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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
534 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Presents an exploration of addiction that blends memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and journalistic reportage to analyze the role of stories in conveying the addiction experience, sharing insights based on the lives of artists whose achievements were shaped by addiction.
2) Sister Helen
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1986, at the age of 56, Helen Travis became a Benedictine Sister after she lost her husband and both her sons to substance abuse. Two years later, in New York City, she opened a halfway house for recovering male addicts.
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"For decades, his family rescued lost and forgotten donkeys in the Irish countryside. He had no idea that one day, the donkeys would rescue him. Patrick Barrett grew up on the back of a donkey. In the small village of Liscarroll, he befriended the abandoned and abused donkeys his family cared for in their animal sanctuary. He became a true donkey whisperer— communicating with them in ways they could understand and teaching himself how to speak in...
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"Girl Walks Out of a Bar explores Smith's formative years, her decade of alcohol and drug abuse, divorce, and her road to recovery. In this darkly comic and wrenchingly honest story, Smith describes how her circumstances conspired with her predisposition to depression and self-medication in an environment ripe for addiction to flourish. When her close-knit group of high-achieving friends celebrate the end of their grueling workdays with alcohol-fueled...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Allison Weiss has a great job...a handsome husband...an adorable daughter...and a secret. Allison Weiss is a typical working mother, trying to balance a business, aging parents, a demanding daughter, and a marriage. But when the website she develops takes off, she finds herself challenged to the point of being completely overwhelmed. Her husband's becoming distant, her daughter's acting spoiled, her father is dealing with early Alzheimer's, and her...
6) Maggie Terry
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Post-rehab, Maggie Terry wants nothing more than to rebuild her life in hopes of being reunited with her daughter. But her first day as private investigator lands her in the middle of a sensational new case: actress strangled. To solve this mystery, she'll have to shake the ghostsdead NYPD partner, vindictive ex, steadfast drug habitthat have long ruled her life.
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" Recovering addicts are faced with many challenges, and these challenges can often extend to their romantic partners. During the recovery period, couples often struggle with overcoming feelings of betrayal and frustration, and may have a hard time rebuilding trust and closeness. While there are many resources available to recovering addicts, there are limited resources for the people who love them. In Loving Someone in Recovery, therapist Beverly...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"As a fussy baby, Anne de Bourgh?s doctor prescribed laudanum to quiet her, and now the young woman must take the opium-heavy tincture every day. Growing up sheltered and confined, removed from sunshine and fresh air, the pale and overly slender Anne grew 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...
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Publisher
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
ix, 255 pages : illustration, photograph (black & white) ; 24 cm
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. Throughout the Trump administration, Hunter was the target of nonstop attacks and slurs by the president and his cronies. These hardships were compounded by the collapse of his marriage and years-long battle...
12) Carved in bone
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Publisher
Persigo Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"November, 1984. Criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios, fresh out of rehab and picking up the pieces of his life, reluctantly accepts work as an insurance claims investigator and is immediately is assigned to investigate the apparently accidental death of Bill Ryan. Ryan, part of the great gay migration into San Francisco in the 1970s, has died in his flat of carbon monoxide poisoning from a faulty gas line, his young lover barely surviving. Rios's investigation...
13) Life support
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ana is an HIV-positive woman and recovering junkie, taking care of a 9-year-old daughter and a husband who is also HIV-positive. While making the most of a local social services program in order to regain stability in her life, she also attempts to reunite with her estranged teenage daughter, living with Ana's mother.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 22 cm
Description
The University of Kentucky basketball legend, NBA veteran and social media influencer discusses how he overcame both an addiction to prescription painkillers and a severe gambling problem that cost him almost his entire fortune.
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