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Books in our collections that can encourage the important conversations for mental wellbeing and suicide prevention.

Updated August 31, 2025
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Here I Am, I Am Me: An Illustrated Guide To Mental Health
Bean, Cara.
Paper Book
This colorful graphic novel adventure through the brain demystifies and destigmatizes emotional and mental health for children through accessible language and lessons. Join author-illustrator Cara Bean in Here I Am, I Am Me, as she takes readers on an...
The tree of ecstasy and unbearable sadness
Ottley, Matt
Paper Book
The Tree of Ecstasy and Unbearable Sadness is a groundbreaking, large-scale multi-modal project weaving together the worlds of literature, music and visual art in the poignant story of one boy's journey into mental illness. Readers and listeners are offered a mesmerising visual and auditory tour de...
The Teenage Guide to Digital Wellbeing: Find The Balance to Live Your Best Life
Goodin, Tanya.
Paper Book
The ultimate guide to digital wellbeing and living your best life - offline and on! Digital wellbeing is all about finding the balance between the digital world and the real world - and making sure we use smartphones and other digital devices in a healthy way, while living fulfilling...
Honest chat : how to tackle your feelings and befriend vulnerability
Buckley, Dylan
Paper Book
Like a lot of footy blokes, having a chat has always come easy to Dylan Buckley. But how to move beyond banter to the deeper conversations he didn't know he needed is something he's only learned more recently - a hard-won skill developed through his podcast and the career reboot it gave him after...
All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto
Johnson, George M.
Ebook
This powerful YA memoir-manifesto follows journalist and LGBTQ+ activist George M. Johnson as they explore their childhood, adolescence, and college years, growing up under the duality of being black and queer. From memories of getting their teeth kicked out by bullies at age five to...

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