Juliet the Maniac

Author: Juliet Escoria
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612197590
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
"For fans of Ottessa Moshfegh, Juliet the Maniac is a worthy new entry in that pantheon of deconstruction... Dazzling."—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW This portrait of a young teenager's fight toward understanding and recovering from mental illness is shockingly honest, funny, and heartfelt. Ambitious, talented fourteen-year-old honors student Juliet is poised for success at her Southern California high school. However, she soon finds herself in an increasingly frightening spiral of drug use, self-harm, and mental illness that lands her in a remote therapeutic boarding school, where she must ultimately find the inner strength to survive. A highly anticipated debut—from a writer hailed as "a combination of Denis Johnson and Joan Didion" (Dazed)—that brilliantly captures the intimate triumph of a girl's struggle to become the woman she knows she can be.

Boarding School Syndrome

Author: Joy Schaverien
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317506588
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 349

Book Description
Boarding School Syndrome is an analysis of the trauma of the 'privileged' child sent to boarding school at a young age. Innovative and challenging, Joy Schaverien offers a psychological analysis of the long-established British and colonial preparatory and public boarding school tradition. Richly illustrated with pictures and the narratives of adult ex-boarders in psychotherapy, the book demonstrates how some forms of enduring distress in adult life may be traced back to the early losses of home and family. Developed from clinical research and informed by attachment and child development theories ‘Boarding School Syndrome’ is a new term that offers a theoretical framework on which the psychotherapeutic treatment of ex-boarders may build. Divided into four parts, History: In the Name of Privilege; Exile and Healing; Broken Attachments: A Hidden Trauma, and The Boarding School Body, the book includes vivid case studies of ex-boarders in psychotherapy. Their accounts reveal details of the suffering endured: loss, bereavement and captivity are sometimes compounded by physical, sexual and psychological abuse. Here, Joy Schaverien shows how many boarders adopt unconscious coping strategies including dissociative amnesia resulting in a psychological split between the 'home self' and the 'boarding school self'. This pattern may continue into adult life, causing difficulties in intimate relationships, generalized depression and separation anxiety amongst other forms of psychological distress. Boarding School Syndrome demonstrates how boarding school may damage those it is meant to be a reward and discusses the wider implications of this tradition. It will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, Jungian analysts, psychotherapists, art psychotherapists, counsellors and others interested in the psychological, cultural and international legacy of this tradition including ex-boarders and their partners.

Boarding School Juliet

Author: Yousuke Kaneda
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1642124206
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
All Romio Inuzuka wants is to wish his secret girlfriend Juliet Persia a happy birthday, but when Inuzuka’s authoritarian older brother Airu suspects their relationship, the star-crossed couple’s plans—and their confidence in keeping up their mad masquerade—all go down the tubes. Luckily, Persia’s big day isn’t over yet, and Inuzuka has one last chance to fool his big bro and meet up with her…it just happens to involve roping the Black Doggies into “crashing” Persia’s birthday bash at White Cat House! Commence Operation: Pie Persia!

The Dragonfly Pool

Author: Eva Ibbotson
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 0230737919
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401

Book Description
'Blending history and tragedy with an irresistible wit and verve.' – The Times The Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson is an exciting story of friendship and determination during the Second World War, from the award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea and The Star of Kazan. Illustrated with a gorgeous updated cover by Katie Hickey. Tally Hamilton is furious to hear she is being sent from London to a horrid, stuffy boarding school in the countryside. And all because of the stupid war. But Delderton Hall is a far more interesting place than Tally ever imagined, and an exciting school trip to the beautiful and luscious kingdom of Bergania whisks Tally into an unexpected adventure . . . Will she be able to save her new friend, Prince Karil, from terrible danger before it's too late?

Dreaming in Cuban

Author: Cristina García
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307798003
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
“Impressive . . . [Cristina García’s] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.”—Time Cristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. Dreaming in Cuban is “a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez” (The New York Times). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novel’s original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the author. Praise for Dreaming in Cuban “Remarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose.”—The Washington Post “Brilliant . . . With tremendous skill, passion and humor, García just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind.”—The Denver Post

Wandance 4

Author: Coffee
Publisher: Kodansha USA
ISBN: 1684918707
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
Kaboku tries to break further out of his shell with some new dance styles, and he can't help but wonder: How do you dance like nobody's watching when everyone's watching? Kaboku's growing confidence as a dancer and his deepening friendship with Iori inspire him to branch out and try breakdancing. He and Wanda head for the park where the local B-Boys practice, and they seem to make a real impression. Gaku Kabeya is the one breaker who seems above it all, and if he acts a little arrogant, maybe it's because he's really, really good at what he does. He thinks Kabo has what it takes to be a great breakdancer, but will Kabeya's history with Iori get in the way of the two of them being friends? And speaking of Iori, On keeps pushing him to be the next club president, but he's convinced he doesn't have the chops. Will a chance to share what he knows with some other students help change his mind?

Boarding School Juliet, Volume 13

Author: Yousuke Kaneda
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1646591348
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
At long last, star-crossed lovers Inuzuka and Persia are only one step away from becoming head prefects and tearing down the proverbial wall between the Black Doggy and White Cat dorms. That is, until rival candidate Reon Inugami drops one heck of a last-minute election surprise in front of the entire student body on voting day, shattering the tenacious twosome’s hopes in one fell swoop. The cat may finally, irreversibly be out of the bag—and with their whole world seemingly against them, Romio and Juliet may be on the way out of school…

Those Not-So-Sweet Boys 4

Author: Yoko Nogiri
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1636994466
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
Rei and Midori clear the air after a day of painful misunderstandings. Still, Midori wants more insight into how Rei really feels and decides to take the plunge. When she confesses to Rei about her crush on him, his response may lead to more questions than answers. All the while, Yukinojo, who is stuck in his old ways, tries to sabotage the bond the two share…but why?

The Boarding-school Girl

Author: В Крестовскій
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810117440
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
This tale of a young woman's not-so-sentimental education is the story of fifteen-year-old Lolenka, who encounters an exiled radical named Veretitsyn and begins to question her education and life. Under his influence, Lolenka breaks with tradition and embarks upon a new life as a translator and an artist, but a chance meeting with Veretitsyn years later leads to a sobering reappraisal of her mentor's convictions.

O Maidens in Your Savage Season, Volume 4

Author: Mari Okada
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1646590708
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
Kazusa was a quiet middle schooler, but she arrived in high school determined to make friends. So (as a huge Harry Potter fan) she decides to join the literature club. When one of the club’s icebreakers is “say one thing you want to do before you die,” one of the girls blurts out “sex.” The prudish club president, the class beauty, and the other nerdy girls’ reactions are wildly different. Far from a typical sex comedy, O Maidens in Your Savage Season depicts how these girls challenge and support one another when THAT WORD pushes them onto a variety of clumsy, funny, painful, and emotional paths towards adulthood. Mari Okada’s unique talent for pairing lovable and relatable characters and emotional twists is lent new dimension by the detailed and dynamic sequential art of Nao Emoto (Forget Me Not).