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81) The law of Moses
Author
Series
Publisher
Amy Harmon
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
2nd edition.
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Someone found him in a laundry basket at the Quick Wash, wrapped in a towel, a few hours old and close to death. They called him Baby Moses when they shared his story on the ten o'clock news--the little baby left in a basket at a dingy Laundromat, born to a crack addict and expected to have all sorts of problems. I imagined the crack baby, Moses, having a giant crack that ran down his body, like he'd been broken at birth. I knew that wasn't what the...
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Black, formerly known as Samuel Jackson, is a crack addict caught in the violent world of the drug trade on Philadelphia's mean streets. But that doesn't mean Black is guilty of murdering city councilman Johnny Podres. And his innocence doesn't mean that he won't be tried and convicted for his crime. He and three other of his friends are going down for the killing, and Black has only one chance to turn things around.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xxvii, 210 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Based on the author's own experience as a parent with an addicted child, she provides straight-talking self-preservation tools and techniques for parents of addicts in and out of recovery. An essential book to help parents navigate this confusing and uncharted landscape-in the author's words, "Planet Paradox." Barbara Victoria is a parent who struggled with her own child's addiction. She has been active in Al-Anon for many years.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Hill had two great loves in his life: Jesus and heroin. The son of an evangelical minister, he grew up following the tenets of his parents' Baptist church, but experienced a crisis of faith in high school. By his twenties, Hill's substance abuse was a full-blown addiction, and he grew suicidal. His memoir is a raw portrait of survival-- of growing up and learning how to live. -- adapted from jacket
Matt Rowland Hill had two great loves in his life:...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Corrections in Ink is an electric and unforgettable memoir about a young woman's journey-from the ice rink, to addiction and a prison sentence, to the newsroom-emerging with a fierce determination to expose the broken system she experienced. An elite, competitive figure skater growing up, Keri Blakinger poured herself into the sport, even competing at nationals. But when her skating partnership ended abruptly, her world shattered. With all the intensity...
86) Why stop now
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eli Bloom, a piano prodigy, has gotten the most important audition of his life. But before he can go, he must drop his mother off at drug rehab. Since she has to test positive for admission, the two end up at her dealer's door seeking one last score. But problems arise when mom can't pay and dealer is low on product, thus creating a series of comically unfortunate obstacles to each character's goals.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
xvii, 207 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
By the age of twenty, Joey has OD'd, attempted suicide, quit college, survived a near-fatal car accident, done time behind bars, and been kicked out of rehab. Now manipulative and hateful, the once sweet and charming Joey is long gone. This is the poignant story of a defiant addict and the mother who won't give up on him. She finally realizes that it hurts more to hang on than to let go, and that letting go is not the same thing as giving up. Sandra...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
261 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"With troubles beginning as early as childhood, the trajectory of Shane Niemeyer's life seemed to have only one direction: down. His struggles with heroin addiction led him to jail, and he eventually hit rock bottom. Soon, his two pack a day cigarette habit was the healthiest thing he did. One dark night in jail, his suicide attempt failed. What happened next transcends the term recovery. The Hurt Artist is the searing yet luminous travelogue of Shane's...
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The up-and-down and then up-again story of musician Dewey Cox. Dewey's songs would change a nation. On his rock 'n roll spiral, Dewey sleeps with 411 women, marries three times, has 22 kids and 14 step-kids, stars in his own 70s TV show, collects friends ranging from Elvis to the Beatles to a chimp. He becomes addicted to and then kicks about every drug known to man. Despite it all, Cox grows into a national icon and eventually earns the love of a...
91) Run the tide
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When their drug-abusing mother is released from prison determined to rebuild their family, Rey kidnaps his younger brother Oliver and escapes their desert home for the California coast.
92) We were Kings
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A twenty-year-old crime, an accelerated death penalty, and an elitist family cover-up forces eighteen-year-old Nyla to race against the death row clock to save her mother's best friend.
93) Hey, kiddo
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 510L
Physical Desc
294 pages, 20 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving, very opinionated people who had thought they were through...
Series
Publisher
PC Treasures, Inc
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 193 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Suddenly : "Sinatra ... portrays John Baron, an assassin hired to kill the President. Baron plans his dreadful appointment with terrifying precision -- arriving at a small Midwestern town through which the President is scheduled to pass. Deciding on ambush, Baron holes up in a widow's home, and the only hope of stopping his dreadful plan lies with the sheriff -- a man with secrets of his own." -- Container.
The man with the golden arm : "Frankie...
95) Sink: a memoir
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Stranded in a volatile, ever-shifting family, saddled with a mercurial mother mired in crack addiction, and demeaned daily for his perceived weakness, Joseph Earl Thomas was under constant threat. Roaches fell from the ceiling, colonizing bowls of noodles and cereal boxes. Fists and palms pounded down at school and at home, leaving welts that ached long after they disappeared. An inescapable hunger gnawed at his frequently empty stomach, and requests...
Author
Publisher
UIT Cambridge
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Second edition, revised & updated.
Physical Desc
xii, 430 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This second edition of expert drug scientist David Nutt's brilliant book examines the facts about both legal and illegal drugs. Including up-to-date case studies and information about recent developments, he uses straightforward language to explore the science of what drugs are, how they work, why people take them and their effects.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xvii, 191 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
This is a book about becoming heroic. A hero is a person who faces great danger, overcomes incalculable odds, and accomplishes that which would have been thought (especially by the hero) to be impossible to achieve. Considering the fear and pain that a person must experience in such an adventure, it is a role that few would desire for themselves. And yet, more of us find ourselves in circumstances demanding heroism than one might imagine. In fact,...
100) Until death
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Anthony Lowe is a down-and-out detective addicted to heroin who is coming off of a drug deal in which two officers were killed, and the primary villain, the drugs, the money and the surveillance tapes are still at large. Lowe is also dealing with his wife, who has just informed him that she is pregnant-- but the child is not his. After a gunfight in which Lowe comes very close to death, he falls into a coma. While on the road to recovery, Lowe finds...