Yolo County Library
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This Close to Happy : A Reckoning With Depression
by Daphne Merkin
A former "New Yorker" staff writer draws on her journalistic essays on depression to trace her lifelong battle with the disease, marked by her wealthy but inconsistent family and her numerous pursuits in therapy and hospitalization
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South and West : From a Notebook
by Joan Didion
Two excerpts from never-before-seen notebooks offer insights into the author's literary mind and process and includes notes on her Sacramento upbringing, her life in the Gulf states, her views on prominent locals, and her experiences during a formative "Rolling Stone" assignment
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Anything is Possible
by Elizabeth Strout
Two sisters, one who trades self-respect for a wealthy husband and one who discovers a kindred spirit in the pages of a book, struggle with intimate human dramas at the sides of their community members and a returned Lucy Barton. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge.
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Theft by Finding
by David Sedaris
An anthology of personal favorite diary entries by the best-selling author of Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls features excerpts that have inspired his famed autobiographical essays and shares insights into the intimate arenas of his life. Read by the author.
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Words in Deep Blue : A Novel
by Cath Crowley
Returning to the city and bookstore of her youth, years after tucking a love letter to her crush, Henry, within the pages of his favorite book, Rachel embarks on a revelatory correspondence with Henry as she works alongside him at the bookstore and finds herself falling in love with him all over again.
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My Own Words
by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Offers a collection of engaging, serious, and playful writings and speeches from the Supreme Court justice on topics ranging from gender equality and the workings of the Court to Judaism and the value of looking beyond U.S. shores when interpreting the Constitution
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Mindfulness for Beginners
by Jon Kabat-Zinn
The best-selling author of Coming to Our Senses guides beginning students through a comprehensive exploration of the spacious, luminous, and mysterious qualities of mindfulness meditation, and provides a series of five meditations for use at home, at work, or while traveling.
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The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
Chronicles the daring survival story of a cotton plantation slave in Georgia, who, after suffering at the hands of both her owners and fellow slaves, races through the Underground Railroad with a relentless slave-catcher close behind
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The Mare
by Mary Gaitskill
Taken in by a near-alcoholic artist and a jaded academic, a young Dominican girl in Brooklyn's Fresh Air Fund program explores the contrasts between her inner-city life and her hosts' privileged world and finds her realities powerfully shaped by her relationship with a horse
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Yolo County Library
226 Buckeye St. Woodland, California 95695 530-666-8005
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