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Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"With her father recently moved to a care facility, Beth Walsh volunteers to clear out the family home and is surprised to discover the door to her childhood playroom padlocked. She's even more shocked at what's behind it--a hoarder's mess of her father's paintings, mounds of discarded papers and miscellaneous junk in the otherwise fastidiously tidy house. As she picks through the clutter, she finds a loose journal entry in what appears to be her...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In the U.S., major depressive disorder afflicts more than 20 million adults and children every year. Living with Depression details the various forms and manifestations of depression alongside Serani's own personal and professional experiences with depression. Clinical definitions, updated research, and the promise of science serve not only as a resource guide for anyone who has depression or loves someone with this disorder, but also as a testament...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Anxiety and depression can be experienced during pregnancy, as well as post-partum, and the impact can be both debilitating and devastating. Fox Starr shares her personal story of marriage, motherhood, prenatal anxiety and depression, severe postpartum anxiety and depression, recovery process and hope for the future. Woven throughout the narrativeis information and advice that addresses risk factors, warning signs, definitions and recovery options....
Author
Publisher
Addicus Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Every year nearly 400,000 women--approximately 15 percent of all new mothers--face postpartum disorders. Postpartum depression is the most common complication of pregnancy, yet few understand it or are prepared to deal with it. This book examines the symptoms, causes, and treatment of postpartum depression. Topics covered include: risk factors for postpartum disorders, effects of a mother's depression on her baby, how medications and psychotherapy...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A gifted and audacious writer confronts her lifelong battle with depression and her search for release This Close to Happy is the rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression, written from a woman's perspective and informed by an acute understanding of the implications of this disease over a lifetime. Taking off from essays on depression she has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine,...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The time of pregnancy and after having a baby can be very positive and exciting, but we know that it can also be challenging in lots of ways and mental health difficulties are common during pregnancy and postnatally. Contrary to popular belief, the most prevalent problem is anxiety rather than depression. In fact, about 15% of women will experience a significant anxiety problem at some point during pregnancy or the first postnatal year 1. The high...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From the moment Ben and June met in a hospital waiting room on New Year's Eve, their love has seemed fated. Looking back at all the tiny, unlikely decisions that brought them together, it was easy to believe their relationship was special. But now, after several years of marriage, June is struggling as a new mom. At times, she wonders about the life she didn't choose -- what might have been if she hadn't given up the lead role in a famous ballet...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From "the most captivating voice to come out of the West since Annie Proulx" (Vogue), the furious, hilarious, soul-rending story of one woman's reckoning with marriage, work, sex, and motherhood. Since my baby was born, I have been able to laugh and see the funny side of things. a) As much as I ever did. b) Not quite as much now. c) Not so much now. d) Not at all. Leaving behind her husband, Theo, and their young daughter, Claire, a writer, gets...
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
English
Description
When a Brooklyn grad student agrees to be godmother to the infant son of her best friend, who is in the grip of postpartum depression, a few days after the baptism the student receives a phone call from the mother saying she's killed her son and husband, and the student investigates to try to clear her friend.
14) The stonecutter
Author
Series
Patrik Hedstrom mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When a young girl's body is pulled out of the harbor in the small Swedish resort town of Fjallbacka, Det. Patrik Hedström becomes the lead investigator as he struggles with lazy and inept colleagues and an even remoter-than-usual boss. It's his grim task to discover who could be behind the murder of the child both he and his partner Erica knew well.
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
It's 1990. In Dalton, Maine, life goes on. Rose goes to work at the diner every day, her bruises hidden from both the customers and her two young boys. At a table she waits, Dr. Richard Haskell looks back on the one choice that's charted his entire life, before his thoughts wander back to his wife, Trudy, and her best friend. Trudy and Bev have been friends for longer than they can count, and something more than lovers to each other for some time...
Author
Series
Ken Swift novels volume Prequel
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Ken is twenty-one, hurting people for cash to try to pay his way through college, when he lays eyes on Jimi Lee, the woman who will change the course of his entire life. What's meant to be a one-night stand with the Harvard-bound beauty turns into an explosion of sexual chemistry that neither can quit. And when Jimi Lee becomes pregnant, their two very different worlds collide in ways they never could have anticipated"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
What if labor does not end with pregnancy but continues into a mother's postpartum life? How can the fiercest love for your child and the deepest wells of grief coexist in the same moment? How has society neglected honest conversation around the significant physical changes new mothers experience? Could real healing occur if generations of women were fluent in the language of their bodies? Molly Caro May grapples with these questions as she undergoes...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Her brother's letter touched a match to the wick of Annie's doused dreams. Dream enough for her, to stroll the length of a town without the abortive glances, the stilted greetings, the wider berth given her on the sidewalk. "I could use some help out here," he wrote. "What's holding you to Iowa anyway?" Annie Rushton leaves behind an unsettling past to join her brother on his Montana homestead and make a determined fresh start. There, sparks fly...
19) My work
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"After giving birth, Anna is utterly lost. She and her family move to the unfamiliar, snowy city of Stockholm. Anxiety threatens to completely engulf the new mother, who obsessively devours online news and compulsively buys clothes she can't afford. To avoid sinking deeper into her depression, Anna forces herself to read and write. My Work is a novel about the unique and fundamental experience of giving birth, mixing different literary forms-fiction,...
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