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Late October. After midnight. You’re waiting up for your eighteen-year-old son. He’s past curfew. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and you realize he isn’t alone: he’s walking toward a man, and he’s armed. You can’t believe it when you see him do it: your funny, happy teenage son, he kills a stranger, right there on the street outside your house. You don’t know who. You don’t know why. You only know your son is now in custody,...
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Told through a central character, Alex, the disturbing novel creates an alarming futuristic vision of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism. A modern classic of youthful violence and social redemption set in a dismal dystopia whereby a juvenile deliquent undergoes state-sponsored psychological rehabilitation for his aberrant behavior.
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Rekab Sudskany, L.C
Pub. Date
c2009
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1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Tomás world changes when Maire O'Donnell brings him home from an Irish orphanage. She shows him all the love this world has to offer but when tragedy jeopardizes the adoption, Tomás must use lessons learned from Maire to win the heart of his potential father"--Container.
5) Il posto
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Criterion collection volume 194
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Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
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1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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"When young Domenico ventures from the small village of Meda to Milan in search of employment, he finds himself on the bottom rung of the bureaucratic ladder in a huge, faceless company. The prospects are daunting, but Domenico finds reason for hope in the fetching Antonietta. A tender coming-of-age story and a sharp observation of dehumanizing corporate enterprise, Ermanno Olmi's Il Posto is a touching and hilarious tale of one young man's stumbling...
7) Tadpole
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Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
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1 DVD (78 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Most 15-year-old boys are obsessed with the opposite sex, and Oscar is no exception. He is an honor student at an exclusive prep school; he is confident, intelligent, speaks fluent French, and is well versed in literary works. His parents are divorced and his father has recently remarried. Sensing that his stepmother isn't happy in the marriage, Oscar begins waging a low-key but ardent campaign to seduce her. His efforts to bed Eve attract the attention...
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
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286 pages ; 25 cm
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A boy coming of age in a part of the country that's being left behind is at the heart of this dazzling novel the first by an award-winning author of short stories that evoke the American West. August reads like early Hemingway, retooled for the present. William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Barbarian Days Callan Wink has been compared to masters like Jim Harrison and Thomas McGuane. His short stories have been published in The New Yorker...
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Philomel Books
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[2018]
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200 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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The television star and neuroscientist draws on scientific information and personal experience as the mother of sons to share advice on growing from a boy into a man, including physical changes, learning problems, and relationships.
10) Summer of '42
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2014
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1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Three teenage friends convey the hilarity of their awkward sexual quest and the genuine pain of growing up. Hermie is finally united with an "older woman" of 22.
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Redhook
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2013
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407 p. ; 22 cm.
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The son of a fortune teller, who was struck by a meteorite when he was ten years old, befriends a grumpy old widower and proves his friendship by getting stopped at the border by customs with a large bag of marijuana and an urn full of ashes.
12) Ashby
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Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
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1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A terminally ill ex-CIA hitman becomes a mentor to his new seventeen-year-old neighbor who is having trouble making friends and fitting in at school.
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"Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose." Demon Copperhead is set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. It’s the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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"What is my son doing behind his constantly closed door? What's with his curt responses, impulsiveness, newfound obsession with gaming, and...that funky smell? As pediatrician and mother of two teenagers Cara Natterson explains, puberty starts in boys long before any visible signs appear, which causes confusion about their changing temperaments for boys and their parents alike. Often, they also grow quieter as they grow taller, which leads to less...
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The hero-narrator of "The Catcher in the Rye" is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden...
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Newmarket Press
Pub. Date
c2007
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xx, 233 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Discusses the changes that take place in a boy's body during puberty, including information on the body's changing size and shape, the growth spurt, reproductive organs, pubic hair, beards, pimples, voice changes, wet dreams, and puberty in girls.
18) Almond: a novel
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020.
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272 pages cm
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Yunjae was born with a brain condition called Alexithymia that makes it hard for him to feel emotions like fear or anger. He does not have friends?the two almond-shaped neurons located deep in his brain have seen to that?but his devoted mother and grandmother aren't fazed by his condition. Their little home above his mother's used bookstore is decorated with colorful post-it notes that remind him when to smile, when to say "thank you," and when to...
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Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
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1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A canoe accident leaves two teenage boys lost in one of Canada's most desolate regions. Their only chance for survival is to work as a team. It will take more courage and strength than either of them could ever have imagined if they are to survive.
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