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41) And they lived
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Chase Arthur is a hopeless romantic, but he's also struggling to figure out his gender identity and recover from an eating disorder. When Chase starts his freshman year of college, he has to navigate being away from home and missing his sister, finding his squad, and will have to learn to love--and be enough for--himself, while discovering what it means to truly live"--
Chase Arthur is a budding animator and hopeless romantic obsessed with Disney...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Essentials
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Blending personal narrative and investigative reporting, Emmy Award-winning journalist Cole Kazdin reveals that disordered eating is an epidemic crisis killing millions of women. Women of all ages struggle with disordered eating, preoccupation with food, and body anxiety. Journalist Cole Kazdin was one such woman, and she set out to see if the impossibility of her own full recovery from an eating disorder was all in her head. Interviewing women across...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In this explosive tell-all memoir, an Olympic figure skater reveals her battle to survive mental illness, eating disorders, and the self-destructive voice inside that she calls "outofshapeworthlessloser." When Gracie Gold stepped onto center stage (or ice, rather) as America's sweetheart at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, she instantly became the face of America's most beloved winter sport. Beautiful, blonde, Midwestern, and media-trained, she was suddenly...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is folk legend Judy Collins' no-holds-barred account of her harrowing struggle with compulsive overeating and her journey to understanding that she suffers from an addiction. In alternating chapters on her life and on the many diet gurus she encountered along the way, Judy shares what she's learned to spare others her heart-rending path to recovery.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Auditioning for a New York City performing arts high school could help Etta escape from her Nebraska all-girl school, where she is not gay enough for her former friends, not sick enough for her eating disorders group, and not thin enough for ballet, but it may also mean real friendships.
Author
Publisher
ROAR, [an imprint of The Lion Forge, LLC]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Like many kids, Katie was a picky eater. She'd sit at the table in silent protest, hide uneaten toast in her bedroom, listen to parental threats that she'd have to eat it for breakfast. But in any life a set of circumstance can collide, and normal behavior might soon shade into something sinister, something deadly. One day you can find yourself being told you have two weeks to live. Lighter Than My Shadow is a hand-drawn story of struggle and recovery,...
47) Leslie
Author
Publisher
Hurtubise
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Description
"Août, Anse-au-griffon, Gaspésie. Depuis son arrivée bouleversante dans sa région natale, Leslie tente de se tenir au seul mince fil qui la rattache à la vie. Toujours aux prises avec son anorexie et ses troubles obsessifs compulsifs, elle erre, à la recherche d'une solution. Un mandat de taille pour celle qui avait déjà du mal à exister avant la sordide agression dont elle a été victime. Leslie, incapable de vivre avec ses parents, s'installe...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In this stylish and complex memoir, Laymon, an English professor at the University of Mississippi and novelist (Long Division), presents bittersweet episodes of being a chubby outsider in 1980s Mississippi. He worships his long-suffering, resourceful grandmother, who loves the land her relatives farmed for generations and has resigned herself to the fact of commonplace bigotry. Laymon laces the memoir with clever, ironic observations about secrets,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Growing up in the foster care system, Jase Edgar always dreamed of one day starting his own family. But his fiancée's untimely death shattered his plans. Moving to Kansas and serving as a youth minister should be a fresh start, but he can't seem to set aside his doubts about God's goodness long enough to embrace his new life. Newly-appointed church custodian, Lori Fowler is battling her own challenges. Her strained relationship with her father and...
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A funny, edgy, comprehensive program for chronic dieters to help them escape the plague of diet culture, regain their personal power, and reboot their relationship with food, weight and self-worth. What's the one thing the $60-billion-dollar diet industry doesn't want you to know? Diets don't work. Our bodies are hardwired against them. But instead of wondering what's wrong with dieting, we wonder what's wrong with us. Diet programs earn billions...
51) Hungry ghost
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Valerie Chu is quiet, studious, and above all, thin. No one, not even her best friend Jordan, knows that she has been binging and purging for years. But when tragedy strikes, Val finds herself taking a good, hard look at her priorities, her choices, and her own body. The path to happiness may lead her away from her hometown and her mother's toxic projections, but first she will have to find the strength to seek help."--
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Visionary artist and New York Times bestselling author of The Wild Unknown Kim Krans returns with a decadently illustrated and incredibly raw graphic memoir that chronicles her multi-layered search for truth and recovery from an eating disorder and infertility in the throes of a health and wellness-obsessed culture, touching on the healing potentials of creativity and spirituality"-- cover page 4.
Author
Publisher
Scout Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ryan Sallans, transgender educator and lecturer, follows up his successful "Second Son" autobiography with this thought-provoking look at life in contemporary America. While the term "trans" has become much more visible, the undercurrents of what it actually means still rumbles beneath the surface. In this second searing memoir, Sallans leads his readers on a trip through domestic bliss and family fractures, speaking successes and online harassment,...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Jake volunteers at a nursing home because he likes helping people. He likes skating and singing, playing Bingo and Name That Tune, and reading mysteries and comics aloud to his teachers. He also likes avoiding people his own age . . . and the cruelty of mirrors . . . and food. Jake has read about kids like him in books -- the weird one, the outsider -- and would do anything not to be that kid, including shrink himself down to nothing. But the less...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal culture of disordered eating they've wrought. In Dead Weight, Emmeline Clein tells the story of her own disordered eating alongside and through other women from history, pop culture and the girls she's known and loved. Tracing the medical and cultural history of Anorexia, Bulimia, and Orthorexia, Clein investigates the economic conditions underpinning our...
Author
Publisher
Melville House Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Jacqueline Alnes was a Division One runner during her freshman year of college, but her season was cut short by a series of inexplicable neurological symptoms. What started with a cough, escalated to Alnes collapsing on the track and experiencing months of unremembered episodes that stole her ability to walk and speak. Two years after quitting the team to heal, Alnes's symptoms returned with a severity that left her using a wheelchair for a period...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Losing her mother to a hit-and-run at age 15 threw Beatrice "Beans" Bennett's life into turmoil. Bereft, she developed a life-threatening eating disorder, and went through a challenging recovery process which paved the way for her work as a clinical psychologist decades later. When a new patient arrives at her office and insists that Beans's mother is still alive-and in danger-Beans is forced to revisit her past in order to uncover the truth. She...
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
At Recovery and Relief, a treatment center for girls with eating disorders, the first thing Shoshana Winnick does is attach herself to vibrant but troubled Rowan Parish. Shoshana--a cheerleader on a hit reality TV show--was admitted for starving herself to ensure her growth spurt didn't ruin her infamous tumbling skills. Rowan, on the other hand, has known anorexia her entire life, thanks to her mother's "chew and spit" guidance. Through the drudgery...
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