10 acclaimed books young adults, emotion/'love/ mystery $5 each Introduction
A collection of books of adult lives of people who are or were disturbed teens. Some are hurt, some find love, some start over.
These books are all in very-good condition to excellent condition. Clean, free of defects and blemishes, clear printing, tightly bound, pet-free and smoke-free home.
Single books $5.00 each
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#1 The Shack by W P Young single price $5.00
STORY:
Mackenzie Allen Phillips’s youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation, and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, in this midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change his life forever.
BOOK DATA:
title, THE SHACK’ authour, W P Young; ISBN 0964729230; copyright, authour 2007; publisher, Windblown Media. Printed in USA, 10th printing, Softcover, 248 pages, 13.2 x 20.3 x 1.9 cm;
#2 : THE GLASS CASTLE by Jeannette Walls ISBN 074324754X
STORY:
The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want the responsibility of raising a family. The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered. The Glass Castle is truly astonishing--a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family.
BOOK DATA:
Title THE GLASS CASTLE; author Jeannette Wells; copyright, authour, 2003; publisher Scribner, 32 printing; softcover, 288 pages, 13.5 x 20.3 x 2 cm;
ISBN 074324754X
#3 GRAVITY JOURNAL by Gail Sidonie Sobat, ISBN 9781894283786
STORY:
Life is very grave for Anise. Hospitalized for anorexia, she wonders about the point of it all.
Her frigid mother and ineffectual father seem oblivious to her struggle. Her beloved brother is too busy screwing up his own life to take note of hers. Living on the loony ward seems not to be making any difference at all, and Anise feels like a prisoner. Her only free choice is to turn to her journal — the place where she can dream, and where she can decide whether to live or die.
BOOK DATA:
Title, Gravity Journal; authour, Gail Sidonie Sobat; copyright, authour 2008; publisher, Great Plains; Printed in Canada 2nd printing, 162 pages, 14 x 1.2 x 21.6 cm; ISBN-10 : 1894283783, ISBN-13 : 978-1894283786
#4 FELIX ROTH by Gary Fagan ISBN 0773760490
STORY:
In the summer of 1979, 21-year-old Felix Roth arrives in Manhattan, sent by the Roth family to look after his older brother who is threatening to disappear into a Hasidic sect. But Felix has a plan of his own — to meet the great Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer and show him his one finished short story.
Felix's quest takes an unexpected turn when he falls for Singer's niece, the beautiful and headstrong Hadassah. But his pursuit of Singer and Hadassah is complicated by the presence of Alice, Felix's demanding lover and the wife of his boss; by a brilliant but possibly deranged scholar; by a stint writing erotica; and by the New York police.
Will Felix show his story to Isaac Bashevis Singer? Will he lose his brother? Will he win Hadassah's affection? Felix Roth is a rollicking trip into high art — and even higher passions.
BOOK DATA:
Title, Felix Roth; authour, Gary Fagan; copyright, authour, 1999; publisher Stoddart, 1999; printed in Canada, 5th printing, 12.9 x 21.4 x 2, ISBN 0773760490
#5 STONES by William Bell, ISBN 0770438754
STORY:
Garret Havelock knows why it’s like to be on the outside, not one of the crowd. Now, in his final year of High school, he’s just marking Now, in his final year of high school, he's just marking time, waiting to get out into the real world. When a mysterious girl transfers to his school Garnet thinks he might have found the woman of his dreams - if only he could get her to talk to him
At the same time, Garnett became caught up in a mystery centered in his community. As he and Raphaella draw closer to the truth, they uncover a horrifying chapter in the town’s history, and learn how deep-seated prejudices and persecutions from the past can still reverberate in the present.
BOOK DATA:
Title, Stones; authour, William Bell; copyright, authour, 2001; publisher, Seal Books, printed in USA, 1st printing 2001, softcover, 10.7 x 17.5 x 2 cm; ISBN 0770438754
#6 THE FIRST STONE by Don Aker ISBN 0006392865
STORY:
Reef is an embittered young offender, hardly able to contain his anger at the world over the death of his grandmother, the only person who had shown him any love. Seventeen-year-old Leeza is mourning the death of her older sister. A stone hurled in rage shatters both their lives and throws them together in the most unexpected way—and offers them a chance at healing.
BOOK DATA:
Title, The First Stone; authour, Don Aker; copyright, authour 2003 Publisher, HarpyTrophyCanada, printed in USA, 4th printing, softcover, pages 292; 10.5 x 17.1 x 2 cm; ISBN 0006392865
#7 BULLY by Jim Schuze ISBN 038072336
STORY:
Booby Kent was a bully-a steroid-pumped 20-year-old who dominated his peers in their comfortable, middle-class Ft. Lauderdale beach community through psychological, physical and sexual abuse. But on a summer night in 1993, Bobby was lured to the edge of the Florida everglades with a promise of sex and drugs. . .and was never seen alive again. The tormentor had become the victim in a bizarre and brutal act of vengeance carried out with ruthless efficiency and cold-blooded premeditation by seven of his high school acquaintances-including his lifelong best friend-and instigated by one overweight, underloved teenager who believed her life would be perfect. . .if only Bobby Kent were dead. BULLY is a riveting story of adolescent rage and bloody revenge-all the more harrowing and horrific because its true.
BOOK DATA:
Title, Bully, a true story of high school revenge; authour, Jim Schutze; copyright, authour 1997; publisher, Harper Collins, printed in USA, 4th printing, softcover, 10.5 x 17.5 x 1.2.2 cm, pages 304, ISBN 038072336,
#8 THE FIRST PART LAST by Angela Johnson ISBN 9780689849220
STORY:
This little thing with the perfect face and hands doing nothing but counting on me. And me wanting nothing else but to run crying into my own mom's room and have her do the whole thing.
It's not going to happen....
Bobby is your classic urban teenaged boy -- impulsive, eager, restless. On his sixteenth birthday he gets some news from his girlfriend, Nia, that changes his life forever. She's pregnant. Bobby's going to be a father. Suddenly things like school and house parties and hanging with friends no longer seem important as they're replaced by visits to Nia's obstetrician and a social worker who says that the only way for Nia and Bobby to lead a normal life is to put their baby up for adoption.
With powerful language and keen insight, Johnson looks at the male side of teen pregnancy as she delves into one young man's struggle to figure out what "the right thing" is and then to do it. No matter what the cost.
BOOK DATA:
Title, The First Part Last; authour, Angela Johnson; copyright, authour, 2003; publisher, Simon & Shuster, Printed in USA, 11th printing, hard cover with jacket, pages 131, 13 x 19.8 x 1.5 cm, ISBN 9780689849220
#9 LITTLE BEE by Chris Cleve ISBN 9780385665315
STORY:
Sarah Summers is enjoying a holiday on a Nigerian beach when a young girl named Little Bee crashes irrevocably into her life. All it takes is a brief and horrifying moment of crisis — a terrifying scene that no reader will forget. Afterwards, Sarah and Little Bee might expect never to see each other again. But Little Bee finds Sarah’s husband’s wallet in the sand, and smuggles herself on board a cargo vessel with his address in mind. She spends two years in detention in England before making her way to Sarah’s house, with what will prove to be devastating timing.
BOOK DATA:
Title, Little Bee; authour, Chris Cleave; copyright , authour 2009; publisher Anchor Canada, Printed in USA, 14th printing, softcover, 271 pages, 14.5 x 20.8 x 2 cm, ISBN 9780385665315
#10 WE WERE THE MULVANEYS by Joyce Carol Oates ISBN 05255942238
STORY:
The Mulvaneys are blessed by all that makes life sweet. But something happens on Valentine’s Day, 1976—an incident that is hushed up in the town and never spoken of in the Mulvaney home—that rends the fabric of their family life...with tragic consequences
BOOK DATA:
Title, We Were The Mulvaneys; authour, Joyce Carol Oates; copyright, the Ontario Review Inc., 1996; publisher, Plume, printed in USA, 8th printing, softcover, 454 pages, 15 x 22.8 x 3 cm; ISBN 05255942238
