'mental health'

Beat The Winter Blues

Thurs, Dec 12 @ 6:00pm

Shorter days and cold winter weather can leave you feeling less energized. Join Alluma, Inc. for this hands-on presentation as they share ways to avoid the winter blues. 

Breaking Through Depression

A guide to the next generation of promising research and revolutionary new treatments
by Philip Gold

616.8527 GOLD 2023 

Explores how the anatomy of the brain and the biochemistry of nerve impulses play a major role in how we view ourselves and the world. Drawing from his long-term research, Dr. Philip W. Gold makes the case for depression arising at the intersection of genetic vulnerability with stressful, disturbing life experiences that get encoded in our emotional memory. Breaking Through Depression will delve into the interplay between our anatomy and our lived experiences as the key to understanding why there are such individual differences in how we make connections with others, deal with adversity, or recover from trauma.   

A Cure for Darkness

The story of depression and how we treat it
by Alex Riley 

616.85 RILEY 

Is depression a persistent low mood, or is it a range of symptoms? Can it be expressed through a single diagnosis, or does depression actually refer to a diversity of mental disorders? Is there, or will there ever be, a cure? In seeking the answers to these questions, Riley finds a rich history of ideas and treatments, and takes the reader on a gripping narrative journey, packed with fascinating stories like the junior doctor who discovered that some of the first antidepressants had a deadly reaction with cheese. 

The Beasts in Your Brain

Understanding and Living with Anxiety and Depression
by Katherine Speller

616.852 SPELLER 

This is not your doctor's dry health pamphlet or a preachy self-care listicle. The Beasts in Your Brain is a guide and companion equally for you and your loved ones, here to provide that essential first dose of information, understanding, and validation about mental illness and how it affects the young people of today. This book knows how much harder things are for you and your generation, how out-of-touch much of the advice out there is (after all, how are you supposed to "just unplug" when more than half your social life is conducted online?), and how identity, circumstances, and stigma can affect your experiences. 

The Hilarious World of Depression

by John Moe 

616.85 MOE 

Inspired by the immediate success of his podcast, John Moe has written a remarkable investigation of the disease, part memoir of his own journey, part treasure trove of laugh-out-loud stories and insights drawn from years of interviews with some of the most brilliant minds facing similar challenges. Throughout the course of this powerful narrative, depression’s universal themes come to light, among them, struggles with identity, lack of understanding of the symptoms, the challenges of work-life, self-medicating, the fallout of the disease in the lives of our loved ones, the tragedy of suicide, and the hereditary aspects of the disease. 

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3/4/2024

Come join us Saturday, March 9th @ noon for our Cookbook Club! Select a recipe from Indian(-ish) by Priya Krishna and bring your dish to share with the group!

My Father's Brain

Life in the shadow of Alzheimer's
by John Glatt

Call Number: 364.1523 GLATT

Among the lush, tree-lined waterways of South Carolina low country, the Murdaugh name means power. A century-old, multimillion-dollar law practice has catapulted the family into incredible wealth and local celebrity—but it was an unimaginable tragedy that would thrust them into the national spotlight. On June 7th, 2021, prominent attorney Alex Murdaugh discovered the bodies of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, on the grounds of their thousand-acre hunting lodge. The mystery deepened only months later when Alex himself was discovered shot in the head on a local roadside.

The Book of Love

by Kelly Link

Call Number: Fantasy LINK

Late one night, Laura, Daniel, and Mo find themselves beneath the fluorescent lights of a high school classroom, almost a year after disappearing from their hometown, the small seaside community of Lovesend, Massachusetts, having long been presumed dead. Which, in fact, they are. With them in the room is their previously unremarkable high school music teacher, who seems to know something about their disappearance—and what has brought them back again. Desperate to reclaim their lives, the three agree to the terms of the bargain their music teacher proposes. They will be given a series of magical tasks; while they undertake them, they may return to their families and friends, but they can tell no one where they’ve been.

The Injustice of Place

Uncovering the legacy of poverty in America
by Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, and Timothy J. Nelson

Call Number: 339.46 EDIN

The unfolding revelation in this book is not about what sets these places apart, but about what they have in common—a history of raw, intensive resource extraction and human exploitation. This history and its reverberations demand a reckoning and a commitment to wage a new War on Poverty, with the unrelenting focus on our nation’s places of deepest need.

Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear

by Robin Wasley

Call Number: Young Adult WASLEY

Fighting through hordes of living corpses and uncontrollable growths of forest, Sid and a ragtag crew of would-be heroes are the only thing standing between their town and the end of the world as they know it. Between magic, murderers, and burgeoning crushes, Sid must survive being a perfectly normal girl caught in a perfectly abnormal apocalypse. Only—how can someone so ordinary make it in such an extraordinary world?

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9/25/2023

Kids in grades K-5: Join us Thursday, September 28 @ 4 pm for Tinkertown! Learn about the upcoming solar eclipse as we test out materials that will keep us safe from UV radiation.

Personality Disorders

A short history of narcissistic, borderline, antisocial, and other types
by Allan V. Horwitz

Call Number: 616.85 HORWITZ

The concept of personality disorders rose to prominence in the early twentieth century and has consistently caused controversy among psychiatrists, psychologists, and social scientists. In this book, Allan V. Horwitz traces the evolution of defining these disorders and the historical dilemmas of attempting to mold them into traditional medical conceptions of disorder.

The Block Party

by Jamie Day

Call Number: Mystery DAY

The residents of the exclusive cul-de-sac on Alton Road are entangled in a web of secrets and scandal utterly unknown to the outside world, and even to each other. On the night of the annual Summer block party, there has been a murder. But, who did it and why takes readers back one year earlier, as rivalries and betrayals unfold—discovering that the real danger lies within their own block and nothing—and no one—is ever as it seems.

Camera Girl

The coming of age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy
by Carl Sferrazza Anthony

Call Number: 921 KENNEDY

The book brings to cinematic life Jackie’s years as a young, single woman trying to figure out who she wanted to become. Chafing at the expectations of her family and the societal limitations placed on women in that era, Jackie pursued her dream career as a writer. Set primarily during the years of 1949 to 1953, when Jackie was in her early twenties, the book recounts in heretofore unrevealed detail the story of her late college years and her early adulthood as a working woman.

The September House

by Carissa Orlando

Call Number: ORLANDO

When Margaret and her husband Hal bought the large Victorian house on Hawthorn Street—for sale at a surprisingly reasonable price—they couldn’t believe they finally had a home of their own. Then they discovered the hauntings. Every September, the walls drip blood. The ghosts of former inhabitants appear, and all of them are terrified of something that lurks in the basement. Most people would flee.  Margaret is not most people.

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