Fox, Helena
Summary: "Sixteen-year-old Biz sees her father every day, though he died when she was seven. When he suddenly disappears, she tumbles into a disaster-land of grief and depression from which she must find her way back"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FOXKessler, David A.
Summary: Why do we think, feel, and act in ways we wished we did not? For decades, Dr. David A Kessler has studied this question with regard to tobacco, food, and drugs. Over the course of these investigations, he identified one underlying mechanism common to a broad range of human suffering. This phenomenon--capture--is the process by which our attention is hijacked and our brains commandeered by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 KESAmen, Daniel G.
Summary: "New hope for those suffering from conditions like depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, addictions, PTSD, ADHD and more. Though incidence of these conditions is skyrocketing, for the past four decades standard treatment hasn't much changed, and success rates in treating them have barely improved, either. Meanwhile, the stigma of the "mental illness" label-damaging and devastating on its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale Momentum, the nonfiction imprint of Tyndale House Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 AMESummary: The nation's leading community-based nonprofit dedicated to helping those living with mental illness provides clear, honest, jargon-free information for anyone struggling emotionally and looking for help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rocky Pond Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 618.92 WHECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 618.92 WHEDavid, Anthony S.
Summary: We cannot know how to fix a problem until we understand its causes. But even for some of the most common mental health problems, specialists argue over whether the answers lie in the persons biology, their psychology or their circumstances. As a cognitive neuropsychiatrist, Anthony David brings together many fields of enquiry, from social and cognitive psychology to neurology. The key for each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oneworld 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 DAVHenry, Katie
Summary: Ellis Kimball, sixteen, whose anxiety disorder causes her to prepare for the imminent end of the world, meets Hannah, who claims to know when it will happen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HENSummary: Thirty-one young adult authors share their own struggles with mental illness, ranging from such topics as neurodiversity and addiction to OCD and PTSD.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 616.8 LIFLombardo, Jennifer
Summary: "In the past, mental health was rarely discussed; it was seen as a private or even embarrassing issue, and anyone with a mental illness was generally expected to keep it to themselves. Today, however, many people have recognized the benefits of being open and honest about mental health. Through informative fact boxes, helpful graphic organizers, and engaging text, readers learn the basics about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: KidHaven Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 616.89 LOMHourigan, Erin
Summary: A little girl whose father's world goes from bright and yellow to dark and blue gets frustrated when she is unable to help him, but knows that together, they can do anything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOUBaldwin, Cindy
Summary: Twelve-year-old Della Kelly of Maryville, North Carolina, tries to come to terms with her mother's mental illness while her father struggles to save the farm from a record-breaking drought.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC BALHarrington, Anne
Summary: In Mind Fixers, Anne Harrington, author of The Cure Within, explores psychiatry's repeatedly frustrated struggle to understand mental disorder in biomedical terms. She shows how the stalling of early twentieth-century efforts in this direction allowed Freudians and social scientists to insist, with some justification, that they had better ways of analyzing and fixing minds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 HARPreston, Natasha
Summary: "A bind-up of two popular novels by author Natasha Preston--The Twin and The Lake"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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Summary: Beatrice Fletcher, great-grandniece of famous mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, is obsessed with the unsolved mysteries and murders of Cabot Cove, Maine, but this time the case becomes personal when her best friend Jackson disappears and she must rely on the help of three students from the elite Broadmoor Academy to find him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KUEde la Peña, Matt
Summary: Kidd is running from his past and his future. No mom, no dad, and there's nothing for him at the group home but therapy. He doesn't belong at the beach where he works either, unless he finds a reason to stay.Olivia is blond hair, blue eyes, rich dad. The prettiest girl in Cardiff. She's hiding something from Kidd--but could they ever be together anyway?Devon is mean, mysterious, and driven by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH DE LLawson, Jenny
Summary: "As Jenny Lawson's hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken (in the best possible way), she explores her experimental treatment of transcranial magnetic stimulation with brutal honesty. But also with brutal humor: "People do different things to distract themselves during each treatment. I embroider. It feels fitting. I'm being magnetically stabbed in the head...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LAWParciak, Wendy.
Summary: These are the words of Marzita Zaferatos, a mentally-ill young woman who wanders into the lives of her neighbors on Locust Street, whether they want her to or not. On the street live a frail spinster, a career-driven couple and their toddler, a neurologist with a constricting shyness of women, a teenager who wishes her life could be as interesting as her daydreams, and Marzita's father, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Canoes Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAREarley, Pete.
Summary: A journalistic investigation into the criminalization of America's mentally ill describes the author's battle with the shortcomings of the mental health system and the Miami-Dade County jail after his son was declared bipolar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 EARPhillips, Jayne Anne
Summary: "In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee, the adult in her family for as long as she can remember, finds herself on a buckboard journey with her mother, Eliza, who hasn't spoken in more than a year. They arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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Summary: "The story of a family whose single mom, fighting mental illness, slowly becomes unable to raise her family, told from the perspective of each of the three children. As the novel opens, a mother drives her eldest son Walter from their home in Los Angeles to the University of California at Berkeley. It will be her last fully responsible act before breaking down completely and being committed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMBalius, Fernando
Summary: "A portrayal in graphic novel format of the author's battle with auditory hallucinations, depicted as a monster, and his journey to understand and cope with his illness"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Mundi, an imprint of The Pennsylvania State University Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 BALIUS, FERNANDO BALHulls, Tessa
Summary: "Tessa Hulls delves into her own family history and the intergenerational trauma caused by mental illness and political strife"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 HULLS, TESSA HULClose, Helena
Summary: 18-year-old Saoirse can’t wait to leave school – but just before the final exams her ex-boyfriend dies by suicide. Everyone blames Saoirse – even Saoirse herself, who cheated on him with his best friend. She is shunned by her schoolmates and suffers unbearable levels of anxiety, which her useless counsellor does nothing to alleviate. On the night of the prom, everything becomes too much and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Island Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CLOVann, David
Summary: In his riveting new novel, internationally bestselling New York Times Notable author and Prix Medicis étranger-winner David Vann reimagines his father's final days. Halibut on the Moon traces the roots of mental illness in one man's life as he attempts to anchor himself to the places and people that once shaped his sense of identity. Middle-aged and deeply depressed, Jim arrives in California...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2019