Love, Sara
10 best books like Love, Sara (Mary Beth Lundgren): Of Spirits and Madness: An American Psychiatrist in Africa, Les sangs, Light Years, Will's Choice: A Suicidal Teen, a Desperate Mother, and a Chronicle of Recovery, Acquainted with the Night: A Parent's Quest to Understand Depression and Bipolar Disorder in His Children, Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind, Downers Grove, When She Was Good, The Box Children, .hack//G.U.+, Volume 2
| Author | Paul R. Linde |
| ISBN | 0071407995 |
"This is a wonderful book. It gives a warm and loving picture of an isolated African country regularly castigated in the US press. It reiterates eloquently lessons lost by our medical establishment and our populace, which need to be regained." --Journal of the American Medical Association.
An...
| Author | Audrée Wilhelmy |
| ISBN | 2760933636 |
De son aïeul grand veneur, Féléor Barthélémy Rü n'a pas seulement reçu une immense fortune; il a également hérité du désir de tuer et d'un goût pour la chair crue. Ces plaisirs, il les développe au contact des femmes qu'il croise et qui deviennent, pour certaines, ses épouses et victimes....
| Author | Tammar Stein |
| ISBN | 0375830235 |
He went to school to learn how to kill me. The Israeli girl who ruined his life. Seven people were killed instead. A single mother of two. A computer programmer. Two college students. A grandmother and her four-year-old grandson sharing an ice cream. And Dov, my boyfriend, my heart, the man I wanted to...
| Author | Gail Griffith |
| ISBN | 0060598662 |
On March 11, 2001, seventeen-year-old Will ingested a near-fatal dose of his antidepressant medication, an event that would forever change his life and the lives of his family. In Will's Choice, his mother, Gail Griffith, tells the story of her family's struggle to renew Will's interest in life and...
| Author | Paul Raeburn |
| ISBN | 0767914384 |
In the tradition of Kay Redfield Jamison’s An Unquiet Mind, Acquainted with the Night is a powerful memoir of one man’s struggle to deal with the adolescent depression and bipolar disorder of his son and his daughter.
Seven years ago Paul Raeburn’s son, Alex, eleven, was admitted...
| Author | Edwin S. Shneidman |
| ISBN | 0195172736 |
Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind is a uniquely intensive psychological analysis of a suicidal mind. In this poignant scientific study, Edwin S. Shneidman, a founder of the field of suicidology, assembles an extraordinary cast of eight renowned experts to analyze the suicidal materials, including a ten-page...
| Author | Michael Hornburg |
| ISBN | 0802137938 |
Downers Grove is the haunting and tender story of Chrissie Swanson, a paranoid high school senior for whom graduating has become a matter of life or death. She's an unusual girl in an ordinary town. Her mother's sex life is overshadowing her own; her brother is aboard his own private Enterprise, slipping...
| Author | Norma Fox Mazer |
| ISBN | 0590319906 |
Norma Fox Mazer's remarkable story of two sisters fighting to survive against a world without caring, reissued in a 10th anniversary paperback edition, to coincide with Mazer's new novel in hardcover.
In the sad, shabby trailer where Em Thurkill lived her first fourteen years, suffering...
| Author | Sharon Wyse |
| ISBN | 1573229962 |
Lou Ann Campbell is nearly twelve years old. She lives on a farm in Texas, and keeps five little dolls in a homemade shoebox house she fixed up for them. The box children are her only friends, the brothers and sisters she never had, the babies her mother was supposed to have but didn't. This is her first diary,...
| Author | Tatsuya Hamazaki |
| ISBN | 1427806365 |
This continues to be mediocre on all fronts. The art is okay, the storytelling is rushed (which can be a common habit with licensed tie-in manga), and the changes (to prevent spoiling the game, as listed in Volume 1's afterword) continue to result in some curious but not very interesting storytelling...
| Author | Kathryn Harrison |
| ISBN | 0380731568 |
Isabel is the unwanted daughter of charming but irresponsible people who married in haste, divorced just as quickly, and distanced themselves from one another -- and from her. Left to her grandparents' care, longing for her elusive, glamorous mother and for a father she barely remembers, Isabel's...
Evie was pregnant and forced to give up the baby. But she can't just leave the child with strangers, especially when she thinks the baby is being neglected. With her boyfriend waiting in the truck, Evie snatches the baby and convinces him to drive her to Montreal where she plans to start a new life with her...
| Author | Shiho Sugiura |
| ISBN | 3551765367 |
Appearing as a projection through a flower field of light, the Ayame prince assembles his people for a new prophecy. He foretells of a world full of disasters, but that those who kneel down to him will escape this terrible future. Of course, Rakan, Chigusa, and the rest of their comrades refuse to kneel...at...
| Author | Camilla Gibb |
| ISBN | 0786709669 |
By turns harrowing and hilarious, this adroitly narrated winner of the Toronto Book Award re-creates the world in the imagination of Thelma. It's a world in which she can escape some of her more painful childhood realities, like those games her father likes to make her play, where he's the boss and she...
It's a difficult time for Amy--her two best friends have abandoned her and she's feeling lonely and vulnerable. Then, she meets Zed in an internet chat room and their online relationship quickly develops. Amy is thrilled to consider him her boyfriend. But is Zed the person he claims to be? Against her...
| Author | Monica J. O'Rourke |
| ISBN | 1894815351 |
Zoey Masterson didn't know what pain was before, but she's learning fast. Kidnapped off the Manhattan streets and whisked away from the safe, normal world she once knew, she finds herself the victim of one reprehensible man's vision. Forced to witness the depravities of the seedy underworld where...
Faeries' Landing, Volume 2
| Author | You Hyun |
| ISBN | 1591826101 |
Another good volume in the series. Fanta tries her best to stop Ryang looking into the eyes of girls just incase they become one of his doomed relationships. She fails but we only meet one evil affinity during the book. Seemed to go into more depth about this characters past.
The head of the Faerie...
| Author | Peach-Pit |
| ISBN | 1595323112 |
Meet Nia. Her trainer Xaki is teaching her to be a Biter. She looks up to her trainer, and will do anything for him, including tracking down some Zero Number named Ren! When word gets out that Ren escaped from Xaki when he tried to bring her back to the community, Nia sets out to avenge the dishonor done to her...
A Mood Apart: The Thinker's Guide to Emotion and Its Disorders
"A compassionate exploration of depression and manic-depression."
-- Forecast
"The most thorough and wide-ranging discussion for lay readers about the interplay of the physical and emotional elements of depression and manic-depression... His presentation is illuminating,...
In her stunning debut, Nicola Monaghan lays bare the gritty underbelly of life in Nottingham, England.
Very early on, Kerrie-Ann begins to dream of the world beyond the rough council estate where she lives. Her father is nowhere to be found, her mother is a junkie, and she is left to care for her...
Solitaire: The Compelling Story of a Young Woman Growing up in America and Her Triumph over Anorexia
| Author | Aimee Liu |
| ISBN | 0595002994 |
I first read this book, about the author's struggles with (and apparently spontaneous recovery from) anorexia many years ago. I can clearly remember the circumstances in which I read it. I was in training at a military base in Texas, eating as little as possible and running the six mile perimeter every...
