Book List
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| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| The A.D.D. Book: New Understandings, New Approaches to Parenting Your Child | William Sears, MD and Lynda Thompson, PhD |
| Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood | Edward M. Hallowell MD and John J. Ratey, MD |
| Delivered from Distraction: Getting the Most out of Life with Attention Deficit Disorder | Edward M. Hallowell MD and John J. Ratey, MD |
| ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life | Judith Kolberg and Kathleen Nadeau, PhD |
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?! | Kate Kelly and Peggy Ramundo |
| Boy Without Instructions: Surviving the Learning Curve of Parenting a Child with ADHD | Penny Williams |
| Taking Charge of ADHD, Third Edition: The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents | Russell A. Barkley, PhD |
| Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD | Susan C. Pinsky |
| More Attention, Less Deficit: Success Strategies for Adults with ADHD | Ari Tuckman |
| Zipper: The Kid with ADHD | Caroline Janover |
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction | Maia Szalavitz |
| Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions | Russell Brand |
| Chasing A Flawed Sun | Daniel McGhee |
| Finding Your Best Self, Revised Edition: Recovery from Addiction, Trauma, or Both | Lisa M. Najavits |
| Addie's Mom Isn't Home Anymore | Genia Calvin |
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew | Sherrie Eldridge |
| Toddler Adoption: The Weaver's Craft | Mary Hopkins-Best |
| Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents | Deborah D. Gray |
| The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family | Karyn B. Purvis, David R. Cross, and Wendy Lyons Sunshin |
| Understanding Attachment Injuries in Children and How to Help | Catherine A Young |
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| Practicing Mindfulness: 75 Essential Meditations to Reduce Stress, Improve Mental Health, and Find Peace in the Everyday | Matthew Sockolov |
| Be Calm: Proven Techniques to Stop Anxiety Now | Jill Weber PhD |
| Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks | Barry McDonagh |
| Retrain Your Brain | Seth J. Gillihan |
| 10% Happier | Dan Harris |
| It's Not Supposed to Be This Way | Lysa TerKeurst |
| How to Be Yourself | Ellen Hendriksen |
| Don't Feed the Monkey Mind | Jennifer Shannon |
| Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief | Claire Bidwell Smith |
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon | Patty Lovell |
| Chrysanthemum | Kevin Henkes |
| A Big Guy Took My Ball | Mo Willems |
| The Recess Queen | Alexis O’Neill and Laura Huliska-Beith |
| The Juice Box Bully | Bob Sornson and Maria Dismondy |
| Willow Finds a Way | Lana Button |
| I Walk With Vanessa | Kerascoët |
| You, Me and Empathy | Jayneen Sanders |
| Enemy Pie | Patty Lovell |
| My Secret Bully | Trudy Ludwig |
| The Hundred Dresses | Eleanor Estes |
| The Invisible Boy | Trudy Ludwig |
| Anger Tree | John Cary |
| Each Kindness | Jacqueline Woodson |
| Bully | Patricia Polacco |
| The Bully Book | Eric Kahn Gale |
| Wonder | R.J. Palacio |
| Real Friends | Shannon Hale |
| Wolf Hollow | Lauren Wolk |
| Dear Bully | Dawn Metcalf |
| Tease | Amanda Maciel |
| Side Effects May Vary | Julie Murphy |
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| Helping Children Cope | Center for Disease Control |
| Parenting in a Pandemic: Tips to Keep the Calm at Home | American Academy of Pediatrics |
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| Courageous Conversations About Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools | Glenn E. Singleton |
| We Can't Talk about That at Work!: How to Talk about Race, Religion, Politics, and Other Polarizing Topics | Mary-Frances Winters |
| The Person You Mean to Be (How Good People Fight Bias) | Dolly Chugh |
| Small Great Things: A Novel | Jodi Picoult |
| How to Be an Antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi |
| For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too | Christopher Emdin |
| Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools | Monique W. Morris |
| The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness | Michelle Alexander |
| White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism | Robin DiAngelo |
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| Getting Past Your Breakup: How to Turn a Devastating Loss into the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You | Susan J. Elliott |
| It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken | Greg Behrendt and Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt |
| Heartburn | Nora Ephron |
| Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation | Rachel Cusk |
| Split: A Memoir of Divorce | Suzanne Finnamore |
| How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed: A Memoir of Starting Over | Theo Pauline Nestor |
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| Two Homes | Claire Masurel |
| Standing on My Own Two Feet | Tamara Schmitz |
| Fred Stays With Me! | Nancy Coffelt |
| Divorce Is the Worst | Anastasia Higginbotham |
| A Smart Girl's Guide to Her Parents' Divorce | Nancy Holyoke |
| It's Not the End of the World | Judy Blume |
| Kids' Divorce Workbook | Michael S. Prokop |
| Mom's House, Dad's House for Kids: Feeling at Home in One Home or Two | Isolina Ricci |
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| The Goodbye Book | Todd Parr |
| Wherever You Are My Love Will Find You | Nancy Tillman |
| I’ll Always Love You | Hans Wilhelm |
| The Invisible String | Patrice Karst |
| Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs | Tomie dePaola |
| Ida, Always | Caron Levis |
| I Miss You: A First Look at Death | Pat Thomas |
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| When a Friend Dies: A Book for Teens About Grieving & Healing | Marilyn E. Gootman Ed.D |
| The Grieving Teen : A Guide for Teenagers and Their Friends | Helen Fitzgerald |
| Heaven's Child | Caroline Flohr |
| Straight Talk About Death for Teenagers: How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love | Earl A. Grollman |
| The Healing Your Grieving Heart Journal for Teens | Alan D Wolfelt PhD |
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle | Lillian Faderman |
| Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality | Debbie Cenziper and Jim Obergefell |
| When We Rise: My Life in the Movement | Cleve Jones |
| Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution | Susan Stryker |
| Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality | Sarah McBride |
| This Day in June | Gayle E. Pitman and Kristyna Litten |
| A Desired Past (A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America) | Leila J. Rupp |
| The Stonewall Reader | Various Authors |
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| Gender Trouble: Feminism And The Subversion Of Identity | Judith Butler |
| Female Masculinity | Judith Halberstam |
| She’s Not There | Jennifer Finney Boylan |
| Redefining Realness | Janet Mock |
| Gender Outlaw & Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation | Kate Bornstein |
| The Last Time I Wore A Dress | Daphne Scholinski |
| Nobody Passes: Rejecting The Rules Of Gender And Conformity | Various Authors |
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| Handbook for Healthy Living with a Mood Disorder | Stephen Nawotniak |
| Exercise for Mood and Anxiety Disorders | Jasper A. J. Smits and Michael W. Otto |
| Rollercoaster | H. Paul Putman III |
| If Your Adolescent Has Depression or Bipolar Disorder: An Essential Resource for Parents | Dwight L. Evans and Linda Wasmer Andrews |
| Bipolar, Not So Much: Understanding Your Mood Swings and Depression | Chris Aiken, MD and James Phelps, MD |
| Riding the Roller Coaster: Living with Mood Disorders | Marja Bergen |
| Words That Heal the Blues | Douglas Bloch, MA |
| Good Mood Bad Mood: Help and Hope for Depression and Bipolar Disorder | Charles D. Hodges MD |
| Cognitive Behavioral Therapy & Mindfulness Toolbox | Richard Sears |
| A Spectrum Approach to Mood Disorders | James Phelps MD |
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| Darkness Visible | William Styron |
| Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters | Anne Sexton |
| The Black Veil | Rick Moody |
| Reasons to Stay Alive | Matt Haig |
| Shoot the Damn Dog | Sally Brampton |
| Lost Connections | Johann Hari |
| Furiously Happy | Jenny Lawson |
| This Close to Happy | Daphne Merkin |
| Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets | Evan Roskos |
| Play It as It Lays | Joan Didion |
| Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf |
| The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath |
| Depression Is Contagious: How the Most Common Mood Disorder Is Spreading Around the World and How to Stop It | Michael Yapko, PhD |
| Bipolar Workbook for Teens: DBT Skills to Help You Control Mood Swings | Sheri Van Dijk, MSW and Karma Guindon, MSW |
| This Is Depression | Diane McIntosh |
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| Dialectical Behavior Therapy: The Ultimate Guide for Using DBT for Borderline Personality Disorder, Difficult Emotions and Mood Swings | Steven Turner |
| Mood diary for borderliner personality disorder and PTSD | Doreen Schmidt |
| The Borderline Personality Disorder: Essential Guide To Understand and Manage BPD Building A Joyful Life | Esther Novak |
| The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder: New Tools and Techniques to Stop Walking on Eggshells | Randi Kreger |
| Borderline Personality Disorder | Gillian Mason, PhD and Alexander Wood, PhD |
| Borderline Personality Disorder Management Journal | Empathy Designs |
| Narcissism: The - Narcissist - Laid Bare | Carol Franklin |
| Sociopath: The - Sociopath - Laid Bare | Carol Franklin |
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| The Gardener and the Carpenter | Alison Gopnik |
| Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too | Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish |
| Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids | Kim John Payne, MEd and Lisa M. Ross |
| Parenting Without Stress: How to Raise Responsible Kids While Keeping a Life of Your Own | Marvin Marshall |
| 5 Love Languages Of Children: The Secret To Loving Children Effectively | Gary Chapman |
| Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting | Laura Markham |
| The Gift of Failure | Jessica Lahey |
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| Once a Warrior: How One Veteran Found a New Mission Closer to Home | Jake Wood |
| Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma | Gail Parker |
| The Myth of Overcoming PTSD: NOT | Ronald W Alston |
| PTSD 365 Life Struggles | Montayia Dortez March and Shermika Shandrella Thomas |
| A Practical Guide to Complex PTSD | Arielle Schwartz PhD |
| Waging the War Within: A Marine's Memoir of Vietnam and PTSD | Tim Fortner and Elizabeth Ridley |
| Living With PTSD: PTSD Recovery | Tim L. Gardner |
| Essential Art Therapy Exercises: Effective Techniques to Manage Anxiety, Depression, and PTSD | Leah Guzman ATR-BC |
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem | Nathaniel Branden |
| The Gifts of Imperfection | Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW |
| What To Say When You Talk To Your Self | Shad Helmstetter |
| Ten Days to Self-Esteem | David D Burns MD |
| What's Right with Me | Carlene DeRoo, PhD and Carolyn DeRoo |
| Awaken the Giant Within | Tony Robbins |
| The New Psycho-Cybernetics | Maxwell Maltz, MD, FICS |
| The Power of Your Subconscious Mind | Joseph Murphy |
| Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life | Steven C. Hayes and Spencer Smith |
| Healing Your Emotional Self | Beverly Engel |
| You Can Heal Your Life | Louise Hay |
| The Art of Happiness | His Holiness the Dalai Lama |
| Matrix Energetics: The Science and Art of Transformation | Richard Bartlett |
| Overcoming Low Self Esteem | Melanie Fennell |
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| It's Okay To Be Different | Todd Parr |
| The Lion Inside | Rachel Bright |
| Giraffes Can't Dance | Giles Andreae |
| I Am Enough | Grace Byers |
| When God Made You | Matthew Paul Turner |
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| Chocolate For A Teen's Soul: Life-changing Stories For Young Women About Growing Wise And Growing Strong | Kay Allenbaugh |
| Just As You Are: A Teen’s Guide to Self-Acceptance and Lasting Self-Esteem | Michelle Skeen, PsyD and Kelly Skeen |
| The Real Rules for Girls | Mindy Morgenstern |
| Get Over It! How To Survive Break-ups, Back Stabbing Friends, And Bad Haircuts | Beth Mayall |
| The Ultimate Self-Esteem Workbook for Teens | Megan MacCutcheon LPC |
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| Bodily Harm: The Breakthrough Healing Program for Self-Injurers | Jennifer Kingsonbloom, Karen Conterio, and Wendy Lader |
| A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain | Marilee Strong |
| Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation | Steven Levenkron |
| Stopping the Pain: A Workbook for Teens Who Cut and Self Injure | Lawrence E. Shapiro, PhD |
| Skin Game | Caroline Kettlewell |
| See My Pain!: Creative Strategies and Activities for Helping Young People Who Self-Injure | Susan Bowman and Kaye Randall |
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma | Bessel van der Kolk MD |
| Healing from Trauma: A Survivor's Guide to Understanding Your Symptoms and Reclaiming Your Life | Jasmin Lee Cori |
| Making Out Like a Virgin: Sex, Desire & Intimacy After Sexual Trauma | Various Authors |
| The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity | Nadine Burke Harris MD |
| The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog | Bruce D Perry, MD, PhD, and Maia Szalavitz |
| From Generation to Generation: Healing Intergenerational Trauma Through Storytelling | Emily Wanderer Cohen |
| It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle | Mark Wolynn |
| My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies | Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW |
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| The Distance Learning Playbook for Parents | Rosalind Wiseman, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and John Hattie |
| A Little SPOT Learns Online: A Story About Virtual Classroom Expectations | Diane Alber |
| eNinja: A Children’s Book About Virtual Learning Practices for Online Student Success | Mary Nhin |