Book List
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Helping Children Cope | Center for Disease Control |
Parenting in a Pandemic: Tips to Keep the Calm at Home | American Academy of Pediatrics |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |