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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Fast-paced and heartwarming, devastating and redemptive, Maureens incredible odyssey into the opioid crisisfirst as a parent, then as an advocateis ultimately a deeply moving mother-daughter story. When Maureen and her ex-husband Mike see their daughter Katies needle track marks for the first time, it is a complete shock. But, slowly, the drug use explains everythingKaties constant exhaustion, erratic moods, and all those spoons that have gone missing...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star gazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck,...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When he was two years old, Hunter Biden was badly injured in a car accident that killed his mother and baby sister. In 2015, he suffered the devastating loss of his beloved big brother, Beau, who died of brain cancer at the age of forty-six. These hardships were compounded by the collapse of his marriage and a years-long battle with drug and alcohol addiction. In Beautiful Things, Hunter recounts his descent into substance abuse and his tortuous...
24) Long way home
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Douglas is born into wealth, privilege, and comfort. His father a superstar, his mother a beautiful socialite, his grandfather a legend. But by the age of 32 he had become a drug addict, an armed robber, and-- after a DEA drug bust-- a convicted drug dealer sentenced to five years in prison. In prison he began to reverse his savage transformation, to understand the psychological turmoil that has tormented him for years, and prepare for what will be...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Domenica Ruta grew up in a working-class, unforgiving town north of Boston, in a trash-filled house on a dead-end road surrounded by a river and a salt marsh. Her mother, Kathi, a notorious local figure, was a drug addict and sometimes dealer whose life swung between welfare and riches. And yet she managed, despite the chaos she created, to instill in her daughter a love of stories. Despite the fact that there was not a book to be found in her...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
His gift is a rare talent; his art celebrates an important American legacy. But it's born from a torment that might make him as dangerous as he is irresistible. Wealthy, beautiful and sophisticated, Cassandra Westbrook collects exquisite art objects with a connoisseur's fine taste and a rich woman's whims. She always dominates an art auction – until a mysterious artist named Thomas Warrior bids against her for a set of Native American ledger drawings....
27) The fury
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Henry Parker had no idea that the junkie who had come to him for help--and who Henry had blown off--was a brother he never knew about. Now, Stephen Gaines is dead, and Henry is forced to question everything he's ever known and why Stephen was murdered in cold blood.
28) Cherry
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Cleveland, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a passion for Edward Albee and ecstasy and fall hard and fast in love. But soon Emily has to move home to Elba, New York, and he flunks out of school and joins the army. Desperate to keep their relationship alive, they marry before he ships out to Iraq. But as an army medic, he is unprepared for the grisly reality that awaits him. His fellow soldiers smoke; they...
29) Unholy ghosts
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"The world is not the way it was. The dead have risen, and the living are under attack. The powerful Church of Real Truth, in charge since the government fell, has sworn to reimburse citizens being harassed by the deceased. Enter Chess Putnam, a fully tattooed witch and freewheeling ghost hunter. She's got a real talent for banishing the wicked dead. But Chess is keeping a dark secret: she owes a lot of money to a murderous drug lord named Bump, who...
30) City of ghosts
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
408 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Mangled corpses have started to show up on the streets of Downside, and Chess Putnam's bosses at the Church of Real Truth have ordered her to team up with the ultra-powerful Black Squad to crack the grisly case.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wracked by guilt and addiction ten years after administering a fatal morphine overdose to Hank Williams, Doc Ebersole performs illegal medical services in the red-light district of San Antonio before meeting a young Mexican immigrant who seems to heal others with her touch.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"For the first time, the full, fascinating, and inspirational true story of Danny Trejo's journey from crime, prison, addiction, and loss to unexpected fame as Hollywood's favorite bad guy with a heart of gold"--
On screen, Danny Trejo the actor is a baddie who has been killed at least a hundred times. Hes been shot, stabbed, hanged, chopped up, squished by an elevator, and once, was even melted into a bloody goo. Off screen, hes a hero beloved by...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
As children, Lexie and Annie were incredibly close. Bonded by the death of their beloved father, they weathered the storms of life together. When Lexie leaves home to follow her dream, Annie is forced to turn to her leather-bound journal as the only place she can confide her deepest secrets and fears. As adults, sisters Lexie and Annie could not be more different. Lexie is a successful doctor and happily engaged. Annie is an addict--a thief, a liar...
34) Four good days
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Emerging from a detox clinic, a young addict must stay clean while living with her mother for the next four days.
35) A gentle path through the twelve steps: the classic guide for all people in the process of recovery
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Updated and expanded edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 377 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The twelve steps tap into the essential human process of change and will be regarded as one of the intellectual and spiritual landmarks in human history--Patrick Carnes. It was out of his reverence and respect for the wisdom and therapeutic value of the Twelve Steps that Carnes wrote A Gentle Path through the 12 Steps, now a recovery classic and self-help staple for anyone looking for guidance for life's hardest challenges. Hundreds of thousands...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Living with his grandparents and sister on a Gulf Coast farm, Jojo navigates the challenges of his mother's addictions and his grandmother's cancer before the release of his father from prison prompts a road trip of danger and hope.
37) Stray: a memoir
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the author Sweetbitter comes an intimate, searingly honest memoir of growing up the child of addicts, of how that turbulent, often harrowing experience has affected her at every stage of her life, and of how she has struggled to transcend this unwanted legacy. When Sweetbitter was published to great success, the author knew she should be happy, but she felt incapable of it, emotionally shut down. She knew too that the roots of her inability...
Author
Publisher
Convergent
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"For the first time, a Congresswoman and her son reveal how he survived a ten-year battle with opioid abuse--and what their family's journey to recovery can teach us about finding hope amidst the unspeakable. When Madeleine Dean discovered that her son, Harry, was stealing from the family to feed a painkiller addiction, she was days away from taking the biggest risk of her life: running for statewide office in Pennsylvania. For years, she had thought...
39) 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.
40) 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,...