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A year ago, Travis McKinley, an unknown golfing amateur, shocked the world by winning the PGA Senior Open at Pebble Beach. Now he's famous, he makes his living playing the game he loves, and everything should be perfect. Still Travis can't shake the feeling that he's a fraud, an imposter who doesn't deserve his success - and after a series of disappointments and, to be honest, personal screw-ups, he might just prove himself right. A shot at redemption...
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J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 20
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English
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When a girl is strangled to death and the crime is captured on a grainy cell phone video, suspicion falls on the teenage grandson of Washington State's governor. To get to the truth, the governor calls on J.P. Beaumont to investigate. However, Beaumont soon connects the murder to a government cover-up.
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Series
Chesapeake Bay saga volume 3
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
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In the conclusion to the trilogy beginning with "Sea Swept", Philip Quinn's bond to his adopted brother, Seth, is threatened by a young woman with a troubling secret
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Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Each year thousands of young adults deemed out of control—suffering from depression, addiction, anxiety, and rage—are carted off against their will to remote wilderness programs and treatment facilities across the country. Desperate parents of these "troubled teens" fear it’s their only option. The private, largely unregulated behavioral boot camps break their children down, a damnation the children suffer forever. Acclaimed journalist Kenneth...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"A young woman thinks she has escaped her past only to discover that she's been hovering on its edges all along: she and her younger sister, Fawn, bide their time in a dilapidated warehouse in a desolate town north of New York City; their parents escaped there with dreams of starting an art commune. But after the girls' father vanishes all traces of stability disappear for the family, and the girls retreat into strange worlds of their own myth-making...
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distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Phoebe is an imaginative but troubled girl with a desperate longing to be in her school's production of Alice in Wonderland. When she is cast in the lead role her parents believe her unusual behavior is due to her creativity, but soon realize that she is on the brink of falling through the looking glass herself.
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Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Working as a summer counselor at an amenities-limited camp for at-risk teens, a headstrong public-school teacher employs a tough-love approach to intervene on behalf of three troubled girls while bonding with a hardened boot-camp drill instructor.
13) Harold and Maude
Series
Criterion collection volume 608
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Countercultural director Hal Ashby tells the story of the emotional and romantic bond between a death-obsessed young man from a wealthy family and a devil-may-care, bohemian octogenarian. Equal parts gallows humor and romantic innocence, Harold and Maude dissolves the line between darkness and light along with the ones that separate people by class, gender, and age. The cult classic of its era, featuring indelible performances and a soundtrack by...
14) Wild Bird
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
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IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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When her behavior escalates out of control, fourteen-year-old Wren is taken away to a wilderness therapy camp where she is forced to develop new skills, including the courage to ask for help.
15) Bad intentions
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Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Konrad Sejer must face down his memories and fears as he struggles to determine why the corpses of troubled young men keep surfacing in local lakes. As Sejer begins to feel his age weigh on him, he wonders if he has the strength to pursue the elusive explanations for human evil.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Ingrid, who spent her childhood traveling throughout Europe with her opera star mother, fights against a normal life and endeavors to prove that she has the strength to follow her dreams during a summertime wilderness survival trek for at-risk teens.
17) Off the black
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Ray, an aging alcoholic, forms an unlikely friendship with a troubled teenager. As they grow more dependent on each other, Ray asks the teen to go to his 40th high school reunion and pose as his son.
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Series
Publisher
David & Charles [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Provides parents advice on dealing with defiant children, with information on how to defuse the negativity, hostility, antagonism, and explosive anger that can ruin a child's relationship with family, friends, teachers, and other authority figures.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"On his first day as a substitute teacher, Cinque Henderson was cursed and yelled at by a class of 11th graders. One kid openly threatened him. Cinque, not wanting trouble, called the hall monitor, who escorted the student to the office. But five minutes later, the office sent him back. He carried a note that simply read, "ok to return to class." That was it: no suspension, no detention, no phone call home, no picking up trash after school, no sidebar...
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