Winner of the 2015 Red Hen Press Nonfiction Award, Circadian is a collection of essays that weaves together personal account with cultural narrative, only to unravel them and explore the brilliant and destructive cycles of who we are. Using poetic language and lyric structures, Clammer dives into her stories of trauma, mental illnesses, and a wide spectrum of relationships in order to understand experience through different of frameworks of thought....

For Troy Hayes, a 16-year-old suffering from Tourette Syndrome and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, the number ten dictates his life, forcing him to do everything by its exacting rhythm. Fed up with the daily humiliation, loneliness, and physical pain he endures, Troy writes a list of ten things to do by the tenth anniversary of his diagnosis, culminating in suicide on the actual day. In the process of working his way through the list Troy becomes friends...

Gives practical advice for teens who have experienced the death of a friend.

Paper Towns meets Thirteen Reasons Why¬-at prom. A riveting story told through four best friends' point of view. Last month, Elin tried to kill herself. She knows she's lucky that her parents found her in time. Lucky to be going to prom with her three best friends, like any other teen. Like it never happened. And if she has anything to say about it, no one but her best friends will ever know it did. Jenna, Rosie, and Ket will do anything to keep...

Un témoignage émouvant sur la première année de deuil suite à la perte d'un être cher À vingt-deux ans, Corentin, étudiant en communication, sportif, entouré de vrais amis et d'une famille unie, semble mener une vie facile. Mais une nuit, sans aucun signe précurseur, il met fin à ses jours après avoir envoyé un message d'amour à tous ses proches. La vie bascule alors pour toute sa famille. Après l'organisation des funérailles, la...

Owen was a normal high school student with a great life. He had a beautiful girlfriend, played on the football team, and was surrounded by a group of great friends. That is, until he found a well on some abandoned land, and a man who offered him a drink of water that changed his life forever. Suddenly, Owen is seeing things that no one else sees: Shackles and chains that bind his family and friends, terrifying creatures that connect themselves to...

Contrary to popular belief, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse aren't just harbingers of doom-they actually keep life in balance. But what happens when their leader and creator, Death, becomes suicidal? Before the first living thing drew its first gasping breath, he was there. He has watched humanity for millennia. And he has finally decided that humanity is not worth the price he has paid time and again. When Death himself gives up on life, a teenager...

"Taryn Moore is young, beautiful, and brilliant--so why would she kill herself? When Detective Frankie Loomis arrives on the scene to investigate the girl's fatal plunge from her apartment balcony, Frankie knows in her gut there's more to the story. Her instincts are confirmed when surprise information is revealed that could have been reason enough for Taryn's suicide--or a motive for murder. To English professor Jack Dorian, Taryn was the ultimate...

Self-awareness is a fundamental principle in changing your mindset and loving yourself, especially when years of therapy, antidepressants and self-help books fall short. As a functional depressive, Dr. Andrea Pennington enjoyed a high-powered media career with all the outer appearances of success. But, she was miserable inside. After years of battling 'Imposter Syndrome' and constantly striving for perfection, a spiritual awakening prompted her to...