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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

California

Kick Any Habit, Manage Any Addiction: Your Self-Treatment Guide to Alcohol, Drugs, Eating Disorders, Gambling, Hoarding, Smoking, Sex and Porn

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From New York Times bestselling author of Symptoms of Withdrawal and Moments of Clarity Christopher Kennedy Lawford comes a book that will save lives.

For most of his early life, Christopher Kennedy Lawford battled life-threatening drug and alcohol addictions. Now in recovery for more than 25 years, he works to effect change and raise global awareness of addiction in nonprofit, private, and government circles, serving as the goodwill ambassador for drug dependence treatment and care for the United Nations.

For the first time, Recover to Live brings together all of the most effective self-care treatments for the seven most toxic compulsions affecting every culture on the planet today--alcohol dependence, drug dependence, eating disorders, gambling, hoarding, smoking, sex, and porn.

In Recover to Live, more than 100 of the world's top experts interviewed by Lawford share their research and wisdom on how to determine if your bad habit is becoming a dependency, what treatments will work best for you, how best to help yourself or a loved one recover from addiction, and how to lead a fulfilling and productive life in recovery.

Recover to Live

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An in-depth look at the mechanics of Bulimia & Anorexia Nervosa and how to begin healing as told by Peggy Claude-Pierre who runs her own specialized eating disorder treatment center in Canada. Her approach is kind and constructive a must read for anyone suffering from an ED. #paperback #selfhelp #womensselfhelp #eatingdisorders #EDrecovery

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Oregon

How You Can Understand and Work to Cure Anorexia and Bulimia

"A provacative new analysis" (Newsweek) that offers a true path to healing eating disorders.

In this approachable look at the complex topic of eating disorders, Peggy Claude-Pierre examines the common misconceptions around anorexia and bulimia to discover the true causes and shares a groundbreaking path to healing.

"A gripping, often chilling view of what it's like to battle these horrific diseases."--Newsweek


The Secret Language of Eating Disorders

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Natasha Friend

Michigan

Following the death of her father, a thirteen-year-old uses bulimia as a way to avoid her mother's and ten-year-old sister's grief, as well as her own.

Perfect

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In very good condition, shows sign of use but no writing/highlighting/etc inside. Ex-library book, has library stamp on top pages and inside the cover but again nothing inside the pages themselves

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A Memoir

As heard on NPR's Diane Rehm Show!
Seventeen-year-old Elena is vanishing. Every day means renewed determination, so every day means fewer calories. This is the story of a girl whose armor against anxiety becomes artillery against herself as she battles on both sides of a lose-lose war in a struggle with anorexia. Told entirely from Elena's perspective over a five-year period and cowritten with her mother, award-winning author Clare B. Dunkle, Elena's memoir is a fascinating and intimate look at a deadly disease, and a must read for anyone who knows someone suffering from an eating disorder.

Elena Vanishing

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Ellen Hopkins

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Massachusetts

Identical

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Delaware

A Novel

*A BookMovement Group Read* Yara Zgheib’s poetic and poignant debut novel is a haunting portrait of a young woman’s struggle with anorexia on an intimate journey to reclaim her life. The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, but if she could just lose a little more weight, perhaps she would make the soloists’ list. Perhaps if she were lighter, danced better, tried harder, she would be good enough. Perhaps if she just ran for one more mile, lost just one more pound. Anna Roux was a professional dancer who followed the man of her dreams from Paris to Missouri. There, alone with her biggest fears – imperfection, failure, loneliness – she spirals down anorexia and depression till she weighs a mere eighty-eight pounds. Forced to seek treatment, she is admitted as a patient at 17 Swann Street, a peach pink house where pale, fragile women with life-threatening eating disorders live. Women like Emm, the veteran; quiet Valerie; Julia, always hungry. Together, they must fight their diseases and face six meals a day. Every bite causes anxiety. Every flavor induces guilt. And every step Anna takes toward recovery will require strength, endurance, and the support of the girls at 17 Swann Street.

The Girls at 17 Swann Street

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#paperback #fiction #youngadult #ya #bulimia #eatingdisorders #death #friendship  little warped

New York

Drawing on her experience as a clinical psychologist, the author exposes the insidious myth of female beauty. Nice copy that appears UNREAD. Clean pages, no writing, no owner name. First edition, first printing, complete number line. Some B&W photos. Bumped corner. A little bit of edge wear to DJ. #nonfiction #hardcover #women #psychology #beauty #feminism #eatingdisorders #diets #selfimage #confidence (Shelf 10B)

New Jersey

Includes material on femininity (psychology).

Beauty Bound

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Jacqueline Wilson

Read several times as a teen but still in decent condition.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Missouri

Ellie thinks she looks awful. Horrible. FAT. Her best friends are both drop-dead gorgeous and Ellie’s sick of being the ugly duckling. So she goes on a diet. And she even starts to exercise, much to her friends’ and her gym teacher’s amazement. Ellie’s hungry all the time, she works out every spare second, and she’s turned into a grouchy meanie. But if her friends don’t want to deal with the new and improved Ellie, that’s their problem. It’s better to be thin than happy. Isn’t it?

Girls Under Pressure

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The Truth about Life after Eating Disorders

In 1979, Liu penned the groundbreaking memoir Solitaire, in which she described her battle with anorexia. Now, three decades later, Liu shares her story and those of her peers who are still struggling to understand the role anorexia and bulimia have played in their lives.

Gaining

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#paperback #fiction #drama #eatingdisorders #mentalhealth 

Illinois

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Anonymous

Required by her cross-country coach to keep a food diary, an insecure teen finds that writing helps organize her thoughts, especially about issues that she, her best friend, and her mother face related to weight and eating.

Letting Ana Go

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Winner of the Society of School Librarians International’s Best Book Award – Language Arts, Grades 7-12 Novels

Winner of the 2005 White Pine Awards, Fiction category

Selected for inclusion in the Best Books for the Teen Age 2004 List by the New York Public Library

Nominated for Snow Willow Award (The Saskatchewan Young Reader’s Choice Awards)

Nominated for the Canadian Library Association’s 2004 Young Adult Canadian Book Award


More than You Can Chew has been called a One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest for young adults.

Marty Black has retreated from a difficult family situation into the area she can best control, her own appetites. She may not be able to control her parents’ behavior, but she can decide what she will and will not eat. Eventually, she stops eating altogether. Marty is close to death when she finally asks for help and finds herself in a psychiatric institution. But recognizing her need for help is only the first tenuous step on a long road to recovery.

Marty’s ability to find a way to live, despite the powerful lure of anorexia, is the core of this fine, insightful novel.

Marnelle Tokio’s semi autobiographical story will resonate with every teenager who faces issues of family, body image, and self-confidence.

More Than You Can Chew

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Laurie Halse Anderson

New Hampshire

Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.

Wintergirls

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Aimee Liu

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Aimee Liu, who wrote Solitaire, the first-ever memoir of anorexia, in 1979, returns to the subject nearly three decades later and shares her story and those of the many women in her age group of life beyond this life-altering ailment. She has extensively researched the origins and effects of both anorexia and bulimia, and dispels many commonly held myths about these diseases with the persuasive conclusion that anorexia is a result of personality. Key revelations include: the temperament required for eating disorders,the long-term effects of eating disorders on health, brain function, relationships and career,why some individuals recover while others relapse, and why many relapse in mid-life,Which treatment approaches are most successful long-term and how parents can tell if a child will be vulnerable to eating disorders. Using her own experience and the stories of many recovering anorexics she's interviewed, Liu weaves together a narrative that is both persuasive in argument and compelling in personal details.

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Texas

Small sticker on back from store. Small bends in cover. In great shape! 

Florida

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Wisconsin

Social Studies

Innovative Directions for Research and Practice

Maintains that a systematic exploration of the predominant theoretical paradigms and research approaches is needed with an emphasis on the question of how the field of eating disorders may be advanced incrementally and exponentially. It is suggested that cautious editorial or grant review practices tend to make it difficult for researchers to develop novel theoretical concepts or intervention approaches. This book addresses this problem by presenting chapters that focus on classification and etiology, treatment, and prevention of eating disorders. Contributors focused their chapters on the following questions: How can progress be made in this field? What new paths need to be explored, what methods appear most promising, and what questions have yet to be raised?

Eating Disorders

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Advanced reader copy 

Wintergirls is a powerful but intimate story of one girl's chilling descent into the all-consuming vortex of anorexia.

I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through. Lia and Cassie were best friends. But something went wrong and Cassie changed. Now Cassie is dead and Lia has thirty-three unanswered calls on her phone, thirty-three messages from her ex-best friend, all sent the day she died. How did she die? Why did she cut herself off? While Lia searches for answers, she drives herself relentlessly on her own path to destruction - to be thin, strong, in control. And completely empty.

Author is the director and founder of the Montreaux Clinic. First edition, second printing. Clean pages, no writing, one dog-eared corner. A little DJ edge wear and 1/4” tear on the back corner. #nonfiction #hardcover #health #wellness #eatingdisorders #anorexia #bulimia #psychology #women (Shelf 9F)

"I feel so dirty, hopeless, no-good, fat, scared, a failure. I don't deserve to live." "My daughter is 5'8" and 60 pounds. She won't comply with anyone. She has ruined the family." "I can't be cured. I'm too bad. I'm going to have to deal with this the rest of my life." "My doctor told me that I don't want to grow up." "I hate myself for being the cause of all of this." "I don't want my daughter to die. They say we are a dysfunctional family, but we don't fight and we love our daughter. Surely something can be done." All of these statements are based on myths and misconceptions about anorexia and bulimia. Unfortunately, these myths and others not only deepen the suffering of victims of eating disorders, but shape how we regard and treat those victims. If you are a parent , family member, loved one, or caregiver of a victim, or a victim yourself, you know the punishing pain and sense of hopelessness caused by eating disorders. Now an extraordinary new book offers new hope and help to all whose lives are threatened by these scourges. InThe Secret Language of Eating Disorders, Peggy Claude-Pierre, founder of the world-renowned eating disorders program at the Montreaux Clinic in Victoria, Canada, puts these damaging myths to rest and reveals her groundbreaking theories on the ultimate cure for illnesses that current medicine treats with little success. Peggy Claude-Pierre developed her unique insights into eating disorders through successfully treating her own two anorexic daughters and hundreds of acutely ill patients at Montreaux, which specializes in treating victims near death whom doctors and hospitals haven't helped. She became convinced that eating disorders stem from a complex negative mindset. Often established at birth, it causes sufferers to feel an overwhelming sense of worthlessness that frequently results in a slow process of self-destruction. It is Peggy Claude-Pierre's conviction that this mindset--and the resulting eating disorder--can be permanently reversed through a program based on unconditional love, regard, positive reinforcement, easing of the victim's burdens of blame and responsibility, and objectivity training. InThe Secret Language of Eating Disorders, Claude-Pierre details her theories on the true causes of anorexia and bulimia and lays out the basis of the Montreaux program, which has an astonishingly high success rate, curing even the gravest cases. She describes the origins of the negative mindset and the five stages of recovery from eating disorders, spotlights the special challenges of coping with them at home, and offers clear, practical guidelines to working effectively with health professionals. She also shares the voices of dozens of former patients who offer their own stories of recovery as inspiration to victims, their families, and loved ones. Peggy Claude-Pierre's heartfelt message of hope is that eating disorders can be cured, not merely managed, and that deep within every person suffering from these illnesses is a loving, deserving soul who can and should be saved. As Peggy Claude-Pierre writes to victims, "You are not failures at life, merely at understanding your own value. Soon professionals across the globe will discontinue treating the symptoms of eating disorders as the cause." This powerful, compassionate book will revolutionize the way we think about eating disorders and their victims. It will literally save lives.

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