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      By Dunkle, Elena  Dunkle, Clare B
       [2015]., Chronicle Books Call No: B    Availability:2 of 2     At Location(s) Summary Note: Elena Dunkle, cowriting with her mother, recounts her struggles with anorexia as a teen and twenty-something - from denial, to treatment centers, to recovery.
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      By Dunkle, Clare B
       [2015]., Chronicle Books Call No: 616.85 262    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: Clare Dunkle seemed to have an ideal life--two beautiful, high-achieving teenage daughters, a loving husband, and a satisfying and successful career as a children's book novelist. But it's when you let down your guard that the ax falls. Just after one daughter successfully conquered her depression, another daughter developed a life-threatening eating disorder. Co-published with Elena Vanishing, the memoir of her daughter, this is the story--told in brave, beautifully written, and unflinchingly honest prose--of one family's fight against a deadly disease, from an often ignored but important perspective: the mother of the anorexic.
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      By O'Brady, Colin
       [2020]., Juvenile, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: B   Edition: First edition, Young readers edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: "Prior to December 2018, no individual had ever crossed the landmass of Antarctica alone, without support, and completely human-powered. But Colin O'Brady was determined to do just that--even though ten years earlier a tragic accident raised doubts that he'd ever walk again normally. O'Brady's quest drew him into a head-to-head battle with British SAS Captain Louis Rudd also striving to be 'the first.' Enduring Antarctica's sub-zero temperatures and pulling a sled that initially weighed 375 pounds in complete isolation and through a succession of whiteouts, storms, and a series of near disasters, O'Brady journeyed 932 miles to a world first. Honest, deeply moving, filled with moments of vulnerability and set against the backdrop of some of the most extreme environments on earth, from Mount Everest to Antarctica The Impossible First reveals how anyone can reject limits, overcome immense obstacles, and discover what matters most"--Provided by the publisher.
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      By O'Brady, Colin
       [2020]., Juvenile, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: HI-INT B OBR   Edition: First edition, Young readers edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: "Prior to December 2018, no individual had ever crossed the landmass of Antarctica alone, without support, and completely human-powered. But Colin O'Brady was determined to do just that--even though ten years earlier a tragic accident raised doubts that he'd ever walk again normally. O'Brady's quest drew him into a head-to-head battle with British SAS Captain Louis Rudd also striving to be 'the first.' Enduring Antarctica's sub-zero temperatures and pulling a sled that initially weighed 375 pounds in complete isolation and through a succession of whiteouts, storms, and a series of near disasters, O'Brady journeyed 932 miles to a world first. Honest, deeply moving, filled with moments of vulnerability and set against the backdrop of some of the most extreme environments on earth, from Mount Everest to Antarctica The Impossible First reveals how anyone can reject limits, overcome immense obstacles, and discover what matters most"--Provided by the publisher.
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      By Rojas Contreras, Ingrid
       [2022]., Adolescent, Doubleday Call No: HI-INT B ROJ   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: "For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in the Colombia of the 1980's and 1990's in a house where 'what did you dream?' was asked in place of 'how are you?' her world was laced with prophecy and violence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds. As a young girl, Rojas Contreras eavesdropped on her mother's fortune-telling business from the stairs and waited eagerly for the moments when Mami appeared in two places at once. She was accustomed to 'letting the ghosts in.' So when Ingrid, now living in the U.S., suffered a head injury in her 20's that left her with amnesia an accident eerily similar to a fall that had put her mother in a coma at the age of 8, from which she woke with not just amnesia, but the ability to see ghosts the family assumes 'the secrets' have finally been passed down to the next generation. But as Ingrid recovers her memories, they don't come with supernatural abilities. Rather, she is consumed by a powerful urge to learn even more about her heritage than she knew before the accident. Spurred by a shared dream among Mami and her sisters, wherein Nono communicates that he is unable to rest peacefully in the afterlife, Ingrid joins her mother on a journey home to Colombia to disinter her grandfather's remains. With her mother as her unpredictable, stubborn and often hilarious guide, Ingrid traces her lineage back to her indigenous and Spanish roots, uncovering the violent and rigid colonial narrative that would eventually break her family into two camps: those who believe 'the secrets' are a gift, and those who are convinced they are a curse. Interweaving family stories more enchanting than any novel, resurrected Colombian history, and her own deeply personal reckonings with the bounds of reality, Rojas Contreras writes her way through the incomprehensible and into her inheritance. The result is a luminous testament to the power of storytelling as a healing art and an invitation to embrace the extraordinary"--Provided by the publisher.
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      By Brown, Theresa
       2015., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Call No: HI-INT 616.02 BRO   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: Follow an oncology nurse's shift in real time: her feelings for her patients, the life-altering medical decisions she is party to, and her many quotidian kindnesses and frustrations.
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      By Kehret, Peg
       c1996, Juvenile, Albert Whitman Call No: B    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: The author describes her battle against polio when she was thirteen and her efforts to overcome its debilitating effects.
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      By Kehret, Peg
       c1996, Juvenile, Albert Whitman Call No: B    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: The author describes her battle against polio when she was thirteen and her efforts to overcome its debilitating effects.
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      By Kehret, Peg
       c1996., Albert Whitman Call No: HI-INT B KEH    Availability:2 of 2     At Location(s) Summary Note: The author describes her battle against polio when she was thirteen and her efforts to overcome its debilitating effects.