Liontas, Annie
Summary: "Annie Liontas suffered multiple concussions in her thirties. In Sex with a Brain Injury, she writes about what it means to be one of the "walking wounded," facing her fear, her rage, her physical suffering, and the effects of head trauma on her marriage and other relationships. Forced to reckon with her own queer mother's battle with addiction, Liontas finds echoes in their pain. Liontas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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Summary: When Mikey is young, the Sullivans are a closely knit unit, all of them devoted to caring for her. But as Mikey grows older, she also grows increasingly violent. By the time she's twelve, institutionalization is the only available option--and without the shared purpose of caring for Mikey, the family begins to unravel. As her family falls apart, Teresa searches for relief and connection during...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SULMaslin, Abby
Summary: "Abby Maslin shares an inspiring story of resilience and commitment in a deeply affecting new memoir. After her husband suffered a traumatic brain injury, the couple worked together as he recovered--and they learned to love again. When Abby Maslin's husband, TC, didn't make it home on August 18, 2012, she knew something was terribly wrong. Her fears were confirmed when she learned that her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MASLIN MASSummary: After being brutally attacked outside a bar and in spite of recovering from a coma and extensive physical injuries, Mark Hogancamp suffered brain damage and nearly total memory loss. Unable to afford therapy he spent the next few years building a scale model, World War II-era town, Marwencol, populated with dolls, where he lived out his fantasy life, and which he documented in photographs. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Guild 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MARStoler, Diane Roberts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.481 STOStoler, Diane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Pub. Group 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 STOMagary, Drew
Summary: The fan-favorite Defector and former Deadspin columnist shares his long recovery from a catastrophic brain hemorrhage and how he learned to live with a broken mind as he tried to figure out who this new person is, in this fascinating, darkly funny comeback story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAGARY, DREW MAGWilliams, Kayla
Summary: Documents the author's marriage to a fellow Iraq War veteran, describing the impact of his brain injury on their relationship, their shared efforts to overcome post-traumatic stress, and the lack of support for veterans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 WILLIAMS, KAYLA WILSummary: The epic rivalry between half-pipe legends Kevin Pearce and Shaun White is documented in this exhilarating ride into the world of extreme snowboarding. With both practicing more and more breathtaking and dangerous tricks leading up to the Vancouver Winter Olympics, everything suddenly changes for Kevin when a horrific crash leaves him fighting for his life. When he recovers, all he wants to do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CRASummary: "Provides primary health information on traumatic brain injury (TBI), its symptoms, diagnosis, and treatments, other conditions and disabilities that occur due to TBI, and coping methods. Includes a glossary of terms and directory of organizations for additional help and information"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Omnigraphics 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.4 TRAFleischman, John.
Summary: Through the case history of Phineas Gage, a 19th century Vermonter who had an iron bar driven through his brain and lived, the book examines what is known of brain function.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 FLEMelillo, Robert
Summary: Offers a drug-free program that addresses both the symptoms and causes of such disorders as autism, ADHD, Asperger's, dyslexia, and OCD, involving a disconnection between the left and right sides of the developing brain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A Perigee Book 2015
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Summary: "In the aftermath of a shattering illness, Lonni Sue Johnson lives in a "perpetual now," where she has almost no memories of the past and a nearly complete inability to form new ones. The Perpetual Now is the moving story of this exceptional woman, and the groundbreaking revelations about memory, learning, and consciousness her unique case has uncovered. Lonni Sue Johnson was a renowned artist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B JOHNSON LEMBrown, Carrie
Summary: An Englishman discovers love at the age of 51. It happens to Norris Lamb, a village postman after he sees Vida Stephen, a 41-year-old spinster, dancing naked in the moonlight. Too shy to speak to her, he writes her anonymous love letters. By the author of Rose's Garden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRODolen, Carolyn E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Idyll Arbor 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.4 DOLDoidge, Norman.
Summary: An introduction to the science of neuroplasticity recounts the case stories of patients with mental limitations or brain damage whose seemingly inalterable conditions were improved through treatments that involved the thought re-alteration of brain structure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 612.8 Doidge 2011Doidge, Norman.
Summary: A new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the old notion that the human brain is immutable. Psychoanalyst Doidge traveled the country to meet both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they've transformed--people whose mental limitations or brain damage were seen as unalterable. We see a woman born with half a brain that rewired itself to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.8 DOIBarkin, Janna
Summary: This true story by a family about raising their transgender son is both a captivating read and an invaluable support source for parents facing similar issues. A warm, insightful portrait of a family that includes tips on helping young transgender people navigate their transition, it will support, educate and inspire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BARLesley, Craig.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 LESOsborn, Claudia L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Pub. 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OSBORN, CLAUDIA OSBStein, Deborah.
Summary: After discovering that she was born in a prison to a heroin-addicted mother, the author recalls her subsequent descent into drugs and crime and her recovery as she finds forgiveness and acceptance for both her real and adopted mothers."Even at twelve years old Deborah Jiang Stein, the adopted daughter of a progressive Jewish couple in Seattle, felt like an outsider. Her multiracial features set...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STEIN, DEBORAH STEHenigson, Jeff
Summary: "A memoir about Jeff Henigson's teen Starlight Children's Foundation wish after being diagnosed with brain cancer: to meet Mikhail Gorbachev and plea for nuclear disarmament and world peace"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 HENCrimmins, C. E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2000