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62) Jawbreaker
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Max, who has an extreme overbite, must navigate sibling rivalry and middle school bullies.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
While leading a group bike trip from NYC to Niagara Falls, 34-year-old Abby Stern, newly engaged, encounters Sebastian, the one-night stand she never thought she'd see again, and, determined to keep him at arm's length over the next two weeks, finds her certainties about herself and the nature of love challenged.
Author
Publisher
Feminist Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Feminist Press edition.
Physical Desc
128 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"Growing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt, she was over it -- and gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again. Ever since, she's been helping others to do the same. Tovar is hungry for a world where bodies are valued equally, food is free from moral judgment, and you can jiggle through life with respect. In concise and candid language, she...
68) Eat fat
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 247 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Victory Belt Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Intuitive eating is a non-diet approach to healthy eating that focuses on unlearning diet cultures toxic messaging so you can build a healthier relationship with food and your body and focus on health promoting behaviors as opposed to weight loss. There is a common perception that intuitive eating approaches are also anti-nutrition, but that's simply not the case. In this book, registered dietitian Rachael Hartley looks at the role of gentle nutrition...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Fifteen-year-old Ivy's world is in flux. Her dad has moved out, her mother is withdrawn, her brother is off at college, and her best friend, Anna, has grown distant. Worst of all, Ivy's body won't stop expanding. She's getting taller and curvier, with no end in sight. Even her beloved math class offers no clear solution to the imbalanced equation that has become Ivy's life. Everything feels off-kilter until a skipped meal leads to a boost in confidence...
Author
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as 'wildly undisciplined,' Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she casts an insightful...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 353 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Reveals the impact of our weight-centric society on children and explores how America's focus on "solving the childhood obesity epidemic" has perpetuated disordered eating and bodying hatred and offers empowering advice to navigate these challenges.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After moving to Northfield with her family in 1984, Elyse Nebbit faces the challenge of finding her place in a new school, one dominated by social status and Friday night football. When Elyse's effortlessly beautiful older sister Jayne starts dating Charlie Bingley, the captain of the school football team, Elyse finds herself curious about Charlie's popular and brooding best friend, Billy Fitz. Elyse's body insecurities eventually complicate her relationship...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Lizzie has never liked the way she looks. She starts dating guys online, but she's afraid to send pictures. With punishing drive, she counts almonds consumed, miles logged, pounds dropped. She grows up and gets thin, navigating double-edged validation from her mother, her friends, her husband, her reflection in the mirror. Will she ever see herself as anything other than a fat girl?
76) Does this pregnancy make me look fat?: the essential guide to loving your body before and after baby
Author
Publisher
Health Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
xiv, 242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
EllRay Jakes series volume 9
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
146 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old EllRay Jakes, the shortest kid in class and still chosen last at recess, hones his basketball skills with Mr. Havens and earns the respect of his third-grade classmates.
78) Big boned
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Lori Palmer is the new girl at Bay Water High, where students prize glossy hair, "beach' bodies, and thigh gaps above all else, which is so not her. She misses her old school, where her artistic talent was more important to her peers than a chia smoothie recipe ever was. Uncomfortable in her own size-sixteen skin, Lori decides to survive senior year as best she can by blending into the background while she melts in the summer heat. But her plans...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Big Girl chronicles Kelsey's journey into self-loathing and disordered eating-and out of it. This is a memoir for anyone who's dealt with a distorted body image, food issues, or a dysfunctional family. It's for the late-bloomers and the not-yet-bloomed. It's for everyone who's tried and failed and felt like a big, fat loser. So, basically, everyone."--Page 4 of cover.
80) I feel pretty
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
[Blu-ray/DVD combo].
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (1 hr., 51 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A woman struggling with insecurity wakes from a fall believing she is the most beautiful and capable woman on the planet. Her new confidence empowers her to live fearlessly, but what happens when she realizes her appearance never changed?
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