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The Burn Journals

A Memoir

by Brent Runyon ...

**Fans of Thirteen Reasons Why, Running with Scissors, and Girl, Interrupted will be entranced by this remarkable true story of teenage despair and recovery.“[The Burn Journals] describes a particular kind of youthful male desolation better than it has ever been described before, by anyone.” —Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon**In 1991, fourteen-year-old Brent Runyon came home from school ... Read more

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**Fans of Thirteen Reasons Why, Running with Scissors, and Girl, Interrupted will be entranced by this remarkable true story of teenage despair and recovery.“[The Burn Journals] describes a particular kind of youthful male desolation better than it has ever been described before, by anyone.” —Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon**In 1991, fourteen-year-old Brent Runyon came home from school
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Maybe

by Brent Runyon ...

Maybe everything will be different here. Maybe I should drive away and never come back. Maybe my brother didn't mean to. Maybe my brother was right. Maybe I can get someone to have sex with me. Maybe no one will ever love me. Maybe I should be an actor. Maybe I shouldn't pretend to be deaf.Maybe if I mouth the words no one will know I'm not singing. But maybe someone, somehow, will hear me anyway ... Read more

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Maybe everything will be different here. Maybe I should drive away and never come back. Maybe my brother didn't mean to. Maybe my brother was right. Maybe I can get someone to have sex with me. Maybe no one will ever love me. Maybe I should be an actor. Maybe I shouldn't pretend to be deaf.Maybe if I mouth the words no one will know I'm not singing. But maybe someone, somehow, will hear me anyway
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Surface Tension

by Brent Runyon ...

The cottage on the lake is always the same, but Luke is changing. At thirteen he’s excited. At fourteen he’s cool. At fifteen he’s pissed off. At sixteen he’s in love.Through four summers’ worth of trips to the emergency room, campfires and house fires, parties and feuds with neighbors, Luke is doing his best to navigate life. He makes discoveries, makes mistakes, freaks out, and comes to see ... Read more

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The cottage on the lake is always the same, but Luke is changing. At thirteen he’s excited. At fourteen he’s cool. At fifteen he’s pissed off. At sixteen he’s in love.Through four summers’ worth of trips to the emergency room, campfires and house fires, parties and feuds with neighbors, Luke is doing his best to navigate life. He makes discoveries, makes mistakes, freaks out, and comes to see
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The Burn Journals

by Brent Runyon ...

Narrated by Christopher Evan Welch ...

Unabridged

7 hours 59 min

Brent Runyon's account of his attempted suicide has garnered critical accolades for its glimpse into adolescent depression and rare insight into the human condition. Fearing expulsion and parental disapproval after lighting a shirt on fire at his school, Brent goes home, soaks his bathrobe with gasoline, steps into his shower, and strikes a match. Suffering horrific burns, Brent faces a long, ... Read more

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Brent Runyon's account of his attempted suicide has garnered critical accolades for its glimpse into adolescent depression and rare insight into the human condition. Fearing expulsion and parental disapproval after lighting a shirt on fire at his school, Brent goes home, soaks his bathrobe with gasoline, steps into his shower, and strikes a match. Suffering horrific burns, Brent faces a long,
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Go Ask Alice

by Anonymous ...

Narrated by Christina Moore ...

Unabridged

5 hours 9 min

Celebrate the anniversary of the acclaimed, bestselling first-person account of a teen girl’s harrowing descent into drug addiction—as heart-wrenching, shocking, and timely as ever.January 24thAfter you’ve had it, there isn’t even life without drugs …It started when she was served a drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game.Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took ... Read more

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Celebrate the anniversary of the acclaimed, bestselling first-person account of a teen girl’s harrowing descent into drug addiction—as heart-wrenching, shocking, and timely as ever.January 24thAfter you’ve had it, there isn’t even life without drugs …It started when she was served a drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game.Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took
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It's Kind of a Funny Story

by Ned Vizzini ...

Narrated by Robert Fass ...

Unabridged

8 hours 35 min

Ambitious New York City teenager Craig Gilner is determined to succeed at life—which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job. But once Craig aces his way into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School, the pressure becomes unbearable. He stops eating and sleeping until, one night, he nearly kills himself.Craig's suicidal episode gets him ... Read more

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Ambitious New York City teenager Craig Gilner is determined to succeed at life—which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job. But once Craig aces his way into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School, the pressure becomes unbearable. He stops eating and sleeping until, one night, he nearly kills himself.Craig's suicidal episode gets him
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

by Chelsea Handler ...

Narrated by Chelsea Handler ...

Unabridged

6 hours 13 min

Welcome to Chelsea Handler's world—a place where absurdity reigns supreme and a quick wit is the best line of defense.When Chelsea Handler needs to get a few things off her chest, she appeals to a higher power—vodka. Seems reasonable, when considering that she discovered her boyfriend was having an affair with a Peekapoo and she had to pretend to be honeymooning with her father in order to upgrade ... Read more

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Welcome to Chelsea Handler's world—a place where absurdity reigns supreme and a quick wit is the best line of defense.When Chelsea Handler needs to get a few things off her chest, she appeals to a higher power—vodka. Seems reasonable, when considering that she discovered her boyfriend was having an affair with a Peekapoo and she had to pretend to be honeymooning with her father in order to upgrade
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A Child Called It

by Dave Pelzer ...

Narrated by Brian Keeler ...

Series series Child Called "It"
Unabridged

3 hours 47 min

Dave Pelzer was brutally abused as a child by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother. She considered him a slave - no longer a boy, but an "it".He was physically and mentally tortured and starved. The outside world knew nothing of the nightmare he experienced behind closed doors, and his father was aware of the abuse but turned to denial and alcohol. The abuse only fuelled a determination to ... Read more

$13.99 USD

Dave Pelzer was brutally abused as a child by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother. She considered him a slave - no longer a boy, but an "it".He was physically and mentally tortured and starved. The outside world knew nothing of the nightmare he experienced behind closed doors, and his father was aware of the abuse but turned to denial and alcohol. The abuse only fuelled a determination to
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Looking for Alaska

by John Green ...

Narrated by Wil Wheaton ...

Unabridged

6 hours 40 min

**NOW A HULU LIMITED SERIES!The award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars**Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award • A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist • A New York Times Bestseller • A USA Today Bestseller • NPR’s Top Ten Best-Ever Teen Novels • TIME magazine’s 100 Best Young Adult Novels of All Time • ... Read more

$20.99 USD

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**NOW A HULU LIMITED SERIES!The award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars**Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award • A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist • A New York Times Bestseller • A USA Today Bestseller • NPR’s Top Ten Best-Ever Teen Novels • TIME magazine’s 100 Best Young Adult Novels of All Time •
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Sweet Filthy Boy

by Christina Lauren ...

Narrated by Shayna Thibodeaux ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Wild Seasons
Unabridged

10 hours 12 min

When three besties meet three hot guys in Vegas anything can—and does—happen in this first entry in the New York Times bestselling Wild Seasons series from the authors of Love and Other Words and The Unhoneymooners.One-night stands are supposed to be with someone convenient, or wickedly persuasive, or regrettable. They aren’t supposed to be with someone like him.But after a crazy Vegas weekend ... Read more

$25.99 USD

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When three besties meet three hot guys in Vegas anything can—and does—happen in this first entry in the New York Times bestselling Wild Seasons series from the authors of Love and Other Words and The Unhoneymooners.One-night stands are supposed to be with someone convenient, or wickedly persuasive, or regrettable. They aren’t supposed to be with someone like him.But after a crazy Vegas weekend
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Orange Is the New Black

My Year in a Women's Prison

by Piper Kerman ...

Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

Unabridged

11 hours 11 min

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWith a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, the well-heeled Smith ... Read more

$20.99 USD

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NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWith a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, the well-heeled Smith
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The Fault in Our Stars

by John Green ...

Narrated by John Green, Kate Rudd, Laura Grafton ...

Unabridged

7 hours 11 min

The beloved, #1 global bestseller by John Green, author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and Turtles All the Way Down“John Green is one of the best writers alive.” –E. Lockhart, #1 bestselling author of We Were Liars*“The greatest romance story of this decade.″ –*Entertainment Weekly#1 New York Times Bestseller • #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller • #1 USA Today Bestseller • #1 International ... Read more

$20.99 USD

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The beloved, #1 global bestseller by John Green, author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and Turtles All the Way Down“John Green is one of the best writers alive.” –E. Lockhart, #1 bestselling author of We Were Liars*“The greatest romance story of this decade.″ –*Entertainment Weekly#1 New York Times Bestseller • #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller • #1 USA Today Bestseller • #1 International
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