Surviving an Eating Disorder: Strategies for Family and Friends
By: Michele Siegel
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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1. Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia
By: Harriet Brown
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
I've never had anorexia, but I know it well. I see it on the street, in the gaunt and sunken face, … read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- mental health
"It's so easy to focus on the anguish and the misery; it's harder, somehow, to acknowledge the positive, maybe for fear of jinxing it, bringing the nightmare back down on our heads."-Harriet Brown, Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia
"I’ve never had anorexia, but I know it well. I see it on the street, in the gaunt and sunken face, the boney chest, the spindly arms of an emaciated woman. I’ve come to recognize the flat look of des…"-Harriet Brown, Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia
2. So You've Been Publicly Shamed
By: Jon Ronson
3.93
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile pub… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
"The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche."-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
"...all violence being a person’s attempt to replace shame with self-esteem."-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
"[W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position."-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
"A wronged person is still a wronged person even if they're an unfashionable wronged person."-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
3. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
By: Frederick Douglass
4.11
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more
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- nonfiction
"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
4. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
By: Carlo Rovelli , Simon Carnell , Erica Segre
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Hardcover
Everything you need to know about the beauty of modern physics in less than 100 pages. In seven bri… read more
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- nonfiction
5. Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too
By: Thom Rutledge , Jenni Schaefer
3.71
Format: 498 pages, Paperback
Jenni had been in an abusive relationship with Ed for far too long. He controlled Jenni's life, dis… read more
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6. The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
By: Bruce D. Perry , Maia Szalavitz
4.80
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
What happens when a young brain is traumatized? How does terror, abuse, or disaster affect a child'… read more
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7. Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery
By: Catherine Gildiner
4.46
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In this fascinating narrative, therapist Catherine Gildiner's presents five of what she calls her m… read more
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- self help
- nonfiction
- psychology
- mental health
"Anger is a defense, not a feeling, ....analyze what feeling the anger was covering."-Catherine Gildiner, Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery
8. What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
By: Bruce D. Perry
4.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powe… read more
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- self help
- nonfiction
- psychology
- mental health
9. Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
By: Anna Lembke
3.91
Format: 304 pages, ebook
This book is about pleasure. It's also about pain. Most important, it's about how to find the delic… read more
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- self help
- nonfiction
- psychology
- mental health
"The reason we’re all so miserable may be because we’re working so hard to avoid being miserable."-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
"The paradox is that hedonism, the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake, leads to anhedonia, which is the inability to enjoy pleasure of any kind."-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
"With prolonged and repeated exposure to pleasurable stimuli, our capacity to tolerate pain decreases, and our threshold for experiencing pleasure increases."-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
"Beyond extreme examples of running from pain, we’ve lost the ability to tolerate even minor forms of discomfort. We’re constantly seeking to distract ourselves from the present moment, to be entertai…"-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
10. The Shadow of Kyoshi (The Kyoshi Novels, #2)
By: F.C. Yee
4.36
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
The epic, can’t-miss follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Avatar, The Last Airbender:The Ris… read more
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"Man guesses, spirits act."-F.C. Yee, The Shadow of Kyoshi (The Kyoshi Novels, #2)
"What we do without guidance defines who we are!"-F.C. Yee, The Shadow of Kyoshi (The Kyoshi Novels, #2)
"Things were so much clearer when there was relief."-F.C. Yee, The Shadow of Kyoshi (The Kyoshi Novels, #2)
"Weakness is practiced and learned as much as strength is!"-F.C. Yee, The Shadow of Kyoshi (The Kyoshi Novels, #2)
11. The Rise of Kyoshi (The Kyoshi Novels, #1)
By: F.C. Yee
4.44
Format: 442 pages, Hardcover
F. C. Yee’s The Rise of Kyoshi delves into the story of Kyoshi, the Earth Kingdom–born Avatar. The … read more
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"Preparedness carries the day."-F.C. Yee, The Rise of Kyoshi (The Kyoshi Novels, #1)
"What you do when no one is guiding you determines who you are."-F.C. Yee, The Rise of Kyoshi (The Kyoshi Novels, #1)
"Both sides' was a rhetorical weapon used by hypocrites and the ignorant."-F.C. Yee, The Rise of Kyoshi (The Kyoshi Novels, #1)
"All of our actions have an impact. Each decision we make ripples into the future. And we alter our landscapes according to our needs."-F.C. Yee, The Rise of Kyoshi (The Kyoshi Novels, #1)
12. Ten Steps to Nanette
By: Hannah Gadsby
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Multi-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared tha… read more
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- nonfiction
"Nanette is basically Eat Pray Love for autistic queer folk."-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette
"So, I will just share it here, because I truly believe that the only universal “body"-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette
"It really is something when you can make collecting and organising objects boring to a young kid with autism spectrum disorder (but that’s exactly what Stamp Explorer managed to do)."-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette
"And I needed my audience to trust me because I needed my audience to feel safe, and I needed my audience to feel safe so that I could take that safety away and not give it back. Why? Because that is …"-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette
13. Your Driver Is Waiting
By: Priya Guns
3.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this electrifyingly fierce and funny social satire-- a gender-flipped reboot of the iconic 1970'… read more
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"I was a woman who wasn’t going to take it anymore because I swear, I have taken so much already."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
"Jolene smiled and in her smile was tomorrow, three months from now, and an infinity swimming in a lake by a summer house."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
"This part of the city used to be cool because it wasn't but then it was forced to be a different of cool. A pricey. I think they call that gentrification."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
"I took the pack of cigarettes from my back pocket and lit one, watching Shereef's two other mechanics with their clients, hoping I wouldn't set off an explosion with my lighter."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
14. Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
By: Soraya Chemaly
4.35
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
A transformative book urging twenty-first century-women to embrace their anger and harness it as a … read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
"Rage became a layer of my skin."-Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
"Every woman has a rape story, whether she has been sexually assaulted or not."-Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
"... if a man gets angry, he's having an off day, if a woman does, she's a raging bitch."-Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
"I wanted to own my anger, because it brought me back to myself. It gave me clarity and purpose."-Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
15. Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
By: Devon Price
4.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving in… read more
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- self help
- nonfiction
- psychology
- mental health
"Therapy that is focused on battling “irrational beliefs,"-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"Refusing to perform neurotypicality is a revolutionary act of disability justice. It's also a radical act of self-love."-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"Much of what we call maturity is a silly pantomime of independence and unfeeling, not a real quality of unbreakable strength."-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"We have to keep other people at arm's length, because letting them see our hyperfixations, meltdowns, obsessions, and outbursts could mean losing their respect. But locking ourselves away means we ca…"-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
16. Same As It Ever Was
By: Claire Lombardo
4.00
Format: 498 pages, Hardcover
Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more
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"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was
17. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
By: Sabrina Strings
4.25
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
In her first book, sociologist Strings (sociology, Univ. of California, Irvine) explores the histor… read more
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- nonfiction
"...the current anti-fat bias in the United States and in much of the West was not born in the medical field. Racial scientific literature since at least the eighteenth century has claimed that fatnes…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"Together, the two traveled to the south of France, where Bernier earned a medical degree in just three months. The degree, however, carried the somewhat suspect stipulation that his fast-tracked medi…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"...racial discourse was deployed by elite Europeans and white Americans to create social distinctions between themselves and fat racial Others. Black people, as well as so-called degraded or hybrid w…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"The legacy of Protestant moralism and race science as it related to fat and thin persons loomed large. Indeed, many early to mid-twentieth-century physicians relied on moral and racial logics to rail…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
18. The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy
By: Caroline Dooner
4.04
Format: 304 pages, ebook
From comedian and ex-diet junkie Caroline Dooner, an inspirational guide that will help you stop di… read more
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- self help
- nonfiction
- psychology
- mental health
"Sugar is addictive like oxygen is addictive. Your body fucking needs it."-Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy
19. Survive FBT: Skills Manual for Parents Undertaking Family Based Treatment (FBT) for Child and Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa
By: Maria Ganci
4.40
Format: 89 pages, Kindle Edition
Are you struggling with Family Based Treatment? Family Based Treatment (FBT) is viewed as the gold … read more
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20. Anorexia and other Eating Disorders: how to help your child eat well and be well: Practical solutions, compassionate communication tools and emotional support for parents of children and teenagers
By: Eva Musby
4.64
Format: 450 pages, Paperback
Librarian Note: Alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780993059803 Parents are best placed to help t… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
21. Surviving an Eating Disorder: Strategies for Family and Friends
By: Michele Siegel
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
"Surviving an Eating Disorder" became an instant success when it was first published in 1988, not j… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- mental health
