Andrea's Voice: Silenced by Bulimia. Doris Smeltzer with Andrea Lynn Smeltzer, $20.50

After a one-year struggle with bulimia, Andrea Smeltzer died in her sleep at the age of 19, catapulting her mother, Doris, into a journey of self-discovery. By combining Andrea’s poetry and journal entries, mother and daughter tell the story together, capturing the bond that connected them. Doris’ honest exploration of the emotional issues surrounding her daughter’s development of bulimia provides insight and guidance not only to parents, but also to any young woman who is struggling to find her independence.

Beating Eating Disorders Step-by-Step: a Self-Help Guide for Recovery. Anna Paterson, $29.95

People living with eating disorders find it hard to take the step of choosing recovery, often because the disorder has developed as a way of 'coping' with problems or stresses in the their life. This practical workbook provides advice and strategies to aid understanding and to help the reader to gain control of their illness. Author Anna Paterson emphasizes the importance of taking things at your own pace as she leads the reader through a series of exercises that lead to a new perspective on eating and body awareness.

The Body Image Workbook: an 8-Step Program for Learning to Like Your Looks. Thomas Cash, $24.95

If you don't like what you see when you look in the mirror, you may not realize that these feelings are entirely within your grasp. THE BODY IMAGE WORKBOOK offers a comprehensive program to help you stop focusing on your perceived imperfections and start feeling more confident about the way you look.

As you complete the help-sheets in this book, you'll learn to celebrate your body instead of feeling ashamed of it. This new edition helps you discover your personal body image strengths and vulnerabilities and then guides you in creating new, life-changing experiences of mindfulness and body acceptance. After completing this eight-step program, you'll look at yourself in a whole new light-seeing the beauty of the real you.

The Bulimia Workbook for Teens. Lisa Schab, $18.95

Break the cycle of bulimia and take charge of your life. THE BULIMIA WORKBOOK FOR TEENS offers 42 exercises that will help you end the chaos and instead learn to focus on becoming the person you really want to be. Based in cognitive behavioral therapy, these skills help you to:

• Build the strength to reduce your dependence on bulimia
• Overcome perfectionism
• Manage difficult emotions
• Take control of your relationship with food

The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Ending Overeating: Using Compassion-Focused Therapy to Overcome Bingeing and Disordered Eating. Ken Goss, $27.95

You know the cycle: you have a stressful day and find yourself snacking or overeating at dinner to make yourself feel better. The ritual of eating becomes so calming, you can't stop-and the guilt and self-criticism you feel can lead you to overeat even more the next day. What you may not know is that simply replacing your negative feelings with compassion for yourself can interrupt this cycle so that you can meet your emotional needs without resorting to overeating.

THE COMPASSIONATE-MIND GUIDE TO ENDING OVEREATING presents an evidence-based program designed to help you transcend your emotional connection with food. As you work through the worksheets and evaluations in this book, you'll discover the specific reasons for your overeating, find out which foods trigger you to overeat, and then develop satisfying meal plans for getting your eating back on track. You'll also build compassionate-mind skills for dealing with stress, self-criticism, and shame, and establish a balanced eating pattern that will free you from the overeating cycle.

Distorted: How a Mother and Daughter Unraveled the Truth, the Lies, and the Realities of an Eating Disorder. Antosz Benson & Taryn Leigh Benson, $16.95

DISTORTED is a riveting true account of a teen caught in the grips of an eating disorder and the mother who struggled to help her break free.

Does This Book Make Me Look Fat? Stories about Loving — and Loathing — Your Body. Edited by Marissa Walsh, $21.95

How often do you find yourself looking in the mirror? And smiling at what you see? More likely, you're thinking what you see is: Fat, Ugly, Skinny, Round, Stacked or Flat, Bad or Good. From reality television to tabloid headlines, we're all surrounded by weight and discussion of weight. In this collection, a stellar lineup of YA writers sound off on body image, self-esteem, diets, eating disorders, boys, fashion magazines, and why trying on jeans is a bad experience for everyone.

Eating the Moment: 141 Mindful Practices to Overcome Overeating One Meal at a Time. Pavel Somov, $20.95

No start dates, dieting tips or meal plans in this book — just practical and meaningful exercises to help you end mindless eating and begin nourishing yourself in a healthy and fulfilling ways.

8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder: Effective Strategies from therapeutic Practice and Personal Experience. Carolyn Costin & Gwen Schubert Grabb, $23.00

For anyone who has suffered, their family and friends, and other helping professionals, this book should be by your side. With great compassion and clinical expertise, Costin and Grabb walk readers through the ins and outs of the recovery process, describing what therapy entails, clarifying the common associated emotions such as fear, guilt, and shame, and, most of all, providing motivation to seek help if you have been discouraged, resistant, or afraid. The authors bring self-disclosure to a level not yet seen in an eating disorder book and offer hope to readers that full recovery is possible.

First Steps Out of Eating Disorders. Kate Middleton & Jane Smith, $10.95

Information and inspiration to start on the road to recovery from anorexia, bulimia, bingeing and other eating disorders.

Full Mouse Empty Mouse: a Tale of Food and Feelings. Dina Zeckhausen, illustrated by Brian Boyd,  $10.95 (Grades 2-5)

What can two little mice do when they are chased by the cat, hounded by the dog, and threatened by the deadly mousetrap? Billy Blue tries eating more food to soothe his distress, and Sally Rose stops eating altogether. But when stuffing and starving themselves don't help, they learn to look for answers in their hearts, and with their family and friends.

Full of Ourselves: a Wellness Program to Advance Girl Power, Health and Leadership. Catherine Steiner-Adair & Lisa Sjostrom, $44.95

This dynamic health-and-wellness education program addresses critical issues of body preoccupation and reduces risk for disordered eating in girls (grades 3–8). Emphasizing girls’ personal power and overall mental and physical well-being, FULL OF OURSELVES contains a range of upbeat units that foster:

• Increased self and body acceptance
• Healthier eating and exercise habits
• Advanced leadership and media literacy skills
• A range of coping skills for resisting unhealthy peer and cultural pressures

This primary prevention curriculum has shown sustained, positive changes in girls’ body image, body satisfaction, and body esteem. Educators, health professionals, counselors, and parents will find FULL OF OURSELVES the ideal resource for helping girls make healthy choices for themselves.

Help for Eating Disorders: a Parent's Guide to Symptoms, Causes & Treatments. Debra Katzman & Leora Pinhas, $24.95

From the Eating Disorders Program at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, comes this indispensable guide to eating disorders. HELP FOR EATING DISORDERS provides parents with clear information on how to identify the signs and symptoms, understand the range and efficacy of available treatments as well as how family, friends and community can assist in the child's recovery. Using current, sound medical information; case studies and practical worksheets, checklists and exercises this book can help parent's gain the knowledge and support they need during the process of diagnosis and treatment.

Hunger for Understanding: a Workbook for Helping Young People to Understand and Overcome Anorexia Nervosa. Alison Eivors & Sophie Nesbitt, $58.99

Inside Out: Portrait of an Eating Disorder. Nadia Shivack, $21.99

Nadia Shivack was fourteen years old when she met Ed, her eating disorder. Sometimes like an alien in her body, sometimes like a lover, Ed was unpredictable and exciting, but ultimately always dangerous and destructive. At an inpatient unit of a hospital where she was taken for treatment, Nadia wrote and drew on napkins after meals in order to keep the food in and calm the outrageous voices in her head. These pictures, together with others drawn on notebook paper and a variety of other surfaces, tell an unflinchingly honest story of a woman's lifelong battle with anorexia and bulimia.

A Parent's Guide to Defeating Eating Disorders: Spotting the Stealth Bomber and Other Symbolic Approaches. Ahmed Boache & Karin Jasper, $19.95

Building a supportive and open relationship with young people suffering from eating disorders is key to assisting the recovery process. This book is packed with metaphorical explanations that will allow parents and caregivers to ally themselves with treatment rather than the eating disorder, and take positive steps with their child towards a full and lasting recovery.

Written by experienced eating disorder specialists, the book will help caregivers to reach out to young people having difficulty cooperating with treatment. Its effective use of analogies and metaphors helps to crystallize a practical understanding of eating disorders and the crucial aspects of the treatment process. Integrating medical, psychological, and narrative aspects, as well as the visual (with illustrations), it encourages the reader, and by extension the sufferer, to conceptualize each step towards health.

The Parent's Guide to Eating Disorders: Supporting Self-Esteem, Healthy Eating & a Positive Body Image at Home. Marcia Herrin & Nancy Matsumoto, $23.50

THE PARENT'S GUIDE TO EATING DISORDERS addresses childhood and teenage eating disorders with an emphasis on home-based recovery. Herrin focuses on early detection and intervention with effective solutions that begin at home. This second edition includes new information on family communication, medical consequences, advice for siblings, relapse prevention, food plans, and boys at risk.

Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: the Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body. Courtney Martin, $29.99

Courtney Martin voices her concern for her young generation - so obsessed with being thin that their awareness is always focused on elusive notions of excellence. Health and wellness, joy and love have come to seem secondary compared to the desire for a perfect body.

Feminism and perfectionism form the background to this political, personal and riveting call to action. PERFECT GIRLS, STARVING DAUGHTERS should be read by anyone who is looking for insight into the epidemic of body obsession.

This Mean Disease: Growing Up in the Shadow of My Mother's Anorexia Nervosa. Daniel Becker, $20.50

In this beautifully-written memoir, Daniel Becker shares the inner world of his mother's anorexia nervosa and its devastating effects on his family. Through the eyes of a child, we witness both the heartbreaking details of his mother's obsession with food and her inability to nourish herself. The secrecy surrounding the illness creates a shadow over the family that grows bigger over time. As Daniel, his father and brothers struggle to maintain their loyalty to Mom, they become aware of its impossible grip and their inability to help her. In the end, Daniel must face his own guilt and longing to find his way out of the darkness.

Too Fat? Too Thin? The Healthy Eating Handbook. Melissa Sayer, $10.95 (ages 10 and up)

Not happy with your body? Worried that a friend has an eating disorder? Can't find the motivation to exercise? THE HEALTHY EATING HANDBOOK is here to help with useful advice, facts, tips and quizzes on these issues and more.

What’s Eating You: a Workbook for Teens with Anorexia, Bulimia and Other Eating Disorders. Tammy Nelson, $18.95 / Professional version with CD-ROM, $36.95

Bingeing, purging, excessive dieting, and relentless exercising are all destructive behaviors common among young women with eating disorders. The activities in this book help teenage girls understand how their eating behaviors developed, recognize the relationship between their emotions and their eating, and learn to see their bodies in a positive light.

When the Mirror Lies: Anorexia, Bulimia and Other Eating Disorders. Tamra Orr, $23.95

WHEN THE MIRROR LIES is a practical, easy-to-read but detailed look at the warning signs, physical and emotional side effects and treatment options for eating disorders. Personal anecdotes from teens and adults, male and female help illustrate this informative little guide written for those suffering from eating disorders as well as their family, friends and caregivers.