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Children of military personnel United States Biography Conduct of life Craniofacial dysostosis Patients Biography Faulkner, Harris 1965- Childhood and youth Mental health Nammar, Jacob J 1941- Nature Schizophrenia Case studies Television journalists United States Biography United StatesLowell, Robert
Summary: "A new, expanded edition of Lowell's prose, with annotations"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOWELL, ROBERT LOWThompson, J. M.
Summary: "A powerful, breathtaking memoir about a young man's descent into madness, and how running saved his life. J. M. Thompson, now a successful psychologist, retraces the path that led him from despair to wellness, detailing the chilling childhood trauma that caused his depression, and the unorthodox treatment that saved him"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THOMPSON, J.M. THOGutman, Matt
Summary: "Matt Gutman can tell you the precise moment when his life was upended. Reporting live on a huge story in January 2020, he found himself in the throes of an on-air panic attack--and not for the first time. The truth is that Gutman had been enduring panic attacks in secret for twenty years: soul-bruising episodes that left his vision constricted, his body damp, his nerves shot. Despite the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Mind GutmanNguyen, Viet Thanh
Summary: "The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide. With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press,an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NGUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NGUYEN, VIET THANH NGUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B NGUYEN NGUNammar, Jacob J.
Summary: Autobiography of a boy who grew up in Palestine, endured the Nakba, and ultimately moved to Texas to start a new life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NAMMAR, JACOB J. NAMBenham, David
Summary: "Twin brothers David and Jason Benham grew up with big dreams of baseball and an even bigger trust in God. Though they attended a small high school with no baseball field, turned down a professional offer so they could attend college together, and faced more than one missed pitch and injuries, they kept dreaming, praying together on the field, and believing in God's provision for their lives....
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Publisher / Publication Date: W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2018
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Summary: The author shares the story of his family, their immigration, and the challenges of navigating two cultures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FISHMAN, BORIS FISLevine, Peter A.
Summary: "An intimate memoir from Peter Levine, renowned developer of Somatic Experiencing and bestselling author of Waking the Tiger. Shares the author's personal journey to heal his severe childhood trauma as well as his breakthroughs on the path to create Somatic Experiencing. Explores how he came to view Einstein as his personal spirit guide and mentor, only to discover a profound real-life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Street Press 2024
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Summary: In 1995, Hadley Freeman wrote in her diary: "I just spent three years of my life in mental hospitals. So why am I crazier than I was before????" From the ages of fourteen to seventeen, Freeman lived in psychiatric wards after developing anorexia nervosa. Her doctors informed her that her body was cannibalizing her muscles and heart for nutrition, but they could tell her little why she had it,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FREEMAN, HADLEY FRELinehan, Marsha
Summary: Marsha Linehan tells the story of her journey from suicidal teenager to world-renowned developer of the life-saving behavioral therapy DBT, using her own struggle to develop life skills for others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINEHAN, MARSHA LINKaag, John J.
Summary: "John Kaag is a dispirited young philosopher at sea in his marriage and his career when he stumbles upon West Wind, a ruin of an estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that belonged to the eminent Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking. Hocking was one of the last true giants of American philosophy and a direct intellectual descendent of William James, the father of American philosophy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 190 KAAVickers, Michael G.
Summary: "A vivid narrative of a life in intelligence and special operations, from the Cold War to the war on terror. In 1984, Michael Vickers took charge of the CIA's secret campaign against the Soviets in Afghanistan. Inheriting a strategy aimed at imposing costs on Russia, Vickers transformed the campaign into an all-out effort to help the Afghans win their war. More than any other American, he was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VICKERS, MICHAEL G. VICCahalan, Susannah.
Summary: One day in 2009, twenty-four-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristband marked her as a "flight risk," and her medical records, chronicling a monthlong hospital stay of which she had no memory at all, showed hallucinations, violence, and dangerous instability. Only weeks earlier, Susannah had been on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.832 CAHHenley, Ariel
Summary: At only eight months old, identical twin sisters Ariel and Zan were diagnosed with Crouzon syndrome, a rare condition where the bones in the head fuse prematurely. They were the first twins known to survive the disease. They endured numerous appearance-altering procedures as they grew up. Surgeons would break the bones in their heads and faces to make room for their growing organs. While the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 HENElliott, Clark
Summary: "The dramatic story of one man's recovery offers new hope to those suffering from concussions and other brain traumas. In 1999, Clark Elliott suffered a concussion when his car was rear-ended. Overnight his life changed from that of a rising professor with a research career in artificial intelligence to a humbled man struggling to get through a single day. At times he couldn't walk across a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610 ELLTrainor, Meghan
Summary: "Meghan Trainor has wanted to be a mom since before she even knew how babies were made. From the moment she discovered she was pregnant with her first child--her son, Riley--she was fascinated by the entire experience. Yes, pregnancy and motherhood are miracles--but even a miracle can freak you out sometimes. Everyone has an opinion on what an expectant mother should feel, think, or do during...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Horizon, an imprint of HarperCollins Focus 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.2 TRAWang, Esmé Weijun
Summary: "Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the 'collected schizophrenias' but to those who wish to understand it as well. Opening with the journey toward her diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, Wang discusses the medical community's own disagreement about labels and procedures for diagnosing those with mental illness, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 WANFoster, Craig
Summary: In this thrilling memoir of a life spent exploring the most incredible places on Earth--from the Great African Seaforest to the crocodile lairs of the Okavango Delta--Craig Foster reveals how we can attend to the earthly beauty around us and deepen our love for all living things, whether we make our homes in the country, the city, or anywhere in between. Foster explores his struggles to remain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 508 FOSMoss, Sarah
Summary: "An unflinching memoir about childhood, food, books, and our ability to see, become, and protect ourselves"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: A daughter of Korean immigrants, Hyeseung Song spends her earliest years in the cane fields of Texas where her loyalties are divided between a restless father in search of Big Money, and a beautiful yet domineering mother whose resentments about her own life compromises her relationship with her daughter. With her parents at constant odds, Song learns more words in Korean for hatred than for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SONG, HYESEUNG SONMoezzi, Melody
Summary: "A powerful personal journey to find meaning and life lessons in the words of a wildly popular 13th century poet. Rumi's inspiring and deceptively simple poems have been called ecstatic, mystical, and devotional. To writer and activist Melody Moezzi, they became a lifeline. In The Rumi Prescription, we follow her path of discovery as she translates Rumi's works for herself - to gain wisdom and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOEZZI, MELODY MOECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio MoezziFaulkner, Harris
Summary: Growing up in a military family, journalist and news anchor Harris Faulkner experienced firsthand how success in life is rooted in the knowledge, integrity, and duty that came from her military surroundings. She shares the formative lessons in leadership and work ethic she learned from a lifetime spent absorbing the military mindset, and offers recommendations for how all families can benefit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FAUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FAULKNER, HARRIS FAULadapo, Joseph
Summary: "Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo shares the inspiring story of how he came to be who he is. After experiencing abuse as a child, Dr. Ladapo was incapable of connecting emotionally with other people. He was dissociated from virtually everything in his life and numbly powered through college, medical school, and residency to become a doctor and university professor. It wasn't until he fell...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2022