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1) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness
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Pub. Date
2024.
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"From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health-and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist...
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"In Over the Influence, communication professor and CNN Opinion contributor Kara Alaimo reveals how social media is affecting every aspect of the lives of women and girls—from our relationships and our parenting to our physical and mental well-being. Over the Influence is a book about what it means to live in the world social media has wrought—whether you're constantly connected or have deleted your accounts forever. Alaimo shows why...
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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246 pages ; 22 cm
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When she discovers her parents had a chip implanted in her brain that keeps track of her location and brain activity, Paige dons her noise-canceling headphones and sets out to find the other kids in the study to show them what's been done to them.
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Chicken House, Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
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364 pages ; 22 cm
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A contestant on a brand-new game show offering young criminals the chance at freedom and a cash prize by winning over viewers, Emerson desperately needs the money to save her family, but little does she know that winning is her only chance at survival because losing means death.
5) Emily posts
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Tundra
Pub. Date
2024.
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253 pages ; 22 cm
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"When she is cut from her middle school's podcast crew, social media influencer wannabe Emily Laurence must find another way to spread the news of a climate march, trying to balance her impeccable manners with 21st-century activism"--
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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510 pages ; 20 cm
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"What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds--and a treacherous weapon in the hands of the unwary, the unwitting, the inept. The Cleverley family live a gilded life, little realising how precarious their privilege is, just one tweet away from disaster. George, the patriarch, is a stalwart of television interviewing, a 'national...
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
359 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Amber Kivinen is moving to Mars. Or at least, she will be if she wins a chance to join MarsNow. She and twenty-three reality TV contestants from around the world—including attractive Israeli soldier Adam, endearing fellow Canadian Pichu, and an assortment of science nerds and wannabe influencers—are competing for two seats on the first human-led mission to Mars, sponsored by billionaire Geoff Task. Meanwhile Kevin, Amber's boyfriend...
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Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 24 cm
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"American society is more polarized than ever before. We are strategically being pushed apart by disinformation--the deliberate spreading of lies disguised as truth--and it comes at us from all sides: opportunists on the far right, Russian misinformed social media influencers, among others. It's endangering our democracy and causing havoc in our electoral system, schools, hospitals, workplaces, and in our Capitol. Advances in technology including...
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Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2023]
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515 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
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A behind-the-scenes look at the manipulative tactics Facebook used to grow its business, how it distorted the way we connect online, and the company insiders who found the courage to speak out.
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St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2024.
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356 pages ; 21 cm
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When Daisy takes a stopgap job as a nanny to help a single father with his two young girls, being immersed in a close-knit, loving family starts to poke holes in her plan to be on her own to recover from a very bad year.
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