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Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class

Rob Henderson - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Other Wes Moore, and Someone Has Led This Child to Believe, Rob Henderson vividly recounts growing up in foster care, enlisting in the US Air Force, attending elite universities, and pioneering...
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

Lori Gottlieb - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Now being developed as a television series with Eva Longoria and ABC!*An O, The Oprah Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of 2019* *A People Magazine Book of the Week**An Apple Best Books Pick for April**An April IndieNext Pick**A Book of the Month...
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Helping the Good Do Better: How a White Hat Lobbyist Advocates for Social Change

Thomas Sheridan - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

How to effect positive social change by the top progressive white hat lobbyist in Washington.HELPING THE GOOD DO BETTER pulls back the curtain on the corridors of power in Washington to reveal how social change really happens. This book offers lessons from the trenches on how some of this...
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The Reckoning

Mary L. Trump
Format: Hardcover

The Reckoning will examine America's national trauma, rooted in our history but dramatically exacerbated by the impact of current events and the Trump administration's corrupt and immoral policies. Our failure to acknowledge this trauma, let alone root it out, has allowed it to metastasize....
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Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

RACHEL AVIV - ?Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

The highly anticipated debut from the acclaimed, award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv compels us to examine how the stories we tell about mental illness shape our sense of who we are. In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions...
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But maybe we're wrong : thinking about the present as if it were the past.

Charles Klosterman - Blue Rider Press
Format: Print book

"But What If We re Wrong? " visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past. Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about...
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First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety

Sarah Wilson - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller "Probably the best book on living with anxiety that Ive ever read." - Mark Manson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ckThe Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast, you must first make it beautiful.Sarah...
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On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety

ANDREA PETERSEN - Crown
Format: Hardcover

A celebrated science and health reporter offers a wry, bracingly honest account of living with anxiety. A racing heart. Difficulty breathing. Overwhelming dread. Andrea Petersen was first diagnosed with an anxiety disorder at the age of twenty, but she later realized that she had been...
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Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma

Elizabeth A. Stanley PhD - Avery
Format: Hardcover

A pioneering researcher gives us a new understanding of stress and trauma, as well as the tools to heal and thriveStress is our internal response to an experience that our brain perceives as threatening or challenging. Trauma is our response to an experience in which we feel powerless or lacking...
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Who Are You, Really?: The Surprising Puzzle of Personality

Brian Little - Simon & Schuster/ TED
Format: Hardcover

This fun, smart read for anyone eager to better understand (and improve) themselves argues that personality is driven not by nature nor nurture - but instead by the projects we pursue, which ultimately shape the people we become.Traditionally, scientists have emphasized what they call...
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