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Publisher
Mr. FAT-W Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Mother Gin Sling is the owner of a shanghai casino which, despite her bribes, the local authorities have decided the close under pressure from British financier Sir Guy Charteris. Charteris has his own plans for the property"--Container.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A neuroscientist tells the story of his youth spent as a drug addict, while using the specific example of his own story to help explain drug use and addiction in general from a scientific standpoint.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Anne de Bourgh's doctor prescribed laudanum to quiet her when she was a fussy baby. Anne now takes the opium-heavy tincture every day, growing up with few companions except her cousins, including Fitzwilliam Darcy. Throughout their childhoods, it was understood that Darcy and Anne would marry and combine their vast estates of Pemberley and Rosings. But Darcy does not love Anne or want her. After her father dies unexpectedly, Anne looks for a life...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eilene Zimmerman's ex-husband, Peter, had it all: He was a partner at a prestigious law firm, lived in a $2 million house by the beach, and had two great kids. Maintaining a friendly relationship, Eilene and Peter talked and saw each other frequently. But a few years after their divorce she started noticing erratic behavior: absenteeism, weight loss, constant exhaustion and sickness. Peter explained it away as stress from the pressures of his job,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
James Beard Award-winning author Kim Foster reveals a new portrait of hunger and humanity in America. Food is a conduit for connection; we envision smiling families gathered around a table--eating, happy, content. But what happens when poverty, mental illness, homelessness, and addiction claim a seat at the table? In The Meth Lunches, James Beard award-winning writer Kim Foster peers behind the polished visions of perfectly curated dinners and charming...
68) Red angel
Publisher
Arrow Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm)
Language
日本語
Description
When Sakura Nishi is dispatched in 1939 to a ramshackle field hospital in Tientsin, the frontline of Japan's war with China, she and her colleagues find themselves fighting a losing battle tending to the war-wounded and emotionally shellshocked soldiers while assisting head surgeon Dr. Okabe conduct an unending series of amputations. As the Chinese troops close in, she finds herself increasingly drawn to Okabe who, impotent to stall the mounting pile...
69) Bigger than life
Series
Criterion collection volume 507
Language
English
Formats
Description
A friendly schoolteacher turns violent when he becomes addicted to a painkiller he is prescribed for a painful health problem.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
1. edición Vintage Español.
Physical Desc
442 pages ; 25 cm
Language
Español
Description
Maya, una estadounidense que tiene 19 años, se exilia y se queda temporalmente refugiada en una isla al sur de Chile, Chiloé, la tierra del origen de su abuela. Allí se pone a escribir en un cuaderno acerca de su adaptación al lugar, sus problemas con las drogas, su vida amorosa, y otros acontecimientos.
Maya, a young American on the run, is sent to Chiloé, in a remote part of Chile, her grandmother's homeland, where she records in her diary...
Series
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
x, 217 pages : 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Stories from doctors, nurses, and therapists dealing on a daily basis with the opioid crisis in Appalachia should be heartbreaking. Yet those told here also inspire with practical advice on how to assist those in addiction, from a grass-roots to a policy level. Readers looking for ways to combat the crisis will find suggestions alongside laughter, tears, and sometimes rage. Each author brings the passion of their profession and the personal losses...
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