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Last dance on the Starlight Pier [sound recording] / by Bird, Sarah,author.; Campbell, Cassandra,narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Cassandra Campbell."Set during the Great Depression, Sarah Bird's Last Dance on the Starlight Pier is a novel about one woman--and a nation--struggling to be reborn from the ashes. July 3. 1932. Shivering and in shock, Evie Grace Devlin watches the Starlite Palace burn into the sea and wonders how she became a person who would cause a man to kill himself. She'd come to Galveston to escape a dark past in vaudeville and become a good person, a nurse. When that dream is cruelly thwarted, Evie is swept into the alien world of dance marathons. All that she has been denied--a family, a purpose, even love--waits for her there in the place she dreads most: the spotlight. Last Dance on the Starlight Pier is a sweeping novel that brings to spectacular life the enthralling worlds of both dance marathons and the family-run empire of vice that was Galveston in the Thirties. Unforgettable characters tell a story that is still deeply resonant today as America learns what Evie learns, that there truly isn't anything this country can't do when we do it together. That indomitable spirit powers a story that is a testament to the deep well of resilience in us all that allows us to not only survive the hardest of hard times, but to find joy, friends, and even family, in them"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Depressions; Dance marathons; Nineteen thirties;
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All these flowers [videorecording] / by Bryce, Kevin,film director.; Wild Eye Releasing,film distributor.;
A personal and emotional documentary that follows the lives of four people with bipolar disorder, a mental illness often stigmatized, ill-defined, and maltreated by medical professionals and the mainstream media.E.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; stereophonic.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Manic-depressive persons; Manic-depressive illness.;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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When antidepressants aren't enough : harnessing the power of mindfulness to alleviate depression / by Eisendrath, Stuart J.,1948-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A guide to Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy as a treatment for major depressive disorder, written by a Professor Emeritus of psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco; includes meditation and visualization exercises to help readers manage the negative thoughts that cause and accompany depression"--
Subjects: Depression, Mental; Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy.;
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A killing on the hill : a thriller / by Dugoni, Robert,author.;
In the corrupt Seattle of the Great Depression, a reporter investigates a murder that's about to become the city's hottest mystery.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Historical fiction.; Noir fiction.; Novels.; Depressions; Journalists; Murder; Organized crime;
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Last dance on the Starlight Pier / by Bird, Sarah,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Set during the Great Depression, Sarah Bird's Last Dance on the Starlight Pier is a novel about one woman--and a nation--struggling to be reborn from the ashes. July 3. 1932. Shivering and in shock, Evie Grace Devlin watches the Starlite Palace burn into the sea and wonders how she became a person who would cause a man to kill himself. She'd come to Galveston to escape a dark past in vaudeville and become a good person, a nurse. When that dream is cruelly thwarted, Evie is swept into the alien world of dance marathons. All that she has been denied--a family, a purpose, even love--waits for her there in the place she dreads most: the spotlight. Last Dance on the Starlight Pier is a sweeping novel that brings to spectacular life the enthralling worlds of both dance marathons and the family-run empire of vice that was Galveston in the Thirties. Unforgettable characters tell a story that is still deeply resonant today as America learns what Evie learns, that there truly isn't anything this country can't do when we do it together. That indomitable spirit powers a story that is a testament to the deep well of resilience in us all that allows us to not only survive the hardest of hard times, but to find joy, friends, and even family, in them"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Depressions; Dance marathons; Nineteen thirties;
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Nature girl / by Hiaasen, Carl;
Subjects: Manic-depressive illness; Humorous fiction; Mystery fiction; Suspense fiction;
© c2006., Alfred A. Knopf,
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Transcendent kingdom / by Gyasi, Yaa,author.;
"A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward seeking behavior in mice"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Ghanaian Americans; Immigrant families; Doctoral students; Grief; Depressed persons;
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Everything I have is yours : a marriage / by Henderson, Eleanor,author.;
"A turbulent romance meets harrowing medical mystery: the true story of the author's twenty-year marriage defined by her husband's chronic illness-and a testament to the endurance of love. Eleanor met Aaron when she was just a teenager and he was working at a local record store-older, cool, experienced, and with an electric personality. Escaping the clichés of fleeting young love, their summer romance bloomed into a relationship that survived college and culminated in a marriage and two children. From the outside looking in, their life had all the trappings of what most would consider a success story. But, as in any marriage, things weren't always as they seemed. On top of the typical stresses of parenting, money, and work, there were Aaron's untended wounds of depression, addiction, and family trauma. Then, when burning lesions appeared on his body overnight, Eleanor was as baffled as his doctors. There seemed to be no obvious diagnosis, let alone a cure. And when the lesions gave way to Aaron's increasingly disturbed concerns about parasites living inside him, the husband she loved began to unravel before her eyes. A new fissure ruptured in their marriage, and new questions piled onto old ones: Where does physical illness end and mental illness begin? Where does one person end and another begin? And how do we exist alongside someone else's suffering? Emotional, propulsive, and at times heartbreaking, Eleanor Henderson's Everything I Have Is Yours tells the story of a marriage tested by powerful forces out of both partners' control. It's not only a memoir of a wife's tireless quest to heal her husband, but one that asks just what it means to accept someone as they are"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Henderson, Eleanor; Henderson, Aaron; Authors, American; Novelists, American; Spouses; Depression, Mental.; Depression in men.; Alcoholism.;
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Yoga / by Carrère, Emmanuel,1957-author.; Lambert, John,1960-translator.; translation of:Carrère, Emmanuel,1957-Yoga.English.;
"A raucous and brilliant anatomy of a breakdown by Emmanuel Carrère, one of our brightest and most surprising international writers"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Carrère, Emmanuel, 1957-; Authors, French; Authors, French; Manic-depressive illness.; Yoga;
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My life in the fish tank / by Dee, Barbara.;
When twelve-year-old Zinnia Manning's older brother Gabriel is diagnosed with bipolar disorder, it turns her family's world upside-down, especially since they are keeping the information private.Ages 9-13.LSC
Subjects: Manic-depressive illness; Mentally ill; Brothers and sisters; Families; Friendship; Middle schools;
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