Adult Depression

Sofia ha quattordici anni nel 1964: l'anno della minigonna, dei collant, delle prime polaroid e dell'apertura del Piper. Le vibrazioni della "Swinging London" stanno arrivando in Italia e Sofia, come tutti i suoi coetanei, vive in trepida attesa di quel mitico concerto che nel '65 vide la prima e unica esibizione italiana dei Beatles. Nello stesso appartamento in cui abita Sofia, circa quarant'anni dopo, si trasferisce Matteo con la sua famiglia. Anche lui ha quindici anni, ma l'adolescenza, alle soglie del Duemila, è un luogo pericoloso e scomodo dove vivere.

Un bacio dato per scherzo cambia per sempre la vita di Valerio, diciottenne romano che divide il suo tempo tra le uscite del sabato sera con le amiche di sempre, le lezioni all'università, le ripetizioni al pomeriggio con Irene e il nuoto in una squadra agonistica. A baciarlo è Luca, il suo migliore amico. Lo fa per liberarsi di due ragazze che gli ronzano intorno in un locale e, ottenuto lo scopo, torna a ridere e bere come se niente fosse.

Sixteen-year-old songwriter and aspiring social outcast Caleb Clifford fills his world with music, but - like most things - keeps his songs to himself. That is, until his little brother leaks Caleb's most personal track online - a track that's quite obviously about his secret crush. Having his innermost feelings (accompanied by a funky bass line) go viral is not Caleb's idea of a good time. But is this the end of everything or the start?

I know what you're thinking. You're thinking this will be just one more story of the ignored, "big-boned" girl, who sheds her glasses and a few extra pounds and finally attracts the notice of the most popular guy in school. Except it isn't. Because I'm not unpopular. And I love the way I look - just as I am. Then someone puts my name in for Homecoming Court. The bigger surprise? People actually vote for me!

Sophie Kinsella meets Sarah Dessen in the most hilarious, romantic audiobook of the summer about a girl with social anxiety and the boy who refuses to let her hide herself away.

Tilda kann es nicht fassen: Ihre Zwillingsschwester Maxime bittet sie um Hilfe bei einer ihrer unmöglichen Aktionen. Tilda soll Maximes Platz in der Reality-Show "The Dating Game" einnehmen. Maxime ist nur zum Spaß für zwei Wochen nach Portugal geflogen, hat sich dann allerdings unsterblich in Junggeselle Florian verliebt. Da sie aber dringend zurück nach Deutschland muss, fleht sie Tilda an, sich als sie auszugeben und Florian für sie zu erobern.

Alison Green, desperate Valedictorian-wannabe, agrees to produce her school’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. That’s her first big mistake. The second is accidentally saying yes to a date with her oldest friend, Jack, even though she’s crushing on Charlotte. Alison manages to stay positive, even when her best friend starts referring to the play as “Ye Olde Shakespearean Disaster.” Alison must cope with the misadventures that befall the play if she’s going to survive the year.

A hard-hitting exposé of how methadone clinics fail people in recovery—and an urgent, unapologetic case for their abolition Methadone is a life-saving medication. But the current system for obtaining it—the opioid treatment program, commonly known as the methadone clinic—is punitive...

Flint Larsen has 41 days, 9 hours, and 42 minutes to live. He's known exactly when he's going to die since he was eight years old and half-lifed, a small twinge that tells a person when they've lived half their life. From that moment, Flint's done everything he can to make his death more bearable. Cutting off all his friends, refusing to eat his favorite foods, reading only the most depressing literature by long-dead writers. He plans to spend his final days back in his hometown with his parents, quietly waiting to die.

After a life-changing event, Hunter decides that he can't go on...which lands him in Camp Sunshine, a rehab center for depressed teens. Hunter is determined to keep everyone there out of his head, especially his therapist. But when he meets Corin, a beautiful, mysterious, and confident fellow camper, all Hunter wants to do is open up to her - despite the fact that he's been warned Corin is bad news.

Len is a loner teen photographer haunted by a past that's stagnated her work and left her terrified she's losing her mind. Sage is a high school volleyball star desperate to find a way around her sudden medical disqualification. Both girls need college scholarships. After a chance encounter, the two develop an unlikely friendship that enables them to begin facing their inner demons.

Felicity Becker loves watching an event come together. There’s something magical about crafting an experience people will remember. So when her mom gets engaged, Felicity sees the wedding as the perfect opportunity to show off her skills. After Felicity’s friend Nancy offers up her family’s apple orchard as a venue, wedding planning gets even better. But the more time Felicity and Nancy spend together dress shopping and hunting for mismatched china, the more it starts to seem like there might be something besides friendship between them.

Hannah used to be all about focus, back before she shattered her ankle and her Olympic dreams in one bad soccer play. These days, she's all about distraction - anything to keep the painful memories of her recent past at bay, including the string of bad decisions that landed her at boarding school for a year. Enter Bonanza, the local entertainment multiplex and site of Hanna's summer employment. With its mini golf course, bowling alley, and arcade - not to mention her hot, flirty coworker Patrick - Bonanza seems like the perfect way to stay distracted.

When I was twelve, I met this boy. I knew my parents wouldn't approve of our friendship, so I spent two years sneaking over to his house, hoping at some point I'd have a say in how I lived my life. When I was fourteen, there was an accident. As much as I wanted to keep him a secret, as much as I needed to see him every day, we were forbidden to ever see each other again. Three years have passed, three years of watching myself waste away without him, sinking into a deep depression that I struggle to pull myself out of each morning.

Shy foster kid Jonas and self-assured vlogger Shani met online, and so far, that's where their relationship has stayed, sharing memes and baring their souls from behind their screens. Shani is eager to finally meet up, but Jonas isn't so sure - he's not confident Shani will like the real him...if he's even sure who that is. Jonas knows he's trapped himself in a lie with Shani - and wants to dig himself out. But Shani, who’s been burned before, may not give him a chance: she talks her best friend Ash into playing spy and finding out the truth.

Ethan’s life couldn’t possibly get any worse. His mom’s job isn’t enough to pay the rent, let alone anything that could make life more bearable. And to make it worse, now she’s decided to move them both in with her brother—some boring guy who has nothing better to do than make Ethan’s life miserable. Uncle Garrett seems to be everywhere. Everyone knows him, everyone adores him, and it’s driving Ethan crazy. But when Ethan gets himself into trouble, those irritating things about Uncle Garrett start to make more sense.

Patricia está a punto de cumplir 17 años, y todo lo que siente es muy intenso y confuso. Siente rabia, dolor, rebeldía, ganas de llorar y de comerse el mundo al mismo tiempo. Patricia es la protagonista de esta historia de búsqueda y deseo. Toca la guitarra, compone, canta, escribe, sabe lo que "no quiere", pero está sola para decidir y enfrentarse a lo que "sí quiere". Y en apenas seis meses, todo cambiará. El amor, la música, la literatura... harán que la rabia encuentre un destino.

Carter Harper may have created an award-winning app and have a 3.93 grade point average, but her successes are overshadowed by brutal bullying, depression, and loneliness. Tired of being treated as the popular girls’ plaything, Carter thinks her only choice is to die by suicide. Abby Wallace is one of the most popular girls in school, subordinate only to Kelsey, her best friend with benefits. The ambitious poet destroys reputations without care to prove how cool, cruel, and strong she is, all while pushing down her past trauma and secret guilt.

Obsessive-compulsive teen Clarissa wants to get better, if only so her mother will stop asking her if she's okay. Andrew wants to overcome his eating disorder so he can get back to his band and their dreams of becoming famous. Film aficionado Ben would rather live in the movies than in reality. Gorgeous and overly confident Mason thinks everyone is an idiot. And Stella just doesn't want to be back for her second summer of wilderness therapy.

Jaye wakes up in the hospital, disoriented and beset by a slippery morphing of reality into something else. She repeatedly sees a boy whom she feels like she knows - but that's impossible. Determined to get back to school and back to A Midsummer Night's Dream, in which she's starring, she lies to her sister, her mom, and her doctors - she's fine, she says. She's fine, she's fine, she's fine. But then on her first day back, she takes a seat in class next to the mysterious boy.