Perkins, Nichole
Summary: "Pop culture is the Pandora's Box of our lives. Racism, wealth, poverty, beauty, inclusion, exclusion, and hope -- all of these intractable and unavoidable features course through the media we consume. Examining pop culture's impact on her life, Nichole Perkins takes readers on a rollicking trip through the last twenty years of music, media and the internet from the perspective of one southern...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PERKINS, NICHOLE PERJenkins, Jedidiah
Summary: "In this poignant memoir from the New York Times bestselling author of To Shake the Sleeping Self, a forty-year-old gay man and his eccentric conservative mother travel the country together and find surprising answers to our generational and cultural rifts. When his mother, Barbara, turned seventy, Jedidiah Jenkins was reminded of a palpable, sobering truth: Our parents won't live forever. For...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Convergent 2023
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Summary: "Despair is always described as dull," writes Daphne Merkin, "when the truth is that despair has a light all its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottled silver." This Close to Happy--Merkin's rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression--captures this strange light. Daphne Merkin has been hospitalized three times: first, in grade school, for childhood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MERKIN, DAPHNE MERElkins-Tanton, Lindy T.
Summary: A memoir from a world-renowned planetary scientist explores her remarkable life story, the struggles she faced as a woman in the field, and her work as the leader of NASA's Psyche mission to explore the largest known metal-rich asteroid.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarpersCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELKINS-TANTON, LINDY ELKJenkins, Barbara
Summary: From the New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Walk West comes Barbara Jenkins's long-awaited tale of her walk across America, an adventure that once captured the national media spotlight. From the untold narrative of her impoverished hillbilly upbringing, to the crushing aftermath of her walk toward newfound courage and strength, So Long as It's Wild is her story. As a child growing up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dexterity 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JENKINS, BARBARA JENPaek, Se-hŭi
Summary: "Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her - what to call it? - depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgmental of others. She hides her feelings well at work and with friends; adept at performing the calmness, even ease, her lifestyle demands. The effort is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEHEE, BAEK SEHPorizkova, Paulina
Summary: "Writer and former model Paulina Porizkova pens a series of intimate, introspective, and enlightening essays about the complexities of womanhood at every age, pulling back the glossy magazine cover and writing from the heart"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Open Field/Penguin Life 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PORIZKOVA, PAULINA PORSchwarcz, Luiz
Summary: "A literary sensation in Brazil and now a global publishing event, Luiz Schwarcz's wise and tender memoir bravely interrogates the story of his own ordeal of depression in the context of a family story of murder, dispossession, and silence-the long echo of the Holocaust across generations When Luiz Schwarcz was a child, he was told little about his grandfather and namesake Láios-"Luiz" in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHWARCZ, LUIZ SCHRussell, Cameron
Summary: "Scouted by a modeling agent when she was just sixteen years old, Cameron Russell first approached her job with some reservations: She was a precocious and serious student with her sights set on college-not the runway. But it was a job, and modeling seemed to offer young women like herself access to wealth, fame, and influence. Besides, as she was often reminded, "there are a million girls in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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Summary: "Patrick J. Kennedy, the former congressman and youngest child of Senator Ted Kennedy, details his personal and political battle with mental illness and addiction, exploring mental health care's history in the country alongside his and every family's private struggles"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 KENNEDY, PATRICK J KENOrenstein, Peggy
Summary: The COVID pandemic propelled many people to change their lives in ways large and small. To keep herself engaged and cope with a series of seismic shifts in family life, lifelong knitter Peggy Orenstein set out to make a garment from the ground up: learning to shear sheep, spin and dye yarn, then knitting herself a sweater. Orenstein shares her year-long journey as daughter, wife, mother,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 921 OREButler, Blake
Summary: "Blake Butler and Molly Brodak instantly connected, fell in love, married and built a life together. Both writers with deep roots in contemporary American literature, their union was an iconic joining of forces between two major and beloved talents. Nearly three years into their marriage, grappling with mental illness and a lifetime of trauma, Molly took her own life. In the days and weeks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archway Editions 2023
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Summary: "The Grammy-winning superstar and best-selling author of All That Is Bitter and Sweet shares the story of her struggles with depression, PTSD and addiction, a journey that included extended hospital stays and moving lessons about how to find hope and help, "--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JUDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JUDD, NAOMI JUDMailhot, Terese Marie
Summary: "Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAILHOT, TERESE MARIE MAIMusk, Maye
Summary: "The international supermodel shares personal stories and lessons learned from a life of "living dangerously--carefully." Maye Musk at seventy-one is a fashionable, charming, jet-setting supermodel with a fascinating and tight-knit circle of family and friends. But things were not always so easy or glamourous--she became a single mom at thirty-one years old, struggling through poverty to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Life 2019
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Summary: "A memoir of Nadia Murad's time as a captive of the Islamic State, her escape, and her human rights activism"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 MURAD, NADIA MURTung, Debbie
Summary: "From the bestselling author of Quiet Girl in a Noisy World comes a gently humorous and poignant collection of comics about anxiety and depression—because sometimes even the simple things like getting out of bed every day feel like an uphill battle. Everything Is OK is the story of Debbie Tung’s struggle with anxiety and her experience with depression. She shares what it’s like navigating life,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 152.46 TUNChaudry, Rabia
Summary: "A memoir about food, body image, and growing up in a loving but sometimes oppressively concerned Pakistani immigrant family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAUDRY, RABIA CHADark, Kimberly
Summary: "Collection of personal essays about what it means to look a certain way. Or rather, certain ways. Navigating Kimberly Dark's experience of being fat since childhood--as well as queer, white-privileged, a gender-confirming 'girl with a pretty face,' active then disabled, and inevitably agin--each piece blends storytelling and social analysis to deftly coax readers into a deeper understanding of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AK Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DARK, KIMBERLY DARMcGill, Joseph
Summary: "In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep overnight in former slave dwellings that still stand across the country--revealing the fascinating history behind these sites and shedding light on larger issues of race in America. Joseph McGill Jr., a historic preservationist and Civil War reenactor, founded the Slave Dwelling Project in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.362 MCGAnderson, Pamela
Summary: "Pamela Anderson's blond bombshell image was ubiquitous in the 1990s. Discovered in the stands during a Canadian football game, she was immediately rocket launched into fame, becoming Playboy's favorite cover girl and an emblem of Hollywood glamour and sexuality. Yet the Pamela Anderson we think we know was created through happenstance rather than careful cultivation. Love, Pamela brings forth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANDERSON, PAMELA ANDLakshmi, Padma.
Summary: Television personality Padma Lakshmi examines "her journey from [a humble family kitchen], led by ferocious and unforgettable women, to the judges' table of Top Chef and beyond. It chronicles the fierce devotion of the remarkable people who shaped her along the way, from her headstrong mother who flouted conservative Indian convention to make a life in New York, to her Brahmin grandfather--a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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Summary: "An eloquent memoir of a 27 year old actress who suffered a massive brain aneurysm onstage at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and awoke to discover that she had aphasia, a rare condition in which one loses the ability to speak, read and write"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARKS, LAUREN MARMcDermott, Zack
Summary: The story of a young man fighting to recover from a devastating psychotic break and the mother who refuses to give up on him. Zack McDermott, a 26-year-old Brooklyn public defender, woke up one morning convinced he was being filmed, Truman Show-style, as part of an audition for a TV pilot. This was it - his big dreams were finally coming true. Every passerby was an actor; every car would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017