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2) The everything health guide to depression: reassuring advice to help you feel like yourself again
Author
Publisher
Adams media
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
292 p.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Victoria Cruz wakes up in the psychiatric ward of a Texas hospital after her failed suicide attempt, she still has no desire to live, but as the weeks pass, and she meets Dr. Desai and three of the other patients, she begins to reflect on the reasons why she feels like a loser compared with the rest of her family.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 305 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Drawn to the newly married seventeen-year-old Nit Spindle, who has moved to their small mountain Colorado town to escape the ravages of the Great Depression, octogenarian Hennie Comfort forges a friendship with the young woman based on shared hardships and secrets.
Author
Language
English
Description
2 CHILDREN FOR SALE The sign is a last resort. It sits on a farmhouse porch in 1931, but could be found anywhere in an era of breadlines, bank runs and broken dreams. It could have been written by any mother facing impossible choices. For struggling reporter Ellis Reed, the gut-wrenching scene evokes memories of his family's dark past. He snaps a photograph of the children, not meant for publication. But when it leads to his big break, the consequences...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xi, 452 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
What is depression? Is it a persistent low mood or a complex range of symptoms? Is it a single diagnosis or a diversity of mental disorders requiring different treatments? In A Cure for Darkness, science writer Alex Riley explores these questions, digging into the long history of depression and chronicling the lives of psychiatrists and scientists who sought cures for their patients.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Across the world, Hari found social scientists who were uncovering evidence that depression and anxiety are not caused by a chemical imbalance in our brains. They postulate that they are largely caused by key problems with the way we live today. Hari's journey took him from a series of experiments in Baltimore, to an Amish community in Indiana, to an uprising in Berlin. Once he had uncovered nine real causes of depression and anxiety, they led him...
10) The bell jar
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Chronicles one young woman's emotional breakdown as she journeys from the glamorous world of Manhattan publishing to the isolation of the asylum.
The Bell Jar is a classic of American literature, with over two million copies sold in this country. This extraordinary work chronicles the crackup of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful -- but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time. Step by careful step, Sylvia...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Lifelong
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
First Da Capo Press paperback edition.
Physical Desc
x, 289 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Ilardi prescribes an easy-to-follow, clinically proven program that harks back to what our bodies were originally made for and what they continue to need. The Depression Cure program has already delivered dramatic results, helping even those who have failed to respond to traditional medications.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
When Arlen Wagner, who can see impending death in people's eyes, warns fellow rail passengers that the train is going to crash, only Paul Brickhall heeds his warning, but the two end up stranded at The Cypress House, an isolated Gulf Coast boarding house.
14) Ava's man
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Shonauthor continues his personal history of the Deep South with an evocation of his mother's childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression and the inspiring story of the man who raised her.
Author
Series
Darius the Great volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life.
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012, c2008
Physical Desc
289 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
During the years he spends in a neural health facility, Pat Peoples formulates a theory about silver linings: he believes his life is a movie produced by God, his mission is to become physically fit and emotionally supportive, and his happy ending will be the return of his estranged wife, Nikki. When Pat goes to live with his parents, everything seems changed: no one will talk to him about Nikki; his old friends are saddled with families; the Philadelphia...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
189 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The past looms threateningly for Sasha Jensen's horizon. She does not trust the future, even as she knows she must move into it. When she is picked up by a young man, she begins to feel that she is still capable of desires and emotions.