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Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds

by Lauren Slater

Published: 2018-02-20

Hardcover: 416 pages

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"Ambitious...Slater's depictions of madness are terrifying and fascinating." --USA Today"A vivid and thought-provoking synthesis." --Harper's A groundbreaking and revelatory history of psychotropic drugs, from "a thoroughly exhilarating and entertaining writer" (Washington Post). Although...

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The Complete Guide to Mental Health for Women

Published: 2003-08-15

Paperback: 416 pages

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As women, we know how important it is to take charge of our health care-to be informed and proactive. But too often we forget that our mental wellness is an integral part of our overall health. The Complete Guide to Mental Health for Women is the definitive resource for women looking for a...

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Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir

by Lauren Slater

Published: 2000-05-30

Hardcover: 240 pages

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"The beauty of Lauren Slater's prose is shocking," said Newsday about Welcome to My Country, and now, in this powerful and provocative new book, Slater brilliantly explores a mind, a body, and a life under siege. Diag-nosed as a child with a strange illness, brought up in a family given to...

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Welcome to My Country: A Therapist's Memoir of Madness

by Lauren Slater

Published: 1997-07-14

Paperback: 224 pages

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Lauren Slater, a brilliant writer who is a young therapist, takes us on a mesmerizing personal and professional journey in this remarkable memoir about her work with mental and emotional illness. The territory of the mind and of madness can seem a foreign, even frightening place-until you ...

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Blue Beyond Blue: Extraordinary Tales for Ordinary Dilemmas

by Lauren Slater

Published: 2006-08-17

Paperback: 224 pages

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An exploration of contemporary family dynamics, moral conundrums, and romantic love through one of our oldest literary forms the fairy tale. "Inspired and barbed, Slater's fairy tales are irresistible." --Donna Seaman, Booklist Mermaids, seal women, little girls born of eggs, old men born ...

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The Truth: A Novel

by Michael Palin

Published: 2014-08-19

Paperback: 272 pages

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"An ingeniously plotted, beautifully written and hugely enjoyable book that raises tricky questions about... our need for heroes [and] the price of personal compromise.'"?The Daily Telegraph For the first time since his much-beloved tale Hemingway's Chair was published in 1998, Michael Pal...

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Obsession: The bestselling psychological thriller of 2017

by Amanda Robson

Published: 2017-09-19

Paperback: 464 pages

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The #1 ebook bestseller‘Thrilling, unputdownable, a fabulous rollercoaster of a read – I was obsessed by this book’ B A PARIS, bestselling author of BEHIND CLOSED DOORS’Compulsive reading with characters you will love to hate and an ending that will make your jaw drop.’ JENNY BLA...

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The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

by Nadia Murad

Published: 2017-11-07

Hardcover: 320 pages

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New York Times Editors’ ChoiceIn this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story.   Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi comm...

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Twelfth Night (No Fear Shakespeare)

by William Shakespeare

Published: 2003-07-03

Paperback: 256 pages

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&&LDIV&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&&RNo Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of &&LI&&RTwelfth Night&&L/I&&R on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right.&&L/P&&R&&LP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&&R &&L/P&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LP ...

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The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

by Sonya Renee Taylor

Published: 2018-02-13

Paperback: 160 pages

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A global movement guided by loveHumans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of beliefs, morals, and bodies. Systems of oppression thrive off our inability to make peace with difference and injure the relationship we have with our own bodies. The Body Is Not an Apology offers ra...