Liu vividly recounts her four-year battle with anorexia nervosa, the obsessive syndrome in which teenage girls literally starve themselves in a desperate attempt to stop their sexual maturation

Solitaire: A Narrative

Liu, Aimée

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Harpercollins

An analysis of how the self-help movement fails to promote self-reliance and independence includes ways for "co-dependents" to break free of recovery

Codependency Conspiracy: How to Break the Recovery Habit and Take Charge ofYour Life

Self-Help

Katz, Stan J.

Relationships

WARNER BOOKS

Now, for the first time, a prominent psychologist speaks out against the addiction/recovery movement, and teaches readers how to stop seeing themselves as codependent victims and how to start taking charge of their lives. Dr. Katz argues that most codependent programs, rather than promoting recovery, merely promote dependence under the guise of self-help.

Codependency Conspiracy: How to Break the Recovery Habit and Take Charge of Your Life

Grand Central Publishing

When the plane carrying her husband, American journalist Aidan Shaw, goes down in Kashmir in 1949, Joanna Shaw refuses to accept that he is dead and enlists the aid of his best friend, Australian secret service agent Lawrence Malcolm, to accompany her and their translator Kamla, a girl she rescued from an Indian brothel, on a journey across Central Asia in search of the truth. 25,000 first printing.

Flash House

Literature & Fiction

United States

If you've ever suffered from an eating disorder-or cared for someone who is anorexic or bulimic-you may think you understand these illnesses. But do you really understand why they occur? Do you know what it takes to fully recover? Do you know how eating disorders affect life after recovery? Now, nearly three decades after she detailed her first battle with anorexia in Solitaire, Aimee Liu presents an emotionally powerful and poignant sequel that digs deep into the causes, cures, and consequences of anorexia and bulimia nervosa. Aimee Liu believed she had conquered anorexia in her twenties. Then in her forties, when her life once again began spiraling out of control, she stopped eating. Liu realized the same forces that had caused her original eating disorder were still in play. She also noticed that other women she knew with histories of anorexia and bulimia seemed to share many of her personality traits and habits under stress-even decades after "recovery." Intrigued and concerned, Liu set out to learn who is susceptible to these disorders and why, and what it takes to overcome them once and for all. With GAINING, Liu shatters commonly held beliefs about eating disorders while assembling a puzzle that is as complex and fascinating as human identity itself. Through cutting-edge research and the stories of more than forty interview subjects, readers will discover that the tendency to develop anorexia or bulimia has little to do with culture, class, gender-or weight. Genetics, however, play a key role. So does temperament. So do anxiety, depression, and shame. Clearly, curing eating disorders involves more than good nutrition. Candidly recalling her own struggles, triumphs, and defeats, Aimee explores an array of promising and innovative new treatments, offers vital insights to anyone who has ever had an eating disorder, and shows parents how to help protect their children from ever developing one. Her book is sure to change the way we talk and think about eating disorders for years to come.

Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Spanning decades and cultures, this is the epic story of forbidden passion between an American woman and a Chinese man and the tremendous obstacles they must overcome.

Cloud Mountain

A suspenseful novel of rescue and redemption set in Central Asia at the start of the Cold War, featuring two unforgettable heroines whose fates are irrevocably intertwined. FLASH HOUSE was published in Warner hardcover in 2/03, and became a "Los Angeles Times bestseller. With its phenomenal characterizations and exotic setting, FLASH HOUSE won raves in publications, including the "Los Angeles Times, Booklist, and a starred review in "Publishers Weekly, among others.

The New York Times bestselling author Aimee Liu pens an explosive, critically acclaimed exploration of life after anorexia. Aimee Liu, who wrote Solitaire, the first-ever memoir of anorexia, in 1979, returns to the subject nearly three decades later and shares her story and those of the many women in her age group of life beyond this life-altering ailment. She has extensively researched the origins and effects of both anorexia and bulimia, and dispels many commonly held myths about these diseases with the persuasive conclusion that anorexia is a result of personality. Key revelations include: the temperament required for eating disorders,the long-term effects of eating disorders on health, brain function, relationships and career,why some individuals recover while others relapse, and why many relapse in mid-life,Which treatment approaches are most successful long-term and how parents can tell if a child will be vulnerable to eating disorders. Using her own experience and the stories of many recovering anorexics she's interviewed, Liu weaves together a narrative that is both persuasive in argument and compelling in personal details.

This is an Authors Guild/BIP title. Please use Authors Guild/BIP specs. Author Bio: Aimee Liu is the author of the novels Cloud Mountain and Face. Solitaire, an acclaimed account of her passage through anorexia nervosa, was first published when she was twenty-five. She has co-authored seven nonfiction books on medical and psychological topics. Aimee Liu lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son. Description: The ground-breaking first-hand account of a young girl's passage through anorexia nervosa. Aimee Liu's true account is also a portrait of middle-class adolescence in early 1970s America.

Solitaire: The compelling story of a young woman growing up in America and her triumph over anorexia.

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Solitaire: A Narrative

Codependency Conspiracy: How to Break the Recovery Habit and Take Charge ofYour Life

Codependency Conspiracy: How to Break the Recovery Habit and Take Charge of Your Life

Flash House

Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders

Cloud Mountain

Flash House

Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders

Solitaire: The compelling story of a young woman growing up in America and her triumph over anorexia.

Flash House