“The Breakaway”
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Fiction: “The Breakaway” by Jennifer Weiner
Thirty-three-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where she’s lived since college still looks like she’s just moved in. But she’s got good friends, her bike, and her bicycling club. She’s at peace with her plus-size body– at least, most of the time– and she’s on track to marry Mark Medoff, her childhood summer sweetheart, a man she met at the weight-loss camp that her perpetually dieting mother forced her to attend. Fifteen years after her final summer at Camp Golden Hills, when Abby reconnects with a half-his-size Mark, it feels like the happy ending she’s always wanted. Yet Abby can’t escape the feeling that something isn’t right… or the memories of one thrilling night she spent with a man named Sebastian two years previously. When Abby gets a last-minute invitation to lead a cycling trip from New York City to Niagara Falls, she’s happy to have time away from Mark, a chance to reflect and make up her mind. But things get complicated fast.
“Never Enough”
Nonfiction: “Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic – and What We Can Do About It” by Jennifer Breheny Wallace
Reporter Jennifer Breheny Wallace investigates the deep roots of toxic achievement culture. Drawing on interviews with families, educators, and psychologists, she offers a humane view of the crisis plaguing today’s teens and a practical framework for how to help.
Youth: “Mine!” by Candace Fleming
A group of forest animals vie for the same delicious red apple
“Mine!”
that is just about to drop.
