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At Jonesville High, casual misogyny runs rampant, slut-shaming is a given, and school athletes are glorified above all else. Best friends Suze, Nikki, Ani, and Lydia swear they'll always have each other's backs against predatory guys - so when Suze suddenly starts dating wrestling star and toxic douchebag Tarkin Shaw, it's a big betrayal. Turns out, it's not a relationship - it's blackmail. At first, Suze feels like she has no choice but to go along with it, but when Tarkin starts demanding more, she enlists the help of intelligent misfits DeShawn and Marcus....

In the beginning, Isaac West stole to give his younger sister Janelle little things: a new sweater, a scarf, just so she looked less like a charity case whose mother spent money on booze and more like the prep school girls he'd see on his way to school. But when Isaac's petty theft lands him in juvie, he's cut off from helping Janelle. Friendless in a dangerous world of gangs and violent offenders, he must watch his every step.

Join Pro Pickleball commentator Lauren McLaughlin as she sits down with some of pickleball's biggest personalities for edgy conversations about life, pickleball and everything in between. Come behind the velvet curtain as we take pickleball after dark.

Welcome to Conscious7 where we talk about The Seven Pillars & Practices of Quantum Health & Well Being. We will delve into many topics and questions with guests about the why, the how and what it is to live a long healthy, fit, and vital life and never be OLD at any age! We discuss the hottest issues, topics, interests and concerns related to the seven pillars of health and the seven pillars of wellbeing. Week after week we aim to cut through the noise of an ever-growing, ever-changing world of health and wellbeing. We will share our extensive expertise as well as have in-depth conversations ...

As far as anyone at her high school knows, Jill McTeague is an average smart girl trying to get her dream date to ask her to the prom. But what no one knows, except for Jill's mom and dad, is that for the four days Jill is out of school each month, she is not Jill at all. She is Jack, a genuine boy - complete with all the parts - who lives his four days of the cycle in the solitude of Jill's room. But Jack's personality has been building over the years since the cycling began. He is growing less and less content with his confinement and his cycles are more frequent.