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Author
Publisher
Alice James Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
""The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rarely recorded with such sustained eloquence and passion as you will find in this collection."--Fanny Howe. This highly-anticipated debut boldly confronts addiction and courses the strenuous path of recovery, beginning in the wilds of the mind. Poems confront craving, control, the constant battle of alcoholism and sobriety, and the questioning of the self...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"They were five kids with five different fathers and an alcoholic mother who left them to fend for themselves for weeks at a time. Yet through it all they had each other. Rosie, the youngest, is fawned over and shielded by her older sister, Regina. Their mother, Cookie, blows in and out of their lives 'like a hurricane, blind and uncaring to everything in her path'. But when Regina discloses the truth about her abusive mother to her social worker,...
203) The fade out
Author
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Hollywood, 1948 -- A noir film stuck in endless reshoots. A writer plagued by nightmares from the war. A movie starlet's suspicious death. Her replacement's suspicious past. And a mogul and his security chief willing to do anything to keep the cameras rolling, as the Red Scare and the blacklist begin to tear the town apart." --
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The final season finds the Gallaghers and the South Side at a crossroads. As Frank confronts his own mortality, Lip struggles with becoming the family patriarch. Newlyweds Ian and Mickey figure out their committed relationship, while Deb embraces single motherhood. Lastly, Cart finds an unlikely new career in law enforcement while Kevin and V fight for their life on the South Side.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Frank comes out of a drug-induced haze and decides it's finally time to be a contributing member of society. Fiona faces hard decisions when she discovers her success as a landlord may mean someone else's misfortune. Lip struggles with staying sober, while Ian takes up a cause in hopes of getting back with Trevor. Debbie builds her future at welding school while juggling life as a single working mom, as Carl gets creative finding tuition money after...
207) Moonstone
Author
Series
Gems of Wolfe Island volume 1
Publisher
Hardt & Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Healing from the abuse she experienced as Moonstone, Katelyn Brooks meets Luke Johnson and their attraction is undeniable, but a secret in Luke's life can place both of them in danger.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Why do so many women become obsessed with the wrong men--men who are emotionally unavailable, addicted to work, alcohol, or other women--men who cannot love them back? Robin Norwood helps these women recognize, understand, and change the way they love through a series of intimate, revealing case histories.
Author
Series
David Pelzer trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Health Communications
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
211) Aunt Bam's place
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When family's falling out, it's time to call in Aunt Bam to set a few things straight! Bam's nephew-in-law is granted weekend visitation with his children, but his drunken ex shows up with trouble in mind. Now it's up to Bam to calm things down.
Author
Series
David Pelzer trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Health Communications
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This is a biography of Harold E. Hughes, a man of working-class origins who overcame severe alcoholism to become Iowa governor (1963-1969) and U.S. Senator (1969-1974). A Democrat in traditionally Republican Iowa, he--through his charismatic leadership--helped transform Iowa into a competitive two-party state. As governor, he reformed state government. As senator, he was an outspoken leader against the Vietnam War and the American military, including...
216) Overnight delivery
Author
Series
Hank Anderson thriller volume 1
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Small of stature but big of heart, psychotherapist Hank Anderson has a gift for helping clients face serious issues and heal life-altering traumas. But this talent intersects with darker truths, an insatiable curiosity that will soon threaten to violently shatter every aspect of Hank's life. 'Overnight delivery is a clever, engrossing psychological thriller punctuated by wry humor and unexpected developments in skillfully portrayed Iowa locale.'"--Page...
217) Cannon ball
Author
Publisher
Uncivilized Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Caroline Bertram: aspiring writer, queer, art school graduate, near alcoholic, and self-proclaimed tortured genius. This is her life. So far&
"Kelsey Wroten's Cannonball fires the reader straight into the messy life of Caroline Bertram: aspiring writer, queer, art school graduate, near alcoholic, and self proclaimed tortured genius. Wroten tells the story of an artist struggling with the arrival of adulthood and the Sisyphean task of artistic fulfillment....
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