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| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| 2005 | 1st ed. | Distributed by Random House | 319 p. ; 25 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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| p2005 | [Library ed.] | Books on Tape | 10 sound discs (12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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| 2005 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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| 2007 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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The New York Times Bestseller
Trina is eighteen and suffers from bi-polar disorder, making her paranoid, wild, and violent. Frightened by her own child, Keri searches for help, quickly learning that the mental health community can only offer her a seventy-two hour hold. After these three days Trina is off on her own again.
Fed up with the bureaucracy and determined to save her daughter by any means necessary,
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| [2021] | Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson | xviii, 215 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available at another branch
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| 2021 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Thomas Nelson | English | Checked Out
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| 2021 | OverDrive | Thomas Nelson | English | Available Online
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"Acclaimed musical artist Michelle Williams shares the intimate, never-before-told story of how, even in the midst of enormous fame and success, she battled depression, leading her to find her true calling as an advocate for mental health--especially her own"--
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| [2021] | First edition. | Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | x, 256 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available at another branch
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| 2021 | OverDrive | Unabridged | HarperAudio | English | Available Online
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A Northwestern University clinical psychologist challenges common cultural misconceptions to reveal the real-world systemic abuse, health traumas, and abandonment that disempower today's Black women and force them to hide behind masks of strength.
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An unapologetic exploration of the Black mental health crisis-and a comprehensive road map to getting the care you deserve in an unequal system.
We can't deny it any longer: there is a Black mental health crisis in our world today. Black people die at disproportionately high rates due to chronic illness, suffer from poverty, under-education, and the effects of racism. This book is an exploration of Black mental health in today's world, the forces...
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| 2020. | First U.S. edition. | St. Martin's Press | 359 pages ; 25 cm | English |
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| 2020 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Macmillan Audio | English | Checked Out
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| 2020 | OverDrive | St. Martin's Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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In this fascinating narrative, therapist Catherine Gildiner's presents five of what she calls her most heroic and memorable patients. Among them: a successful, first generation Chinese immigrant musician suffering sexual dysfunction; a young woman whose father abandoned her at age nine with her younger siblings in an isolated cottage in the depth of winter; and a glamorous workaholic whose narcissistic, negligent mother greeted her each morning of...
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| [2017] | First edition. | Random House | 208 pages ; 22 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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| 2017 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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"Yiyun Li's searing personal story of hospitalizations for depression and thoughts of suicide is interlaced with reflections on the solace and affirmations of life and personhood that Li found in reading the journals, diaries, and fiction of other writers: William Trevor, Katherine Mansfield, and more"--
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| [2014] | First edition. | Red Hen Press | 189 pages ; 26 cm. | English |
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| c2008 | 1st ed. | Harper Perennial | xiii, 268, 32 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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| 2009 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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"An intense, provocative, and vital crime story that excavates paradoxical dimensions of race, class, sexism, family bonds, and social obligation while seeking the deepest meaning of the law." — Booklist
Originally published posthumously by his daughter and literary executor Julia Wright, A Father's Law is the novel Richard Wright, acclaimed author of Black Boy and Native Son, never completed. Written during
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| 1992 | 1st Vintage contemporaries ed. | Vintage Books | 295 p. ; 21 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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| 2011 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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A community of Black faith healers witness an event that will change their lives forever in this "hard-nosed, wise, funny" novel (Los Angeles Times).
Set in a fictional city in the American South, the novel also "inhabits the nonlinear, sacred space and sacred time of traditional African religion” (The New York Times Book Review).
Though they all united in their search for the healing properties...
Set in a fictional city in the American South, the novel also "inhabits the nonlinear, sacred space and sacred time of traditional African religion” (The New York Times Book Review).
Though they all united in their search for the healing properties...
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Black people are dying everywhere we turn, in the faces we see and the headlines we read, and we feel emotional pain, but we don't know how to tackle it—it's time to recognize it and work through our trauma.
Terrie had made it: she had launched her own public relations company with such clients as Eddie Murphy and Johnnie Cochran. Yet she was in constant pain, waking up in terror, overeating in search...
Terrie had made it: she had launched her own public relations company with such clients as Eddie Murphy and Johnnie Cochran. Yet she was in constant pain, waking up in terror, overeating in search...
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| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| 2020. | First edition. | Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company | 294 pages ; 22 cm | English | It's Here
Overton High - Teen Fiction 1 available F BRO |
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| 2020 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Macmillan Audio | English | Available Online
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| 2020 | OverDrive | Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) | English | Checked Out
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| [2020] | MackinVIA | Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company | 1 online resource (294 pages) | English | Available Online
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From age six through her high school valedictory speech, believing she and her mother are wizards helps young Echo cope with poverty, hunger, her mother's drug abuse, and much more.
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| c2003 | G.P. Putnam's Sons | 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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A little girl copes with her mother's mental illness, with the help of her grandmother and friends.
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| [2019] | First edition. | Delacorte Press | 325 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available at another branch
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Random House Children's Books | English | Available Online
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| [2019] | MackinVIA | Delacorte Press | 1 online resource (325 pages) | English | Available Online
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It is the 2008 presidential election and seventeen-year-old African American Morgan lives in a mostly white, conservative suburb and attends a Christian high school. She suffers from the isolation that brings as a person of color. When she seeks help for her depression after a suicide attempt, she begins to find her own identity and educate others on being black in America.
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How do you learn to be a black man in America? For young black men today, it means coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama; witnessing the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and too many more. Smith chronicles his own personal and political education during these tumultuous years, describing his efforts to come into his own in a world that denied his humanity.
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| [2019] | Inkyard Press | 308 pages ; 22 cm | English | It's Here
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"For Indigo Phillips, life has always been about basking in the shadow of her identical twin, Violet--the perfectly dressed, gentle, popular sister. The only problem the girls had in their lives was the occasional chaos that came with being part of the Phillips family brood. But when Violet becomes terminally ill and plans to die on her own terms via medically assisted death, Indigo spirals into desperation in her efforts to cope. That's when she...
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| 1998 | Norton | 272 p. ; 22 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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| 2016 | OverDrive | Fortress Press | English | Available Online
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Monica A. Coleman's great-grandfather asked his two young sons to lift him up and pull out the chair when he hanged himself, and that noose stayed in the family shed for years. The rope was the violent instrument, but it was mental anguish that killed him. Now, in gripping fashion, Coleman examines the ways that the legacies of slavery, war, sharecropping, poverty, and alcoholism mask a family history of mental illness. Those same forces accompanied
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| 2017 | OverDrive | Central Recovery Press, LLC | English | Available Online
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The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze. My Grandmother's Hands is a call to action for Americans to recognize that racism is not about the head, but about the body. Author Resmaa Menakem introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide.
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| [2019] | Harper Perennial Modern | 257 pages ; 21 cm | English | It's Here
Overton High - Teen Biography 1 available B IKP IKP |
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Unabridged | HarperAudio | English | Available Online
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2020 Audie Finalist – Short Stories/Collections
In I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying Bassey Ikpi explores her life—as a Nigerian-American immigrant, a black woman, a slam poet, a mother, a daughter, an artist—through the lens of her mental health and diagnosis of bipolar II and anxiety. Her remarkable memoir in essays implodes our preconceptions of the mind and normalcy as Bassey
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| [2019] | Graywolf Press | 202 pages ; 21 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Graywolf Press | English | Checked Out
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"Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the 'collected schizophrenias' but to those who wish to understand it as well. Opening with the journey toward her diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, Wang discusses the medical community's own disagreement about labels and procedures for diagnosing those with mental illness, and then follows an arc that examines the manifestations...