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Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in fragile bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the thinnest. But then Cassie suffers the ultimate loss - her life - and Lia is left behind, haunted by her friend's memory and racked with guilt for not being able to help save her.

For almost 30 years, Susan Burton hid her obsession with food and the secret life of compulsive eating and starving that dominated her adolescence. This is the relentlessly honest, fiercely intelligent story of living with both anorexia and binge-eating disorder, moving past her shame, and learning to tell her secret.

Seventeen-year-old Elena is vanishing. Every day means renewed determination, so every day means fewer calories. This is the story of a girl whose armor against anxiety becomes artillery against herself as she battles on both sides of a lose-lose war in a struggle with anorexia.

Finn has always loved Autumn. She's not just the girl next door or his mother's best friend's daughter, she is his everything. But she's not his girlfriend. That's Sylvie, and Finn would never hurt her, so there's no way Autumn could know how he truly feels. Jack, Finn's best friend, isn't so sure. He's seen Finn and Autumn together. How could she not know? And how is he supposed to support and protect Finn when heartache seems inevitable? Autumn surrounds herself with books and wants to write her own destiny—but one doesn't always get a new chapter and fate can be cruel to those in love.

Do you ever get hungry? Too hungry to eat? Holly's older sister, Giselle, is self-destructing. Haunted by her love-deprived relationship with her late father, this once strong role model and medical student, is gripped by anorexia. Holly, a track star, struggles to keep her own life in balance while coping with the mental and physical deterioration of her beloved sister. Together, they can feel themselves slipping and are holding on for dear life.

Anna Roux was a professional dancer who followed the man of her dreams from Paris to Missouri. There, alone with her biggest fears - imperfection, failure, loneliness - she spirals down anorexia and depression till she weighs a mere 88 pounds. Forced to seek treatment, she is admitted as a patient at 17 Swann Street, a peach pink house where pale, fragile women with life-threatening eating disorders live. Women like Emm, the veteran; quiet Valerie; Julia, always hungry. Together, they must fight their diseases and face six meals a day.

In this searing, unflinchingly honest book, Portia de Rossi captures the complex emotional truth of what it is like when food, weight, and body image take priority over every other human impulse or action. She recounts the elaborate rituals around eating that came to dominate hours of every day, from keeping her daily calorie intake below 300 to eating precisely measured amounts of food out of specific bowls and only with certain utensils. When this wasn’t enough, she resorted to purging and compulsive physical exercise, driving her body and spirit to the breaking point.

Rose and Lily Winters are twins, as close as the bond implies; they feel each other’s emotions, taste what the other is feeling. Like most young women, they’ve struggled with their bodies and food since childhood, and high school finds them turning to food - or not - to battle the waves of insecurity and the yearning for popularity. But their connection can be as destructive as it is supportive, a yin to yang. When Rose stops eating, Lily starts - consuming everything Rose won’t or can’t.

When Jax receives nine missed calls from her older sister, Lexie, she assumes that it’s just another one of her sister’s episodes. Manic and increasingly out of touch with reality, Lexie has pushed Jax away for over a year. But the next day, Lexie is dead: drowned in the pool at their grandmother’s estate. When Jax arrives at the house to go through her sister’s things, she learns that Lexie was researching the history of their family and the property. And as she dives in deeper herself, she discovers that the land holds a far darker past than she could have ever imagined.

Against all odds, Katniss has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and her longtime friend, Gale. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at an icy distance. Peeta has turned his back on her completely. And there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol - a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create. Much to her shock, Katniss has fueled an unrest she’s afraid she cannot stop.

First-time novelist Natasha Friend is a writer with a talent for realistically expressing the fears and uncertainties of today’s adolescents in a good story. Perfect has received the Milkweed Prize for Children’s Literature and is a Book Sense "Winter Picks" selection. This is the moving story of a young girl who develops a dangerous eating disorder while dealing with intense grief.

Eden was always good at being good. Starting high school didn’t change who she was. But the night her brother’s best friend rapes her, Eden’s world capsizes. What was once simple, is now complex. What Eden once loved—who she once loved—she now hates. What she thought she knew to be true, is now lies. Nothing makes sense anymore, and she knows she’s supposed to tell someone what happened but she can’t. So she buries it instead. And she buries the way she used to be.

As the American hostage crisis in Iran boiled into its seventh month in the spring of 1980, six heavily armed gunman barged into the Iranian embassy in London, taking twenty-six hostages. What followed over the next six days was an increasingly tense standoff, one that threatened at any moment to spill into a bloodbath.

A Russian arrives in Singapore with a secret to sell. When the Russian is killed and Sam Joseph, the CIA officer dispatched for the meet, goes missing, operational chief Artemis Procter is made a scapegoat for the disaster and run out of the service. Months later, Sam appears at Procter's doorstep with an explosive secret: there is a Russian mole burrowed deep within the highest ranks of the CIA.

In a quest for a simpler life, Helen and Nate have abandoned the comforts of suburbia to take up residence on 44 acres of rural land where they will begin the ultimate, aspirational do-it-yourself project: building the house of their dreams. When they discover that this beautiful property has a dark and violent past, Helen, a former history teacher, becomes consumed by the local legend of Hattie Breckenridge, a woman who lived and died there a century ago.

A través de sus dolorosas vivencias infantiles, sus conflictos en la adolescencia y etapa adulta, relacionados con su aspecto físico, la autora confiesa cómo fue su proceso de sanación y de pérdida de peso; cómo dejó de esconder sus temores detrás de atracones de comida que al final sólo la hacían sentirse vacía, sola. Con esta obra, rica en lecciones de vida y mucha luz, la autora te confirma que es posible vencer tu obesidad física y emocional para vivir en plenitud.

¿Te has preguntado alguna vez por qué unas personas son más felices que otras, aparentemente con las mismas circunstancias? ¿Por qué hay gente a la que parece que siempre le pasan cosas malas y otras con suerte? En esta lectura quiero hablar sobre el poder del pensamiento positivo. La realidad es que las circunstancias, las cosas que nos pasan, el mundo en general, es el mismo para todos, la única diferencia es la actitud con la que cada uno afronta las cosas y el tipo de pensamientos en los que nos enfocamos.

¡Mejora tu salud y fortalece tu sistema inmunológico con estas recetas rápidas y fáciles! ¿Te sientes agotado y con la sensación de estar enfermo todo el tiempo? ¿Estás buscando una forma de reducir la inflamación y mejorar tu salud? Muchas personas se sienten así porque su sistema inmunológico está constantemente combatiendo la inflamación. Esto puede deberse a varios factores, incluyendo la alimentación. Intentar realizar cambios en tu dieta para reducir la inflamación, puede resultar abrumador. Hay tantos alimentos que se supone que debes evitar y es difícil saber qué es...

Paula García Bernácer ofrece al lector una guía para comprender los trastornos alimenticios y la obsesión por el peso. La autora, que confiesa haber sido una esclava de la comida, narra su experiencia personal y detalla, uno a uno, todos los motivos y desequilibrios emocionales que pueden conducir a una persona a dejar de comer o a ingerir alimentos de forma compulsiva y desproporcionada.

El sobrepeso es uno de los más graves problemas de salud pública en la actualidad. Este libro explora, mediante la descodificación biológica, una forma de comprender este problema de una manera más integral y que en verdad atienda la raíz del problema, que en la mayoría de los casos es de índole emocional.

Siguiendo las sugerencias y recomendaciones dadas en esta guía, aprenderá a amarse a sí mismo exactamente como es. Y también aprenderá lo que es la alimentación consciente, cómo funciona, y su historia, los beneficios de esta técnica y lo que promete, el papel que juega la alimentación consciente en el tratamiento de los trastornos alimenticios, incluyendo los atracones y el exceso de comida, y mas.

Tu peso no es el problema es un libro disruptivo que no solo nos muestra que liberarnos de la obsesión por la delgadez y la comida es posible, sino que nos da herramientas para renunciar a los listados de «alimentos permitidos y prohibidos», lidiar con el autorrechazo y vergüenza corporales, emanciparnos personal y colectivamente para cruzar el puente hacia una alimentación libre de reglas.

María José Jiménez sufrió de anorexia y bulimia a los quince años, y esto casi la lleva a la muerte. En este audiolibro encontramos, por un lado, el testimonio de María José, y por el otro el de Sandra, su mamá, que le cuentan al oyente cómo vivieron esta aterradora experiencia y cómo salieron adelante. Los dos relatos se complementan y nos permiten entender dos puntos de vista de una enfermedad que cada vez ataca a más jóvenes y adolescentes en el mundo.

¿Y si el sobrepeso no fuera solo un tema físico, sino un reflejo de emociones, pensamientos y patrones ocultos que te han limitado durante años? Si sientes que tu cuerpo y mente merecen más, Bye Bye Sobrepeso es el libro que cambiará tu vida para siempre. Este no es un libro más sobre dietas; es una revolución personal. Escrito por los expertos en bienestar integral Om Tsé y Vicky Light, Bye Bye Sobrepeso te ofrece un enfoque único y transformador. Basado en neurociencia, biodescodificación, sanación emocional y técnicas espirituales, este libro te enseñará cómo liberar el ...