identity (psychology)

Toronto teenager Scotch may have to acknowledge her own limitations and come to terms with her mixed Jamaican, white, and black heritage if she is to stop the Chaos that has claimed her brother and made much of the world crazy.

Kate and Mary must make some adult decisions about the course their lives should take when their father dies suddenly, leaving them with their mother, who has been in a vegetative state since an accident four years earlier.

Laura and Mal investigate why their families and friends no longer remember them in a dystopian New York City where extreme security measures have been taken following a terrorist attack and citizens rely on technology for comfort.

Sixteen-year-old Emma Healy has never felt that she fit in with the rest of her family, so when she discovers that she had a twin brother who died shortly after they were born, she takes off on an impulsive road trip to try to discover who she really is.

When Southern California high school senior Sofi Mendoza lies to her parents and crosses the border for a weekend party, she has no idea that she will get stuck in a Mexican village with family she has never met before, unable to return to the United States and the easy life she knew.

Explains how one's identity is formed and discusses key elements of identity, such as family, culture and ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, illnesses and disabilities, friends, hobbies, and beliefs, as well as the pressures from parents, peers, and the media that impact the development of one's identity.

Fleur Pillager, an Ojibwe Native-American upset with the lumber company that stripped her reservation of trees, walks to the twin cities for revenge and lives with Polly Elizabeth Gheen, a vulnerable upper-class women who is transformed with Fleur's guidance.

A gentleman and a childless widow search nineteenth-century England for a mysterious young girl who disappears from a provincial girls' school after the headmistress learns that her tuition has not been paid and her name is a fake. Based on a twenty-page novel fragment left by Charlotte Bront? at her death.

Examines issues of personal and political identity in popular music, looking at rock music as a type of mass art, discussing the construction of identity that arises through musical appropriation, and considering gender identity in rock music.

Anil Tissera, a forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka and educated in England and America, finds herself in the midst of a complicated mystery when she is sent back to her home country by an international human rights group to discover the source of an organized campaign of murder on the island.