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Publisher
Central Recovery Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"The second edition of the best-selling and groundbreaking work where a therapist and an eating disorder survivor come together to deliver expert guidance for readers with eating disorders. With its unique three-phase approach to eating, this book smashes the illusion of control, the power, and the lies of the deadly illness of disordered eating, providing a concrete plan for long-term recovery"--
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Series
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After a one-night stand shatters her family, things go from bad to worse. Yet when her anorexic daughter, Annie, nearly dies, Dana Sue reluctantly appeals to the one person who might be able to help, her cheating ex, Ronnie, who wants more than anything to return to his family.
Author
Description
"Gay has written ... about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as 'wildly undisciplined, ' Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care"--Amazon.com.
4) Not hungry
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
June is fat. June also has an eating disorder, but no one sees. When she doesn't eat, her friends and family think they see a fat girl on a diet, not someone starving herself. When June's secret is found out by Toby, the new boy next door, she is panicked. Then she learns he also has a secret. Everyone has their own little lies. --Amazon.
5) Paperweight
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Seventeen-year-old Stevie is trapped. In her life. In her body. And now in an eating-disorder treatment center on the dusty outskirts of the New Mexico desert. Life in the center is regimented and intrusive, a nightmare come true. Nurses and therapists watch Stevie at mealtime, accompany her to the bathroom, and challenge her to eat the foods she's worked so hard to avoid. Her dad has signed her up for sixty days of treatment. But what no one knows...
Author
Publisher
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"The Inside Scoop on Eating Disorder Recovery is a fresh, smart, how-to book that helps people with eating disorders to heal their relationship with food, their bodies, and ultimately themselves. Written from the perspective of two eating disorder therapists, both of whom are recovered from their own eating disorders, the text uses humor, personal narratives, and research-proven techniques to offer specific actionable guidelines on how to reclaim...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is a common eating disorder diagnosis that describes children and adults who cannot meet their nutritional needs, typically because of sensory sensitivity, fear of adverse consequences and/or apparent lack of interest in eating or food. This book is the first of its kind to offer a specialist treatment, specifically for ARFID. Developed, refined and studied in response to this urgent clinical need,...
Author
Publisher
Roxane Gay Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Jackie Newsome's best friend is dead, and everyone knows who killed her. Jackie is an ex-emotional eater and mother of four, who has finally lost the weight she long yearned to be free of. But leaving her old self behind proves harder than she ever imagined. She believes she should be happier, but misery still chases her, and motherhood threatens to consume her. Her only salve is Theresa, her best friend whose life she desperately covets. Their bond...
Author
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
If your ten- to eighteen-year-old is struggling with overeating, you know how hard that can be, for your child and for you. Unhealthy eating habits put kids and teens, well-being and self-confidence at risk. Something needs to change, but what? And how can you bring it up so they can really hear you?
Author
Publisher
New Harbinger Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
" In this much-anticipated follow-up to Fifty Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food, renowned nutrition expert and New York Times best-selling author of Eat Q, Susan Albers delivers fifty more highly effective ways to help you soothe yourself without eating-leading to a healthier, happier life! If you're an emotional overeater, you may turn to food to cope with stress and sadness, enhance joy, and bring a sense of comfort. But, over time, overeating...
15) Always June
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Series
Publisher
West 44 Books, an imprint of Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
June's secret eating disorder has been exposed to her whole school, and she knows there's no going back to the way things were. Plus, her mom has started dating again-and it's serious. What's worse, her big sister Mae leaves for college early after a big fight. While taking refuge at the local bowling alley, June gets roped into joining the girls' bowling team. As she improves her bowling game, June finds a newfound appreciation of all her body can...
16) Perfect
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Following the death of her father, a thirteen-year-old uses bulimia as a way to avoid her mother's and ten-year-old sister's grief, as well as her own. Isabelle Lee has a problem, and it's not just Ape Face, her sister, or group therapy for an eating disorder, or even that her father died and her mother is depressed and in denial. It's that Ashley, the most popular girl in school, is inviting Isabelle to join her at lunch and at sleepovers at her...
17) Balancing act
Author
Series
Nikki Sheridan volume 4
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Because she suspects that Carly has an eating disorder, Nikki tries to help her friend while she also learns to address her own lack of self-acceptance by turning to God in prayer.
18) How I live now
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land. "Every war has turning points and every person too." Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she's never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. Her...
19) Hungry ghost
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"After the sudden death of her father, sixteen-year-old Valerie Chu, who is hiding an eating disorder from her friends and family, reevaluates her life, her choices and her own body as she tries to find the strength to seek help."--
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A dark, edgy, voice-driven literary debut novel about twin sisters that explores body image and queerness as well as toxic diet culture and the power of sisterhood, love, and lifelong friendships.--Publisher's description.
Rose and Lily Winters are twins. They feel each other's emotions, taste what the other is feeling, but their connection can be as destructive as it is supportive. When Rose stops eating, Lily starts consuming everything Rose won't...
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