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Author
Series
Atticus Kodiak volume 4
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
viii, 355 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First Catapult edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tuck is slow to understand the circumstances that have driven her family to an uninhabited island off the coast of Maine, the former home of her deceased grandmother where she once spent her childhood summers. Squatting there now, she must care for her spirited young daughter and scrape together enough money to leave before winter arrives--or before they are found out. Relying on the island for sustenance and answers--bladderwrack, rosehips, tenacious...
43) The boatbuilder
Author
Publisher
McSweeney's
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
237 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"At twenty-eight years old, Eli "Berg" Koenigsberg has never encountered a challenge he couldn't push through -- until a concussion leaves him with lingering headaches and a weakness for opiates. Berg moves to a remote Northern California town to seek space and time to recover, but soon finds himself breaking into homes in search of pills. Addled by addiction and chronic pain, Berg meets Alejandro, a reclusive master boatbuilder, and begins to see...
Author
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
201 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a frigid New Hampshire winter, Jay Porter is trying to eke out a living and maintain some semblance of a relationship with his former girlfriend and their two-year-old son. When Jay attempts to aid his drug-addicted brother, who is being questioned by the sheriff about the disappearance of his junkie business partner, he is plunged into a cauldron of ugly lies and long-held secrets that will not only tear apart his small hometown but threaten...
Author
Publisher
Morgan James Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xix, 147 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Steve Grant shares what he learned during his own difficult journey to encourage and guide other parents who are living with children who are struggling with substance abuse. Don't Forget Me tells the story of Steve's two sons, Chris and Kelly, who took distinctly different paths to the same outcome: death by overdose. Steve reveals not only a highlight reel of the things he got right but takes an honest look at the mistakes he made along the way...
Author
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Drugs have become the refuge of school kids, pill-popping housewives, stressed corporates and ex hippies - all seeking enhanced experiences that everyday life fails to provide. These people use drugs because they make them feel good. The longer they take drugs, the harder it is to imagine life without them. So, what chance do they have when they want to quit? Drawing on his long-term expertise in this area, Jost Sauer presents readers with a powerful,...
47) What about Will
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Trace Reynolds has always looked up to his brother, mostly because Will, who is five years older, has never looked down on him. When Will was knocked out cold during a football game, resulting in a brain injury, everything changed. Sixteen months later their family is still living under the weight of the incident that left Will with a facial tic, depression, and an anger he cannot always control, culminating in their parents' divorce. And Will is...
48) Batman: venom
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
140 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
After Batman fails to save a young girl, he begins taking the drug in order to lift his limitations; however, when the Dark Knight becomes addicted to the substance, his entire life begins to spiral out of control.
Author
Publisher
Sentinel
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
x, 284 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"After abandoning his Wall Street career, Arnade decided to document poverty and addiction in the Bronx, spending years interviewing, photographing, and becoming close friends with homeless addicts, hanging out in drug dens and McDonald's in the South Bronx. Then he started driving across America to see how the rest of the country compared. He found the same types of stories everywhere, across lines of race, ethnicity, religion, and geography"--
50) The corner
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles a year in the lives of 15-year-old DeAndre McCullough, his mother Fran and father Gary, along with their friends, enemies, and neighbors. Ever present in their world is illicit drugs-- heroin and cocaine-- the need that fuels the business, and the business that fuels the need. Based on the true stories from the lives of the people who live life on a corner in Baltimore.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 297 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A bioethicist's memoir of opioid dependence and withdrawal exposes the American health care system's failures at managing the use of opioids for pain relief and reveals the lack of resources and structures to handle the nationwide epidemic of opioid addiction.
Author
Publisher
Legacy Lit, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
[2023].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 244 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Samantha Leach traces the lives of a trio of girls who met in the Troubled Teen Industry and went on to share the same tragic fate. Samantha and her best friend Elissa were typical privileged, rebellious, suburban girls. But after Elissa was kicked out of their private school, she soon disappeared. At fifteen years old, her parents quietly flew her from Providence, Rhode Island to a $10,000/month therapeutic boarding school in Nebraska. There she...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Fifteen-year-old Hannah was a privileged young girl with a promising future, but that didn't stop her from sliding into an abyss of sex, drugs, alcohol, and other high-risk behaviors. Off the Rails narrates Hannah's sudden decline and subsequent treatment through the raw, honest, compelling voices of Hannah and her shocked and desperate mother--each one telling her side of the story. Fearing that they couldn't keep their teen safe, Hannah's parents...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
621 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illicit industry that has created a worldwide epidemic, ravaging communities and overwhelming and confounding government agencies that are challenged to combat it. "A whole new crop of chemicals is radically changing the recreational drug landscape," writes Ben Westhoff. "These are known as Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) and they include replacements...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 341 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Westhoff explores the many-tentacled world of illicit opioids -- from the streets of East St. Louis to Chinese pharmaceutical companies, from music festivals deep in the Michigan woods to sanctioned 'shooting up rooms' in Barcelona -- in this frank, insightful, and occasionally searing exposé. Westhoff narrates the dangerous rise of fentanyl alongside the emergence of a wide variety of other synthetic drugs, including cannabinoids and novel-psychoactive...
56) Drugstore cowboy
Series
Imprint volume 64
Language
English
Formats
Description
A band of drug addicts, led by a husband and wife team, resort to robbing drugstores to stay high. They are successful in avoiding capture until their luck begins to run out, and the husband has to accept the fact that he must give up drugs to survive.
57) Less than zero
Author
Publisher
Vintage Comtemporaries
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
First Vintage Contemporaries edition.
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Returning to Los Angeles from his Eastern college for a Christmas vacation in the early 1980s, Clay "reenters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porsches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine ... A raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation."--Back cover.
58) Sound of metal
Series
Criterion collection volume 1151
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Riz Ahmed [is] ... the volatile Ruben, who has found new purpose as a drummer in a noise-metal duo, playing blistering live shows with his singer girlfriend, Lou. When Ruben suddenly loses much of his hearing, he is launched on a profound odyssey ... as he comes to understand what it means to live as a deaf person and to discover deafness as not a disability but a rich culture and community"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Dey St
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1990, while covering a story about homelessness, Jackson encountered a drug addict sleeping under a bridge. The homeless stranger looked the photojournalist in the eye and said, "You ought to do a story about me." When Jackson asked why, he was stunned by the answer. "Because I've played in three Super Bowls." Jackie Wallace was a former NFL star who rose to the pinnacle of fame and fortune, only to crash and lose it all. Here Jackson describes...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
162 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
At fifteen, Casey Legler is already one of the fastest swimmers in the world. She is also an alcoholic, isolated from her family, and incapable of forming lasting connections with those around her. Driven to compete at the highest levels, sent far away from home to train with the best coaches and teams, she finds herself increasingly alone and alienated, living a life of cheap hotels and chlorine-worn skin, anonymous sexual encounters, and escalating...
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