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Gillian balks when her younger sister insists she go to California to care for their dying mother. According to doctor's there was nothing wrong with the woman. Arriving in California, Gillian soon restores her mother to 'health'. When her mother and her friend Enzio leave for a cruise, Gillian is left with a decision-what to do with the rest of her life?
3) All grown up
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Hiding the truth about her unhappiness and struggles with anxiety from everyone including her family, best friend, and therapist, Andrea Bern joins her loved ones in a reevaluation of family strength in the wake of her newborn niece's heartbreaking ailment.
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"Judy never intended to start wearing the dog. But when she stumbled across her son Teddy's old baby sling during a halfhearted basement cleaning, something in her snapped. So: the dog went into the sling, Judy felt connected to another living being, and she's repeated the process every day since. Wickedly funny and surprisingly tender, Separation Anxiety offers a frank portrait of middle-aged limbo, examining the ebb and flow of life's most important...
5) Mina
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"Crystal toils day and night to earn top grades at her cram school. She's also endlessly texting, shopping, drinking, vexing her boyfriends, cranking up her MP3s, and fantasizing about her next slice of cheesecake. But her nonstop frenzy never lets her do the one thing that might change her tragic fate: open up about the pressures that are driving her to the edge. She certainly hasn't talked with her best friend, Mina, nor Mina's brother, whom she's...
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Amelia is about to turn 30, but instead of celebratomg, she is overpowered by her battle against anxety and sepression driven by the inner voices of her little monster-her eating diorder. But as days progress, the moundane becomes the unmanageable. She self medicates with alcohol and sinks lower into vivid flashbacks of and Dominic backpacking the world together. one day he went to Guatemala, the next hevanished like a ghost, leaving Amelia to remain...
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A mother is gripped by fear as her daughter approaches adulthood, in this novel of attachments, anxieties, and buried secrets . . . Like most mothers, Catherine would slip into her sleeping newborn's room, listening to make sure her baby was still breathing, still alive. Now her daughter is eighteen; however, Catherine continues to check on her at night. She can't help herself--the intrusive thoughts rise up again and again and anxiety grips her,...
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Night Rooms is a poetic collection of personal essays that weaves together fragmented images from horror films and cultural tropes to meditate on anxiety and depression, suicide, body image, identity, and grief. Nutt's shifting style echoes the sub-genres that Night Rooms highlights - spirit-haunted slow burns, possession tales, slashers, and revenge films with a feminist bent. Refracting life through the lens of horror films, Night Rooms masterfully...
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"Closer to Fine is the story of Rachel Levine, a young, Jewish, bisexual woman finding her adult footing in a world full of uncertainties. Rachel has many teachers along the way--a stubborn grandfather, a progressive rabbi, a worldly girlfriend, a wise supervisor, and an insightful therapist--but in the end, it is her own anxiety that is the best teacher of all. As Rachel learns that accepting that which she cannot control is the mark of true growth,...
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"In the summer of 1932, Americans are coming to realize that the financial crash of 1929 was only the beginning of hard times. May Marshall has returned from Paris to settle at her family home in rural Keswick, Virginia. She struggles to keep her family farm and market afloat through the economic downturn. May finds herself juggling her marriage with a tempting opportunity to revamp the family business to adapt to changing times. In a cold-water West...
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