Rusick, Jessica
Summary: "In this title, readers learn common symptoms and behaviors of deafness and how it affects kids at school and in relationships. Text includes suggestions on how to be a kind and respectful friend to someone who is deaf and appropriate activities kids can enjoy together. A famous person who has overcome the challenges of deafness is highlighted."--Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Big Buddy Books, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 362.42 RUSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J616.85 RUSCotter, John
Summary: "A devastating account of the author's experience with the debilitating condition known as Ménière's Disease that sheds urgent, bracingly honest light on both the taboos surrounding disability and the limits of medical science"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COTTER, JOHN COTDugan, Marcia B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallaudet University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.8 DUGSummary: "Includes emotions surrounding hearing loss, where and how to find help, how to map an audiogram, function and selection of hearing aids and why some people reject them. Other topics include cochlear implants, Meniere's disease, tinnitus, aging, listening skills, wireless assistive technology and assistive technology products"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Auricle Ink Publishers 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.8 CONDalebout, Susan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Praeger Publishers 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.8 DALLee, Don
Summary: Yadin Park is a talented alt-country musician whose career has floundered, doomed first by his homely looks and lack of stage presence and then by a progressive hearing disorder. His girlfriend, Jeanette Matsuda, might have been a professional photographer but for a devastating heartbreak in her teens. Now Yadin works for Jeanette's father's carpet-laying company in California while Jeanette...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEEAntrobus, Raymond
Summary: The award-winning author of Can Bears Ski? and the illustrator of Here's a Little Poem draw on personal experiences in the story of Little Bear, who learns about his deafness when a visit to an audiologist reveals the truth about a world he sometimes hastrouble understanding.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ANTThomas, Jennifer J.
Summary: "Are you a picky eater? Do you worry that food will make you vomit or choke? Do you find eating to be a chore? If yes, this book is for you! Your struggles could be caused by an avoidant / restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), a disorder characterized by eating a limited variety or volume of food. You may have been told that you eat like a child, but ARFID affects people right across the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 THOMcCabe, Jessica
Summary: "The creator of the YouTube channel How to ADHD shares the insights and strategies that help her thrive in this accessible and shame-free guide to working with, understanding, and celebrating the ADHD brain"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2024
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Summary: Rev. ed of: The learning-disabled child. c1980.
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.F. Blair Publisher 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.93 STESummary: "Provides Basic Consumer Health Information about Disorders of the Ears, Hearing Loss, Vestibular Disorders, Nasal and Sinus Problems, Throat and Vocal Cord Disorders, and Otolaryngologic Cancers, Including Genetic and Congenital Deafness, Tinnitus, Vertigo, Snoring, Along with Current Research Initiatives, a Glossary, and Sources for Help and Information"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Omnigraphics, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.5 EARDunham, David R.
Summary: "In this unique book, David and Krista Dunham share their journey through her eating disorder"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Growth Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.8 DUNClein, Emmeline
Summary: "A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal culture of disordered eating they've wrought. In Dead Weight, Emmeline Clein tells the story of her own disordered eating alongside and through other women from history, pop culture and the girls she's known and loved. Tracing the medical and cultural history of Anorexia, Bulimia, and Orthorexia,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Summary: Chase Arthur is a budding animator and hopeless romantic obsessed with Disney films and finding his true love, but he's plagued with the belief that he's not enough for anyone: he's recovering from an eating disorder and suffers from body dysmorphia fueled by his father, and can't quite figure out his gender identity. When Chase starts his freshman year of college, he has to navigate being away...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2022
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Summary: "Raising Will is a heartfelt, humbling memoir written by a Texan-turned-Minnesotan mother and child psychologist. Her heart breaks for Will when he is repeatedly banned from Fun Friday in first grade shortly after he is diagnosed with ADHD. The family zigzags through an obstacle course of therapy, medication side effects, tutoring, and sleepless nights, while shining a light on Will's inherent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Provides consumer health information for teens about risk factors, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of eating disorders, along with tips for healthy eating. Includes index and more information about nutrition, weight management, physical fitness, and mental fitness"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Omnigraphics 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 EATGold, Hayley
Summary: Gold's memoir about disordered eating, chronic illness, and a profound relationship with hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Street Noise Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOLD, HAYLEY GOLGreene, Ross W.
Summary: "Now in a revised and updated 6th edition, the groundbreaking, research-based approach to understanding and parenting children who frequently exhibit severe fits of temper and other challenging behaviors, from a distinguished clinician and pioneer in the field. What's an explosive child? A child who responds to routine problems with extreme frustration--crying, screaming, swearing, kicking,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2021
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Summary: Seventh-grader Annabelle's mother is a hoarder, and their whole house is full of canned goods, broken toys, fabric, and old newspapers--but when a pile of newspapers (organized by weather reports) falls on Annabelle's younger sister Leslie and their mother is more concerned about the newspapers, it sets off a chain of events that brings their fix-it-all grandmother in and Annabelle realizes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2017
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Summary: There's something troubling in our midst, somehow lost among the myriad of problems and challenges we face individually and collectively. Stealing, spending and hoarding behaviors have slowly then rapidly exploded in front of our eyes,or, perhaps more accurately, silently and secretively. The lines between governmental or corporate overspending and greed vs. plain theft and fraud have blurred...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Infinity Publishing 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8522 SHUBurton, Susan
Summary: "Susan Burton is ready to come clean. Happily married with two children, working at her dream job, she has lived a secret life of compulsive eating and starving for twenty-five years. This is the story not only of loosening the grip of her compulsion but of moving past her shame and learning to tell her secret."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BURTON, SUSAN BURAwada, Dounya
Summary: "Dounya Awada is a 24-year-old, devout Muslim, happy, healthy, and very much alive. But just a few years before, she nearly starved to death. Her struggle began when she was six years old. Little Dounya wanted nothing less than to be perfect, like her mother. She pushed herself hard every day, excelling in schoolwork and at home. She had to be the cutest, prettiest, smartest girl in the room....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zuiker Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 AWASummary: This docudrama tells the story of Catherine Dunbar's seven-year battle for life in the fight against anorexia. Based on the story told by her mother and on her own diaries, it traces Catherine's downward spiral from the age of 15, when a lively and attractive teen became obsessed by her weight, went on binges, became addicted to laxatives, and, despite desperate efforts from many sides, died...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007