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Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A compassionate and eye-opening examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma. For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody's Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma-from the eighteenth century, through America's major wars,...
Author
Publisher
Matt Holt Books, an imprint of BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In Belonging Rules, award-winning executive coach and management consultant Brad Deutser outlines a multidimensional, highly impactful strategy for creating the space necessary for belonging"--
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Do cities work anymore? How did they get to be such sprawling conglomerations of lookalike subdivisions, mega freeways, and "big box" superstores surrounded by acres of parking lots? And why, most of all, don't they feel like real communities? These are the questions that Alex Marshall tackles in this hard-hitting, highly readable look at what makes cities work.
Marshall argues that urban life has broken down because of our basic ignorance of the...
84) Cazadora
Author
Series
Wolves of no world volume 2
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After revealing her hybrid nature to Septimus beyond her pack, Manu hopes that superstition and suspicion do not prevent her and her friends from finding allies in their fight for a better future.
Manu and her friends have cross the mystical border into Kerana, a cursed realm in Argentina. They are searching for allies and a hiding place. Leads include the Coven, a mythical resistance manada that might not even exist. Meanwhile the Cazadores are...
Author
Language
English
Description
When lonely Ravani Foster discovers his new friend Virginia and her six mysterious runaway companions are in danger, he must fight to keep them safe, or lose the only person who has ever understood him.
In the dead of night, a truck arrives in Slaughterville, a small town curiously named after its windowless slaughterhouse. Seven mysterious kids with suitcases step out of the vehicle and into an abandoned home on a dead-end street, looking over their...
Author
Series
Publisher
Guilford Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: The book describes prevailing beliefs about the differences between men and women and examines the extent to which they are explicit or implicit (nonconscious). Chapters identify ways in which gender attitudes affect our expectations, judgments, feelings, and behavior. The rewards of conforming to stereotypes such as feminine "niceness" or masculine assertiveness-and the costs of deviating from them-are discussed. The volume also...
88) All our names
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
From acclaimed author Dinaw Mengestu, a recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award, The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 award, and a 2012 MacArthur Foundation genius grant, comes an unforgettable love story about a searing affair between an American woman and an African man in 1970s America and an unflinching novel about the fragmentation of lives that straddle countries and histories.
All Our Names...
All Our Names...
91) Naked lunch
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2002?], c2001
Language
English
Description
Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on the relationship of art and obscenity, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American culture. For the Burroughs enthusiast and the neophyte, this volume-that contains final-draft typescripts, numerous unpublished contemporaneous writings by Burroughs, his own later introductions...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A two-part, four-hour documentary that explores America's youth mental health crisis through the eyes of more than twenty young people, who speak about their lived experience with mental health challenges, from depression to addiction to suicide ideation.
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
" Do you have digestion problems due to stress? Do you have problems with authority? How many alcoholic drinks do you consume a week? Would you rather be a florist or a truck driver? These are the questions that decide who has what it takes to live at South Pole Station, a place with an average temperature of -54°F and no sunlight for six months a year. Cooper Gosling is adrift at thirty, unmoored by a family tragedy and floundering in her career...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In this book, Rodriguez shares her experience growing up in the shadow of low expectations, reveals how she was able to fake her own pregnancy, and reveals all that she learned from the experience. But more than that, Gaby's story is about fighting stereotypes, and how one girl found the strength to come out from the shadow of low expectations to forge a bright future for herself
97) Hide and seek
Author
Series
Upside-down magic volume 7
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When a flood forces Nory and her best friends to evacuate Dunwiddle and relocate to prestigious Sage Academy, the upside-down magic students have a hard time fitting in.
98) The namesake
Author
Language
English
Description
When his Indian immigrant parents give him an odd name, a boy must struggle towards manhood suffering the burdens of this name as well as the conflicting loyalties of his heritage.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A warm, empathetic guide to understanding, coping with, and healing from the unique pain of sibling estrangement "Whenever I tell people that I am working on a book about sibling estrangement, they sit up a little straighter and lean in, as if I've tapped into a dark secret." Fern Schumer Chapman understands the pain of sibling estrangement firsthand. For the better part of forty years, she had nearly no relationship with her only brother, despite...
100) The new me
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Thirty-year-old Millie just can't pull it together. Misanthropic and morose, she spends her days killing time at a thankless temp job until she can return home to her empty apartment, where she oscillates wildly between self-recrimination and mild delusion, fixating on all the little ways she might change her life. Then she watches TV until she drops off to sleep, and the cycle begins again. When the possibility of a full-time job offer arises, it...
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