tom, his counterpart among the poor, is a "tosher." He enters the tunnels illegally, scraping the sludge for coins or other booty, and trapping hundreds of rats for fighting against dogs at local taverns (all the rage for sporting gentlemen since dog fights have been outlawed). Kindness is a liability in Tom's world, but two acts of pity--one toward a dog, and one, more grudgingly, toward William--provide the resistance that changes the course of this otherwise relentlessly dire story.
The very weak-stomached may need a cup of mint tea or a bowl of potpourri beside them as they wade through the sewer with Tom and William. Clark has spared readers none of the stink, nor the sharp pleasures of suspense. --Regina Marler [via]
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Impulseby Ellen HopkinsISBN 1416903569 (1-4169-0356-9)
Hardcover, Margaret K McElderry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Impulse'Book summary:Sometimes you don't wake up. But if you happen to, you know things will never be the same.
Three lives, three different paths to the same destination: Aspen Springs, a psychiatric hospital for those who have attempted the ultimate act -- suicide.
Vanessa is beautiful and smart, but her secrets keep her answering the call of the blade.
Tony, after suffering a painful childhood, can only find peace through pills.
And Conner, outwardly, has the perfect life. But dig a little deeper and find a boy who is in constant battle with his parents, his life, himself.
In one instant each of these young people decided enough was enough. They grabbed the blade, the bottle, the gun -- and tried to end it all. Now they have a second chance, and just maybe, with each other's help, they can find their way to a better life -- but only if they're strong and can fight the demons that brought them here in the first place.
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It's Kind of a Funny Storyby Ned VizziniISBN 078685197X (0-7868-5197-X)
Softcover, Disney Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'It's Kind of a Funny Story'Book summary:Like many smart, ambitious New York City teenagers, Craig Gilner seeks entry into Manhattans most prestigious school, Executive Pre-Professional High School. With single-minded determination, he works night and day to ace the entrance exam and gets in. Thats when everything starts to unravel. [via]
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Lee Miller: A Lifeby Carolyn BurkeISBN 0226080676 (0-226-08067-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Let's Make Rabbitsby Leo LionniISBN 0375815643 (0-375-81564-3)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Let's Make Rabbits'Book summary:A pair of scissors and a pencil, each using its own special skills, decides to make rabbits one morning in Leo Lionni's classic 1982 fable, reprinted in this sturdy board book edition for the youngest reader. The pencil-drawn rabbit and scissor-crafted collage bunny promptly become fast friends. When they grow hungry, they turn to their creators for paper carrots, which they enjoy heartily... until they come upon a real carrot (they know it's real because it casts a shadow). What happens next will surely enchant readers of all ages.
The brilliant Lionni amuses himself--and his readers--with this playful send-up of the creative process. Each bunny is unique in its own right, skillfully and yet simply designed--the wonderful kind of images readers never forget. Four-time Caldecott Honor winner Lionni wrote more than 40 children's picture books in his lifetime, including well-loved classics Frederick and Swimmy. (Ages 1 to 4) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Softcover, Random House Childrens Books - Let's Make Rabbits: ISBN 0679826408 (0-679-82640-8)
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Life 1by Darcy Lockman, Michelle Kobayashi, Keiko SuenobuISBN 1595329315 (1-59532-931-5)
Softcover, Tokyopop
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Life 1by Keiko SuenobuISBN 1595329323 (1-59532-932-3)
Softcover, Tokyopop
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life 1'Book summary:Ayumu is faced with more than school woes--she solemnly floats from class to class in an attempt to deal with Manami's suicide attempt. When Ayumu befriends a classmates in a seedy restaurant, the two realize they have more in common than just school. Later, Ayumu tries to blend in with the other girls, but she cannot stand watching Manami wasting away because of her recent breakup--as she begins to gather some information about what went wrong in the relationship, she discovers something shocking about Manami's boyfriend... [via]
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The Luckiest Girl in the Worldby Steven LevenkronISBN 0140266259 (0-14-026625-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Luckiest Girl in the World'Book summary:Psychotherapist Steven Levenkron brings his insights as a clinician and his talents as a novelist to this ultimately triumphant story of a young skater who is driven by inner demons to succeed at any cost. [via]
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More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addictionby Elizabeth WurtzelISBN 0743223314 (0-7432-2331-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction'Book summary:"I crush up my pills and snort them like dust. They are my sugar. They are the sweetness in the days that have none. They drip through me like tupelo honey. Then they are gone. Then I need more. I always need more.
For all of my life I have needed more."
A precocious literary light, Elizabeth Wurtzel published her groundbreaking memoir of depression, "Prozac Nation," at the tender age of twenty-six. A worldwide success, a cultural phenomenon, the book opened doors to a rarefied world about which Elizabeth had only dared to dream during her middle-class upbringing in New York City. But no success could staunch her continuous battle with depression. The terrible truth was that nothing had changed the emptiness inside Elizabeth. Her relationships universally failed; she was fired from every magazine job she held. Indeed, the absence of fulfillment in the wake of success became yet another seemingly insurmountable hurdle.When her doctor prescribed Ritalin to boost the effects of her antidepression medication, Elizabeth jumped. And the Ritalin worked. And worked. And worked. Within weeks, she was grinding up the pills and snorting them for a greater effect. It reached the point where she couldn't go more than five minutes without a fix. It was Ritalin, and then cocaine, and then more Ritalin. In a harrowing account, Elizabeth Wurtzel contemplates what it means to be in love with something in your blood that takes over your body, becomes the life force within you -- and could ultimately kill you.
"More, Now, Again" is an astonishing and timely story of a new kind of addiction. But it is also a story of survival. Elizabeth Wurtzel hits rock bottom, gets clean, usesagain, and finally gains control over her drug and her life. As honest as a confession and as heartfelt as a prayer, "More, Now, Again" recounts a courageous fight back to a life worth living. [via]
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Prozac Nationby Elizabeth WurtzelISBN 1573225126 (1-57322-512-6)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prozac Nation'Book summary:Elizabeth Wertzel writes with her finger in the faint pulse of a generation whose ruling icons are Kurt Cobain, Xanax, and pierced tongues. A memoir of her bouts with depression and skirmishes with drugs, Prozac Nation still manages to be a witty and sharp account of the psychopharmacology of an era. [via]
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The Scarred Soul: Understanding & Ending Self-Inflicted Violenceby Tracy AldermanISBN 1572240792 (1-57224-079-2)
Softcover, New Harbinger Pubns Inc
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Sharp Objectsby Gillian FlynnISBN 1597224588 (1-59722-458-8)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sharp Objects'Book summary:As loyal Entertainment Weekly subscribers, we have been fans of Gillian Flynn for her smart, funny, and spot-on reviews of books, movies, and TV, but we were not prepared for her stunning debut novel Sharp Objects, a wickedly dark thriller that Stephen King calls a "relentlessly creepy family saga" and an "admirably nasty piece of work." We're calling it a cross between Twin Peaks and Secretary--sinister, sexy, and stylish. Perfect fall reading. --Daphne Durham
10 Second Interview: A Few Words with Gillian Flynn
Q: Do you prefer writing novels or reviewing?
A: I think writing is more pure--and actually a bit easier for me. It's just me and my laptop, not me and my laptop and a TV show that 30 people have worked on. Reviewing keeps you sharp--I can hardly watch or read anything without taking notes now--but plain old writing I find actually relaxing.
Q: Do think your writing is influenced more by books that you have read, or shows/movies that you have seen?
A: My mom spent her career as a reading teacher and my dad is a retired film professor, so I was really steeped in both books and movies growing up. To this day, when I get my dad on the phone, pretty much his first sentence is "Seen anything good lately?" I love putting words together (I've never met a simile I didn't like), but when I write I often think in "scenes"--I want these two people, in a dirty bar, with this song playing in the background.
Q: I hear you are working on your second book...is it is too early to ask what it's about?
A: I'm still playing around with the whole plot--when I wrote Sharp Objects, I wasn't even sure who the killer was for a bit. But I can say [the new book] has to do with family loyalty, false memories, a wrenching murder trial, and a dash of good 'ole 1980s hair metal and devil worship.
Q: What is your writing process like? Have you changed anything about how you work since your first book?
A: My writing process is incredibly inefficient, and hasn't changed between books. I really don't outline: I know basically how I want the story to start, and vaguely how I want it to end (though like I said, with Sharp Objects even that changed!). Then I just write: Some characters I start finding more interesting, some less. I write entire swaths that I pretty much know I'll cut. I have an entire file of "deleted scenes." I guess the one thing that has physically changed is I moved into a new place since my first book--it has a great bathtub, and I'll prop my laptop up and write in the bath for hours. Which is, admittedly, weird.
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Skin Gameby Caroline KettlewellISBN 0312263937 (0-312-26393-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Skin Game : A Cutter's Memoirby Caroline KettlewellISBN 0312200110 (0-312-20011-0)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Skin Game : A Cutter's Memoir'Book summary:A number of recent books by journalists and therapists have probed the social and psychological forces behind the alarming practice of self-mutilation; this unflinching memoir tells readers what it feels like. Caroline Kettlewell made her first attempt at age 12 with a Swiss Army knife, too dull to perform satisfactorily, but she quickly graduated to razor blades. "There was a very fine, an elegant pain," she writes of her initiation. "In the razor's wake, the skin melted away ... then the blood welled up ... the chaos in my head spun itself into a silk of silence." Describing her tense but not unusually difficult youth, the author doesn't spend a lot of time trying to figure out why she was so unhappy, concentrating instead on making palpable her sense of dread and terror of being out of control, emotions relieved by the act of cutting. Some readers may wish for more self-analysis, but others will find Kettlewell's austere prose and sensibility refreshing. "I kept cutting because it worked. When I cut I felt better, " she explains. "I stopped cutting because I always could have stopped cutting." Not the fanciest way to put it, but those sentences, like the entire book, have the cadences of "the plain and inelegant truth." --Wendy Smith [via]
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Sleevelessby Joi BrozekISBN 1930935269 (1-930935-26-9)
Softcover, Phony Lid Pubns
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A Slipping-down Lifeby Anne TylerISBN 0345478142 (0-345-47814-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Slipping-down Life'Book summary:"Without Anne Tyler, American fiction would be an immeasurably bleaker place."
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Evie Decker is a shy, slightly plump teenager, lonely and silent. But her quiet life is shattered when she hears the voice of Drumstrings Casey on the radio and becomes instantly attracted to him. She manages to meet him, bursting out of her lonely shell--and into the attentive gaze of the intangible man who becomes all too real....
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Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - A Slipping-down Life: ISBN 0804108862 (0-8041-0886-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - A Slipping-down Life: ISBN 0394445732 (0-394-44573-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - A Slipping-down Life: ISBN 0816137110 (0-8161-3711-0)
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Stalking the Soul : Emotional Abuse and the Erosion of Identityby Marie-France Hirigoyen, Helen Marx, Thomas MooreISBN 188558699X (1-885586-99-X)
Softcover, Turtle Point Press
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Surviving Ophelia: Mothers Share Their Wisdom in Navigating the Tumultuous Teenage Yearsby Cheryl DellasegaISBN 034545538X (0-345-45538-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Tenth Circle: A Novelby Jodi PicoultISBN 074349671X (0-7434-9671-X)
Softcover, Atria Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tenth Circle: A Novel'Book summary:Fourteen-year-old Trixie Stone is in love for the first time. She's also the light of her father, Daniel's life -- a straight-A student; a pretty, popular freshman in high school; a girl who's always seen her father as a hero. That is, until her world is turned upside down with a single act of violence. Suddenly everything Trixie has believed about her family -- and herself -- seems to be a lie. Could the boyfriend who once made Trixie wild with happiness have been the one to end her childhood forever? She says that he is, and that is all it takes to make Daniel, a seemingly mild-mannered comic book artist with a secret tumultuous past he has hidden even from his family, venture to hell and back to protect his daughter. With The Tenth Circle, Jodi Picoult offers her most powerful chronicle yet as she explores the unbreakable bond between parent and child, and questions whether you can reinvent yourself in the course of a lifetime -- or if your mistakes are carried forever. [via]
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