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English
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"Iris Walsh saw her twin sister, Piper, get kidnapped -- so why does no one believe her? Iris narrowly escaped her pretty, popular twin sister's fate as a teen: kidnapped, trafficked and long gone before the cops agreed to investigate. With no evidence to go on but a few scattered memories, the case quickly goes cold. Now an adult, Iris wants one thing -- proof. And if the police still won't help, she'll just have to find it her own way; by interning...
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Publisher
Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A memoir about a daughter trying to understand her father's genius, mental illness, violence, and past. Touches on Japanese culture, immigration, racism, WWII, and the Asian American experience"--
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Traces the author's unconventional marriage to her Harvard-educated publishing editor husband, describing how their sophisticated world crumbled with the deterioration of his mental health before his death revealed unexpected secrets.
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Publisher
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"These eleven stories blend gravity and humor to depict late 20th century rural North Carolina life, including African American women protagonists who encounter love and relationships, mental illness, racism, and, especially among Jehovah's Witnesses' faith"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The acclaimed author of The Unquiet Mind considers the age-old quest for relief from psychic pain and the role of the gifted healer in the journey back to health. "To treat, even to cure, is not always to heal." In this expansive cultural history of the treatment and healing of suffering, Kay Jamison writes about what makes an effective healer, and the role of imagination and memory in the regeneration of the mind. From the trauma of the bloodiest...
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Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The Audacity of a Kiss tells the story of Leslie Cohen, from her youth in Queens, New York during the "Mad Men" era of the 1950s, to her young adulthood and coming of age in the turbulent 1960s and 70s, through her involvement in the women's movement and the sex, drugs, and rock and roll of 1970s NYC. Through it all, she narrates with honesty and humor her attempts to reconcile her feelings for other women with her upbringing during a time when the...
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Publisher
Fortress Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Bipolar Faith is both spiritual autobiography and a memoir of mental illness. In this powerful book, Monica A. Coleman shares her life-long dance with trauma, depression, and the threat of death. Coleman offers a rare account of how the modulated highs of bipolar II can lead to professional success, while hiding a depression that even her doctors rarely believed. Only as she was able to face her illness was she able to live faithfully with bipolar....
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