Dimidjian, Sona
Summary: Unlike other mindfulness resources for moms and moms-to-be, this compassionate book is grounded in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, a proven program. The authors are leading experts on the emotional challenges of pregnancy and early parenting--and how to overcome them. Guided meditations and gentle yoga practices help you build crucial skills to prevent depression, ease anxiety, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Guilford Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.2 DIMWong, Teresa
Summary: "In this intimate and moving graphic memoir, Teresa Wong writes and illustrates the story of her struggle with postpartum depression in the form of a letter to her daughter Scarlet. Equal parts heartbreaking and funny, Dear Scarlet perfectly captures the quiet desperation of those suffering from PPD and the profound feelings of inadequacy and loss. As Teresa grapples with her fears and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.198 WONDowrick, Christopher
Summary: Meet Julie - a women who suffers from periods of depression. Julie and her family help readers to understand what depression is, what it is like to feel depressed and how it can affect their family life. She explains how coping with depression can sometimes be very difficult but there is support and help available that can relieve the feelings of depression. This illustrated book is an ideal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8527 DOWNoonan, Susan J.
Summary: "Following on the success of Managing Your Depression, Susan Noonan's new book is for family members and friends of people with depression or bipolar disorder. A certified peer specialist at McLean Hospital (a comprehensive psychiatric hospital affiliated with Harvard University), Susan draws on her experiences providing support and education for those living with or caring for a person who has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2016
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Summary: We meet Julie several weeks after her suicide attempt, on the eve of her son's first birthday. Grateful to be alive, Julie tries her best to appreciate every moment. She has, for whatever reason, been given a second chance, but her emotional demons are unrelenting, and she is slowly and quietly losing the battle.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 813 KOPGunnis, Emily
Summary: A tragic death. A missing baby. A long-kept secret... 1960. Thirteen-year-old Rebecca lives in fear of her father's temper. As a storm batters Seaview Cottage one night, she hears a visitor at the door and a violent argument ensues. By the time the police arrive, Rebecca's parents are dead and the visitor has fled. No one believes Rebecca heard a stranger downstairs... 2014. Iris, a journalist,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Headline Review 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUNGoldstein, Elisha
Summary: Goldstein believes that overcoming depression and uncovering happiness is in harnessing our brain's own natural antidepressant power and ultimately creating a more resilient antidepressant brain. In seven simple steps, she shows you how to take back control of your mind, your mood, and your life --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 GOLDSummary: Don Rumata is one of a group of Earth scientists who have been sent to the planet Arkanar with the proviso that they must not interfere in the planet's political or historical development. Treated by the planet's natives as a kind of divinity, Don is both godlike and impotent in the face of its chaos and brutality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HARSheffield, Anne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8527 SHEFieve, Ronald R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2009
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Summary: After Brooklyn graduate student Morgan Adair agrees to be the godmother for the infant son of her best friend Claire, she is shocked when she receives a phone call from Claire, who claims to have killed her husband and son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACDFieve, Ronald R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2006
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Summary: Thinly sliced and illustrated, emotions are much easier to digest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8522 LEPFiore, Edith.
Summary: Discover the roots of your present-day problems. They might be deep in your past, in another life. Here is the fascinating approach to problem-solving that is changing peoples' belief in reincarnation, life after death, and immortality with challenging evidence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Advanced Studies Consultants 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133 FIORimmer, Kelly
Summary: "With her father recently moved to a care facility, Beth Walsh volunteers to clear out the family home and is surprised to discover the door to her childhood playroom padlocked. She's even more shocked at what's behind it--a hoarder's mess of her father's paintings, mounds of discarded papers and miscellaneous junk in the otherwise fastidiously tidy house. As she picks through the clutter, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIMFast, Julie A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Mind FastElliott, Laura
Summary: In 1941, after Hitler declares war on the United States, unleashing U-boat submarines to attack American ships, Louisa June, with the waves outside her house carrying dangerous enemies, must help her mother after her father and brother are caught in the crossfire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ELLBurgess, Wes.
Contents: Depression basics -- Symptoms of depression -- Diagnosis and causes -- Similar and coexisting disorders -- Newer antidepressant medications -- Classic antidepressants -- What if your antidepressant doesn't work? -- Finding a doctor -- Seeking therapy -- Choosing between psychotherapists -- Treating depression at home -- Good health habits -- Stress-reduction techniques -- Women and depression...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8527 BUREdwards, Eldonna
Summary: Grace Carter has the Knowing. It offers glimpses of people's pasts and futures, and allows Grace to talk to Isaac, her twin brother who died at birth. To Aunt Pearl, the Knowing is a family gift; to Grace's strict Evangelical pastor father, it's witchcraft. Her sisters Hope, Joy, and Chastity enjoy a normal life. It's Grace's friendships that keeps her afloat: Lyle, a gentle, homeless man, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Edwards 2018Kleiman, Karen R.
Summary: Over 90 percent of new mothers have scary, intrusive thoughts about their baby and themselves. What if I drop him? What if I snap and hurt my baby? Mothering is so hard - I don't know if I really want to do this anymore. Gosh, I'm so terrible for thinking that! Yet for too many mothers, those thoughts remain secret, hidden away in shame that make you feel even worse. But here's the good news:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Familius LLC 2019
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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 MERParker, Morgan
Summary: "Dubbed a voice of her generation, poet and writer Morgan Parker has spent much of her adulthood in therapy, trying to square the resonance of her writing with the alienation she feels in nearly every aspect of life, from her lifelong singleness to her battle with depression. She traces this loneliness to an inability to feel truly safe with others and a historic hyper-awareness stemming from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2024
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Summary: Written by Daniel Howell, in consultation with a qualified psychologist, in an entertaining and personal way from the perspective of someone who has been through it all--this no-nonsense book gives you the tools to understand your mind so you can be in control and really live. Split into three chapters for each stage of the journey: This Night - how to get through your toughest moments and be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2021