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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
For years twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille, a woman trapped in her long-ago moment of glory as the 1951 Vidalia Onion Queen. When Camille is killed by a truck, CeeCee's previously unknown great-aunt, Tootie Caldwell, whisks CeeCee away to Savannah, a world seemingly run entirely by women. These exotic women keep CeeCee enthralled for an entire summer.
2) Adultery
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Series
Language
English
Description
"A woman around her thirties begins to question the routine and predictability of her days. In everybody's eyes, she has a perfect life: a solid and stable marriage, a loving husband, sweet and well-behaved children and a job as a journalist she can't complain about. However, she can no longer bear the necessary effort to fake happiness when all she feels in life is an enormous apathy. All that changes when she encounters an ex-boyfriend from her...
Author
Language
English
Description
From one of the world's leading experts on how the brain works, this book offers a step-by-step, practical program for women to achieve greater health, energy, and lasting happiness by harnessing the power of the female brain. For the first time, the author, a neuropsychiatrist offers insight on the unique characteristics, strengths (intuition, empathy, multitasking, collaboration), vulnerabilities (anxiety, depression, and a tendency to worry), and...
Author
Language
English
Description
Roxane Gay addresses the experience of living in a body that she calls 'wildly undisciplined.' She casts an insightful and critical eye over her childhood, teens, and twenties -- including the devastating act of violence that was a turning point at age 12 -- and brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life. With candor, vulnerability, and authority, Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when...
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Beautiful Catherine Holly is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the horrible death of her cousin at the hands of cannibals. Her rich aunt tries to influence a young neurosurgeon to surgically end Catherine's haunting hallucinations. By utilizing injections of truth serum, the neurosurgeon discovers that Catherine's delusions are in fact true and must confront the rich aunt about her own involvement in her son's violent death.
Series
Criterion collection volume 253
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
As a suburban housewife suffers an emotional breakdown, her family struggles to help her.
10) The extremely busy woman's guide to self care: do less, achieve more, and live the life you want
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Language
English
Description
An interactive self-love activity workbook for women with quizzes, journal prompts, and tools to guide you on your self-care journey.
You're probably doing a lot—taking care of your family, killing it at your job, volunteering, organizing, scheduling, delegating. At the end of all of that, do you have any time or energy left to take care of the most important person: you? If you are ready to step out of feelings of frenzy,
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Series
Springer series focus on women volume 2
Publisher
Springer Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c1980
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Depression is not a disease, it is a symptom. Recent years have seen a shocking increase in antidepressant use, with one in four women starting their day with medication. These drugs have become the panacea for everything from grief, irritability, panic attacks, to insomnia, PMS, and stress. But the truth is, what women really need can't be found at a pharmacy. According to Dr. Kelly Brogan, antidepressants not only overpromise and underdeliver, but...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
In Joan Lunden's Healthy Living, Joan, co-host for twenty years of America's most popular morning television show, demystifies what it means to take control of your life and your health. Joan Lunden's messages are clear and uplifting and presented in a straightforward manner. She explains how we all can choose what we become, describing what it means to become a witness to your own life, how to shatter self-limits, the power of positive thinking,...
20) Jupiter's wife
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Maggie, a beguiling homeless woman living in New York City's Central Park. In her forties, Maggie's vibrant personality and unconventional persona attract attention since she has 6 dogs and carries a hugh backpack full of her personal belongings. A captivating jumble of cryptic stories, Maggie's conversations are laced with intriguing claims - including the claim that she is the daughter of actor Robert Ryan and that she is married...