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Needing to Fall


Ryan Michele
    I’ve lived it, breathed it. Why?Because life hated me. It disliked me from the moment of conception, despised me when I was born, loathed me when I bounced from each foster home, and kicked me in the gut when I watched the one thing that meant everything to me leave.For years, I drifted, unable to find my footing, never knowing what the word stable meant. Then a single moment in time rocked me to my core, changing me and making that solid ground I so desperately craved crumble at my feet, causing me to fall farther than I’d ever imagined. The darkness of the swirling tornado that is depression captured me, pulling me down to its depths, drowning me, suffocating me, owning me.A depth so deep, I didn’t think I’d survive and didn’t care if I did. I only wanted peace. I wanted the pain to disappear. I wanted to be … free. Needing to fall into the cyclone of darkness was the only way I could find the light.**Warning: This book covers many tough issues—including, but not limited to, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, and abuse. It is a very highly charged, emotional read. You have been warned.****Please note: depression, PSTD, and other issues covered in this book take different lengths of time to combat—some take a lifetime. In this book, time is skewed and sped up to flow with the story line.**

(OLD) The Misfortunes of Lolita


Losangelesque
    Please note that this is an unedited, significantly different version I had written as a teenager. I hope you will read the updated version, which I have rewritten with tenderness and care. Former high school football star Frank Novak meets profound and depressed loner Lolita Abri — and falls headfirst into love. Throughout the course of one school year, they unravel each other and their sadness, setting apart their differences and realizing that sometimes love isn't enough — and sometimes it just might be.

Drummer Girl


Ginger Scott
    Living a half-breathing life in a half-finished neighborhood with parents who always wore half-hearted smiles, the high school senior only had one thing that let her color outside her family’s perfectly drawn lines—her drums. Jesse Barringer was a song without a chorus. The son of a washed-up rock star who’s also one hell of a deadbeat dad, he was given two things from his father—musical genius and a genetic link to the bipolar disorder that drives him mad. One night in a garage at the end of a cul-de-sac in the middle of a bankrupt California neighborhood, Jesse’s melody found Arizona’s rhythm. An angry boy with storm-colored eyes found a blonde angel in Doc Martens with missing lines in her own story. Where her rhythm stopped, his words took over, and together, they wrote one hell of a story.** Drummer Girl is a mature YA/New Adult romance that touches on mental health, drug abuse and includes mature sexual situations.

Smoke of Sighs


AmiTheDarkLady
    

Goodnight Punpun Volume 1-7 Collection 7 Books Set By Inio Asano


Inio Asano
    This is Punpun Onoderas coming-of-age story. His parents marriage is falling apart. His dad goes to jail, and his mom goes to the hospital. Titles in this set includes Goodnight PunPun Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3, Vol 4, Vol 5, Vol 6, Vol 7.

Chasing Fireflies ( The Chasing Series, #1)


Paige P. Horne
    There they find friends and a place to call home.The two fight to live a normal life as Sara struggles with mental illness. Proving to the world that marriage can be everlasting and love never gives up. Cash and Sara William's love story is like no love story ever told.

The Complete Opposite of Everything


Nour Abou Fayad
    He just doesn’t. He doesn’t overthink, he doesn’t second-guess himself, and he most certainly does not cry.YetThat’s all he’s been doing lately.He’s a mess and he just can’t seem to get it together.His friend, Rami, is no help.Nobody is.UntilYasmin comes along to reconnect with her homeland. She’s been away for too long. She needs to know her roots.And she’s the one person who understands what Adam’s going through, even when he doesn’t.But can two people, both with minds that can’t fully be trusted, help each other navigate the other’s journey towards self-discovery?

The Beast Must Die


Lee Hyeon-sook
    He approaches one of the known members of the group, Kang Moo, and asks him for his cooperation. However, in order to join the fraternity and find out who led his sister to her death, he is asked to have sex with everyone in the fraternity. As time goes by, this isn't the only challenge he has to face in order to come closer to the truth.

Summer Never Ends


Young Dream
    Due to being overly nervous, she actually confessed to the wrong person... What kind of campus life would await her in the future?MangaToon got authorization from Young Dream to publish this manga, the content is the author's own point of view, and does not represent the stand of MangaToon.

Just Things


Erin Lee
    By day, he works as a law clerk. At night, when he can't fight the cravings, he becomes a collector. He takes great care of his human Things; buying them cherry lipstick and reading to them from his journal. When they've been on their best behavior, he even takes them out of his freezers...Sometimes, the need is just too deep.Florel Ross has been mostly invisible since the death of her twin, who died twenty years ago at the hands of a serial killer. Obsessed with justice, Florel is willing to risk anything for the answers she craves: What goes on in the mind of a serial killer?When the two yearnings collide, will it be justice or just Things?

Countdown to Countdown


Xiao Tong “Vel” Kong
    5 years into an apocalyptic outbreak, he's holed up in a lab that shelters "problem" children. Between his failed experiments, deteriorating mental stability, and being ridiculed by other members of the lab, he doesn't think life could get any worse. Life agrees to disagree.

Magic O'Clock


L.S. Fellows
    My storyteller. My hero.Except he doesn’t remember my face any more. His world, these days, doesn’t include me or his family.Life may have changed for him, but he hasn’t given up on life. Not at all. It’s just different. Dad still tells his stories, albeit for a new audience.He makes people smile and chuckle. As he always did.He’s a fighter, a survivor and maybe sometimes too clever for his own good! He’ll surprise you. I can assure you of that. Welcome to Magic O’Clock, where time is irrelevant and hope is unlimited. This story is purely fictional, but the emotions are all too real.

On Deck


Kimberly Readnour
    And me, Dalton Boyd.But my baseball scholarship is my one-way ticket out of this town and away from judgmental eyes.Nothing stands in my way.That is, until a pretty blonde with the brightest blue eyes breezes into town and tilts my world.Cassie Green comes with one simple rule.Don’t fall in love.One summer is all we have.And trust me, a summer fling isn’t a problem.But there’s one small glitch in our plan.I’ve never been one to follow the rules.And being with Cassie is no exception.Only this time, it may be me wishing I’d stuck to the plan.On Deck is the prequel to Caught Looking, Book Four in the Cessna U Wildcat Series and does not end in an HEA. Look for the exciting conclusion in the sequel Caught Looking.

Ravyn


Billie Dale
    Six months ago Coralyne James was found beaten and clinging to life alongside a desolate country road. Left with a rare form of amnesia, she now struggles through debilitating migraines, and nightmarish visions of a life she can’t recall. During a routine exam, Coralyne meets Dr. Maxwell Hough who is taking the medical world by storm with his breakthrough neurological treatments. Fascinated by Coralyne’s maladies, Dr. Hough invites her to be a part of a medical trial held at his lab in Valdez, Alaska. Praying three months trapped in the deep snow surrounding Ravyn Manor will hold the key to easing her pain, Coralyne agrees. For reasons she can’t explain, walking the halls of the manor seems to cause ghostly recollections to claw at the edges of her mind. It’s as if they are leading her to... something. Following their haunting trail, she stumbles onto a series of recordings that reveal a horrifying truth about the respected doctor. As her blocked memories finally break free, Coralyne is crippled by the fear she’ll never escape the horrors of the Ravyn’s nest.

James & Lyla


UnsinkableShips
    but before all that, he'd just been James.Her James.It isn't until Lyla's amassed a notebook full of letters to him that she starts to realise that maybe the whole reason she can't stop writing to him is because their story isn't finished after all.

Orange Sky


J.E. Gaudet
    Tragedy defines her, but she refuses to let it destroy her. When her brother, Commanding Officer Oliver Rose, is killed in combat in Libya, Ivy learns to put her faith in what remains constant in her life – the natural beauty of her native, coastal California.Her life is beautiful but incredibly lonely. That is until three of Oliver's soldiers show up on her doorstep in the wake of his death, in a moment that will change all of their lives irrevocably.When Ivy's peaceful life collides with the soldiers' lives of conflict, she is inevitably exposed to a terrifying world of war, enmity, and a betrayal that she learns has forged an intricate path of destruction in the minds of the soldiers. The four friends find themselves navigating an uncharted, modern world that will test their inner strength, unveil their deepest fears, and lay bare the raw passion of living in the present.

Madman in the Woods: Life Next Door to the Unabomber


Jamie Gehring
    Ted was simply Ted, and erratic behavior, surprise visits, and chilling events while she was riding horses or helping her dad at his sawmill were dismissed because he was "just the odd hermit." He was, in fact, the Unabomber, for seventeen years mailing explosives to strangers, the longest-running domestic terrorist in American history.As an adult with this knowledge, the innocence of her youth robbed, Gehring needed to reconcile her lived experience with the evil that hid in plain sight. In this book, through years of research probing Ted's personal history, his writings, his secret coded crime journals, her own correspondence with him in his Supermax prison cell, plus interviews with others close to Kaczynski, Gehring unearths the complexity, mystery, and tragedy of her childhood and the hermit on the hill. And she discovers a shocking revelation--she and her family were in Kaczynski's crosshairs.A work of intricately braided research, journalism, and personal memories, this book is a chilling response to the question: Do you really know your neighbor?

90 Seconds from Sanity


C.J. Wilton
    He has a good job, and today he plans to meet his beautiful wife, Ellen, after work to find out the sex of their first baby. It is the happiest day of his life—until it isn't. Michael gets stuck at the office, and by the time he gets to the clinic, Ellen is gone. When he returns home, everything around him indicates his wife died four days earlier. The police’s suspicions are growing. But Ellen keeps calling him on his cell phone, assuring him that she is fine. Did Michael kill his wife? Why can't he remember anything? And if Ellen is truly dead, who keeps calling him?Michael’s life and grasp on reality crumble as he struggles to understand conflicting realities over the course of a single day in 90 Seconds from Sanity, the new psychological thriller by author C.J. Wilton.

CRUSHED!!


Nana Yaa
    But Reuben and Scott have different opinions about dating then Carter ... And sharing is not always caring. With some more issues and really bad communication skills, trouble ain't far.

The Truth Enslaved: Psychological Thriller Romance


Y.D. La Mar
    Triggers include but are not limited to non-con, unrequited family love, family love, dub-con, depression, violence, torture, abuse of power, neglect, monster cannibalism, choking, biting, blood play, themes of war, liquid restraint and physical restraint, themes that may be disturbing to some readers.

How not to fall apart


Maggy Van Eijk
    

The Wyvern


emmagnetised
    But once she falls into HYDRA’s hands she becomes the Wyvern: a cybernetically enhanced assassin and operative, programmed to become the greatest weapon of her time.But the Wyvern finds herself pulled between two missions: to obey, or to avenge herself against a metal-armed Soldier she can barely remember?

The Sad Ghost Club's Guide To Not Being Sad


Lize Meddings
    Includes guest comics from the Sad Ghost Club family.

Washed Away


Nikki DuBose
    Her journey began as a young, introverted child with a florid imagination growing up in Charleston, South Carolina. By the age of eight she had been sexually, physically, and emotionally abused and had developed an eating disorder. The abuse warped Nikki's self-perception and sparked patterns of psychosis, depression and destructive behavior that stayed with her into adulthood. In her early twenties she began working as a television host and started a career in modeling. Eventually Nikki attained success, appearing on the covers of magazines such as Maxim, shooting for editorials like Vanity Fair, Glamour and FHM, and appearing in campaigns for Perry Ellis. Cast into a world of excess, superficiality, and vanity, Nikki traveled the globe and experienced the finest that the material world had to offer, all while feeling empty inside. Her disorders, addictions and mental health issues took her to the brink of mortality and only through a deeply painful inner-battle and her mother's death was she able to reconnect the lost pieces of her soul and see the person she had so long rejected. Her recovery from a nearly lifelong struggle with PTSD, psychosis, addictions and eating disorders has left Nikki with a passionate longing to help others who are also suffering by advocating for mental health and self-acceptance. In America, more than sixty-one million individuals are affected by mental illness. Child sexual abuse affects more than forty-five million people in the United States alone, yet it is still regarded as one of the most shameful issues to date. Eating disorders affect millions and are one of the most destructive and life-threatening mental afflictions today – anorexia nervosa has the highest mortality rate of any psychological illness. Despite the extent of the suffering, eating disorders and mental health issues are poorly understood in popular culture and are often stigmatized, mocked, or even glorified because of misconceptions and ignorance over the seriousness of the manner. Although the modeling industry has made strides towards body diversity in the past couple of years, there is a lack of education and awareness surrounding eating disorders and other mental health issues. We believe that through the recent societal trends and improved sharing of information, we are beginning to break this paradigm, therefore another aim of this book will be to educate the public. Washed Away: From Darkness to Light will serve as a testimony to others to let them know that they are not alone in their fears, doubts, and frustrations, and that through recovery all things are possible.

Cocoon of the Heart


RosyStarling
    He hardly knows him, but Terrence's very existence is a constant reminder of the misfortune Jeff's family had to go through. However as they continue to attend college together, Jeff's feeling towards Terrence starts to change.

Murder in the Neighborhood


Ellen J. Green
    Told through the eyes of the young boy who visited Howard regularly to listen to his war stories, and the mother trying to piece together the disturbing inner workings of her son's mind, Ellen Green uncovers the chilling true story of Howard Unruh - the quiet oddball who meticulously plotted his revenge on the neighbors who shunned him and became one of America's first mass killers. With access to Howard's diaries, newly released police reports and psychiatric records alongside interviews with surviving family members and residents of the neighborhood, A Murder in the Neighborhood will have readers of In Cold Blood, If You Tell and American Predator absolutely gripped.

Thou shalt not covet


J.S. Grey
    

Exactly Where You Need to Be


Amelia Diane Coombs
    And now that she’s graduated high school, while her best friend Kacey is headed off to Portland in the fall, Florie’s taking a parent-sanctioned gap year off before starting college. When the decision was made, Florie was on board, but now she can't ignore the growing itch to become the person she wants to be and venture outside the quaint, boring Washington town she grew up in. Winning tickets to see her favorite true crime podcast’s live show in California gives her the opportunity to do just that, if only for a few days. So—unbeknownst to their parents—Kacey and Florie set off on a road trip to San Francisco. The only downside in Florie’s opinion? Sam, Kacey’s older brother and Florie’s forever crush, is their ride. The Samson Hodge, who Florie hasn’t seen since winter break, and who she’d prefer to never see again, if possible. But Florie is willing to put up with Sam if it means one last adventure with her best friend. Making it to San Francisco and back to Washington without their parents catching on isn’t a given, but one thing is for sure: this trip will change everything.

Overthinking About You: Dating with Anxiety, OCD, and Depression


Allison Raskin
    At last, a book that focuses solely on mental health and dating—an intersection that demands attention, given that one in five Americans will experience a mental illness in a given year. Overthinking About You is a memoir-driven self-help book that explores the complex connection between brain and heart. Allison Raskin, a New York Times bestselling author, actress, director, and cocreator of the YouTube comedy channel and podcast Just Between Us, uses her funny, raw, no-holds-barred voice to share her dating history during the highs and lows of her mental health journey, weaving in prescriptive, accessible advice from licensed psychotherapists and other experts. The result is an engaging, useful, and relatable read for anyone whose mental health has gotten in the way of successful romantic relationships.

Ways the World Could End


Kim Hooper
    She also feels like he has no idea what he’s doing, especially now that her mom is gone.They were both better off when Jana was around—Dave's wife, Cleo's mother. But now she's not, and they are left to figure out life on their own. Dave dedicates his attention to his newfound hobby of doomsday prepping, researching the various ways the world could end. Cleo feels like her world already has.Everything changes when neighbors move in, threatening their isolation in the hills of San Juan Capistrano. Cleo is intrigued by the new girl, Edie, and soon finds out the intrigue is mutual. Dave, not at all intrigued, is forced to come to terms with everything he cannot control.As they struggle to live in the present, both Dave and Cleo must dare to revisit the tragic past they share. What happened to Jana? Who was she, really? Who are they without her?Ways the World Could End is a story of grief, friendship, and love—the love between parents and children, between spouses, between teenagers, and between strangers. It is a story that requires us to consider the bounds of forgiveness, what we’re willing and not willing to forgive, and reminds us that often the hardest thing to forgive is ourselves.