Saturday, August 14, 2021

Broken: (In the Best Possible Way)

By Jenny Lawson
Henry Holt & Company, 2021. 285 pgs. Biography/Memoir

The award-winning humorist and author of Let's Pretend This Never Happened shares candid reflections on such topics as her experimental treatment for depression, her escape from three bears and her business ideas for Shark Tank.




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Simon & Schuster, 2013. 369 pgs. Biography/Memoir
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By Daniel Smith
Simon & Schuster. 2012. 212 pgs. Biography/Memoir
The author of Muses, Madmen, and Prophets shares affirming, personal insights into the experiences of anxiety in today's world, evocatively describing its painful coherence and absurdities while sharing the stories of sufferers to illustrate anxiety's intellectual history and influence.




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