mental illness

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I will find you again

Overachiver Chase struggles to confront the details surrounding the mysterious death of her best friend turned girlfriend, Lia.
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The Castle School for troubled girls

2022
"Paralyzed by grief, Moira feels punished when her parents send her to a therapeutic boarding school in Maine where she meets eleven other troubled girls and gradually begins to understand her parents' true intentions behind sending her there"--OCLC.

The girl in the castle

(Mystery)
2022
"Eighteen-year-old Hannah experiences danger in the past and present, as college intern Jordan tries to uncover the truth about Hannah and her memories"--Provided by publisher.
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Zia erases the world

2022
"Zia remembers the exact night the Shadoom arrived. One moment she was laughing with her best friends, and the next a dark room of shadows had crept into her chest. Until Zia discovers an old family heirloom: the C. Scuro Dictionary--Hidden within its magical pages is a mysterious blue eraser. When Zia starts to erase words that remind her of the Shadoom, they disappear one by one from the world around her. But things quickly dissolve into chaos, as the words she erases turn out to be more vital than Zia knew"--Provided by publisher.

By the time you read this I'll be gone

2022
Beatrice Fletcher, great-grandniece of famous mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, is obsessed with the unsolved mysteries and murders of Cabot Cove, Maine, but this time the case becomes personal when her best friend Jackson disappears and she must rely on the help of three students from the elite Broadmoor Academy to find him.

Moonflower

2022
Moon is convinced that she does not belong to this world: that most of the time she is invisible (unless she stays still too long), that she belongs to the stars, and wants to go back to them--she lives entirely in her imagination with an imaginary spirit guide who can appear in any shape and refuses to speak to anyone, lest her words tie her to a world she rejects.

The words we keep

2022
When sixteen-year-old Lily Larkin's older sister, Alice, begins to struggle with her mental health, Lily attempts to keep everything together and perfect, despite her own growing anxiety.

Art of insanity

2022
"Hiding her mental illness from her classmates is going to be the hardest thing high schooler Natalie Cordova has ever done. It's her senior year, and she's just been selected to present her artwork at a prestigious show. With the stress of performing on her shoulders, it does not help when Natalie notices a boy who makes her heart leap. And then there's fellow student Ella, who confronts Natalie about her summer car 'accident' and pressures her into caring for the world's ugliest dog. Now Natalie finds herself juggling all kinds of feels and responsibilities. Surely her newly prescribed medication for her is to blame for the funk she finds herself in. But as Natalie's plan to self-treat unravels, so does the perfect fa?ade she's been painting for everyone else"--Amazon.

Never simple

a memoir
"A darkly funny and devastating memoir of growing up in '90s Manhattan with a mentally ill single parent"--.

List of ten

2022
"... Tony Hayes, a sixteen-year-old with Tourette syndrome and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. For almost a decade the number ten has ruled his life. Fed up with the humiliation, loneliness, and physical pain he experiences on a daily basis, Troy makes a plan he intends to complete on the tenth anniversary of his diagnosis-- a list of nine goals to accomplish before the grand finale, number ten, commit suicide. But the process of working his way through the list changes Troy's life, and becomes friends with Khory, a classmate who has her own troubled history. Khory unwittingly helps Troy cross off items on his list, moving him ever closer to item ten, even as she shows him that life may offer more options"--Back cover.

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