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Author
Publisher
Conari Press/RedWheel/Weiser
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
viii, 244 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Poppink offers a program of healing and recovery from eating disorders-- for women 30, 40, 50, or beyond. Her step-by-step program helps you identify early warning signs, common pitfalls in the early days of recovery, your unique triggers, and the effects the disorder is having on your health, sex life, and family relationships.
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Roxane Gay addresses the experience of living in a body that she calls 'wildly undisciplined.' She casts an insightful and critical eye over her childhood, teens, and twenties -- including the devastating act of violence that was a turning point at age 12 -- and brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life. With candor, vulnerability, and authority, Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xvii, 217 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
"Johanna S. Kandel, founder and executive director of The Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness, struggled with her eating disorder for ten years before finally getting help. Now fully recovered, Kandel knows firsthand how difficult the healing process can be. Complete with inspiring true stories from others who have won their personal battles with eating disorders, this book provides the help you need to break free and discover how wonderful life...
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Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
104 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Description
"In the United States, approximately 30 million people suffer from an eating disorder. The prevalence of disordered eating among teens and young adults makes this a timely, informative, and helpful book for readers. Learn about the causes, symptoms, and diagnosis of eating disorders as well as treatments. Resources for identifying, treating, and recovering from eating disorders are provided in the text"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Anna Roux was a professional dancer who followed the man of her dreams from Paris to Missouri. There, alone with her biggest fears - imperfection, failure, loneliness - she spirals down anorexia and depression till she weighs a mere eighty-eight pounds. Forced to seek treatment, she is admitted as a patient at 17 Swann Street, a peach pink house where pale, fragile women with life-threatening eating disorders live. Women like Emm, the veteran; quiet...
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
For young people, leading a healthy lifestyle requires education and empowerment. In Understanding Eating Disorders, readers will explore the social aspects and health effects of eating disorders, and ways to establish a healthy relationship with food. Sidebars challenge and expand readers' thinking while relating topics to 21st Century skills and themes--from creativity and innovation to financial literacy.
Author
Publisher
The Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Florence in Ecstasy gives us an arresting new vision of a woman?s attempt to find meaning?and find herself?in an unstable world. A young woman arrives in Florence from Boston, knowing no one and speaking little Italian. But Hannah is isolated in a more profound way, estranged from her own identity after a bout with starvation that has left her life and body in ruins.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 22 cm
Description
A gay teen with an eating disorder that he believes gives him supernatural powers decides to infiltrate the life of a bully he believes is responsible for driving away his sister.
10) Purge
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
234 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
When her parents check sixteen-year-old Janie into Golden Slopes to help her recover from her bulimia, she discovers that she must talk about things she has admitted to no one--not even herself.
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" In this much-anticipated follow-up to Fifty Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food, renowned nutrition expert and New York Times best-selling author of Eat Q, Susan Albers delivers fifty more highly effective ways to help you soothe yourself without eating-leading to a healthier, happier life! If you're an emotional overeater, you may turn to food to cope with stress and sadness, enhance joy, and bring a sense of comfort. But, over time, overeating...
13) The whale
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
14) You are enough
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xlviii, 283 pages ; 22 cm
Description
This self-help guide for young readers delivers real talk about eating disorders and body image; tools and information for recovery; and suggestions for dealing with the media messages that contribute so much to disordered eating, written in a easy-to-understand, conversational way.
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"Ballet is Aisha’s life. But when discrimination at her elite academy pushes her to her breaking point, she decides to pivot. At her new public arts school, Aisha scores more dance opportunities than she’s ever had before. And it doesn’t hurt that she gets to take classes with her bestie . . . and with Ollie, an adorably shy musician who keeps throwing off her usually impeccable balance. Yet even as Aisha navigates friendships, family conflict,...
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"How can Chasing Hunger, the 90 day Bulimia Breakthrough Method help me with my recovery? Whether you are in recovery and taking care of yourself at home now, or attempting to help yourself make a decision about seeking help, this book offers specific step-by-step strategies to help you target areas that can trigger binge eating. In Chasing Hunger, understanding the source that can trigger such behaviour like having certain emotions trigger a binge...
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A graphic memoir of eating disorders, abuse and recovery. Lighter Than My Shadow is a hand-drawn story of struggle and recovery, a trip into the black heart of a taboo illness; an exposure of those who are so weak as to prey on the weak, and an inspiration to anybody who believes in the human power to endure towards happiness.
19) Yolk
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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Struggling with emotional problems and an eating disorder, Jayne, a Korean American college student living in New York City, is estranged from her accomplished older sister June, until June gets cancer.
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In this non-fiction story of struggle and grief, My Secret Life: A Memoir of Bulimia details one teenager's battle with Bulimia Nervosa. After years of bullying, Leanne Waters examines the development of her illness and looks closely at the psychological foundations of this ambiguous disease. It is a first-hand account of a secret world that lurks behind closed doors in daily life. A penetrating insight into the mentality of a Bulimic, the story follows...
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