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"Funny and moving."- The New York Times In prose vibrant and witty, The Queen of the Tambourine traces the emotional breakdown-and eventual restoration-of Eliza Peabody, a smart and wildly imaginative woman who has become unbearably isolated in her prosperous London neighborhood. Eliza must reach the depths of her downward spiral before she can once again find health and serenity. This story of a woman's... (more)

Scattershot: My Bipolar Family

by David Lovelace

The Glass Castle meets An Unquiet Mind in a mesmerizing, loving memoir about growing up in a family plagued by bipolar disorder. Four out of the five people in poet David Lovelace’s immediate family have experienced bipolar disorder—including David himself. His relationship with the disease began with his artist mother’s severe depressions during his boyhood in the 1960s and continued through decades of his... (more)

An Unquiet Mind

by Kay R. Jamison

Daughter of the Queen of Sheba: A Memoir

Daughter of the Queen of Sheba: A Memoir

by Jacki Lyden

As an adult, National Public Radio foreign correspondent Jacki Lyden has spent her life on the front lines of some of the #151; she's tired of hearing her relatives talk about the past. But when she opens the front door to symbolically welcome the prophet Elijah, she's transported to a Polish village in the year 1942, where she becomes caught up in the tragedy of the time. "<Readers> will come away with a... (more)

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