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Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Health Issues

By: Cynthia Ann Bowman

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Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Health Issues

By: Cynthia Ann Bowman

Today, traditional illnesses and high risk behaviors of adolescents have become interrelated through the multitude of physical, social and emotional changes young people experience. Good literature which gives adolescents the truth has incredible power to heal and to renew. This reference resource provides a link for teachers, media specialists, parents, and other adults to those novels that can help adolescents struggling with health issues. Educators and therapists explore novels where common health issues are addressed in ways to captivate teens. Using fictional characters, these experts provide guidance on encouraging adolescents to cope while improving their reading and writing skills. With the advancement in medicine, traditional types of health issues such as birth defects, cancer, and sensory impairment have shifted to more behavior related problems such as depression, alcoholism, and eating disorders. All of these issues and others are examined from both a literary and psychological perspective in thirteen chapters that explore health issues through fiction. Each chapter confronts a different health issue and is written by a literature specialist who has teamed up with a therapist. In each novel, these experts define the central character's struggle in coming to terms with an issue and growing in response to their difficulties. Annotated bibliographies of other works, both fiction and nonfiction, explore these same issues give readers insight into helping teenagers with similar problems, and provide the tools with which to get teenagers reading and addressing these problems.

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336

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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ISBN 10

0313007365

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9780313007361

The Family in Greek History

By: Cynthia B. Patterson

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The Family in Greek History

By: Cynthia B. Patterson

The family, Cynthia Patterson demonstrates, played a key role in the political changes that mark the history of ancient Greece. From the archaic society portrayed in Homer and Hesiod to the Hellenistic age, the private world of the family and household was integral with and essential to the civic realm. Early Greek society was rooted not in clans but in individual households, and a man's or woman's place in the larger community was determined by relationships within those households. The development of the city-state did not result in loss of the family's power and authority, Patterson argues; rather, the protection of household relationships was an important element of early public law. The interaction of civic and family concerns in classical Athens is neatly articulated by the examples of marriage and adultery laws. In law courts and in theater performances, violation of marital relationships was presented as a public danger, the adulterer as a sexual thief. This is an understanding that fits the Athenian concept of the city as the highest form of family. The suppression of the cities with the ascendancy of Alexander's empire led to a new resolution of the relationship between public and private authority: the concept of a community of households, which is clearly exemplified in Menander's plays. Undercutting common interpretations of Greek experience as evolving from clan to patriarchal state, Patterson's insightful analysis sheds new light on the role of men and women in Greek culture.

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296

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Harvard University Press

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0674041925

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9780674041929

From Dusk to Dawn

Portrait of A Drug Addict

By: Cynthia Diane Brown

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From Dusk to Dawn

Portrait of A Drug Addict

By: Cynthia Diane Brown

Lacy was a young gentle woman who was abused in life by her father and the man that she loved .To cover her pain she went on a road to self destruction finding her comfort in a crack pipe. She found herself out of control. Her desire for the drug turned her into a blood thirsty vampire, ready to suck the life out of anybody that had a dollar. Soon she found herself without a family or a real life. The streets of California had sucked her in, chewed her up and spit her out. She had become lower than the trash on the streets.

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177

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462874061

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9781462874064

Calvin

The Sutter Brothers

By: Cynthia Dees

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Calvin

The Sutter Brothers

By: Cynthia Dees

Professional ski racer, Lacey Burke, has a busted up knee and nowhere to go. She returns to her childhood home, Apple Pie Creek, Montana, an lands a job designing a downhill racing course for the new ski resort about to be built there… …a ski resort that will happen over Cal Sutter’s cold, dead body. A forestry service ranger, he’s determined to stop the resort from destroying the fragile alpine ecosystem on the mountain. Adventurous, wild-child Lacey accuses Cal of living in a rut, and he sets out to prove just how wrong she is. Who will blink first as this clean and wholesome romance, full of laughter and tender moments, unfolds? Cynthia Dees is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over 80 romances. Join her in Apple Pie Creek, Montana where clean and wholesome romance is alive and well. There will be love, laughter, and shenanigans aplenty in this sweet and whimsical series about seven bachelor brothers whose mother who is desperate to get her boys married off so she can start having grandkids. "A delightfully light and refreshing read....Ms. Dees never lets me down...What fun. Five stars! Highly recommend...

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182

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Cynthia Dees Publishing, Inc.

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ISBN 10

1950651045

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9781950651047

They Almost Always Come Home

By: Cynthia Ruchti

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They Almost Always Come Home

By: Cynthia Ruchti

Finalist - 2011 Carol Award and 2010 RT Book Reviews Reviewers' Choice Award When Libby’s husband Greg fails to return from a two-week canoe trip to the Canadian wilderness, the authorities soon write off his disappearance as an unhappy husband’s escape from an empty marriage and unrewarding career. Their marriage might have survived if their daughter Lacey hadn’t died . . . and if Greg hadn’t been responsible. Libby enlists the aid of her wilderness savvy father-in-law and her faith-walking best friend to help her search for clues to her husband’s disappearance…if for no other reason than to free her to move on. What the trio discovers in the search upends Libby’s presumptions about her husband and rearranges her faith.

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309

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Abingdon Press

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1426715439

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9781426715433

Who's Kitten Who?

By: Cynthia Baxter

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Who's Kitten Who?

By: Cynthia Baxter

Veterinarian and amateur sleuth Jessica Popper joins the cast of a theatrical production to uncover the killer of the Long Island playwright responsible for the play.

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370

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Bantam

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0553590340

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9780553590340

Lincoln: The Sutter Brothers

a clean and wholesome romance

By: Cynthia Dees

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Lincoln: The Sutter Brothers

a clean and wholesome romance

By: Cynthia Dees

Linc Sutter has never gotten over the death of his wife seven years ago. And then, six-year-old Georgie Valentine hires Linc to keep his mother from punishing him until the end of time for breaking her favorite lamp. Haley Valentine’s husband died last year after a lengthy illness. She, too, is struggling to move on with her life. Thankfully, her two sons give her a reason to keep living. Despite the massive wealth she inherited when her husband died, she wants to give her boys the most normal upbringing she can manage for them, and Apple Pie Creek is just the ticket…if she can convince the boys to live there. As Linc and Haley join forces to show Georgie and Rick just how great a place Apple Pie Creek is, they start to realize how great a pair they could be. But, can they overcome their pasts to build a new family and happiness for all of them? Cynthia Dees is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over 80 romances. Join her in Apple Pie Creek, Montana where clean and wholesome romance is alive and well. There will be love, laughter, and shenanigans aplenty in this sweet and whimsical series about seven bachelor brothers whose mother who is desperate to get her boys married off so she can start having grandbabies. "A delightfully light and refreshing read....Ms. Dees never lets me down...What fun. Five stars! Highly recommend...

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174

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Cynthia Dees Publishing, Inc.

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195065107X

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9781950651078

Shooting Star

A Martha's Vineyard Mystery

By: Cynthia Riggs

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Shooting Star

A Martha's Vineyard Mystery

By: Cynthia Riggs

Victoria Trumbull, 92-year-old poet and deputy, has written a play for Martha's Vineyard's community theater. But when one actor after another drops dead, she hopes to finger the murderer through a cast of eccentric supporting characters.

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278

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Macmillan

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031237027X

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9780312370275

Book's by Cynthia Lacey

Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Health Issues

Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Health Issues

The Family in Greek History

The Family in Greek History

From Dusk to Dawn

From Dusk to Dawn

Calvin

Calvin

They Almost Always Come Home

They Almost Always Come Home

Who's Kitten Who?

Who's Kitten Who?

Lincoln: The Sutter Brothers

Lincoln: The Sutter Brothers

Shooting Star

Shooting Star

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