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Series
Sweet magnolias series volume 2
Language
English
Description
An eating disorder threatens the life of chef Dana Sue Sullivan's teenage daughter. She feels she has no choice but to bring Anne's cheating dad back to Serenity, South Carolina-- despite her unresolved feelings toward him. Ronnie Sullivan is there for his daughter-- but he wants Dana Sue back, and every move he makes is designed to prove he's a changed man. Is Ronnie's return the sweet recipe for a new beginning? -- adapted from back cover
2) Sad perfect
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of a teen girl's struggle with Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder and how love helps her on the road to recovery.
4) Solitaire
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tori Spring feels completely disconnected from her life--until she meets the relentlessly cheerful Michael Holden, and a series of schoolwide pranks starts to draw her out of her shell"--
6) Horrid
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following her father's death, Jane North-Robinson and her mom move from California to the dreary, dilapidated North Manor in Maine, where her mother grew up. As autumn arrives, Jane finds solace in old books and memories of her dad. She makes new friends, but struggles to tamp down her anger when facing bullying. Then Jane discovers that the "storage room" her mom has kept locked isn't for storage at all: it's a little girl's bedroom, left untouched...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Jackie Newsome's best friend is dead, and everyone knows who killed her. Jackie is an ex-emotional eater and mother of four, who has finally lost the weight she long yearned to be free of. But leaving her old self behind proves harder than she ever imagined. She believes she should be happier, but misery still chases her, and motherhood threatens to consume her. Her only salve is Theresa, her best friend whose life she desperately covets. Their bond...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Lucia Coffey longs to feel good about herself and her body, but she can't get the negative voices out of her head. Then she meets Sullivan Crisp, the decidedly unorthodox psychologist who is well-known for his quirky sense of humor and incorporation of 'game show' theology into his counseling sessions. He sees the beauty hidden in Lucia and sets about trying to help her find it for herself.
10) Looks
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Two high school girls, one an anorexic poet and the other an obese loner, form an unlikely friendship.
11) Yolk
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jayne and June are nothing alike. Their family moved from Seoul to San Antonio and finally New York. The sisters don't want anything to do with each other... until June gets cancer. And Jayne becomes the only one who can help her. Now, flung together by sickness, bound by family secrets, they learn more about themselves and each other than they may be willing to confront. -- adapted from jacket
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Language
English
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Description
"Growing up in the foster care system, Jase Edgar always dreamed of one day starting his own family. But his fiancée's untimely death shattered his plans. Moving to Kansas and serving as a youth minister should be a fresh start, but he can't seem to set aside his doubts about God's goodness long enough to embrace his new life. Newly-appointed church custodian, Lori Fowler is battling her own challenges. Her strained relationship with her father and...
13) On the spectrum
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Growing up in New York City with her mother, a prima ballerina, Clara has never felt good about her body. After a social media disaster, she leaves to spend the summer with her estranged father in Paris. There she is charged with the care of her autistic six-year-old brother, Alastair, and becomes friends with Michel, an apprentice in the bakery below the apartment.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
At Recovery and Relief, a treatment center for girls with eating disorders, the first thing Shoshana Winnick does is attach herself to vibrant but troubled Rowan Parish. Shoshana--a cheerleader on a hit reality TV show--was admitted for starving herself to ensure her growth spurt didn't ruin her infamous tumbling skills. Rowan, on the other hand, has known anorexia her entire life, thanks to her mother's "chew and spit" guidance. Through the drudgery...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Fifteen-year-old Ivy's world is in flux. Her dad has moved out, her mother is withdrawn, her brother is off at college, and her best friend, Anna, has grown distant. Worst of all, Ivy's body won't stop expanding. She's getting taller and curvier, with no end in sight. Even her beloved math class offers no clear solution to the imbalanced equation that has become Ivy's life. Everything feels off-kilter until a skipped meal leads to a boost in confidence...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories about the complicated and powerful ties between mothers and daughters includes such tales as a mother and child who turn cooking ingredients into symbolic weapons and a woman who questions her place in the face of teen antics.
17) How I live now
Author
Language
English
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Description
To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land. "Every war has turning points and every person too." Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she's never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. Her...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1973, and David Leveraux is a young and ambitious flavor chemist working at a world-renowned flavor-production house. While testing a new artificial sweetener--Sweetness #9--he notices some unsettling side effects in the laboratory rats and monkeys: anxiety, obesity, mutism, and a general dissatisfaction with life. Years later, Sweetness #9 is America's most popular sweetener--and David's family is changing. His wife is gaining weight, his son...
19) See her run
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Journalist Aloa Snow loses her job at the L.A. Times after an article turns out to have a fictitious source. Fortunately, the owners of a local restaurant--and the old anarchists and rebels who drink there--have become family, offering unconditional support (and when things get rough, a little backup). She gets a phone call from Michael, whom she hasn?t heard from in 18 years, and with whom she has a fraught past. Michael, a philanthropist who has...
20) Saving Ruth
Author
Publisher
William Morrow & Co
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
279, 16 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When Ruth returns home to the South for the summer after her freshman year at college, a near tragedy pushes her to uncover family truths and take a good look at the woman she wants to become. Growing up in Alabama, all Ruth Wasserman wanted was to be a blond Baptist cheerleader. But as a curly-haired Jew with a rampant sweet tooth and a smart mouth, this was an impossible dream. Not helping the situation was her older brother, David, a soccer star...
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