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41) The Jones men
Author
Publisher
Rosarium
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (201 pages)
Language
English
Description
Tensions rise in 1970s Detroit after a young Vietnam veteran decides to rip off heroin kingpin Willis McDaniel. The bodies begin to pile up as addicts, dealers, the cops, and an assassin soon go head-to-head.
42) Gather
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ian Gray isn't supposed to have a dog, but a lot of things that shouldn't happen end up happening anyway. And Gather, Ian's adopted pup, is good company now that Ian has to quit the basketball team, find a job, and take care of his mom as she tries to overcome her opioid addiction. Despite the obstacles thrown their way, Ian is determined to keep his family afloat no matter what it takes. And for a little while, things are looking up: Ian makes friends,...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xix, 265 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Wittels Wachs's younger brother Harris died of a heroin overdose, she didn't know how to make sense of such a tragic end to a life of so much hilarious brilliance. Here she alternates between her brother's struggle with addiction, and the first year after his death. Even in all its emotional devastation, this exploration of the love between siblings will make you laugh, cry... and wonder if that possum on the fence is really your brother's spirit...
Publisher
Home Box Office, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (1032 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Season 1 of this intense HBO drama focuses on 17-year-old Rue Bennett (multimedia star Zendaya), a drug addict fresh from rehab who's struggling to stay clean. Ahead of the second season, the Emmy-winning series returns with two special episodes set over the Christmas holiday. Season 2 continues to follow Rue's dynamic group of friends as they enter a new year and question their choices.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden's raw and redemptive debut is a memoir about coming of age as a queer, biracial teenager within the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton, Florida, a place where cult-like privilege, shocking social and racial disparities, rampant white-collar crime, and powerfully destructive standards of beauty hide in plain sight. As a child in Florida, T Kira Madden lived a life of extravagance--from her exclusive private...
47) Trigger
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Working as a vigilante robbing drug dealers after achieving hard-won sobriety, retired cop-turned-private investigator Frank Marr is drawn back into the world of police corruption to prove an old friend's innocence.
48) Earthly Delights
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
As Melbourne baker Corinna Chapman and her new love interest Daniel Cohen probe the recent deaths of neighborhood junkies and threats she and other female tenants in her apartment complex are receiving, she suspects a connection to her heartless ex-husband.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Virginia, 1864 Therese Jennings cannot abide the thought of her family owning slaves. When her wealthy grandfather dies during the Civil War, leaving his slaves and estate to Therese's widowed mother, Therese flees to Richmond. There she works as a tutor by day and a nurse by night. But when trouble befalls her family, how can she reconcile her duty and beliefs? And where does James Talbot--a long-time family friend--fit in her broken world? Virginia,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
""Tove Ditlevsen's autobiographical trilogy about her troubled life in Copenhagen... Childhood tells the story of a misfit childs single-minded determination to become a poet; Youth describes her early experiences of sex, work, and independence. Dependency picks up the story as the narrator embarks on the first of her four marriages and goes on to describe her horrible descent into drug addiction, enabled by her sinister, gaslighting doctor-husband....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A stunning debut novel set in the late 1990s as an androgynous youth arrives in small-town Minnesota, searching for the mother who abandoned him as a child. On a clear morning in the summer of 1997, Shane Stephenson arrives in Holm, Minnesota, with only a few changes of clothes, an old Nintendo, and a few dollars to his name. Reeling from the death of his father, Shane wants to find the mother who abandoned him as an adolescent--hoping to reconnect,...
53) Hot mess
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Twentysomething Allie Simon is used to playing by the rules-- until Chicago's most sought-after, up-and-coming culinary genius, Benji Zane, walks into her world and pulls her into his. The only thing more renowned than Benji's mouthwatering masterpieces and equally luscious good looks? His struggle with addiction and his reckless tendency to live life on the edge, no matter the havoc he wreaks along the way. But loving someone means supporting him...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Lexile measure
HL 560L
Physical Desc
168 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A riveting and emotionally harrowing debut about two young brothers and their physically and psychologically abusive father. The three of them--a twelve-year-old boy, his older brother, their father--have won the war: the father's term for his bitter divorce and custody battle. They leave their Kansas home and drive through the night to Albuquerque, eager to begin again, united by the thrilling possibility of carving out a new life together. The...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 428 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"'My job is to go to places where people die. I pack my bags, talk to the survivors, write my stories, then go home to wait for the next catastrophe. I don't wait very long.' Journalist Patricia Evangelista came of age in the aftermath of a street revolution that forged a new future for the Philippines. Three decades later, in the face of mounting inequality, the nation discovered the fragility of its democratic institutions under the regime of strongman...
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
311 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
DCS Simon Serrailler has long regarded drugs ops in Lafferton as a waste of time. Small-time dealers are picked up outside the local secondary school, they don't have any information about those higher up the chain, they're given a fine or a suspended and away they go. And rinse and repeat. But when the body of a 22-year-old drug addict is found in neighbouring Starley, the case pulls Simon into a whole new way of running drugs. The foot soldiers?...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Darlene, once an exemplary wife and a loving mother to her young son, Eddie, finds herself devastated by the unforeseen death of her husband. Unable to cope with her grief, she turns to drugs, and quickly forms an addiction. One day she disappears without a trace. Unbeknownst to eleven-year-old Eddie, now left behind in a panic-stricken search for her, Darlene has been lured away with false promises of a good job and a rosy life. A shady company...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Physical Desc
x, 289 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
At age fourteen, Cyndy Etler had escaped from her violent home only to be reported as a runaway and sent to a drug rehabilitation facility that changed her world. Behind the closed doors of Straight, Inc., the program used bizarre and intimidating methods to treat its patients. In this memoir, Cyndy recounts the living nightmare that she endured for sixteen months at Straight, Inc.
Author
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 304 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Susan Burton's world changed in an instant when her five-year-old son was killed by a van driving down their street. Consumed by grief and without access to professional help, Susan self-medicated, becoming addicted first to cocaine, then crack. As a resident of South Los Angeles, a black community under siege in the War on Drugs, it was but a matter of time before Susan was arrested. She cycled in and out of prison for over fifteen years; never...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Atheneum Books for Young Readers pbk. ed.
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer in California to convince him otherwise. In writing that is raw and honest, Nic spares no detail in telling us the compelling,...