Mental Illness | Mental Illness
Oct.07.2012
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. SALT AND PAPER is a daily reflection that is immediate and an accumulation of life experience in poetry and prose fragments placing a heartfelt, yet realistic light on difficult subjects as author speaks of aging: a friend's slow demise with Alzheimer's; the...
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Jul.16.2012
For the Porter family, summers at Ashaunt Point – a mile and a half long finger of land on Buzzards Bay in Massachusetts – have anchored life, providing sanctuary for generations. But in 1942, everything abruptly changes when the U.S. Army sets up a base on the Point. The two older...
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May.10.2012
He’s falling in love—and she’s falling over the edge of sanity. From the author of Beautiful and Clean, a heartwrenching exploration of a romance marred by mental illness.
Connor knows that Izzy will never fall in love with him the way he’s fallen for her. But somehow he’s been let into her crazy...
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Oct.24.2011
Set in the turbulent 1970s when Patty Hearst became Tanya the Revolutionary, Hystera is a timeless story of madness, yearning, and identity. After a fatal accident takes her father away, Lillian Weill blames herself for the family tragedy. Tripping through failed love affairs with men, and doomed...
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Aug.26.2011
Follow Robyn Wheeler on her journey from fits of rage as an angry child, blunders and setbacks as an adult in deep denial, to her quest for awareness and enlightenment. Robyn takes you inside her deepest thoughts and fears, as well as her chronic anger and thought of suicide. After being diagnosed...
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Aug.22.2011
Where does one person end and the other begin? That’s the question that haunts Irene, a girl growing up in Toronto during the Great Depression. Living with her father, a pharmacist who finds comfort in the bottle, and her mother, a woman teetering on the edge of her own depression, Irene’s...
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May.22.2011
From the acclaimed author of The Matter of Grace and Her Daughter's Eyes-a novel about a mother of three who, abandoned by her husband, tries to run from her problems. But when she returns, it's only the beginning of her family's journey.
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Jan.26.2011
When a fire burns down the historic Bartlett House, the body of young activist, Emmy d’Angelo is found inside, dressed in sexual bondage gear. Her older lover, professor Will Adelhardt, is under suspicion, but the manner in which Emmy is found is incomprehensible to Adelhardt, who is devastated by...
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Sep.18.2010
Mental Illness is a terrible thing, it can take from you and break you down until you feel like nothing, it can bring you to your knee's...but while your on your knee's, you may as well pray...because as Sarah knows, he is listening.
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Aug.31.2010
“Magical Shrinking: Stumbling Through Bipolar Disorder,” is my personal account of a journey through severe mental illness and addiction. My first book, “No Guarantees,” was published by New Discovery Press in 1993 and describes overcoming addiction as a teenager.
I thought I was destined for...
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