identity (psychology)

In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.

"Cleveland, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a passion for Edward Albee and ecstasy and fall hard and fast in love. But soon Emily has to move home to Elba, New York, and he flunks out of school and joins the army. Desperate to keep their relationship alive, they marry before he ships out to Iraq. But as an army medic, he is unprepared for the grisly reality that awaits him. His fellow soldiers smoke; they huff computer duster; they take painkillers; they watch porn. And many of them die. He and Emily try to make their long-distance marriage work, but when he returns from Iraq, his PTSD is profound, and the drugs on the street have changed. The opioid crisis is beginning to swallow up the Midwest. Soon he is hooked on heroin, and so is Emily. They attempt a normal life, but with their money drying up, he turns to the one thing he thinks he could be really good at--robbing banks"--Provided by publisher.

"The Aunts have sent eleven-year-old Stella away to the moldering old family estate, Wormwood Mire, where she discovers two odd cousins and more clues to the mysteries of her family and of herself"--Provided by publisher.

"An age-appropriate introduction to the concepts of race, gender, consent and body positivity, developed by early childhood and activism experts, combines clear text with engaging artwork to help the youngest children recognize and confront unjust actions."--.

"Huda F. is starting high school in a new town and needs to figure out where she fits in"--.

Spensa has proved she is one of the best starfighters of the Defiant Defense Force, but she embarks on her most dangerous mission yet when the Superiority, the governing galactic alliance determined to dominate all human life, initiates a galaxy-wide war. To make matters worse, Spensa knows the weapons the Superiority plans to use: ancient, mysterious alien forces that can wipe out entire planetary systems in an instant called Delvers. Now, she must travel to the Nowhere and find a way to stop the Superiority once and for all.

"Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to study medicine--but when that scholarship falls through she is forced to turn to her school's scholarship for prom king and queen, which plunges her into the gauntlet of social media which she hates and leads her to discoveries about her own identity and the value of true friendships"--Provided by publisher.

To come to terms with who she is and what she wants, Ailey, the daughter of an accomplished doctor and a strict schoolteacher, embarks on a journey through her family's past, helping her embrace her full heritage, which is the story of the Black experience in itself.

Dylan's dreams of leaving Australia to go to Paris with her French mother, where, she thinks, her black skin won't make her stand out, are shattered when her mother dies in a freak accident. Now on a very different journey, Dylan travels across the Australian outback with Pat, her mother's grief-stricken boyfriend, to meet family she has never known and attempt to redefine her identity now.

After serving in Iraq with the Army, a young man returns to America with severe PTSD and falls into drug addiction. This addiction leads him to rob multiple banks.