Jenny Lawson
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Have A Good Laugh (WPL-ADULT)
HPL 2026 Women's History Month
Mental Health - Fiction and Memoirs
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HPL 2026 Women's History Month
Mental Health - Fiction and Memoirs
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"As Jenny Lawson's hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken (in the best possible way), she explores her experimental treatment of transcranial magnetic stimulation with brutal honesty. But also with brutal humor: "People do different things to distract themselves during each treatment. I embroider. It feels fitting. I'm being magnetically stabbed in the head thousands of times as I'm stabbing the embroidery myself....
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"In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. But terrible ideas are what Jenny does best.As Jenny says: "Some people might think that being 'furiously happy' is just an excuse to be stupid and irresponsible and invite a herd of kangaroos over to your house without telling...
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"Warm, insightful, and witty, the first book of advice from New York Times-bestselling author Jenny Lawson--aka the Bloggess. Jenny Lawson is full of contradictions. She's a celebrated author but battles self-doubt, paralysis, and anxiety. She's an award-winning humorist but struggles with treatment-resistant depression. The question people most often ask is 'How do you do it? How do you keep going even when it feels impossible? How do you keep creating?'...