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Reality, it turns out, is often not what you perceive it to be - sometimes, there really is someone out to get you. For fans of Silver Linings Playbook and Liar, this thought-provoking debut tells the story of Alex, a high school senior - and the ultimate unreliable narrator - unable to tell the difference between real life and delusion. Alex fights a daily battle to figure out what is real and what is not.
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A DISGRACE TO AUTHORS AND MENTAL HEALTH EVERYWHERE
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By: Francesca Zappia
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Something Like Normal
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- Narrated by: Anthony Haden Salerno
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
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When Travis returns home from Afghanistan, his parents are splitting up, his brother's stolen his girlfriend and car, and the nightmares of his best friend getting killed keep him completely spooked. But when he runs into Harper, a girl who despises him for rumors Travis started back in middle school, life actually starts looking up. And as he and Harper see more of each other, he falls deeper in love with her and begins to find his way through the family meltdown and the post-traumatic stress.
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I was so impressed with this book!
- By Brittany on 09-24-15
By: Trish Doller
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This Raging Light
- By: Estelle Laure
- Narrated by: Sandy Rustin
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Lucille seems to have nothing going for her. With the bills piling in, the house falling apart around her, and her sister's growing distress, it is precisely the worst possible moment for Lucille to fall recklessly in love with her best friend's twin brother, Digby, who is practically engaged.
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Amazing Loving and Sexy
- By Princess Lucy on 12-28-17
By: Estelle Laure
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The Art of Starving
- By: Sam J. Miller
- Narrated by: Tom Phelan
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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Matt hasn't eaten in days. His stomach stabs and twists inside, pleading for a meal, but Matt won't give in. The hunger clears his mind, keeps him sharp - and he needs to be as sharp as possible if he's going to find out just how Tariq and his band of high school bullies drove his sister, Maya, away. Matt's hardworking mom keeps the kitchen crammed with food, but Matt can resist the siren call of casseroles and cookies because he has discovered something: the less he eats the more he seems to have...powers.
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Transformative book!
- By Uno Person on 01-01-20
By: Sam J. Miller
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My Heart and Other Black Holes
- By: Jasmine Warga
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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Sixteen-year-old physics nerd Aysel is obsessed with plotting her own death. With a mother who can barely look at her without wincing, classmates who whisper behind her back, and a father whose violent crime rocked her small town, Aysel is ready to turn her potential energy into nothingness.
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Depressingly Delightful
- By FanB14 on 06-20-15
By: Jasmine Warga
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Art & Soul
- By: Brittainy C. Cherry
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Falling in love wasn't the plan. But how could I resist his promises of hope? Of forgiveness? Of a future I had stopped dreaming of? We were shattered. We were scarred. We were something strange and beautiful. We were two lost souls holding on to the only thing that could keep us together. Each other.
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5 Soul Stars
- By whatcha.listening.to on 07-18-16
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I thought I'd left Blackwater, Texas, behind for good. I didn't belong in the small town, but my dad wouldn't listen. He dragged me back home in his beat-up truck and dropped a bomb along the way: Chase Matthews was moving in with us. He was the golden boy of my high school, my former best friend, and the last person I wanted sleeping across the hall. His presence was too great a reminder of the ghosts I was trying to forget.
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This book bummed me out.
- By Lauren Helms on 07-06-16
By: R.S. Grey
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Long Way Home
- Thunder Road, Book 3
- By: Katie McGarry
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Seventeen-year-old Violet has always been expected to sit back and let the boys do all the saving. It's the code her father, a member of the Reign of Terror motorcycle club, raised her to live by. Yet when her dad is killed carrying out Terror business, Violet knows it's up to her to do the saving. To protect herself, and her vulnerable younger brother, she needs to cut all ties with the club - including Chevy, the boy she's known and loved her whole life.
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Cheviole FTW
- By Angelica Quintero on 02-15-17
By: Katie McGarry
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When We Collided
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Seventeen-year-old Jonah Daniels has lived in Verona Cove, California, his whole life, and only one thing has ever changed: His father used to be alive, and now he is not. With a mother lost in a deep bout of depression, Jonah and his five siblings struggle to keep up their home and the restaurant their dad left behind. But at the start of summer, a second change rolls in: Vivi Alexander, the new girl in town.
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Wow. This story is a feast
- By Julia Fairchild on 04-24-16
By: Emery Lord
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Cracked
- By: K. M. Walton
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Victor hates his life. He has no friends, gets beaten up at school, and his parents are always criticizing him. Tired of feeling miserable, Victor takes a bottle of his mother’s sleeping pills - only to wake up in the hospital. Bull is angry, and takes all of his rage out on Victor. That makes him feel better, at least a little. But it doesn’t stop Bull’s grandfather from getting drunk and hitting him. So Bull tries to defend himself with a loaded gun. When Victor and Bull end up as roommates in the same psych ward, there’s no way to escape each other or their problems. Which means things are going to get worse - much worse - before they get better.
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Very interesting
- By Mitra Grondin on 06-07-15
By: K. M. Walton
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Crash
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A steamy summer encounter with bad boy Jude means trouble for Lucy. Her sights are set on becoming a ballerina, and she won't let anything get in her way...except Jude. He's got a rap sheet, dangerous mood swings, and a name that's been sighed, shouted, and cursed by who knows how many girls. Jude's a cancer, the kind of guy who's fated to ruin the lives of girls like Lucy - and he tells her so. But as rumors run rampant and reputations are destroyed, Lucy's not listening to Jude's warning.
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Jude! He has just reached Kellan status!
- By Candateshia Pafford on 06-10-13
By: Nicole Williams
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Marlena
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Everything about 15-year-old Cat's new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Cat, inexperienced and desperate for connection, is quickly lured into Marlena's orbit by little more than an arched eyebrow and a shake of white-blond hair. As the two girls turn the untamed landscape of their desolate small town into a kind of playground, Cat catalogues a litany of firsts - first drink, first cigarette, first kiss - while Marlena's habits harden and calcify.
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A Brilliant, Agonizing Portrait of a Young Woman
- By Sudi on 06-06-17
By: Julie Buntin
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- Amaz Customer
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Amazing beyond doubt
This book was so amazing. I've read the book and I needed to hear the audio book for my driving adventures. This book has changed my life and I emailed the author to thank him for this amazing book! Forever love this!!
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- Bonnie H
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Bait and switch
First, I think if I had gone into this book understanding that it was a coming of age story, that dealt with bullying, dysfunctional families, suicide, gay relationships, Alzheimers, etc., I would have rated it 4 stars, because it does a good job in those areas and maintained my interest (in spite of some repetitiveness). Fortunately I like coming of age stories.
Secondly, I nearly abandoned the book early on because the first couple of chapters came across very juvenile, with a lot of focus on masterbation. As an over 60 female, I thought maybe I was not the audience for this book. I don't know why the author choose to start the book this way and it is not reflective of the rest of the book.
Disappointingly, the supposed premise of the book ("Henry Denton has spent years being periodically abducted by aliens. Then the aliens give him an ultimatum: The world will end in 144 days, and all Henry has to do to stop it is push a big red button."), plays a relatively minor role in the book, other than marking Henry for teasing by his peers. Do not go into this book expecting a rousing science fiction story.
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- Daniel Causton
- 02-12-23
Nietzsche's Philosophy
Nietzsche's Philosophy contemplates the meaning of values and their significance to human existence.
I believe the deeper meaning of this stories is derived from this philosophy.
Found pieces of myself in many of the characters and couldn’t help but cry at multiple points of the story. 5/5
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- kyrychvic
- 01-04-18
A trivial feel-good story
The story is easy to follow, but not as deep as it pretends to be.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-03-18
Loved it!!
I was actually surprised to find myself disappointed when it ended. I want to know about the lives of the characters after at least a little but I suppose that would undermine the lesson at the end of the book. Very amazing read.
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- Jordan
- 01-09-23
Eye opening
I love the way it connected with me on my thoughts about life and what to expect out of it
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- S. Yates
- 06-17-17
Evocative and moving
Which character – as performed by Gibson Frazier – was your favorite?
All the characters were well done, but I especially liked his portrayal of Diego.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
When Henry's science teacher recounted her high school years.
Any additional comments?
Sarcastic, funny, and poignant. Don't let the summary blurb fool you - this is less science fiction that it is a wrenching window into coming of age, being an outcast, the ugliness of teenagers, the pain of adolescence, mental health, and young love. Though the impetus for the narrator's (Henry Denton) consideration of whether or not life should go on on earth is his (real or imagined) abductions by aliens, the biggest way science fiction themes run through the book are intermittent chapters where Henry brainstorms the very many ways life on earth could end. I loved the book and it rang very true, there were no pat endings or easy solutions, but real growth by the characters and a lot of to consider. It made me relieved to have since grown out of the hell that high school could be, the vicissitudes of popularity and friendship, the dizzying highs and lows of emotion, the way everything felt urgent and unsure and permanent all at the same time. But it also managed to touch upon and recreate all those feelings, and remember when life seemed so achingly immediate and vivid, and for all the pain, the window into Henry and his friends, his family and one particularly knowing teacher, was a moving and worthwhile.
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- Jaco du Preez
- 06-11-16
An amazing tale of coming of age and mind
Where does We Are the Ants rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
One of the best psychological analysis of how we handle or hide from problems in life. It even shows that there are much more important things to worry about such as family, fiends and those you love caring compared to the bullies teasing your for being gay and you should not destroy yourself caring about other's opinion when it just kills you inside to never come out or staying in a relationship that forces you to. This book can be recommended to many young LGBT teens as the message you get between the lines is clear...indirectly.
It is also a fun story.
Any additional comments?
Best line; "I wish the aliens would stop taking my pants."
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- Saundra Esparza
- 07-08-18
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wonderful narrator really brought the story to life with the different voices and tones. Beautiful story in all.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-29-18
Great Story - Horrible Main Character
As I read through the first half of this book, I will admit, It initially hooked me. The idea behind the story is great, and the execution behind it is done well as well. However, the main character slowly gnaws at you, bit by bit. You keep hoping his character will grow, will stop acting like a pubescent child. Don't get me wrong, the main character has plenty in his life to make him jaded, depressed, and uncaring, but it absolutely does not account for the character being outright stupid. The main character acts so immature, that it ruins the maturity of this story in its entirety.
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