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Adult Books for Teens: Biography: “Breaking Night”

Posted on August 29, 2013 by Victoria Waddle

     Breaking Night by Liz Murray  Being the child of drug addicts makes for a life both frightening and weird. There’s no stability, the strangers in house can be anyone, including child sexual predators. And the parents themselves are pretty … Continue reading →

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Adult Books for Teens: “The Silver Linings Playbook”

Posted on August 22, 2013 by Victoria Waddle

The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick  Pat Peoples seems like the sweetest man on earth, but for some reason he’s coming home from a mental institution to live with his parents—in his mid-thirties—and he completely loses it when he … Continue reading →

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Adult Books for Teens: “The Signal”

Posted on August 12, 2013 by Victoria Waddle

       The Signal by Ron Carlson I needed a little break from reading those ‘bullying books’ and wanted to read an adult book. So I decided to go for The Signal because I knew Ron Carlson to be an excellent … Continue reading →

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Adult Books for Teens: Biography: “No Easy Day”

Posted on July 5, 2013 by Victoria Waddle

No Easy Day: The Autobiography of a Navy SEAL by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden As you read the sub-sub title above, you know why this book has been … Continue reading →

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Adult books for teens: Biography: “Until Tuesday”

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Victoria Waddle

Until Tuesday by Luis Carlos Montalvan      Montalvan returned from two extended tours in Iraq a wounded warrior. Two Iraqis attempted to assassinate him because he was working hard to stop bribery and a thriving black market of US … Continue reading →

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Adult Books for Teens: Memoir: “Wild”

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Victoria Waddle

Wild by Cheryl Strayed   In her prologue, Strayed describes losing her hiking boots—yes, really losing them , knocked over the side of a mountain—in the middle of her quest to hike 1,100 of the 2,663 miles of the Pacific … Continue reading →

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Adult Books for Teens: “Lean In”

Posted on June 7, 2013 by Victoria Waddle

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg Sheryl Sandberg is an enormously successful businesswoman who is now the COO (chief operating officer) of Facebook. She decided to write Lean In to argue that in the … Continue reading →

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Adult Books for Teens: Memoir: “My Beloved World”

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Victoria Waddle

My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor Sonia Sotomayor is one of the first women (the third) and the first Hispanic to become a Supreme Court justice. Her memoir, My Beloved World, is not quite an autobiography because she stops the … Continue reading →

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Adult Books for Teens: Inspiring Biographies: Unbroken

Posted on May 29, 2013 by Victoria Waddle

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand Unbroken is the incredible, nearly mythic, story of Louis Zamperini, an army air forces bomber whose plane crashed in the Pacific Ocean in 1943. Before the … Continue reading →

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Adult Books for Teens: Nonfiction from Malcolm Gladwell

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Victoria Waddle

Adult Books for Teens: “Blink” and “Outliers”  Malcolm Gladwell, the author of both Blink and Outliers, always has a fun way of looking at research and what it tells him about real life. His books are generally bestsellers, and teachers … Continue reading →

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