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Tiffany Morrow had thought she only imagined the demon horse with glowing red eyes at the airport but there was no mistaking the mountain view she had seen out of the window this morning. She was really and truly in Denver. Home. The nightmare of the jungle was over. She really didn't know how much time had passed since she'd been carried out of that vile cabin in the Amazon. She did remember that - waking for a moment or two in the arms of someone...
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CSL - Books by or about Persons with Disabilities
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CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
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The residents at a facility for disabled young people in Chicago build trust and make friends in an effort to fight against their living conditions and mistreatment.
4) Furiously happy (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): a funny book about horrible things
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"In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. But terrible ideas are what Jenny does best.As Jenny says: "Some people might think that being 'furiously happy' is just an excuse to be stupid and irresponsible and invite a herd of kangaroos over to your house without telling...
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For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness--how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people--sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society--went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Forced to remain inside until they'd "proven" themselves sane, all...
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"Told entirely through the transcripts of the narrator's psychiatric sessions, this intimate portrait of grief and longing follows twenty-year-old Alicia Western as she, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, contemplates the nature of madness, her hallucinations and her own existence in 1972 Black River Falls, Wisconsin"--