Books with title Beauty of the Broken

In this lyrical, heartwrenching story about a forbidden first love, a teen seeks the courage to care for another girl despite her small town’s bigotry and her father’s violent threats.Growing up in conservative small-town New Mexico, fifteen-year-old Mara was never given the choice to be different. Her parents—an abusive, close-minded father and a detached alcoholic mother—raised Mara to be like all the other girls in Barnaby: God-fearing, churchgoing, and straight. Mara wants nothing to do with any of it. She feels most at home with her best friend and older brother, Iggy, but Iggy hasn’t been the same since their father beat him and put him in the hospital with a concussion. As Mara’s mother feeds her denial with bourbon and Iggy struggles with his own demons, Mara finds an escape with her classmate Xylia. A San Francisco transplant, Xylia is everything Mara dreams of being: free-spirited, open, wild. The closer Mara and Xylia become, the more Mara feels for her—even though their growing relationship is very much forbidden in Barnaby. Just as Mara begins to live a life she’s only imagined, the girls’ secret is threatened with exposure and Mara’s world is thrown into chaos. Mara knows she can't live without Xylia, but can she live with an entire town who believes she is an abomination worse than the gravest sin?

In this lyrical, heartwrenching story about a forbidden first love, a teen seeks the courage to care for another girl despite her small town’s bigotry and her father’s violent threats.Growing up in conservative small-town New Mexico, fifteen-year-old Mara was never given the choice to be different. Her parents—an abusive, close-minded father and a detached alcoholic mother—raised Mara to be like all the other girls in Barnaby: God-fearing, churchgoing, and straight. Mara wants nothing to do with any of it. She feels most at home with her best friend and older brother, Iggy, but Iggy hasn’t been the same since their father beat him and put him in the hospital with a concussion. As Mara’s mother feeds her denial with bourbon and Iggy struggles with his own demons, Mara finds an escape with her classmate Xylia. A San Francisco transplant, Xylia is everything Mara dreams of being: free-spirited, open, wild. The closer Mara and Xylia become, the more Mara feels for her—even though their growing relationship is very much forbidden in Barnaby. Just as Mara begins to live a life she’s only imagined, the girls’ secret is threatened with exposure and Mara’s world is thrown into chaos. Mara knows she can't live without Xylia, but can she live with an entire town who believes she is an abomination worse than the gravest sin?

In this lyrical, heartwrenching story about a forbidden first love, a teen seeks the courage to care for another girl despite her small town’s bigotry and her father’s violent threats.Growing up in conservative small-town New Mexico, fifteen-year-old Mara was never given the choice to be different. Her parents—an abusive, close-minded father and a detached alcoholic mother—raised Mara to be like all the other girls in Barnaby: God-fearing, churchgoing, and straight. Mara wants nothing to do with any of it. She feels most at home with her best friend and older brother, Iggy, but Iggy hasn’t been the same since their father beat him and put him in the hospital with a concussion. As Mara’s mother feeds her denial with bourbon and Iggy struggles with his own demons, Mara finds an escape with her classmate Xylia. A San Francisco transplant, Xylia is everything Mara dreams of being: free-spirited, open, wild. The closer Mara and Xylia become, the more Mara feels for her—even though their growing relationship is very much forbidden in Barnaby. Just as Mara begins to live a life she’s only imagined, the girls’ secret is threatened with exposure and Mara’s world is thrown into chaos. Mara knows she can't live without Xylia, but can she live with an entire town who believes she is an abomination worse than the gravest sin?

**TRIGGER WARNING. Contains the sensitive topic of rape and its aftermath.**Just a broken girl in her broken world. When socialite party girl Mia Abbott-Renou wakes up in a garden she has little recall of the previous night -- except that she is naked...hurt...terrified. Not only has she been raped, but she knows one of her assailants: the son of a wealthy politician who happens to be her own father’s political ally.Mia wants and needs justice. Except this privileged boy has an alibi and her father forbids her from going to the police. It’s a critical election year, one that his party might lose if his image as a doting father is soured due to Mia being labeled a lush or worse, promiscuous.Devastated at not having the support of her family, Mia finds herself in a tug-of-war with her conscience over what to do, especially since she can’t remember exactly what happened that night. Worse, the men who attacked her have hurt several other girls, and Mia may be the key to stopping them.Mia tries to forget, until the unthinkable happens, and she’s left reeling once again, faced with a new challenge that will force her to take more control of her life.

Boarding schools aren't for the faint of heart.Neither are fairy tales.Hi.I'm Jessica.I'm not from a fairy tale and I don't have any special powers or skills. I'm just a kid who won a scholarship to the weirdest school in town. I'm just trying to keep my head down, mind my own business, and stay out of the drama.But then Belle disappears, and all hell breaks loose.

Adeline Jones is a lonely senior in a school where everyone treats her terribly. Daniel Cotton tries to climb the social ladder and falls. The two have a mysterious history together, but when a spell is cast and someone turns into the beast, they are brought back together. Is the beast the male who is confused about what real beauty is? Or is the Beast actually... the Beauty?

Follow the amazing journey of Jenny, her parents,friends and her loving uncle Tyler as they discover who they really are. Jenny, one of the main characters has dealt with feelings of low self-esteem ever since her dad walked out on them when she was very young. She grew up with feelings of not being good enough and found her get-a-way in writing poetry. They were her way of escaping from it all. After being bullied so much in school, she became friends with Gina who stood up for her against the bullies. Gina was a Christian. It was during one of her trips to Sunday school that Jenny met Trey, and they too became fast friends. In fact, they grew to love each other, though neither admitted it. One night after a youth program at church featuring Jenny's poetry, she, along with some friends and Trey went bowling. After dropping their friends off, Trey made the decision that he would tell Jenny how he felt about her. Before he could, however, something happened that would change their lives forever. Would they be strong enough to get through this? Would they ever get the chance to share their hearts with each other? Follow these exciting young people along with their parents and Uncle Tyler as they learn the power and beauty of friendship, family, forgiveness, healing and love. They learn, that together we can stand against bullying, and we can learn to love and accept one another without demands. Together, they learn, that friendships are beautiful and that together we are stronger. They learn that there is uniqueness in all of us, and that if we embrace the differences in one another and make a decision to just love one another for who we are, we will discover the true beauty that lies within all of us. A story of love and truth, that helps us to realize how special we all are and shows us that we never have to fit into anyone's mold of who we should be. We may not all be alike, but we all have our strengths and our uniqueness that together help to make the world better. It is not our differences that divide us, it is our non-acceptance of these unique qualities that makes us all special individually, but powerful together when we combine them for the greater good. It is when we truly discover the Beauty within.

Like most fourteen-year-old boys, Link Hartkins doesn't believe in monsters. So when he catches his little brother Ayden talking to an empty wall, Link doesn't think much of it and simply asks for an introduction to Ayden's imaginary friend. But even at four years old, Ayden knows the "moving dark" isn't his friend. Monsters don't have friends.Link assumes his brother is probably imagining things, but after the recent death of their mother, Link vowed to keep Ayden safe at all costs. In his search for answers to explain Ayden's disturbingly odd behavior, Link uncovers a camera hidden in their new house. Since talking to his brother is getting him nowhere, the next time Ayden claims to see a monster, Link decides to play along. He pretends to capture it inside the camera he found by taking its picture. As if by magic, Ayden returns to normal...at least for the remainder of the day. But soon after Link develops the film, he discovers that Ayden hasn't been imagining things. The monsters haunting him are real.With the camera accidentally revealed, the only thing remaining to prevent these monsters from invading the world of the living is the unbreakable bond between two brothers.