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Pub. Date
2025
Language
English
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"From trips on private jets and encounters with world leaders to shocking accounts of misogyny and double standards behind the scenes, this searing memoir exposes both the personal and the political fallout when unfettered power and a rotten company culture take hold. In a gripping and often absurd narrative where a few people carelessly hold the world in their hands, this eye-opening memoir reveals what really goes on among the global elite. Sarah...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a classic story about second chances, featuring the beloved Baxter family and a young father who finds his whole world turned upside down on the eve of his divorce"-- Provided by publisher.
3) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health-and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist...
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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A disgraced social media star flees to South Carolina's Lowcountry in search of refuge and connection to the family she's never known"-- Provided by publisher.
"Home is not a place—it’s a feeling. Casey Black needs an escape. When her picture-perfect vow renewal ceremony ends in her being left at the altar, the former model turned social media influencer has new fame—the kind she never wanted. An embarrassing viral video has cost her millions...
5) The knockoff
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Language
English
Description
An outrageously stylish, wickedly funny novel of fashion in the digital age, The Knockoff is the story of Imogen Tate, editor in chief of Glossy magazine, who finds her twentysomething former assistant Eve Morton plotting to knock Imogen off her pedestal, take over her job, and reduce the magazine, famous for its lavish 768-page September issue, into an app.
When Imogen returns to work at Glossy after six...
When Imogen returns to work at Glossy after six...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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"Social media has been weaponized, as state hackers and rogue terrorists have seized upon Twitter and Facebook to create chaos and destruction. This urgent report is required reading, from defense expert P.W. Singer and Council on Foreign Relations fellow Emerson Brooking"-- Provided by publisher.
"Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the...
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Series
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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After her sister's murder acquittal, Amanda Pruitt visits Colorado to reunite with childhood friends and Aunt Amy, where she is drawn into an old murder case and when her friend is killed, Amanda must unravel the connection between the two murders to clear her name.
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Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
An irreverent, provocative, and visually fascinating look at what our online lives reveal about who we really are--and how this deluge of data will transform the science of human behavior. Big Data is used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us things we don't need. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder puts this flood of information to an entirely different use: understanding human nature. Drawing on terabytes of data from Twitter, Facebook, Reddit,...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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"As the child of a Hooters waitress and an ex-pro wrestler, Margo Millet's always known she'd have to make it on her own. So she enrolls at her local junior college, even though she can't imagine how she'll ever make a living. She's still figuring things out and never planned to have an affair with her English professor--and while the affair is brief, it isn't brief enough to keep her from getting pregnant. Despite everyone's advice, she decides to...
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Language
English
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Isa Brixton and her new friend Alexa, who is a skilled photographer, start an Instagram account featuring portraits of Isa in the crumbling mansion she now calls home, and soon the rising numbers of Isa's followers online and at school match the growing darkness in her personality.
When Izzy is dragged from New York City to a tiny town for her parents' new job, the only silver lining is the gorgeous old mansion they moved into. It is the former home...
11) Masked prey
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Series
Language
English
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"Lucas Davenport investigates a vitriolic blog that seems to be targeting the children of U.S. politicians. The daughter of a U.S. Senator is monitoring her social media presence when she finds a picture of herself on a strange blog. And there are other pictures , of the children of other influential Washington politicians, walking or standing outside their schools, each identified by name. Surrounding the photos are texts of vicious political rants...
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English
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"Late one night in the quiet Hudson Valley town of Havenkill, a distraught woman stumbles into the police station--and lives are changed forever. Aimee En, once a darling of the '80s pop music scene, claims that a teenage boy stole her car, then ran over another young man who'd rushed to help. As Liam Miller's life hangs in the balance, the events of that fateful night begin to come into focus. But is everything as it seems? The case quickly consumes...
13) 14 ways to die
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Jessica Simmons becomes the star of a YouTube reality series, and she uses her fame to catch her mother's murderer.
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When the daughter of a local police chief and dispatcher makes a horrific 911 call, the whole town jumps into action. JoJo is disorientated; she has been raped and beaten at the home of pro footballer Kevin Leeds. She doesn't know what happened to Kevin's trainer, whose beaten corpse is also discovered in the house. And she has no idea where her best friend Harper, who was with her earlier in the evening, could be. When Jojo dives into Harper's social...
15) Tweet cute
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
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"Meet Pepper, swim team captain, chronic overachiever, and all-around perfectionist. Her family may be falling apart, but their massive fast-food chain is booming - mainly thanks to Pepper, who is barely managing to juggle real life while secretly running Big League Burger's massive Twitter account. Enter Jack, class clown and constant thorn in Pepper's side. When he isn't trying to duck out of his obscenely popular twin's shadow, he's busy working...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"American society is more polarized than ever before. We are strategically being pushed apart by disinformation-the deliberate spreading of lies disguised as truth-and it comes at us from all sides: opportunists on the far right, Russian misinformed social media influencers, among others. It's endangering our democracy and causing havoc in our electoral system, schools, hospitals, workplaces, and in our Capitol. Advances in technology including rapid...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Evan goes from being a nobody to everyone's hero and a social media superstar after a chance encounter with Connor just before his suicide leads others to believe Evan was his only friend.
Evan is shy, lonely, and bullied for it. He has a chance encounter with Connor Murphy--just before Connor commits suicide. Evan's life suddenly gets turned around, and suddenly he isn't invisible anymore to the girl of his dreams--Connor's sister, Zoe, who believes...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the "nothing short of brilliant" (People) Mrs. Everything returns with an unforgettable novel about friendship and forgiveness set during a disastrous wedding on picturesque Cape Cod. Six years after the fight that ended their friendship, Daphne Berg is shocked when Drue Cavanaugh walks back into her life, looking as lovely and successful as ever, with a massive favor to ask. Daphne hasn't spoken one word...
19) Feed
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
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Language
English
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"A woman whose name shouldn't be Linda stands inside the locked front door of her apartment, listening. Footsteps: a neighbor, walking. Linda knows her neighbors only from names on lobby mailboxes and glances through the peephole, doesn't care to meet them, can't chance being known. She gives the footsteps enough time to reach the elevator. To press the button, to step in and begin their descent. Then she unlocks the door, exhales the breath she was...