Rosoff, Meg.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROSChoi, Mary H. K.
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHOGalarza, Josh
Summary: Fueling all his anxieties into his comic book series, Brett must face the painful truths of his real life and his escalating eating disorder when someone posts his journal--and his deepest insecurities--online.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC GALSchu, John
Summary: "Jake volunteers at a nursing home because he likes helping people. He likes skating and singing, playing Bingo and Name That Tune, and reading mysteries and comics aloud to his teachers. He also likes avoiding people his own age . . . and the cruelty of mirrors . . . and food. Jake has read about kids like him in books--the weird one, the outsider--and would do anything not to be that kid,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCHMurphy, Julie
Summary: "Magnolia "Maggie" Hagen is determined to be in the spotlight ... if she can just get over her stage fright. This summer, though, she has big plans to finally attend Camp Rising Star, the famous performing arts camp she's been dying to go to for three whole summers. But on the last day of school, her parents break the news: Maggie isn't going to Camp Rising Star. She's being shipped off to fat...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: Running for her life could leave her breathless. A former reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Aloa Snow knows what it means to be down and out. Once highly respected, she's now blackballed, in debt, and dealing with the echoes of an eating disorder. Until she gets one more shot to prove that she has what it takes--with a story some would die for...After the body of a promising young athlete,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOWFishman, Zoe.
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow & Co 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FISZgheib, Yara
Summary: A French ballerina with self-perception challenges descends into anorexia when an injury sidelines her career, landing her in a support home for women with life-threatening eating disorders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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Summary: 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Oasis Audio 2009
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Summary: Growing up in the foster care system, Jase Edgar always dreamed of one day starting his own family. After his fiancée's untimely death, he moves to Kansas to serve as a youth minister. But he can't set aside his doubts about God's goodness long enough to embrace his new life. Newly-appointed church custodian Lori Fowler's strained relationship with her father and her struggles with overeating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook, an imprint of Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAWSawyer, Kim Vogel
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SAWProwse, Amanda
Summary: Freya Braithwaite's seemingly perfect family life falls apart as she and her husband are confronted with the realities of her younger daughter's struggles with anorexia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roxane Gay Books 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HUNLeno, Katrina
Summary: Following her father's sudden death, Jane North-Robinson and her mother are forced to move to the old North house in Maine, where Jane uncovers her family's disturbing secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020