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2) Freshwater
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self. It centers around a young Nigerian woman, Ada, who develops separate selves within her as a result of being born "with one foot on the other side." Unsettling, heartwrenching, dark, and powerful, Freshwater is a sharp evocation of a rare way of experiencing the world, one that illuminates how we all construct our identities. Ada begins her life in...
Author
Series
Description
"What if the person you thought you knew best turns out to be someone you never knew at all? Andrea knows everything about her mother, Laura. She knows she's spent her whole life in the small beachside town of Belle Isle; she knows she's never wanted anything more than to live a quiet life as a pillar of the community; she knows she's never kept a secret in her life. Because we all know our mothers, don't we? But all that changes when a trip to the...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Social psychologist and Stanford professor Brian Lowery presents a provocative, powerful theory of identity, arguing that there is no essential 'self'--Our selves are social creations of those with whom we interact--exploring what that means for who we can be and who we allow others to be"--
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"First, he was a beloved college football champion, media sensation, and best-selling author drafted in the first round of the 2010 Draft. Then he had a miracle playoff run with the Denver Broncos before being traded to the New York Jets. After one season he was cut by New York, next signed by the New England Patriots, then let go after training camp. Tim Tebow has achieved big victories and plunged the depths of failure, all while holding firm to...
6) The walk
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Description
What would you do if you lost everything--your job, your home, and the love of your life--all at the same time? When it happens to Seattle ad executive Alan Christoffersen, he's tempted by his darkest thoughts but then decides to take a walk, heading for the farthest point on his map: Key West, Florida. The people he encounters along the way, and the lessons they share with him, will save his life.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"How did rescue dogs become status symbols? Why are luxury brands losing their cachet? What's made F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous observations obsolete? The answers are part of a new revolution that's radically reorganizing the way we view ourselves and others. Status was once easy to identify-fast cars, fancy shoes, sprawling estates, elite brands. But in place of Louboutins and Lamborghinis, the relevance of the rich, famous, and gauche is waning...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"You swab your cheek or spit in a vial, then send it away to a lab somewhere. Weeks later you get a report that might tell you where your ancestors came from or if you carry certain genetic risks. Or the report could reveal long-buried family secrets and upend your entire sense of identity. Soon a lark becomes an obsession, a relentless drive to find answers to questions at the core of your being, like "Who am I?" and "Where did I come from?" Welcome...
Author
Series
Partholon volume 3
Publisher
Luna
Pub. Date
[2009], c2007
Description
After learning about her deceased mother's real identity as a goddess, Morrigan is sent to Partholon, where she tries to uncover her destiny and polish her magical abilities while the dark god Pyderi tries to lure her away.
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Brando Skyhorse, winner of the PEN Hemingway Award, returns with his highly anticipated second novel, a literary dystopian tale set in a near-future America where mandatory identification wristbands make second-generation immigrants into second-class citizens"--
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Stephanie Patrick has left behind the dark world of spies, lies, and aliases, to live a normal civilian life in London. But then a shocking discovery envelops her, forcing her back into her former life. Scientific and weapons secrets and personnel are being sent via the people-smuggling routes from China, through Albania and the former Yugoslavia to Europe and Britain. Stephanie's personal feelings for one of the victims of this trade causes her...
12) No safe secret
Author
Description
From her silver Mercedes to her designer kitchen, Molly's life is gleaming and beautiful, at least on the surface. Married to Tanner, a top cosmetic dentist, she has a wonderful daughter finishing high school and twin stepsons from Tanner's first marriage. No one in her exclusive neighborhood in Goldenhills, Massachusetts, knows what living with the demanding Tanner is really like. They know even less about the life she left behind in Florida almost...
13) Little Bee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
A haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers--one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London.
15) Divergent
Author
Series
Divergent volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Description
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"They are chameleons. Beyond the law, beyond morality, they've survived by adapting, whatever the circumstances. And by trusting nobody but themselves. It's a question of identity. Stephanie Patrick, a woman who was more comfortable under an alias than she was with herself, has traversed the world and forgot who she is. Now, she wants to put all her pasts behind her. Konstantin Komarov. The FBI call him the Don from the Don. Today, at the heart of...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Relocating to an apartment with her two children to be closer to her mother, Gretchen offers to help clear out the home of a reclusive neighbor's recently deceased mother and discovers that the neighbor, Melissa, has two siblings and an identity that she never suspected.
20) African
Author
Series
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
African is a children's book featuring lyrics by Peter Tosh and illustrations by Jamaican artist Rachel Moss. The song "African" by Peter Tosh was originally released in 1977 on his second solo record, Equal Rights. He wrote the song during a time of civil unrest in Jamaica as a reminder to all black people that they were part of the same community. The album is considered one of the most influential reggae works of all time.
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