Higgins, Kristan
Summary: Emerson, Georgia, and Marley have been best friends ever since they met at a weight-loss camp as teens. When Emerson tragically passes away, she leaves one final wish for her best friends: to conquer the fears they still carry as adults. For each of them, that means something different. For Marley, it's coming to terms with the survivor's guilt she's carried around since her twin sister's...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HIGBaker, Jes
Summary: "Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls is a manifesto and call to arms for women of all sizes and ages. With smart and sassy eloquence, veteran blogger Jes Baker calls on women to be proud of their bodies, fight against fat-shaming, and embrace a body-positive worldview to change public perceptions and help women maintain mental health. With the same straightforward tone that catapulted her to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2015
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Summary: Why is today's diet industry pulling in 70 billion dollars every year, while when people go on a diet, only five percent of them succeed and the rest gain weight or stay the same? Here's why: A heavy, shamed body is a body with an unheard message and a thwarted quest, and until the secrets are unlocked and the wisdom is harvested, that impasse will be unbreachable. In these pages, Bedrick...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belly Song Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 BEDSaujani, Reshma
Summary: Do you run yourself ragged trying to not just do it all, but do it all flawlessly? Do you lose sleep ruminating over small mistakes or worrying that something you said or did might have offended someone? Have you ever passed up a big opportunity - a relationship, job, or a personal challenge - for fear you wouldn't nail it right away or look foolish trying? For you, is failure simply not an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 155.3 SAUHollis, Rachel
Summary: Rachel Hollis is sounding a wake-up call. She knows that many women have been taught to define themselves in light of other people--whether as wife, mother, daughter, or employee--instead of learning how to own who they are and what they want. With a challenge to women everywhere to stop talking themselves out of their dreams, Hollis identifies the excuses to let go of, the behaviors to adopt,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Leadership, an imprint of HarperCollins 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 HOLCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 158.1082 HOLHilliard, Chloé
Summary: "Fans of Issa Rae and Phoebe Robinson will love this collection of laugh-out-loud funny and insightful essays that explore race, feminism, pop culture, and how society reinforces the message that we are nothing without the perfect body"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 HILRichards, Amy
Summary: "Behind every successful woman is the fascinating story of how she got to the top. And throughout history, trailblazing women have opened doors for those who followed. Based on the rich collection of interviews and documentaries from MAKERS, this book introduces pioneering women from all walks of life. Readers will get to know these women's hopes, dreams, challenges, and accomplishments in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920.72 RICHiggins, Kristan
Summary: "Two friends make a promise to their dying friend to face their deepest hopes and greatest fears by agreeing to stop waiting until they lose weight and start living now. As they begin to work on their list of things to do, they grow stronger and learn to embrace themselves just the way they are"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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Summary: "Even as a wave of renewed feminism swells, too many women continue to starve, stuff, overwork, or neglect our bodies in pursuit of paper-thin ideals. "Fitness" has been co-opted by the beauty industry. We associate it with appearance when we should associate it with power. Grounded in advocacy with a rowdy, accessible spirit, Physical Disobedience asserts that denigrating our bodies is, in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 COOClaude-Pierre, Peggy.
Contents: 1. The beginning of Montreux -- 2. Confirmed negativity condition -- 3. Myths and misconceptions -- 4. The acute patient: held hostage by the "forever" intruder -- 5. Reversing the negative mind -- 6. The five stages of recovery -- 7. On love and healing: the challenges at home -- 8. Finding the help you need -- 9. The poetry of healing -- 10. A final message of hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Random House Inc. 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8527 CLARoth, Geneen.
Summary: Explores the themes of longing, self-denial, and nourishment within the broader context of women's experience, drawing on her own healing to analyze the aspects of appetite and its impact
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 ROTSummary: "Acclaimed street syle photographer Ari Seth Cohen and director Lina Plioplyte dive into the personal lives of New York City's most fashionable seniors. In an industry obsessed with youth, these older women dispel conventional ideas about beauty and aging and prove that with age comes grace, confidence, and new, unimagined opportunities for fame and fortune."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ADVKite, Lexie
Summary: "Positive body image isn't believing your body looks good; it is knowing your body is good, regardless of how it looks"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 KITKrupp, Charla.
Summary: "Boot camp for a younger, hipper makeover, packed with no-holds-barred advice on little beauty and fashion changes that pay off big time."--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Springboard Press 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 646.7 KRUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Life KruppLee, Michelle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391 LEEGeertsen, Lauren
Summary: "This book explains how women strangle our self-love and positive self-image and teaches how to find a true body love within"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 GEEGruys, Kjerstin.
Summary: Chronicles the year the author spent avoiding her reflection, an effort throughout which she relied on the feedback of others to help her gauge her appearance, outlook, priorities, and beliefs about beauty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRUYS, KJERSTIN GRUTovar, Virgie
Summary: Growing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt, she was over it--and gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again. Ever since, she's been helping others to do the same. Tovar is hungry for a world where bodies are valued equally, food is free from moral judgment, and you can jiggle through life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feminist Press at the City University of New York 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 TOVDionne, Evette
Summary: "In this insightful, funny, and whip-smart book, acclaimed writer Evette Dionne explores the minefields fat Black women are forced to navigate in the course of everyday life. From her early experiences of harassment to adolescent self-discovery in internet chatrooms to a diagnosis of heart failure at age twenty- nine, Dionne tracks her relationship with friends, sex, motherhood, agoraphobia,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DIONNE, EVETTE DIOHunt, Kenya
Summary: "From the Deputy Editor of Elle UK, a provocative and humorous collection of essays on what it means to be black, a woman, a mother and a global citizen in today's ever-changing world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 HUNKay, Katty
Summary: "Working women today are better educated and more well qualified than ever before. Yet men still predominate in the corporate world. In The Confidence Code, Claire Shipman and Katty Kay argue that the key reason is confidence. Combining cutting-edge research in genetics, gender, behavior, and cognition--with examples from their own lives and those of other successful women in politics, media,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: The Emmy Award-winning cohost of Fox's The Real and SiriusXM's Cafae Mocha presents a laugh-out-loud memoir about learning to resist the pressures of conformity while unlocking personal potential through self-acceptance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Go 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOVE, LONI LOVMolfino, Majo
Summary: "In Break the Good Girl Myth, women's leadership expert and podcast host Majo Molfino shares how design thinking methods can help women identify and dismantle the self-sabotaging myths that negatively impact their work, relationships, and wellbeing"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperColinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.3 MOLZimmerman, Jess
Summary: "This essay collection uses female monsters from Greek mythology to explore traits that women are taught to suppress, and encourage readers to embrace them instead"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2020