This is a powerful memoir about a girl who survived loss, betrayal, and physical and emotional abuse from an unstable and narcissistic mother. It was a harrowing and ultimately uplifting story about how the author found herself and became the woman and the mother she wanted to be. It reminds us that cycles of abuse can be broken.
What happens when your childhood is shaped by loss, betrayal, and chaos—when the people meant to protect you are the ones who cause the deepest harm?From a young age, Cherie Karwoski asked herself: Who is safe? Who can I trust? Is this really what childhood is supposed to feel like?In Just a Girl From the Valley, Cherie shares her powerful story of growing up in the shadow of trauma and learning to survive when everything around her felt like it was falling apart:A devastating loss before she could understand what death truly meantEnduring abuse and neglect by those meant to…
When a character does something so awful, you want to throw your iPad across the room, that's how you know you're reading a wonderful book. Nicole Zelnicker writes an unforgettable story about a young gay man with lupus trying to find love and belonging in New York City. This is a deeply moving story that stays with you.
"A powerful story about the fierce love of friendship, and finding the courage to love and accept yourself." Elissa Grossell Dickey, author of The Speed of Light
When twenty-five-year-old Kai Larssen agrees to pose as his best friend Mariah's date at a family gathering, he doesn't expect to fall-hard-for her twin brother, Ray. Anxious, magnetic, and achingly off-limits, Ray is everything Kai has ever wanted. But coming out to Ray means risking Mariah's privacy-and their friendship.
Back in New York, Kai and Ray grow closer, and Kai finds himself trapped in a tangle of half-truths and unspoken feelings. As the…
It was worth reading again with everything that is happening in my country right now. This classic shows that the real danger of totalitarianism is that it can alter our reality so much that resistance isn't just difficult, it is unthinkable. Read 1984 while you still can.
1984 is the year in which it happens. The world is divided into three superstates. In Oceania, the Party's power is absolute. Every action, word, gesture and thought is monitored under the watchful eye of Big Brother and the Thought Police. In the Ministry of Truth, the Party's department for propaganda, Winston Smith's job is to edit the past. Over time, the impulse to escape the machine and live independently takes hold of him and he embarks on a secret and forbidden love affair. As he writes the words 'DOWN WITH BIG…
In 1985, a young Laura Rodriguez goes to Silicon Valley to start a career as a computer programmer. She finds a job at a quirky startup run by a family with secrets.
In 2016, a now middle-aged Laura faces growing professional and family crises and the most divisive presidential election in recent history. She fears losing her job in the wake of a merger, and she distrusts her new millennial boss. Her daughter has cancer, her son quit a lucrative programming job and moved back home, and her marriage is crumbling—especially when an old flame reenters her life.
Laura must seek solutions from a past she wants to forget. She may find them in the computer that changed her life, the Amiga.
