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Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
ix, 276 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
Frank Warren had an idea for a community art project: he began handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places--asking people to write down a secret they had never told anyone and mail it to him, anonymously. The response was overwhelming. The secrets were both provocative and profound, and the cards themselves were works of art--carefully and creatively constructed by hand. Addictively compelling, the cards reveal our deepest...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
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pages cm
Description
"Heal yourself and your community with this proven 12-week program that uses the arts to awaken your innate healing abilities. Acclaimed by hospitals and caretakers from around the world, Healing with the Arts brings a tried and true program out of the medical field and into your home and neighborhood. Improve your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health in just 12 weeks. Whether you are ill, suffering from emotional trauma, or looking to...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
371 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Description
"Master of razor-edged literary humor Binnie Kirshenbaum returns with her first novel in a decade, a devastating, laugh-out-loud funny story of a writer's slide into depression and institutionalization. It's New Year's Eve, the holiday of forced fellowship, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Kirshenbaum's protagonist--an acerbic, mordantly witty, and clinically depressed writer--fully unravels. Her...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Since her sister's death, Petula de Wilde sees danger in everything. A mandatory art therapy class with a groups of teenage misfits is the worst part of each week. She wants nothing to do with them-- especially Jacob and his prosthetic arm. When they work together on a project, he helps her with her fears. But a secret he's been keeping from her could unravel everything....
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
91 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"This nonfiction book for middle-grade readers, illustrated with photographs, tells the story of the making of the Witness Blanket, a work by Indigenous artist Carey Newman that includes items from every residential school in Canada and stories from the Survivors who donated them."--
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
406 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
New to an affluent high school, artistic Erica really wants to fit in, and is thrilled to find herself kissing the lacrosse goalie Thomas after one of his matches. She knows he's different from the rest of the team -- only on the team because his dad is controlling-- so she goes with him to an afterparty, only to wake up the next morning with the names of every team member written on her skin in intimate places. Struggling with humiliation, the strong...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
93 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Description
"16-year-old Wendy Davies crashes her car into a lake on a late summer night in New England with her two younger brothers in the backseat. When she wakes in the hospital, she is told that her youngest brother, Michael, is dead. Wendy -- a once rational teenager - shocks her family by insisting that Michael is alive and in the custody of a mysterious flying boy. Placed in a new school, Wendy negotiates fantasy and reality as students and adults around...
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 74 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Eighty-year-old Jimmy Mirikitani survived the trauma of WWII internment camps, Hiroshima, and homelessness by creating art. But when 9/11 threatens his life on the New York City streets and a local filmmaker brings him to her home, the two embark on a journey to confront Jimmy's painful past. An intimate exploration of the lingering wounds of war and the healing powers of community and art ..."--Container.
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xxxiii, 558 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"World-renowned soprano and arts/health advocate Renee Fleming curates a collection of essays from leading scientists, creative arts therapists, educators, healthcare providers and artists about the powerful impacts of music and the arts on health and the human experience A compelling and growing body of research has shown music and arts therapies to be effective tools for addressing a widening array of conditions, from providing pain relief, to enhancing...
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