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      • Children's & YA
        February 2020

        (Dis)connections

        Help, I’m a screen addict!

        by Christine Deroin,Alain Dervaux

        Meet Manon, champing at the bit to become a game designer. Enzo, addicted to network games and puzzle games, whose social discomfort causes him to identify with his avatars. And Clement, whose childhood dog has just died, prompting him to seek sympathy on social networks. Three very different teenagers whose different experiences illustrate the complexity and diversity of what is commonly known as screen addiction.

      • Children's & YA

        Just a Small Town

        by Paul Linggood

        A small town that could be anywhere: industry is in decline, streets are in decay, many have left, while those left behind take short-term joy in drugs. Four young people are among the left behind. Alex consumes heroin to escape his abusive father. Jim hides from guilt after the death of the friend he didn’t save. Chelsi’s brother killed a local boy, and ostracism pushes her towards a rival gang, prostitution and loneliness. Danny is a hustler but needs protection from the drug gang that supplies him. Can any of them survive the addiction, gang life, isolation and manipulation? Their small town could be anywhere.

      • Romance & relationships stories (Children's/YA)
        2018

        You Think the World Falls Apart, but it’s Just You, Who’s Breaking

        by Armin Kaster

        Leo’s parents have just split up and Leo is supposed to live alternately with his father and his mother. However, as his parents focus on their ego trips and are out and about, they don’t notice that Leo has been commuting alone between their empty apartments for quite a while. He hangs around with his friends Sami and Luk, they smoke weed and get drunk. Leo hardly sleeps. In shorter and shorter intervals he sees videos on his cellphone which he has never filmed that way. Is somebody hacking his phone? Is somebody stalking him? Leo’s life becomes more and more oppressive, he loses himself between delusion and reality to find himself again in the end.

      • Fiction

        Red Flag Warning

        A Serial Arson Mystery

        by Kurt Kamm

        Los Angeles County is burning. A serial arsonist is setting the parched hills on fire. Plunge into infernos and face the smoke, heat and danger with the men on the fire lines. While NiteHeat prowls in the darkness, setting fires and taunting investigators, the Los Angeles County Fire Department’s Arson Unit struggles to find the fire-setter and stop the devastation. Who is NiteHeat? Is it Ruffy, the 911 dispatcher who has failed firefighter training? Is it Mikey, a dropout who appears at every fire and steals firefighting equipment? Is it Father Dom who claims the fires are started by Satan? Discover the incendiary device triggered by a cooking timer from Williams Sonoma. Did you ever wonder how wildland arson investigators find the point of origin and evidence in a fire which consumes thousands of acres? Did you ever wonder what goes through the mind of an arsonist? Read RED FLAG WARNING.

      • Personal & social issues: drugs & addiction (Children's/YA)
        December 2013

        Let's Talk About Drugs

        Teacher's Guide & Student's Manual

        by Michael Ackley

        Effective drug education is key to steering young people away from drug use, whether in a group setting or one to one. This workbook provides a fun way to learn about drugs with a teacher or youth worker, parent or carer. The approaches include: · Information giving · Life skills education · Mixed approaches. Packed with important information, strategies and facts, the following subjects are included: · What is a drug · Drug word game · Drug names and nicknames · Using drugs - for and against · The effects of drugs · Risks and dangers of drugs · Drugs and the law · Keeping safe · Resisting peer pressure · Tobacco · Alcohol. A great deal of information provided in this easy to use package. Paperback & CD

      • Family & health
        July 2012

        My Boy - A memoir

        by Anthony James

        This little book tells of the sad but inspiring story and his addicted son coming together in the valley of the shadow of death.  There is poignancy, sadness but also love and redemption.  It is inspiring and will give hope and help to thousands who struggle with drug addiction in thier families.The book will give comfort to those who are experiencing loosing their loved ones.  You are not alone, the wonderful Hospice movement and the palliative care forces are there to hold you up and give you hope.

      • Personal & social issues: death & bereavement (Children's/YA)
        July 2015

        CHECK: get up, stay alive, go to bed.

        by Johannes Wiedlich

        Jimmy. Call me that. The name is okay.... or ... sure, just ignore me. All idiots! Sometimes the whole world is annoying me. You say something, you aren't listened to. You want to be left alone, everybody is bugging you to talk. Apparently, most people live on the same planet as me, but not in the same world. Or maybe I live in a bubble. So here I am - lying in my sleeping coffin - ignoring my sister who's knocking on the door because she's worried again for completely no reason, and I wonder ... Jimmy is a young adult with a whole bunch of problems. He feels abandoned in a world in which he is only slightly interested. Alcohol, drugs, and self-harming behavior are on the daily agenda. Only a few people still get through to him, but he keeps pushing these away too.

      • Personal & social issues: drugs & addiction (Children's/YA)
        2016

        Even if He Is Not Here

        by Cecilia Curbelo

        Bruno plans to run away. Flee from his home, and from his family- or what's left of it - after his father's death. He can’t tolerate seeing everything that matters disintegrate. His brother Guillermo’s attitude and the apparent indifference of his mother only aggravate the situation. Only the music his father listens brings peace to the situation. Bruno and Guille, immersed in the battle to survive the duel, face each other. In that fight they must also face someone else: themselves.

      • Children's & YA

        Sun Kisses, Moon Hugs

        by Susan Schaefer Bernardo, Courtenay Fletcher

        No matter how far apart we are, I will always find ways to tell you I love you. Sun Kisses, Moon Hugs is a beautiful picture book with a simple but powerful message: love lasts forever. The book is intended for all children but is especially healing for children coping with separation anxiety, grief, loss or divorce.It is a Gold Medal winner of the International Publisher Awards, and a featured title in the LeVar Burton Kids Skybrary app. It was selected as a Child's Grief Awareness Day book-of-the-month, and also featured three years in a row for Multicultural Children's Book Day. Available as a bilingual edition called Besos de sol, abrazos de luna.

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