Gary Mack is a leading sport physiologist counselor for professional athletes in every major sport, and explains how your mind influences your athletic performance as much as your physical skill does, if not more. Gary is consultant hired by many athletic individuals and teams across the world who with the help of David inscribes...
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Tags: 5 out of 5 stars, Advice/Self-Help, Blazey, choices, Informational, Mack & Casstevens, Sports, Sports Physicology
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“Hello, boys and girls. Hannah Baker here live and on stereo.” The voice of Hannah Baker speaks softly through the speakers. How could a dead girl be alive? Imagine receiving a box at your front door. No address. Just your name and 7 cassette tapes. Your curiosity eager to find out what’s going to...
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Tags: 4.5 out of 5 stars, effects., Jay Asher, realistic fiction, rumors, Society, truth
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Revolution tells the story of two girls living centuries apart, one never knowing the other. Andi, heartbroken over the loss of her younger brother, finds the diary of a young girl living in 18th century Paris and becomes caught up in a plot to rescue a child prince who lived and died over two...
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Tags: 5 out of 5 stars, choices, danger, death, depression, desperation, drugs, emotions, family, Fiction, futuristic, harm, heartbreak, historical fiction, hospitalization, hurt, illness, medication, mental illness, novel, reality, sad, self harm, time-slip
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Ruby is the definition of independence. She doesn’t need help or sympathy from anyone. When Ruby’s mother abandons her without warning, She lives on her own in her house, working her mother’s job, paying as many bills as she can, cooking for herself, and trying to go to school. Ruby doesn’t tell anyone that...
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Tags: 4 out of 5 stars, Drama, finding yourself, independence, Morgan Sherwood, realistic fiction, Romance, Sarah Dessen, Teen, troubled family, trust
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Bruce Lee has had such an impact on the world that it is hard to find a way that in which he is the loser. Bruce Lee is most famous for his martial arts skills, and his strength. He had stared in many films but, undoubtedly, he is most famous for his film, “Enter...
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Tags: Black belt, Bruce Lee, Cadwell, Chris Dutcher, Defense, Help, Kick, Lee, Linda, Martial Arts, Punch, Religion, Self
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Mitch, author of the story, went to Brandeis University. This is where he met his favorite professor of all time Morrie Schwartz. Fifteen years after Mitch had graduated Morrie was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and he was going to die. Mitch, on the other hand had started his life. He got a job...
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Tags: lessons, life, Maddy Byrne, Memoir
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Everyone knows that Hannah is gone. Everyone knows that she killed herself. But not everyone knows why. Clay Jensen opens his door one day to a package sent for him. He opens the package and what he discovers inside changes his life forever. In the package are sets of tapes labeled with numbers going...
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Tags: 4 out of 5 stars, Jay Asher, Meagan Diego, sad, suicide, teens
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To say that Billy Bloom is a drag queen is a understatement of the highest degree. He would much rather refer to himself as the more professional term: gender obscurest. “Billy Bloom…what are we to do with him? He expects kids at school to find him approachable, when he prances around in stilettos. He’s...
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Tags: 4.5 out of 5 stars, bullying, danger, exciting, high school, interesting, love, moving, popularity, sad, suspense, twist
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“Life is an ugly, awful place not to have a best friend.” Halley was always the quiet one growing up, following her parent’s rules and being her mother’s miniature version. Scarlett, however, was always the braver, more outgoing child, left to parent her wild, adventurous mother. None the less, somewhere down the...
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Tags: friendship, hope, life, love, Sarah Dessen, teen pregnancy
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Being a teen is difficult enough. When you add in a mysterious, unlabeled package filled with tapes containing the voice of a girl who committed suicide two weeks earlier, suddenly ready to tell her story, life goes from difficult to downright confusing. Hannah Baker died two weeks ago from a prescription drug overdose; she...
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Tags: 5 out of 5 stars, a teenagers everyday life, choices, death, desperation, Drama, emotions, Fiction, high school, Jay Asher, realistic fiction, suicide, suspense
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