Spotlight
January 2025
Mental Health Month. Various icons representing emotions and play surrounding a brain and book.
Upcoming Holidays for the LIbrary
Happy New Year. Stars and fireworks around the Community Library Network logo.
 
 
All Community Library Network locations will be closed on Wednesday, January 1, 2025, to celebrate New Year's Day. We are excited to continue empowering discovery in the new year!
 
All Community Library Network locations will be closed on Monday, January 20, 2025, to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day. 
 
 
 
 
New Books for Mental Health Literacy
 Explore these new titles that address various aspects of mental health.
 
Mental + Physical Health
Get moving!
by Scientific American

"Sports and other kinds of fun movement make us feel good and energized, and are great to do with friends and family. But they also have a lot of science involved if you look closely! In this title, readers explore what bouncing a ball, jumping rope, hula hoops, and throwing a baseball have to do with science. Each experiment or activity includes an explanation of the scientific concept to be tested, a list of materials, set up information, and a step-by-step guide to performing the experiment. "Extras" and science fair project ideas conclude most experiments as give students ideas for expanding each project"
Burn
by Devan Kline

For people struggles with self-improvement efforts, the co-founders of Burn Boot Camp, one of the fastest growing health franchises in the world, offer a five-point strategic plan—burn, nourish, focus, achieve and connect—to help them to stop self-sabotage, break bad habits and transform their lives.
Change your diet, change your mind
by Georgia Ede

A Harvard-trained psychiatrist specializing in nutrition science shows how the most powerful way to change brain chemistry is through food, with tips on finding the right balance between moderate-carbohydrate and ketogenic diets. 75,000 first printing.
Eat like a legend
by Dan Churchill

The chef, athlete and performance coach, who has spent more than a decade coaching high performers, including Chris Hemsworth and Lindsay Vonn, to be “legendary eaters,” provides recipes packed with fiber, nutrients and other good stuff calibrated to enhance focus, determination, gut health, muscle mass and endurance. Illustrations.
Mental + Emotional Health
The magical science of feelings
by Jen Daily

Taking readers on an exciting and enlightening tour the brain, friendly characters explain how emotions like happy, sad, mad, worried and overwhelmed are created in the body and provide creative coping skills and activities for a wide range of social-emotional needs and learning styles. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations.
Burnout immunity : how emotional intelligence can help you build resilience and heal your relationship with work
by Kandi Wiens

A leading expert on job burnout draws upon her years of research to discuss the ways that people can leverage and boost their emotional intelligence to manage workplace stress and avoid exhaustion, negativity and inefficacy. 35,000 first printing. Illustrations.
Ten times calmer
by Kirren Schnack

Drawing on her 20 years' experience, an Oxford-trained clinical psychologist provides a toolkit of clinically proven tips and short anxiety-busting exercises to help you find calm each and every day.
How to winter
by Kari Leibowitz

"Do you dread the end of Daylight Savings each year and grouch about the long, chilly season of gray skies and ice? Do you reach for a lightbox to get you through January and February each year? What if there were a way to rethink this time of year? Psychologist and winter expert Kari Leibowitz ... uses mindset science to help readers embrace winter as a season to be enjoyed, not endured--and in turn, learn powerful lessons that can impact our mental well-being throughout the year. [She] travelled to the places on earth with the coldest, darkest, longest, and most intense winters, expecting to research the season's negative effects on mental health--only to find that inhabitants actually looked forward to it with vigor and enthusiasm. In Earth's most intense winters, Leibowitz discovered the power of the 'wintertime mindset'--impactful adaptations that can teach us not just about braving the dark, cold months of the year, but also the darker and more difficult seasons of life"--
Mental + Social Health
Loved ones with a physical disability
by AnneMarie McClain

"Loved Ones With a Physical Disability covers the basics of a physical disability, what people with a physical disability might experience, loving someone with a physical disability, and showing love for others and yourself. Loved Ones With explores what it's like to watch loved ones go through unique and often difficult circumstances. Written in kid-friendly language, this social-emotional learning series supports readers' empathetic understanding of these experiences not only for their loved ones, but also for themselves. Guided exploration of topics in 21st Century Junior Library's signature style help readers to Look, Think, Ask Questions, Make Guesses, and Create"
The other significant others
by Rhaina Cohen

Inviting us into the lives of people who have defied convention by choosing a friend as a life partner, an award-winning producer and editor for NPR offers a powerful narrative on platonic partnerships and how the thrill, intimacy and commitment we seek is often found through meaningful friendship.
Break the cycle : a guide to healing intergenerational trauma
by Mariel Buquâe

A trauma psychologist, professor and sound bath meditation healer offers scientific research and practical exercises to help the pain of unhealed emotions and inherited trauma and transform that pain into intergenerational abundance.
Neurodiversity
by John Marble

"Around one-fifth of the world's population is estimated to have some form of neurodivergence--autism, ADHD, dyslexia, sensory disorders, and a range of others. Neurodiversity For Dummies demystifies this not-so-rare variation of the human experience, showing you how neurodiversity impacts society and the workplace. As a leader or parent of a neurodivergent person--or as a neurodistinct individual yourself--you'll gain the understanding, strategies, and tools you need to thrive and empower others in a neurodiverse world."--
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