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Lurking beneath the progressive activism and sex positivity in the 1970 to '80s, a dark undercurrent of violence rippled across the American landscape. With reported cases of sexual assault and homicide on the rise, the FBI created a specialized team - the “Mindhunters”, better known as the Behavioral Science Unit - to track down the country's most dangerous criminals. And yet narrowing down a seemingly infinite list of potential suspects seemed daunting at best and impossible at worst - until Dr. Ann Wolbert Burgess stepped on the scene.

Normality is so over-rated. Boat life is better. In her debut memoir Narrow Margins, Marie Browne saved her family from financial ruin by moving her long-suffering husband, three children, and a dog on to a houseboat called Happy Go Lucky in search of a less stressful, alternative way of life. Now in Narrow Minds the family find themselves sucked back into normality, they’re pretty much back where they started: horrible house, no boat, and the kids are beginning to threaten mutiny.

Acclaimed journalist and critic Jason McBride offers a full-scale authorized biography of the pioneering experimental novelist Kathy Acker, one of the most original and controversial figures in 20th-century American literature. Eat Your Mind draws on exclusive interviews with hundreds of Acker’s intimates as well as her private journals, correspondence, and early drafts of her work and offers a thrilling account and a long-overdue reassessment of a misunderstood genius and revolutionary artist.

هي جوان كاثلين رولينغ ، والتي يعرفها الجميع باسمها الفني ج. ك. رولينغ ، روائية وكاتبة سيناريو ومنتجة أفلام بريطانية، حاصلة على وسام الشرف البريطاني، ولقب ديم. اشتهرت جوان رولينغ بتأليفها سلسلة روايات هاري بوتر الفنتازيّة التي فازت من خلالها بالعديد من الجوائِز وبيعَ أكثر من 400 مليون نسخة من الروايات، حيث يعتبر من أكثر الكتب مبيعاً في التاريخ.

Candace Pert stood at the dawn of three revolutions: the women’s movement, integrative health, and psychopharmacology. A scientific prodigy, she was 30 years ahead of her time, preaching a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to healthcare and medicine long before yoga hit the mainstream and “wellness” took root in our vernacular. Her bestselling book Molecules of Emotion made her the mother of the Mind/Body Revolution, launching a paradigm shift in medicine. Deepak Chopra credits her with creating his career, and he said as much in his eulogy at her funeral.

Canadians fell in love with Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s beautiful and high-spirited bride when he brought her to the world stage as the youngest First Lady in the history of the country. But the situation wasn’t as rosy as it seemed. Plagued by mood swings and unprepared for public life, Margaret became increasingly isolated at 24 Sussex, as her depression alternated with bouts of mania. As her behavior became more puzzling - even to Margaret herself - she did her best to mother her three young sons.

When her earliest childhood friend is diagnosed with a terminal illness, Becker sets off on a quest to immerse herself in what it means to be mortal. Can we live our lives more fully knowing some day we will die? With a keen eye toward that which makes life worth living, interfaith minister, mom, and perpetual seeker Barbara Becker recounts stories where life and death intersect in unexpected ways.

The Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated as a mind spread out on the ground. In this urgent, visceral work, Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of the personal, intergenerational, and colonial traumas experienced by her so many Native people. Elliott's deeply personal writing details a life spent between Indigenous and White communities - a divide reflected in her own family - and engages with such wide-ranging topics as race, parenthood, love, art, mental illness, poverty, sexual assault, gentrification, and representation.

An ambulance rushed her away to the emergency room at a local hospital. Her life was forever changed in that moment. In this powerful memoir and inspirational self-help book, Kimberly Muka Powers shares her triumphant story of living with bipolar type one disorder with psychotic features. Humbled by this life-altering mental health diagnosis, she learns to rise above the setbacks of her illness and empowers others to do the same.

Meet Carla Chatburn, a successful beauty therapist, owner of three award-winning salons with 25 professional industry awards to her name, and the creator of The Confident Beauty Therapist Program. But Carla wasn’t always the bold and confident woman behind all these titles. In fact, there was a time when she was a shy and introverted young girl who had no idea if she was good at anything, as she fell short of the conventional standards held by academic prowess.

Discover the extraordinary life of Marie Curie, the pioneering scientist who broke barriers and made groundbreaking discoveries in the fields of physics and chemistry. "The Woman Who Won Two Nobel Prizes: Marie Curie" takes young listeners on an inspiring journey through Marie's life, from her early days in Poland to her groundbreaking research in Paris and her enduring legacy.

Sara Mayfield was born into Alabama's governing elite in 1905 and grew up in a social circle that included Zelda Sayre, Sara Haardt, and Tallulah and Eugenia Bankhead. After winning a Goucher College short story contest judged by H. L. Mencken, Mayfield became friends with Mencken and his circle, then visited with Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and hobnobbed with the literati while traveling in Europe after a failed marriage. Back in Tuscaloosa after the war, however, she became increasingly paranoid about perceived conspiracies arrayed against her.

Why had God placed this life in front of me? To start with, the Lord never gives you more than you can handle. I would be born to parents Joyce and Denny Grant, married at ages 17 and 23. It was a match made by way of Denny's maternal aunt, Kitty. In 1956 she was my mother's roommate in Camarillo, a California insane asylum. This marriage was a slice of hell, giving birth to three children. Joyce would kill her second-born, Jimmy, followed by her hanging me as a two-year-old, three years later.

In her search for peace, Kendra writes about her experiences of being single, putting herself first, stepping into her light, and shining as bright as she can. Through self-discovery and putting in the work to find herself along the journey of this thing called life, she shares what she hopes will be a helpful guide to others as they go through life and all that’s unexpected. Ultimately a lesson in learning to let go and release what no longer serves you so you can create space for what is to come.

In The Mind Regulator, Shakeema goes through a traumatic situation that causes her mind to be unbalanced. She goes through a mental breakdown of emotional distress. She cannot control her mind and emotions, not because she does not want to, but because of the impact that she has encountered. She also faces challenges in interacting with people and building relationships because of this. This makes her fall into a state of chronic depression, and she feels like a failure and her life has no hope at all.

Please let me go. So many times I've wanted everyone to just let me go. But they didn't and I'm here. The fight to get here was impossibly hard, but so worth it. This is the story of how I got here, the story of the worst year of my life which changed everything.

In this powerful memoir, Harker shares her painful journey through multiple divorces, trauma and addiction. By examining a lifetime of family dysfunction, secrets and lies, Harker is forced to confront her demons. With raw honesty and vulnerability, she recounts the pain of failed marriages, learning along the way the signs of the disordered mind, and the importance of seeking professional help.

On n’est jamais une sœur sans l’Autre. De naissance ou de cœur, nous sommes toutes unies par un lien de transmission et d’échange qui nous transforme. C’est dans cet esprit de sororité que nous avons eu envie d’aborder un thème essentiel à nos yeux : la recherche d’un bien-être, d’un équilibre de vie où le corps, le cœur et l’esprit vibrent en harmonie.

Menopause. Every woman goes through it, but few of us talk about it with our friends. Following the success of The Girl in the Gold Bikini, author Dana Goldstein is throwing back the curtain on the most challenging years of a woman's life. Holding nothing back, the author brings her unique sense of humor to her menopausal journey, sharing stories of hair growing where it shouldn't, erotic dreams that leave her shaken for days, and her struggle to stop herself from killing her beloved husband.