Summary: Carl Allen signs up for a self-help program based on one simple principle: say yes to everything ... and anything. Unleashing the power of 'yes' transforms Carl's life in amazing and unexpected ways, but he soon discovers that embracing every opportunity might just become too much of a good thing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD YES RATED PG-13Howes, Lewis
Summary: "At 30 years old, outwardly thriving but unfulfilled inside, Howes began a personal journey to find inner peace and to uncover the many masks that men, both young and old, wear. He started by asking for advice from some of the world's best psychologists, doctors, and household names like Tony Robbins and Ray Lewis. ... He teaches men how to break through the walls that hold them back and shows...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 HOWPoulter, Stephan
Summary: "A looming health crisis faces men who find themselves stuck in today’s changing world. Slowly, more and more men are learning the positives that come from talking openly about their struggles with mental and physical health. In this incisive and insightful guide to male mental health, popular clinical psychologist Stephan B. Poulter, Ph.D., unpacks the various issues that stem from male shame,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books, an imprint of Globe Pequot 2024
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Summary: From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel about two young men, once best friends, whose lives collide again after a loss. Cam is living in Los Angeles and falling apart after the love of his life has died. Kai's ghost won't leave Cam alone; his spectral visits wild, tender, and unexpected. When Cam returns to his hometown of Houston, he...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: PA FIC WASTweedy, Damon
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Black Man in a White Coat comes a powerful and urgent call to center psychiatry and mental health care into the mainstream of medicine As much as we all might wish that mental health problems, with their elusive causes and unsettling behaviors, simply did not exist, millions of people suffer from them, sometimes to an extreme extent. Many others...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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Summary: "Candid, compassionate graphic interviews with returning war vets from the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. Cartoonist Jess Ruliffson spent five years traveling across the country interviewing veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, from kitchen tables in Georgia and libraries in New York City to dive bars in Mississippi and back porches in Vermont. What she finds is that the real...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2022
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Summary: "When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins. Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government had switched the city's water supply to a source that corroded Flint's aging lead pipes. Complaints about the foul-smelling water were dismissed: the residents of Flint, mostly poor and African...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.6 CLACopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.6 CLACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.6 CLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Environ ClarkMorel, Olivier
Summary: A gripping graphic novel illustrates the challenges of Iraq War veterans as well as their inspiring triumphs. After the shock of 9/11, for hundreds of thousands of young Americans there was Ar Ramadi, Baghdad, Abu Ghraib--the war in Iraq. Then came the trauma. From the torment of these vets to their reflections, this book demonstrates the seemingly impossible return of those who aspire to get...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: NBM, Nantier, Beall, Minoustchine Publishing inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 MORLombardo, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: KidHaven Publishing 2021