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Get Well Soon

by Julie Halpern

Published: 2009-09-01

Paperback: 224 pages

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Anna Bloom is depressed -- so depressed that her parents have committed her to a mental hospital with a bunch of other messed-up teens. Here she meets a roommate with a secret (and a plastic baby), a doctor who focuses way too much on her weight, and a cute, shy boy who just might like her...

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Suicide Notes

by Michael Thomas Ford

Published: 2011-01-25

Kindle Edition: 308 pages

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An unforgettable coming of age novel for fans of 13 Reasons Why, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, and The Perks of Being a Wallflower.Fifteen-year-old Jeff wakes up on New Year’s Day to find himself in the hospital—specifically, in the psychiatric ward. Despite the bandages on his wrists,...

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Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)

by Kat Holmes

Published: 2018-10-16

Hardcover: 176 pages

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How inclusive methods can build elegant design solutions that work for all.Sometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn't work for left-handed people, for example, or a touchscreen payment system that only works for people who read English phrases, have 20/20 ...

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What Works: Gender Equality by Design

by Iris Bohnet

Published: 2016-03-08

Hardcover: 400 pages

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“Compelling, lucid, and filled with actionable insights, What Works draws from a deep well of research to explain how we can end gender inequality.”?Adam Grant, author of Give and Take and Originals“A pathbreaking work, packed with insights on every page… The best book ever written...

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Inclusion Nudges Guidebook: Practical Techniques for Changing Behaviour, Culture & Systems to Mitigate Unconscious Bias and Create Inclusive Organisations

by Tinna C. Nielsen, Lisa Kepinski

Published: 2016-01-21

Paperback: 262 pages

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To promote behavioural change and improve decision making, we must work with the subconscious. Inclusion Nudges target the advantages and shortcomings of our unconscious mind and decision-making processes in order to obtain the desired and needed changes. In this Guidebook, the concept and the three...

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Don't Cross the X

by Tina LePere

Published: 2017-06-21

Paperback: 335 pages

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Don’t Cross the X is a heartbreaking story of a woman’s tragic life after crossing paths with the local witch.In 1919, twenty-two-year-old Pearl Hayes leads a blessed life with her husband and two sons in rural South Carolina. But when she crosses a large X etched into the dirt near a local blackberry...

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Mistress of the Ritz: A Novel

by Melanie Benjamin

Published: 2019-05-21

Hardcover: 384 pages

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A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II—while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hôtel Ritz in Paris—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Avia...

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Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America

by Jennifer Harvey

Published: 2018-01-16

Hardcover: 320 pages

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With a foreword by Tim Wise, Raising White Kids is for families, churches, educators, and communities who want to equip their children to be active and able participants in a society that is becoming one of the most racially diverse in the world while remaining full of racial tensions. For...

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News from Me, Lucy McGee

by Mary Amato

Published: 2018-10-09

Hardcover: 144 pages

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When the coolest girl in the class invites you to her exclusive after-school club, how can you say no? Even if it means skipping out on Songwriting Club? Even if she's always been too popular to give you the time of day?  Even if she asks you to paint the walls and serve the tea...?  S...

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The Optimist's Daughter (Vintage International)

by Eudora Welty

Published: 2011-01-26

Kindle Edition: 192 pages

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This Pulitzer Prize–winning novel tells the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still farther, to the small Mississippi town where she grew...