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The Skeleton Cupboard

The Making of a Clinical Psychologist

by Tanya Byron ...

In my session with Imogen, the words were still not coming. I had to move past my own frustration and relax. But it is very hard to relax when you are looking into the eyes of a mute little girl who wants to be dead. You don’t want to relax; you want to pull her into your arms, hold her and then shake her until she tells you why. You long to say, "Why do you want to die? You’re twelve years old. ... Read more

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In my session with Imogen, the words were still not coming. I had to move past my own frustration and relax. But it is very hard to relax when you are looking into the eyes of a mute little girl who wants to be dead. You don’t want to relax; you want to pull her into your arms, hold her and then shake her until she tells you why. You long to say, "Why do you want to die? You’re twelve years old.
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The Skeleton Cupboard

by Tanya Byron ...

Narrated by Imogen Church ...

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9 hours 35 min

In my session with Imogen, the words were still not coming. I had to move past my own frustration and relax. But it is very hard to relax when you are looking into the eyes of a mute little girl who wants to be dead. You don't want to relax; you want to pull her into your arms, hold her and then shake her until she tells you why. You long to say, ""Why do you want to die? You're twelve years old." ... Read more

$36.99 CAD

In my session with Imogen, the words were still not coming. I had to move past my own frustration and relax. But it is very hard to relax when you are looking into the eyes of a mute little girl who wants to be dead. You don't want to relax; you want to pull her into your arms, hold her and then shake her until she tells you why. You long to say, ""Why do you want to die? You're twelve years old."
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Be More Human

Why Mental Health Care is Broken – and What We Can Do to Fix It

by Sir Norman Lamb ...

Why do people with mental health conditions die 15-20 years earlier than people without?Why is £100 million spent every year placing patients far from their homes?How did the question, 'What matters to you?' transform mental health care in Norway?We live in a country in which community is fading, inequality is growing, and discrimination is still far too common. At the same time, services ... Read more

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Why do people with mental health conditions die 15-20 years earlier than people without?Why is £100 million spent every year placing patients far from their homes?How did the question, 'What matters to you?' transform mental health care in Norway?We live in a country in which community is fading, inequality is growing, and discrimination is still far too common. At the same time, services
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The Skeleton Cupboard: The Making of a Clinical Psychologist

by Tanya Byron ...

Narrated by Imogen Church ...

Unabridged

9 hours 25 min

The gripping, unforgettable, and deeply affecting story of a young clinical psychologist learning how she can best help her patients, The Skeleton Cupboard is a riveting and revealing memoir that offers fascinating insight into the human mind.In The Skeleton Cupboard, Professor Tanya Byron recounts the stories of the patients who most influenced her career as a mental health practitioner. Spanning ... Read more

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The gripping, unforgettable, and deeply affecting story of a young clinical psychologist learning how she can best help her patients, The Skeleton Cupboard is a riveting and revealing memoir that offers fascinating insight into the human mind.In The Skeleton Cupboard, Professor Tanya Byron recounts the stories of the patients who most influenced her career as a mental health practitioner. Spanning
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The School of Wellbeing

12 Extraordinary Projects Promoting Children and Young People's Mental Health and Happiness

by Jenny Hulme, Nicky Cox, Jane Asher, Jane Powell, Gok Wan, Professor Tanya Byron, Rebecca Root, Asad Ahmad, Kate Griggs, Suzy Greaves ...

As rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm and eating disorders are on the up among young people, how can schools provide appropriate information and support for the young people in their classrooms? How can they bridge the gap between what they know matters - the impact of these issues on learning and life-long health - and the mounting day-to-day priorities and pressures of school life?This book ... Read more

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As rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm and eating disorders are on the up among young people, how can schools provide appropriate information and support for the young people in their classrooms? How can they bridge the gap between what they know matters - the impact of these issues on learning and life-long health - and the mounting day-to-day priorities and pressures of school life?This book
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Be More Human

Why Mental Health Care is Broken – and What We Can Do to Fix It

by Sir Norman Lamb ...

Narrated by Sir Norman Lamb, Professor Tanya Byron ...

Unabridged

10 hours 15 min

Why do people with mental health conditions die 15-20 years earlier than people without?Why is £100 million spent every year placing patients far from their homes?How did the question, 'What matters to you?' transform mental health care in Norway?We live in a country in which community is fading, inequality is growing, and discrimination is still far too common. At the same time, services ... Read more

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Why do people with mental health conditions die 15-20 years earlier than people without?Why is £100 million spent every year placing patients far from their homes?How did the question, 'What matters to you?' transform mental health care in Norway?We live in a country in which community is fading, inequality is growing, and discrimination is still far too common. At the same time, services
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Do No Harm

Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery

by Henry Marsh ...

Narrated by J.P. Barclay ...

Unabridged

9 hours 33 min

Longlisted for both the Guardian First Book Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, Do No Harm ranks alongside the work of Atul Gawande, Jerome Groopman, and Oliver Sacks.With compassion and candor, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving triumphs, the harrowing disasters, the haunting regrets, and the moments of black humor that ... Read more

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Longlisted for both the Guardian First Book Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, Do No Harm ranks alongside the work of Atul Gawande, Jerome Groopman, and Oliver Sacks.With compassion and candor, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving triumphs, the harrowing disasters, the haunting regrets, and the moments of black humor that
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Mennonite in a Little Black Dress

A Memoir of Going Home

by Rhonda Janzen ...

Narrated by Hillary Huber ...

Unabridged

8 hours 15 min

A hilarious and moving memoir in the spirit of Anne Lamott and Nora Ephron about a woman who returns home to her Mennonite family after a personal crisis.The same week her husband of 15 years ditches her for a guy he met on Gay.com, a partially inebriated teenage driver smacks her VW Beetle head-on. Marriage over, body bruised, life upside-down, Rhoda does what any sensible 43-year-old would do: ... Read more

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A hilarious and moving memoir in the spirit of Anne Lamott and Nora Ephron about a woman who returns home to her Mennonite family after a personal crisis.The same week her husband of 15 years ditches her for a guy he met on Gay.com, a partially inebriated teenage driver smacks her VW Beetle head-on. Marriage over, body bruised, life upside-down, Rhoda does what any sensible 43-year-old would do:
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Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.

by Viv Albertine ...

Narrated by Jasmine Blackborow ...

Unabridged

13 hours 29 min

SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEARROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEARMOJO BOOK OF THE YEARIn 1975, Viv Albertine was obsessed with music but it never occurred to her she could be in a band as she couldn't play an instrument and she'd never seen a girl play electric guitar.A year later, she was the guitarist in the hugely influential all-girl band the Slits, who fearlessly took on the male-dominated ... Read more

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SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEARROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEARMOJO BOOK OF THE YEARIn 1975, Viv Albertine was obsessed with music but it never occurred to her she could be in a band as she couldn't play an instrument and she'd never seen a girl play electric guitar.A year later, she was the guitarist in the hugely influential all-girl band the Slits, who fearlessly took on the male-dominated
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Behind the Candelabra

My Life With Liberace

by Alex Thorleifson, Scott Thorson ...

Narrated by Peter Berkrot ...

Unabridged

8 hours 59 min

In this unusually frank book Scott Thorson, Liberace's longtime lover, tells all: the good, the bad, and the ugly truths about the legendary entertainer who went to outrageous extremes to prevent public knowledge of his homosexuality.Liberace's unhappy childhood, dominated by a mother determined to force him into a concert career, serves as the prologue for a story that goes on to detail Liberace ... Read more

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In this unusually frank book Scott Thorson, Liberace's longtime lover, tells all: the good, the bad, and the ugly truths about the legendary entertainer who went to outrageous extremes to prevent public knowledge of his homosexuality.Liberace's unhappy childhood, dominated by a mother determined to force him into a concert career, serves as the prologue for a story that goes on to detail Liberace
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Bedsit Disco Queen

How I grew up and tried to be a pop star

by Tracey Thorn ...

Narrated by Tracey Thorn ...

Unabridged

8 hours 21 min

I was only sixteen when I bought an electric guitar and joined a band. A year later, I formed an all-girl band called the Marine Girls and played gigs, and signed to an indie label, and started releasing records.Then, for eighteen years, between 1982 and 2000, I was one half of the group Everything But the Girl. In that time, we released nine albums and sold nine million records. We went on ... Read more

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I was only sixteen when I bought an electric guitar and joined a band. A year later, I formed an all-girl band called the Marine Girls and played gigs, and signed to an indie label, and started releasing records.Then, for eighteen years, between 1982 and 2000, I was one half of the group Everything But the Girl. In that time, we released nine albums and sold nine million records. We went on
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The Establishment

And How They Get Away With It

by Owen Jones ...

Narrated by Jonathan Keeble ...

Unabridged

14 hours 52 min

'Fantastic, timely, eye-opening' Armando Iannucci, New Statesman, Books of the Year'Captures a collective sense of anger and awakening' Matt Haig, Observer, Books of the YearBehind our democracy lurks a powerful but unaccountable network of people who wield massive power and reap huge profits in the process. In exposing this shadowy and complex system that dominates our lives, Owen Jones sets out ... Read more

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'Fantastic, timely, eye-opening' Armando Iannucci, New Statesman, Books of the Year'Captures a collective sense of anger and awakening' Matt Haig, Observer, Books of the YearBehind our democracy lurks a powerful but unaccountable network of people who wield massive power and reap huge profits in the process. In exposing this shadowy and complex system that dominates our lives, Owen Jones sets out
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