Russell, Anna
Summary: "Josh Baker isn't sure why his brain tells him to do things that other people don't need to do: checking his locker again and again, counting cracks in ceilings, and always needing to finish a song, for starters. He is a talented drummer, a math genius, and he knows everything about rock and roll. Yet, he knows his problems have the power to hurt his family and make him fail at school. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: West 44 Books, an imprint of Enslow Publishing 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RUSSwartz, Elly
Summary: "To twelve-year-old Molly Nathans, perfect is: the number four; the tip of a newly sharpened No. 2 pencil; a crisp white pad of paper; her neatly aligned glass animal figurines. What's not perfect is Molly's mother leaving the family to take a faraway job with the promise to return in one year. Molly knows that promises are sometimes broken, so she hatches a plan to bring her mother home: Win...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "Starting middle school is hard enough when you don't know anyone; it's even harder when you're shy. A contemporary middle-grade graphic novel for fans of Guts and Real Friends about how dealing with anxiety and OCD can affect everyday life. As long as Maggie rolls the right number, nothing can go wrong ... right? Maggie just wants to get through her first year of middle school. But between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: RH Graphic 2021
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Summary: "Unraveling Rose is a great way for parents and teachers to talk to children about what happens when impulsive and obsessive thoughts get in the way of enjoying everyday life."-- Back Cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: Hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand: Samantha has Purely-Obsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can't turn off. When Sam meets Caroline, she has to keep her new friend with a refreshing sense of humor and no style a secret. Caroline introduces Sam to Poet's Corner, and she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC STOGomez, Halli
Summary: A suicidal teen fighting the symptoms of Tourette syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder creates a bucket list of ten goals to achieve by the tenth anniversary of his diagnosis, before a newcomer with her own troubled history unknowingly offers him more hopeful perspectives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Teen 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GOMCole, Olivia A.
Summary: Ariel grapples with her fear of her own mind and violent fantasies, driven by her desire to meet her parents' expectations and societal norms, until a summer job at a carnival leads her to new friends who help her discover her struggle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and find acceptance and support for her true self.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Labyrinth Road 2024
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Summary: A lightning strike made Lucy, twelve, a math genius but, after years of homeschooling, her grandmother enrolls her in middle school and she learns that life is more than numbers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION MCAFarid, Diana
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Ava loves to surf and to sing. Singing and reading Rumi poems settle her mild OCD, and catching waves with her best friend, Phoenix, lets her fit in--her olive skin looks tan, not foreign. But then Ava has to spend the summer before ninth grade volunteering at the hospital, to follow in her single mother's footsteps to become a doctor. And when Phoenix's past lymphoma surges...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC FARLambert, Mary E.
Summary: Seventh-grader Annabelle's mother is a hoarder, and their whole house is full of canned goods, broken toys, fabric, and old newspapers--but when a pile of newspapers (organized by weather reports) falls on Annabelle's younger sister Leslie and their mother is more concerned about the newspapers, it sets off a chain of events that brings their fix-it-all grandmother in and Annabelle realizes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2017
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Summary: In an instant, Bea felt almost normal with Beck, and as if she could fall in love again, but things change when the psychotherapist who has been helping her deal with past romantic relationships puts her in a group with Beck--a group for teens with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HAYGoldberg, Lee
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M GOLSilvera, Adam
Summary: Secrets are revealed as OCD-afflicted Griffin grieves for his first love, Theo, who died in a drowning accident.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Teen 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SILGoldberg, Lee
Summary: Ever since a 1962 unsolved train robbery made it famous, the people have made their way to the little town of Trouble in California's gold country. Some people come to see the Gold Rush Museum, but most come searching for the booty that the train robbers supposedly dumped off the Golden Rail Express in the botched heist. When the museum watchman, a retired SFPD cop, is murdered, Monk and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Obsidian 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLCoombs, Amelia Diane
Summary: Florie's OCD and her mother's worrying have kept her from a lot of things, like having an after-school job and getting her driver's license. Now she's taking a gap year after high school, and her best friend Kacey is headed to college in Portland in the fall. Winning tickets to see her favorite true crime podcast's live show in California gives her the opportunity leave small-town Washington...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
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Summary: Recently divorced, Grace uproots her children and hopes the move will reset her crippling insomnia. But after whispered neighborhood gossip, Grace develops an obsession with her neighbor. Could he really be a child-kidnapper? A murderer?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC DOENavarro, Elvira
Summary: Is literature a kind of therapy -- or is therapy a type of literature? Eliza tries to overcome her fears arising from the oddities of modern life through these two concepts. She is an editor for a large publishing group who often delays payments, forcing her to share her apartment with a strange woman who appears to have no past, which causes Eliza to obsess about knowing it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literatura Random House 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC NAVRushdie, Salman
Summary: "Quichotte, an aging traveling salesman obsessed with the "unreal real" of TV, falls in impossible love with a queen of the screen; while obsessively writing her love letters, he wishes an imaginary son, Sancho, into existence. Together they set off across America in Quichotte's trusty Chevy Cruze to find her and convince her of his love. Meanwhile, Quichotte's tragicomic story is being told by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Rushdie 2019Gornall, Louise
Summary: Will teenaged Norah, who is struggling with agoraphobia and OCD, accept that she could be the right one for sweet, funny Luke?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GORSattin, Samuel
Summary: "Isaac is a shy boy with OCD, but one day at school he meets new friends who introduce him to role-playing games, which lead him on a journey of self-discovery and growth"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 741.5 SATWhite, Barbara Claypole
Summary: Following her husband's death, gardener Tilly Silverberg returns to England where she embarks on a relationship with American software developer James Nealy, who, to conquer his fears and compulsions, needs to plant a garden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2019
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Summary: Internationally bestselling author Jeffery Deaver delivers the latest sensational thriller in his wildly popular "Kathryn Dance" series."" "Newsweek "calls Jeffery Deaver a "suspense superstar," and in his new novel, he lives up to the accolades once again as he sets his heroine Kathryn Dance on a quest to stop an obsessive stalker from destroying a beautiful young country singer. A former...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2012
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Summary: A decade ago, Emily Carlino vanished after her car broke down on a California highway. She was presumed to be one of serial killer Ronny Lee Jessup's victims whose remains were never found. Writer David Thorne still hasn't recovered from losing the love of his life. Since then, he's sought closure any way he can. He even visits regularly with Jessup in prison, desperate for answers. Then David...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC KOOAlcott, Louisa May
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1996