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3721) Under my skin
Author
Series
Hannah Wolfe mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Chivers Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Microcosm Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Punk rock and mental health have been intertwined since the very beginning. Nervous breakdowns, anxiety, seeking acceptance, attempting to overcome internalized demons, and reacting to harmful and oppressive systems -- punk rock embodies and emboldens all our feelings and experiences, positive and negative... Told from the point of view of a young man discovering punk and working through mental illness in Evansville, Indiana, this stunning nonfiction...
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When Alexi Pappas was four years old, her mother committed suicide, drastically altering the course of Pappas's life and setting her on a perpetual search for female role models. When her father started signing her up for sports teams as a way to keep his bereaved daughter busy, female athletes became some of the first women Pappas looked up to, and she became a girl with a goal: to be an Olympian. Despite setbacks and hardships, Pappas held fast...
3724) Barking
Author
Publisher
Avery Hill Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Alix Otto is having a very bad day. Easily her worst so far. A year since they fished her friend's body from the river, she finds herself hounded, haunted and driven to the brink. Caught in a situation she can't explain, Alix is handed over to the professionals and sectioned, left alone in a labyrinthine system with her delusions running wild. Barking is a tale of grief, madness and the ghosts that haunt us"--
"Loopy... cuckoo... stark raving......
Author
Publisher
Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A modern tale of striving ambition, envy, desire and murder, and a mesmerizing take on Theodore Dreiser's classic novel An American Tragedy, this time set among California's beautiful people"--
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 7
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"The Vanderbeekers are looking forward to the wedding of two of their favorite people! But when one of the siblings receives a dire diagnosis, instead of preparing for a celebration, the family is suddenly spending their time at the hospital. And soon they are helping a newly-made and critically ill friend, even as they struggle with how their own lives have turned upside down. In the poignant conclusion to the bestselling Vanderbeekers series, the...
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"What's Wrong? is author, illustrator, and scientific researcher Erin Williams's graphic exploration of how the American health-care system fails us. Focusing on four raw and complex firsthand accounts, plus Williams's own story, this book examines the consequences of living with interconnected illnesses and conditions like: immunodeficiency; cancer; endometriosis; alcoholism; severe depression; PTSD. Western medicine, which intends to cure illness...
3730) Speak: the graphic novel
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless--an outcast--because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her.
3733) In limbo
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ever since Deborah (Jung-Jin) Lee emigrated from South Kora to the United States, she's felt her otherness. For a while, her English wasn't perfect. Her teachers can't pronounce her Korean name. Her face and her eyes--especially her eyes--feel wrong. In high school, everything gets harder. Friendships change and end, she falls behind in classes, and fights with her mom escalate. Caught in limbo, with nowhere safe to go, Deb finds her mental health...
3734) The bachelor boss
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Widowed mom Hannah St. James didn't expect to meet her next employer by crashing into his Mercedes, but she's in no position to pass up the position that workaholic businessman Tyler Matthews offers: live-in caregiver to his grandmother. Hannah adores caring for feisty Lily, and her son's new room is every boy's dream. But her handsome boss hides his guarded heart behind ledgers and meetings. Underneath Tyler's tycoon exterior is a tender side that...
3735) Growing pangs
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old homeschooled Katie experiences the ups and downs of growing up and 6th grade--from bad haircuts and friendship breakups to new experiences, new friends, and a new understanding of her OCD"--
3736) Hostage
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In the middle of the night in 1997, Doctors Without Borders administrator Christophe André was kidnapped by armed men and taken away to an unknown destination in the Caucasus region. For three months, André was kept handcuffed in solitary confinement, with little to survive on and almost no contact with the outside world. Close to twenty years later, award-winning cartoonist Guy Delisle ... recounts André's harrowing experience in Hostage, a book...
3737) Von Spatz
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly Publications, a client publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Walt Disney is exhausted both physically and mentally. After a breakdown where he trashes his office, his wife Lilian brings him to a retreat to recover--the Von Spatz Rehabilitation Center. With a campus that includes studio buildings, a gallery, an art supply store, a hot dog booth, and a penguin pool, the clinic is a paradise for artists in crisis. There Disney meets Tomi Ungerer and Saul Steinberg, and together, they embark on a regimen of relaxation...
3739) Wash day diaries
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In expanding the story of Kim and her friends, the authors pay tribute to Black sisterhood through portraits of shared, yet deeply personal experiences of Black hair care. From self-care to spilling the tea at an hours-long salon appointment to healing family rifts, the stories are brought to life through beautifully drawn characters and different color palettes reflecting the mood in each story."--Amazon.com.
3740) A-Okay
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperAlley
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A-Okay by Jarad Greene is a vulnerable and heartfelt semi-autobiographical middle grade graphic novel about acne, identity, and finding your place." -- Amazon.com
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