Gratz, Kim L.
Summary: Help for cutting and other forms of self-harm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 GRAWhitlock, Janis
Summary: Parents who discover a teen's self-injurious behavior are gripped by uncertainty and flooded with questions - Why is my child doing this? Is this a suicide attempt? What did I do wrong? What can I do to stop it? And yet basic educational resources for parents with self-injuring children are sorely lacking. Healing after Self-Injury provides desperately-needed guidance to parents and others who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 WHIConklin, Melanie
Summary: Twelve-year-old Sophie attempts to get her best friend back by infiltrating a group of bullies and agreeing to a series of dangerous social media dares.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CONKuehn, Stephanie
Summary: Dani comes from the richest, most famous Black family in Texas and seems to have everything a girl could want. So why does she keep using and engaging in other self-destructive behavior? Camila's Colombian-American family doesn't have much, but she knows exactly what she wants out of life and works her ass off to get it. So why does she keep failing, and why does she self-harm every time she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KUECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KUESummary: Everybody has heard about when Vincent van Gogh looked into a mirror and cut into his own ear. Bernadette Murphy, an independent researcher, has uncovered definitive evidence which reveals exactly what happened that night, and how it ultimately shaped van Gogh's remarkable art. Murphy's detective work finally provides answers to the mystery that has divided art historians for decades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SECSummary: During a blackout, a woman is found murdered in the middle of the Oresund Bridge, on the border between Sweden and Denmark. Police from both countries are called to the scene, and what looks like one murder turns out to be two. It's a spectacular double murder: the bodies have been brutally cut in half at the waist and put together to form a single corpse. Half of the body belongs to a Swedish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BRISummary: Los Angeles teenager and overachiever Tracy is an excellent student in her seventh grade class and gets along well with her mother, Melanie. She fears that she's not cool enough to be friends with Evie, the most popular girl in school. Fueled with genuine adolescent energy, Tracy follows Evie's lead into the harsh realities of sex, drugs, and hard-edged adventure. Consumed with temptations and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THIBrandon, James
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Isaac Griffin sets out to find the father he has never met, only to discover that perhaps the missing pieces of his life were never missing at all. Includes author's note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2022
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC BRASummary: This compilation of five early short films by Martin Scorsese offers a fascinating window onto his artistic development. Spanning the years from Scorsese's time at NYU in the mid-1960s to the late '70s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA SCOGlasgow, Kathleen
Summary: As she struggles to recover and survive, seventeen-year-old homeless Charlotte "Charlie" Davis cuts herself to dull the pain of abandonment and abuse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GLAHollander, Michael
Summary: "Tens of thousands of worried parents have turned to this authoritative guide for the facts about the growing problem of teen self-injury--and what they can do to make it stop. Michael Hollander is a leading expert on the most effective treatment approach for cutting, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). Vivid stories illustrate how out-of-control emotions lead some teens to hurt themselves, how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Guilford Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 HOLDiop, David
Summary: "A 'Chocolat' soldier with the French army during World War I, Senegalese Alfa Ndiaye's friend Mademba Diop is in the same regiment. Injured in battle, Diop begs Alfa to kill him and spare him the pain of a long and agonizing death in No Man's Land. Unable to commit this mercy killing, madness creeps into Alfa's mind. He sees this refusal as cowardice. To avenge the death of his friend and find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIOLevenkron, Steven
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8582 LEVSummary: A reporter confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to cover a violent murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2018
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHADukureh, Jaha
Summary: "This extraordinary memoir details the monumental journey of one young Gambian woman from survivor of FGM and forced child marriage, to global activist and political leader who became UN Women's first Goodwill Ambassador for Africa, one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People, and among the youngest people nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2025
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DUKUREH, JAHA DUKGlasgow, Kathleen
Summary: As she struggles to recover and survive, seventeen-year-old homeless Charlotte "Charlie" Davis cuts herself to dull the pain of abandonment and abuse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC GLAStrong, Marilee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1998
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Summary: If you self-harm, you should know that you aren't alone. There are lots of reasons people turn to self-harming behaviors; whether you do control in your life, or just feel something -- anything -- other than numb, there are safer and healthier ways to find emotional relief. This workbook can help. With this powerful and compassionate workbook as your guide, you'll learn how to work through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Instant Help Books, an imprint of New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 616.85 VANBaker, Jo.
Summary: "An honest, affecting work of fiction about a young woman's search for her place in the world, Offcomer is the powerful first novel from the acclaimed author of Longbourn. Against the backdrop of The Troubles in Northern Ireland, recent Oxford graduate Claire is a mess. She's trapped in a disastrous relationship with a young academic, working a dead end job, stunned by the emergence of secrets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAKBoteju, Tanya
Summary: Since her parents died in an accident Daya Wijesinghe survived, bruises have become a way to keep her pain on the surface of her skin so she doesn't need to deal with the ache deep in her heart. When chance brings her to a roller derby bout, Daya is hooked. Yes, the rules are confusing and the sport seems to require the kind of teamwork and human interaction Daya generally avoids, but the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BOTForbes, Leslie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M FORLeFavour, Cree.
Summary: "Describes a [self-harming] woman's charged attachment to a mental health professional and the dangerous compulsion to keep him in her life at all costs"--Amazon.com. "As a young college graduate a year into treatment with a psychiatrist, Cree LeFavour began to organize her days around the cruel, compulsive logic of self-harm: with each newly lit cigarette, the world would drop away as her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEFAVOUR, CREE LEFSheinmel, Alyssa B.
Summary: Paralyzed by grief, Moira feels punished when her parents send her to a therapeutic boarding school in Maine where she meets eleven other troubled girls and gradually begins to understand her parents' true intentions behind sending her there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHEEvenson, Brian
Summary: Forcibly recruited into an underground religious cult in order to solve a murder, a detective weaves through a maze of lies, threats, and misinformation involving stakes that are much higher than he anticipated.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2009