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Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass
by Larry Godwin
Genres: Nonfiction, Education, Book Club, How To, Self Help
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.44

Are you or a loved one depressed? My book can help. I've been there and have struggled with suicidal thoughts and plans. I can share with you what I did to not only survive, but to tolerate depression, live with it, and function acceptably most of the time, interspersed with periods of contentment, happiness, and joy. My strategies may well work for you. My goal is to save lives. The primary motivation for presenting my history is to encourage others who grapple with either chronic depression or occasional bouts. I hope my journey resonates with some, validates feelings, and sparks the thoughts "I'm not alone" and "I will feel better." This book can also help family members and friends of the mentally ill, and their caregivers, find compassion and enable them to understand the struggle. Transcending Depression differs from many other books on the topic in that it is not grounded in clinical experience, scientific research, or empirical evidence, which may make it more approachable than some. It's not a how-to book, not a model for depressed people to follow, not a toolbox. On the contrary, it shows rather than tells the reader what he or she might do to feel better. Appendices include my Depression Survival Guide, which offers 36 suggestions to bring relief, and Chess in the Labyrinth, a metaphor that compares defeating depression to winning a chess game.
Murder in the Coven: Maya's Magical Adventures continue
by Malcolm McCoard
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.39

When the High Priestess is murdered in front of the whole coven, there's only one suspect... Maya's good friend is caught red-wanded. But can things really be that simple? In a race against time, can Maya uncover the secret past of the coven and prove her friend's innocence or will she have to face up to the seemingly inevitable conclusion that she's guilty as sin? A light-hearted magical murder mystery with a difference, no in fact it's very different. The fifth book in the 2017 Purple Dragonfly award winning series for young adult fiction, is another fast moving page turner. Warning: failure to read this book may result in delusions of normality!
Fablehaven (Fablehaven, #1)
by Brandon Mull
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Fiction, Childrens, Adventure, Magic
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.12

For centuries mystical creatures of all description were gathered into a hidden refuge called Fablehaven to prevent their extinction. The sanctuary survives today as one of the last strongholds of true magic. Enchanting? Absolutely. Exciting? You bet. Safe? Well, actually, quite the opposite.Kendra and her brother, Seth, have no idea that their grandfather is the current caretaker of Fablehaven. Inside the gated woods, ancient laws keep relative order among greedy trolls, mischievous satyrs, plotting witches, spiteful imps, and jealous fairies. However, when the rules get broken -- Seth is a bit too curious and reckless for his own good -- powerful forces of evil are unleashed, and Kendra and her brother face the greatest challenge of their lives. To save their family, Fablehaven, and perhaps even the world, Kendra and Seth must find the courage to do what they fear most.
In the Miso Soup
by Ryū Murakami
Genres: Horror, Fiction, Japan, Japanese Literature, Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.62

It is just before New Year's. Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo's sleazy nightlife on three successive evenings. But Kenji learns exactly how much he has to fear and how irrevocably his encounter with this great white whale of an American will change his life.
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
by Lauren  Hough
Genres: Memoir, Nonfiction, Essays, LGBT, Queer, Audiobook, Cults
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.30

Searing and extremely personal essays from the heart of working-class America, shot through with the darkest elements the country can manifest--cults, homelessness, and hunger--while discovering light and humor in unexpected corners.As an adult, Lauren Hough has had many identities: an airman in the U.S. Air Force, a cable guy, a bouncer at a gay club. As a child, however, she had none. Growing up as a member of the infamous cult The Children of God, Hough had her own self robbed from her. The cult took her all over the globe--to Germany, Japan, Texas, Ecuador--but it wasn't until her mother finally walked away that Lauren understood she could have a life beyond "The Family."Along the way, she's loaded up her car and started over, trading one life for the next. She's taken pilgrimages to the sights of her youth, been kept in solitary confinement, dated a lot of women, dabbled in drugs, and eventually found herself as what she always wanted to be: a writer. Here, as she sweeps through the underbelly of America--relying on friends, family, and strangers alike--she begins to excavate a new identity even as her past continues to trail her and color her world, relationships, and perceptions of self.At once razor-sharp, profoundly brave, and often very, very funny, the essays in Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing interrogate our notions of ecstasy, queerness, and what it means to live freely. Each piece is a reckoning: of survival, identity, and how to reclaim one's past when carving out a future.
Beautiful Disaster (Beautiful, #1)
by Jamie McGuire
Genres: Romance, New Adult, Contemporary, Young Adult, Contemporary Romance, College, Fiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.03

The new Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn’t drink or swear, and she has the appropriate number of cardigans in her wardrobe. Abby believes she has enough distance from the darkness of her past, but when she arrives at college with her best friend, her path to a new beginning is quickly challenged by Eastern University's Walking One-Night Stand. Travis Maddox, lean, cut, and covered in tattoos, is exactly what Abby needs—and wants—to avoid. He spends his nights winning money in a floating fight ring, and his days as the ultimate college campus charmer. Intrigued by Abby’s resistance to his appeal, Travis tricks her into his daily life with a simple bet. If he loses, he must remain abstinent for a month. If Abby loses, she must live in Travis’s apartment for the same amount of time. Either way, Travis has no idea that he has met his match.
The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth
Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Alternate History, Literature, Science Fiction, American, Novels
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.79

In an astonishing feat of narrative invention, our most ambitious novelist imagines an alternate version of American history. In 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator and rabid isolationist, is elected President. Shortly thereafter, he negotiates a cordial "understanding" with Adolf Hitler, while the new government embarks on a program of folksy anti-Semitism.For one boy growing up in Newark, Lindbergh's election is the first in a series of ruptures that threatens to destroy his small, safe corner of America - and with it, his mother, his father, and his older brother.(back cover)
Christmas in Smithville (Hometown, #4)
by Kirsten Fullmer
Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult, Fiction, Adult, New Adult, Love Story
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.30

Gloria hasn’t had an easy life, she’s learned her lessons the hard way. She may have dressed flashy and dated a lot, but that’s in the past. Now she’s determined to change her reputation, and working along side the women in town as they prepare for the Christmas Pageant will give her a chance to prove she’s not a flirt. Small towns never forget, but will Smithville give her a second chance? Ned, the county Deputy, has his own secrets to keep. He’s heard the gossip about Gloria, but he sees all the kind things she does for the folks of Smithville. The upcoming Christmas Pageant will give him the opportunity to finally spend time with her, especially with his friends throwing them together, but can he overcome his frustrating stutter and talk to her, face to face? Fall in love with Ned and Gloria as all your favorite Smithville characters prepare for the Christmas Pageant, and get swept up into the most romantic Christmas Eve celebration ever!
Insomnia
by Stephen King
Genres: Horror, Fiction, Fantasy, Thriller, Mystery, Supernatural, Suspense
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.83

Ralph Roberts, a sus setenta años y tras la muerte de su mujer, siente que su vida se acaba. ¿Es acaso posible que su reciente viudez, unida a un persistente insomnio, sea la causa de esa nueva sensibilidad visual que, poco a poco, le permite ver el más allá de las personas? A Ralph le preocupa este hecho, pero no menos que el súbito e inexplicable comportamiento, irracional y violento, de algunos de sus vecinos...
The Candidate and other stories
by Samuel R. George
Genres: Drama
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.40

Meet Professor Alfred Jules Ayer, a famous philosopher noted for his atheism, his disdain of all things metaphysical, and his reverence for logic, in “The Candidate.” After suffering a heart attack, he finds himself in the Greek Underworld. He never expected an afterlife, and the fabled abode is nothing like the fable, which never mentioned a salmon with human arms and legs, or a flying saucer captained by lizard man.In “Harold,” you’ll meet a homunculus who is certain he is a one of a kind, a freak of nature. Imagine his surprise when he discovers an island populated by thousands of his kind. There he finds adventure, love, and danger. He must face thugs his size, sinister large people, a dangerous house cat, and a plethora of perplexing situations.Irresolute poets find their plush postmortem refuge is anything but when it soon becomes a type of Hell in “Between Life and Oblivion.”Discover the true story of Helen, the famous face that launched a thousand ships, in the tale “A More Likely Odyssey.”Within these pages you’ll be taken on journeys beyond imagining. You’ll meet characters and explore familiar worlds through different eyes. Look beyond the hedge…
Blood Promise (Vampire Academy, #4)
by Richelle Mead
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Vampires, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.31

Bound by love, but sworn to kill...The world thought Dimitri was dead. And to a certain extent, he was. But I hadn't been able to forget a conversation he and I had once had. We'd both agreed that we'd rather be dead - truly dead - than walk the world as Strigoi. It was time to honor our words.Guardian Rose Hathaway's life will never be the same. The recent attack on St. Vladimir's Academy devastated the entire Moroi world. Many are dead. And, for the few victims carried off by Strigoi, their fates are even worse. A rare tattoo now adorns Rose's neck; a mark that says she's killed far too many Strigoi to count.But only one victim matters... Dimitri Belikov. Rose must now choose one of two very different paths: honoring her life's vow to protect Lissa—her best friend and the last surviving Dragomir princess—or, dropping out of the Academy to strike out on her own and hunt down the man she loves. She'll have to go to the ends of the earth to find Dimitri and keep the promise he begged her to make. But the question is, when the time comes, will he want to be saved?Now, with everything at stake—and worlds away from St. Vladimir's and her unguarded, vulnerable, and newly rebellious best friend—can Rose find the strength to destroy Dimitri? Or, will she sacrifice herself for a chance at eternal love?Readers who fell in love with Rose, Lissa, and Dimitri won't want to miss Blood Promise, the much-anticipated, epic fourth novel in Richelle Mead's enthralling Vampire Academy series.
Before I Fall
by Lauren Oliver
Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Paranormal, Realistic Fiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.89

With this stunning debut novel, New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver emerged as one of today's foremost authors of young adult fiction. Like Jay Asher's Thirteen Reasons Why and Gayle Forman's If I Stay, Before I Fall raises thought-provoking questions about love, death, and how one person's life can affect so many others.For popular high school senior Samantha Kingston, February 12—"Cupid Day"—should be one big party, a day of valentines and roses and the privileges that come with being at the top of the social pyramid. And it is…until she dies in a terrible accident that night.However, she still wakes up the next morning. In fact, Sam lives the last day of her life seven times, until she realizes that by making even the slightest changes, she may hold more power than she ever imagined.Named to numerous state reading lists, this novel was also recognized as a Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, The Daily Beast, NPR, and Publishers Weekly. It has been optioned for film by Fox 2000 Pictures.Supports the Common Core State Standards.
They Came From The North
by Malcolm McCoard
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.26

The magical world is thrown into chaos by the arrival of death dragons from the north. Coven after coven fall to this mysterious and seemingly invincible foe. The good witches of the world are rendered powerless and stricken by fear at the hands of the cruellest of enemies. Maya and Evaline are forced to flee for their lives, but there's more to Evaline's chequered past than first meets the eye. As the truth is finally revealed, have they walked willingly into a trap or can they find a way against seemingly impossible odds? This is the sixth book in the award-winning Young Adult series Maya's Magical Adventures, but don't worry each book stands alone. Hall of fame Amazon reviewer NN Light says of the series: "Looking for what to read after Harry Potter? Pick this up today! A must read for all fantasy readers, 5 stars."
Mischief and the Guardian Cats
by Malcolm McCoard
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.26

Follow Mischief a rather sarcastic witch’s cat, as he trains up his rather dim-witted successor. As guardians of a great and ancient secret, the unlikely friends become entangled in an evil plot to steal the magic from every coven in the land. The strange truth behind witchcraft and the true origins of magic is about to be revealed. If you’ve been waiting for answers to some of life’s most perplexing questions:Why do cats have 9 lives? Who really domesticated the first humans? Why are dogs no longer a cat’s best friend? Is the author completely mad? Can I really resist reading this nonsense? Then the answer to the last question is, don’t!A spin off from the award-winning Young Adult series Maya's Magical Adventures, but a “cracking good stand-alone work in its own right!” Hall of fame Amazon reviewer NN Light says of the series: "Looking for what to read after Harry Potter? Pick this up today! A must read for all fantasy readers, 5 stars.”
The Last Lumenian (The Last Lumenian, #1)
by S.G. Blaise
Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Novels, Fiction, Contemporary, Young Adult, Romance
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.27

MOST PRINCESSES NEED SAVING. THIS ONE WILL SAVE YOU.She is a rebel. Lilla is fighting for the refugees's freedom from oppression. The king, her father, lost touch with reality ever since Lilla's mother died. Now everyone else is paying the price.The arrival of Callum, a powerful Teryn general, complicates Lilla's life. His presence leads to conflicted feelings and friction with Arrov, a handsome pilot and fellow rebel.Her life is not what she imagined it to be. Not by far. Meddling gods, love interests and sudden magical abilities have no room in Lilla's world, but that has become her new reality. No matter how hard she pushes them away, it's too late. They all seek to control her anyway.Now the Era War between two ruling archgods forces Lilla to act: accept who she really is magic and all; find true love; fulfill her destiny by defeating the Archgod of Chaos and Destruction before He finds her. The Last Lumenian.
Orlando
by Virginia Woolf
Genres: Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, LGBT, Fantasy, Queer, Feminism
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.87

Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces his experience with first love as England under James I lies locked in the embrace of the Great Frost. At the midpoint of the novel, Orlando, now an ambassador in Constantinople, awakes to find that he is now a woman, and the novel indulges in farce and irony to consider the roles of women in the 18th and 19th centuries. As the novel ends in 1928, a year consonant with full suffrage for women. Orlando, now a wife and mother, stands poised at the brink of a future that holds new hope and promise for women.
Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, #3)
by Richelle Mead
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Vampires, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.34

WHAT IF FOLLOWING HER HEART MEANS ROSE COULD LOSE HER BEST FRIEND FOREVER?Lissa Dragomir is a Moroi princess: a mortal vampire with a rare gift for harnessing the earth's magic. She must be protected at all times from Strigoi; the fiercest vampires - the ones who never die. The powerful blend of human and vampire blood that flows through Rose Hathaway, Lissa's best friend, makes her a Dhampir. Rose is dedicated to a dangerous life of protecting Lissa from the Strigoi, who are hell-bent on making Lissa one of them.Rose knows it is forbidden to love another guardian. Her best friend, Lissa - the last Dragomir princess - must always come first. Unfortunately, when it comes to gorgeous Dimitri Belikov, some rules are meant to be broken...Then a strange darkness begins to grow in Rose's mind, and ghostly shadows warn of a terrible evil drawing nearer to the Academy's iron gates. The immortal undead are closing in, and they want vengeance for the lives Rose has stolen. In a heart-stopping battle to rival her worst nightmares, Rose will have to choose between life, love, and the two people who matter most... but will her choice mean that only one can survive?
Survivor
by Chuck Palahniuk
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Thriller, Novels, Humor, Literature, American
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.93

From the author of the underground sensation Fight Club comes this wickedly incisive second novel, a mesmerizing, unnerving, and hilarious vision of cult and post-cult life.Tender Branson—last surviving member of the so-called Creedish Death Cult—is dictating his life story into the flight recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. He is all alone in the airplane, which will crash shortly into the vast Australian outback. Before it does, he will unfold the tale of his journey from an obedient Creedish child and humble domestic servant to an ultra-buffed, steroid- and collagen-packed media messiah, author of a best-selling autobiography, Saved from Salvation, and the even better selling Book of Very Common Prayer (The Prayer to Delay Orgasm, The Prayer to Prevent Hair Loss, The Prayer to Silence Car Alarms). He'll reveal the truth of his tortured romance with the elusive and prescient Fertility Hollis, share his insight that "the only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage," and deny responsibility for the Tender Branson Sensitive Materials Sanitary Landfill, a 20,000-acre repository for the nation's outdated pornography. Among other matters both bizarre and trenchant.Not since Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night and Jerzy Kosinski's Being There has there been as dark and telling a satire on the wages of fame and the bedrock lunacy of the modern world. Unpredictable, compelling, and unforgettable, Survivor is Chuck Palahniuk at his deadpan peak; and it cements his place as one of the most original writers in fiction today.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
by Mohsin Hamid
Genres: Fiction, Pakistan, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Asia
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.73

At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful encounter…Changez is living an immigrant's dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by an elite valuation firm. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his budding romance with elegant, beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore.But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned, and his relationship with Erica shifting. And Changez's own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and maybe even love.
Harriet Tubman: Imagining a Life
by Beverly Lowry
Genres: History, Biography, Nonfiction, Race, Historical, American, Womens
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.77

“I am at peace with God and all mankind.”—Harriet Tubman to Mary Talbert, on the occasion of their last visit, 1913Now, from the award-winning novelist and biographer, an astonishing reimagining of the remarkable life of Harriet Tubman—the “Moses of Her People.”During her lifetime Harriet Tubman was an escaped slave, lumberjack, laundress, raid leader, nurse, fund-raiser, cook, intelligence gatherer, Underground Railroad organizer, and abolitionist. She was known both as Moses and as General Tubman.In Harriet Tubman: Imagining a Life, Beverly Lowry goes beyond the familiar tales to create a portrait of Tubman in lively imagined vignettes that, as Lowry writes, “catch her on the fly” and portray her life as she herself might have presented it. Lowry offers readers an intimate look at Tubman’s early life firsthand: her birth as Araminta Ross in 1822 in Dorchester, Maryland; the harsh treatment she experienced growing up—including being struck with a two-pound iron when she was twelve years old; and her triumphant escape from slavery as a young woman and rebirth as Harriet Tubman. We travel with Tubman along the treacherous route of the Underground Railroad and hear of her friendships with Frederick Douglass, John Brown, and other abolitionists. We accompany her to the battlefields of the Civil War, where she worked as a nurse and a cook and earned the name General Tubman, join her on slave-freeing raids in the heart of the Confederacy, and share her horror and sorrow as she witnesses the massacre of Colonel Shaw and the black soldiers of the 54th Regiment at Fort Wagner.Integrating extensive research and interviews with scholars and historians into a stunningly rich and mesmerizing chronicle, Lowry brings Tubman to life as never before.With 62 photographs, illustrations, and maps