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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Susan Burton is ready to come clean. Happily married with two children, working at her dream job, she has lived a secret life of compulsive eating and starving for twenty-five years. This is a relentlessly honest, fiercely intelligent narrative of living with binge-eating disorder. When Burton was thirteen, her stable life in suburban Michigan was turned upside down by her parents' abrupt, hostile divorce, and she moved to Colorado with her mother...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this deeply personal and well-researched indictment of American diet culture, Sole-Smith explores hunger, satiation, and the myriad other reasons humans eat -- or don't. After a medical trauma left her month-old daughter Violet reliant on a feeding tube, the author realized that the primal instinct to self-nourish is "also surprisingly fragile," easily influenced by vegetable-pushing parents or the sugar-fearing wellness industry. In retraining...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Magnolia "Maggie" Hagen is determined to be in the spotlight ... if she can just get over her stage fright. This summer, though, she has big plans to finally attend Camp Rising Star, the famous performing arts camp she's been dying to go to for three whole summers. But on the last day of school, her parents break the news: Maggie isn't going to Camp Rising Star. She's being shipped off to fat camp, and not just any fat camp. She's going to Camp Sylvania,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
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...
14) Eating disorders
Author
Publisher
Homestead Schools, Inc
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
199 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
16) Massive
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First Simon Pulse edition.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Carmen feels the stress of dealing with an anorexic mother, when they relocate to the city.
Author
Series
Sweet magnolias series volume 2
Language
English
Description
An eating disorder threatens the life of chef Dana Sue Sullivan's teenage daughter. She feels she has no choice but to bring Anne's cheating dad back to Serenity, South Carolina-- despite her unresolved feelings toward him. Ronnie Sullivan is there for his daughter-- but he wants Dana Sue back, and every move he makes is designed to prove he's a changed man. Is Ronnie's return the sweet recipe for a new beginning? -- adapted from back cover
19) Butter
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Unable to control his binge eating, a morbidly obese teenager nicknamed Butter decides to make a live webcast of his last meal as he attempts to eat himself to death.
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