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Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Quietly heartbroken, Edwin Tully lives alone in the house he used to share with the man he once loved. He tends to damaged books and faded memories, trying to build a future from the fragments of the past. Then the weather turns, and the river spills into Edwin's quiet world, bringing with it Adam Dacre from the Environment Agency. An unlikely knight, this stranger with roughened hands and worn wellingtons offers Edwin the hope of something he thought...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"This provocative, deeply personal book explores how women experience mental health care differently than men--and lays out how the system must change for women to flourish." --
"Why are so many women feeling anxious, stressed out, and depressed, and why are they not getting the help they need? Over the past decade, mood disorders have skyrocketed among women, who are twice as likely to be diagnosed as men. Yet in a healthcare system steeped in gender...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"As late summer 1951 descends on Elmira, New York, Myra Larkin, thirteen, the oldest child of a large Catholic family, meets a young man she believes to be Mickey Mantle. He chats her up at a local diner and gives her a ride home. The matter consumes her until later that night, when a triple homicide occurs just down the street, opening a specter of violence that will haunt the Larkins for half a century. As the siblings leave home and fan across...
Author
Publisher
Harper One
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Emmett Rensin shares a portrait of what it's like to live with schizoaffective disorder of the bipolar type as well as a critique of America's mental health culture. Going beyond pure memoir, Rensin reflects on the uncertain "science" of diagnosis, the nature of art about and by the insane, political activism, and the history of madness, from the asylum to the academy.
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