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1) Cut
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While confined to a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better.
3) Willow
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Sixteen-year-old Willow, who was driving the car that killed both of her parents, copes with the pain and guilt by cutting herself, until she meets a smart and sensitive boy who is determined to help her stop.
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Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she's already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime. But she's learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don't have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you. Every new scar hardens Charlie's heart just a little more, yet it still hurts so much. It hurts...
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Series
Stravaganza volume 6
Pub. Date
2012
Description
When desperately unhappy Laura, who secretly performs self-mutilation, finds her talisman and transports to Fortezza, a parallel world that resembles the Italian Renaissance city-state of Lucca, she faces battles on the field and of the heart.
6) Blood wounds
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Willa seems to have a perfect life as a member of a loving blended family until the estranged father she barely remembers murders his wife and children, then heads toward Willa and her mother.
7) Bruised
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Daya Wijesinghe sees a bruise as a mixture of comfort and control, but joining a roller derby team push her toward big truths about love, loss, strength, and healing.
8) Rage
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Series
Riders of the Apocalypse volume 2
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Sixteen-year-old Missy copes with being an outcast at school and stress at home by cutting herself with a razor blade, until Death chooses her as one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, War, and offers her a new blade.
9) Trophy Hunt
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Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 4
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It's an idyllic late-summer day in Saddlestring, Wyoming, and game warden Joe Pickett is fly-fishing with his two daughters when he stumbles upon the mutilated body of a moose. Whatever - or whoever - attacked the animal was ruthless: half the animal's face has been sliced away, the skin peeled back from the flesh. Shaken by the sight, Joe starts to investigate what he hopes in an isolated incident." "Days later, after the discovery of a small herd...
10) Scars
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Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
"Kendra hasn't felt safe since devastating memories surface of being sexually abused. She can't remember the most important detail-her abuser's identity, and she's sure someone is always watching her, following her, making her fear for her life. To cope, Kendra cuts-something she works hard to hide. When her parents aren't helpful, Kendra finds support in therapy, and from her classmate, Meghan, a friend-and maybe more. Will Kendra find out who's...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Mia is officially a Troubled Teen. She gets bad grades, drinks too much, and has probably gone too far with too many guys. But she doesn't realize how out of control she seems until she is taken from her home in the middle of the night and sent away to Red Oak Academy, a therapeutic girls' boarding school in the middle of nowhere. While there, Mia is forced to confront her painful past at the same time she questions why she's at Red Oak. If she were...
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Series
Alex Delaware volume 26
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Psychologist Alex Delaware and his girlfriend Robin are making a farewell visit to an LA hotel bar when one patron in particular grabs their attention -- a beautiful but aloof young woman dressed all in white. Two days later, Alex is called in on a murder case and is shocked when he recognizes the victim as the woman in white.
Author
Series
True colors (Melody Carlson) volume 7
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Ruth copes with an abusive situation at home by cutting herself, until her high school counselor helps her get the treatment she needs to start a new life.
14) Private London
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For Hannah Shapiro, a beautiful young American student, this particular nightmare began eight years ago in Los Angeles, when Jack Morgan, owner of Private--the world's most exclusive detective agency--saved her from a horrific death. She has fled her country, but can't flee her past. The terror has followed her to London, and now it is down to former Royal Military Police Sergeant Dan Carter, head of Private London, to save her all over again. In...
15) Cutter boy
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Travis' secret habit of cutting himself with a razor blade has him wondering how he can get close to his new friend Chyvonne without making himself too vulerable, but spending time with her might help him discover a better way to get an adrenaline rush.
16) Bad blood
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Spending her summer vacation with her aunt, who lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, sixteen-year-old Heather MacNair is haunted by dreams and compelled to cut herself until she discovers a family secret and a past full of magic that could both save her and put her in mortal danger.
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Series
Prison Break Trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Theodore Glenn loves to inflict pain . . . both on his victims and on those who later find the mutilated corpses. At his trial seven years ago, Glenn vowed vengeance on Detective Will Hooper, the cop who nabbed him, and beautiful Robin McKenna, the stripper whose testimony put him behind bars.
18) Seeing red
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Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Tom Hathaway has got it all, including loads of style. But intrigued by the mysterious, scarred Sylvia, he becomes increasingly drawn to the cut of the flesh rather than the cut of the cloth.
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Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who, never before having left his village, finds himself fighting as a so-called "Chocolat" soldier with the French army during World War I. When his friend Mademba Diop, in the same regiment, is seriously injured in battle, Diop begs Alfa to kill him and spare him the pain of a long and agonizing death in No Man's Land. Unable to commit this mercy killing, madness creeps into Alfa's mind as he comes to see this refusal...
20) Verge: stories
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"A fiercely empathetic group portrait of the marginalized and outcast in moments of crisis, from one of the most galvanizing voices in American fiction. An eight-year-old trauma victim is enlisted as an underground courier, rushing frozen organs through the alleys of Eastern Europe. A young janitor transforms discarded objects into a fantastical, sprawling miniature city until a shocking discovery forces him to rethink his creation. A brazen child...