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An expert on traumatic stress outlines an approach to healing, explaining how traumatic stress affects brain processes and how to use innovative treatments to reactivate the mind's abilities to trust, engage others, and experience pleasure. --Publisher's description.
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Nonfiction
616.8527 MOE
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616.8527 MOE
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Audiobooks
AUDIO BOOK 616.8527 MOE
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AUDIO BOOK 616.8527 MOE
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"For years John Moe, critically-acclaimed public radio personality and host of The Hilarious World of Depression podcast, struggled with depression; it plagued his family and claimed the life of his brother in 2007. As Moe came to terms with his own illness, he began to see similar patterns of behavior and coping mechanisms surfacing in conversations with others, including high-profile comedians who'd struggled with the disease. Moe saw that there...
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"Catherine Gildiner is nothing short of masterful-as both a therapist and writer. In these pages, she has gorgeously captured both the privilege of being given access to the inner chambers of people's lives, and the meaning that comes from watching them grow into the selves they were meant to be." -Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone In this fascinating narrative, therapist Catherine Gildiner's presents...
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In 2003, an independent film called The Room--starring and written, produced, directed by a mysteriously wealthy social misfit of indeterminate age and origin named Tommy Wiseau--made its disastrous debut in Los Angeles. Described by one reviewer as "like getting stabbed in the head, " the six-million-dollar film earned a grand total of $1800 at the box office and closed after two weeks. Ten years later, The Room is an international cult phenomenon....
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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...
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Collects autobiographical, illustrated essays and cartoons from the author's popular blog and related new material that humorously and candidly deals with her own idiosyncrasies and battles with depression.
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Audiobooks
AUDIO BOOK 818.6 LAW
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AUDIO BOOK 818.6 LAW
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"In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. But terrible ideas are what Jenny does best.As Jenny says: "Some people might think that being 'furiously happy' is just an excuse to be stupid and irresponsible and invite a herd of kangaroos over to your house without telling...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Nonfiction
811.6 LOV
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811.6 LOV
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"Amanda Lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the 'Women are some kind of magic' poetry series, presents a new companion series, 'You are your own fairy tale.' [This] first installment ... is about overcoming those who don't see your worth, even if that person is sometimes yourself. In the epic tale of your life, you are the most important character, while everyone is but a forgotten footnote--even the prince"--
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11) Fighting words
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St. Charles Public Library District - Youth Services Fiction
J BRADLEY
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J BRADLEY
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St. Charles Public Library District - Youth Services Fiction
J BRADLEY
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J BRADLEY
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St. Charles Public Library District - Youth Services Audiobook
J AUDIO BOOK BRADLEY
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J AUDIO BOOK BRADLEY
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"Ten-year-old Della has always had her older sister, Suki. When their mom went to prison, Della had Suki. When their mom's boyfriend took them in, Della had Suki. When that same boyfriend did something so awful they had to run fast, Della had Suki. Suki is Della's own wolf -- her protector. But who has been protecting Suki? Della might get told off for swearing at school, but she has always known how to keep quiet where it counts. Then Suki tries...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Youth Services Award Books
J AWARD STEAD
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J AWARD STEAD
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St. Charles Public Library District - Youth Services Fiction
J STEAD
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J STEAD
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"After her parents' divorce, Bea's life became different in many ways. But she can always look back at the list she keeps in her green notebook to remember the things that will stay the same. The first and most important: Mom and Dad will always love Bea, and each other. When Dad tells Bea that he and his boyfriend, Jesse, are getting married, Bea is thrilled. Bea loves Jesse, and when he and Dad get married, she'll finally (finally!) have what she's...
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"Pablo is homesick. He's only twelve years old, but he's lived in more countries than he can count. Since his parents divorced, he and his mother have moved from place to place for years, never settling anywhere long enough to call it home. And along the way, Pablo has collected more and more fears: of dirt, of germs, and most of all, of the ocean. Now they are living in the Phillippines, and his mother, a zoologist who works at a local wildlife refuge,...
14) So B. It
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So B. it volume 1
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After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is. Living with her mentally disabled mother who only knows just over twenty words, young Heidi has learned to live in her special world until a new word is suddenly used and repeated by her mother; causing Heidi to think it might be a key to a secret past about which she knows so little....
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A young child experiences sadness as if it were a visitor, acknowledging the emotion and suggesting activities to do with it.
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"I've got a puppy running around inside my head. His name is Ollie. Sometimes my puppy is quiet, curious, or scared. And sometimes he is excited . . . a little too excited! When that happens, I get overwhelmed. So, what's a puppy--and an anxious kid--to do? Author Elise Gravel helps children identify and cope with anxiety in a calming, mindful way." -- publisher
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Large Print
LARGE PRINT FIC HAIG
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LARGE PRINT FIC HAIG
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Audiobooks
AUDIO BOOK FIC HAIG
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AUDIO BOOK FIC HAIG
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"'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices ... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?' A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive...
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Biz can float. Biz doesn't tell anyone anything. Not about her dark, runaway thoughts, not about kissing Grace or noticing Jasper, the new boy. And she doesn't tell anyone about her dad, who died when she was seven but still sees every day. And Biz knows how to float, right there on the surface-- normal okay regular fine. But after what happens on the beach, the tethers that hold Biz steady come undone. Dad disappears and, with him, all comfort. It...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Audiobooks
AUDIO BOOK FIC YANAGIHARA
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AUDIO BOOK FIC YANAGIHARA
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When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity. Over the decades,...
20) Little & Lion
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St. Charles Public Library District - Young Adult Fiction
YA FIC COLBERT
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YA FIC COLBERT
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"Suzette returns home to Los Angeles from boarding school and grapples with her bisexual identity when she and her brother Lionel fall in love with the same girl, pushing Lionel's bipolar disorder to spin out of control and forcing Suzette to confront her own demons"--