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61) The dead student
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English
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Timothy Warner, a PhD student who goes by the nickname "Moth," wakes up on his ninety-ninth day of sobriety with an intense craving for drink. He asks his uncle Ed, a former alcoholic and now successful psychiatrist, to meet him at an AA meeting later that day. When Ed doesn't show up, Moth bikes to his office and discovers a grisly scene -- his uncle lying in a pool of blood, shot through the temple. The police pronounce the death a suicide, but...
62) There there
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Twelve Native Americans came to the Big Oakland Powwow for different reasons. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxedrene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death and has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle's memory. Edwin Frank has come to find his true father. Bobby Big Medicine has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Political fervor hits the South Side in season 9, as the Gallaghers take justice into their own hands. While Frank sees financial opportunity in giving voice to the underrepresented working man, Fiona tries to build on her real estate success and takes an expensive gamble, Debbie fights for equal pay and Ian faces the consequences of his crimes as the Gay Jesus movement takes a destructive turn.
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A modern exploration of addiction that offers nine foundational building blocks every person at any stage of sobriety can use, from the bestselling author of We Are the Luckiest and founder of the international recovery community The Luckiest Club. When Laura McKowen was two years sober, she received an email from a woman whose sister was struggling with alcohol addiction. Laura had barely climbed out from the dark place the woman's sister was in,...
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Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
"Un testimonio sobre el alcoholismo como adicción y un ensayo sobre el mito literario que lo envuelve. Un libro valiente y deslumbrante. Este es un libro sobre la adicción. Habla del alcoholismo y la lucha por salir de él; también aborda los mitos -literarios, artísticos- que lo envuelven, conectando genialidad con autodestrucción etílica. La autora empezó a beber de adolescente, pero fue durante su etapa universitaria cuando se convirtió...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Part memoir and part social critique, Drinking Games is about how one woman drank and lived--and how, for her, the last drink was just the beginning. On paper, Sarah Levy's life was on track. She was 28, living in New York City, working a great job, and socializing every weekend. But Sarah had a secret: her relationship with alcohol was becoming toxic. And only she could save herself. Drinking Games explores the role alcohol has in our formative...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the cultural factors contributing to a rise in alcoholism among today's women and compares today's practices to those of earlier generations while noting the current ineffectiveness of AA and other mainstream treatments.
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Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Psychotherapist Michael Pond is no stranger to the devastating consequences of alcoholism. He has helped hundreds of people conquer their addictions, but this knowledge did not prevent his own near-demise. In this riveting memoir, he recounts how he lost his practice, his home, and his family?all because of his drinking. After scores of visits to the ER, a tour of hellish recovery homes, a stint in intensive care for end-stage alcoholism, and jail,...
Author
Publisher
New Harbinger Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Addict in the House offers a pragmatic, step-by-step guide to dealing with a loved one's addiction, from accepting the reality of the disease to surviving what may be repeated cycles of recovery and relapse. You'll learn how to encourage your addicted loved one to get help without forcing it, and finally find the strength to let go of codependence.
73) Arctic Sun
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Publisher
Carina Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"He's built a quiet life for himself in Alaska. But it doesn't stand a chance against the unrelenting pull of a man who's everything he shouldn't want.Ex-military mountain man Griffin Barrett likes his solitude. It keeps him from falling back into old habits. Bad habits. He's fought too hard for his sobriety to lose control now. However, his gig as a wildlife guide presents a new kind of temptation in superhot supermodel River Vale. Nothing the Alaskan...
74) Mending fences
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Series
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English
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Luke Schrock is a new and improved man after a stint in rehab, though everyone in Stoney Ridge only remembers the old Luke. They might have forgiven him, but nobody trusts him. He has been allowed to live at Windmill Farm under two conditions. First, he must make a sincere apology to each person he's hurt. Second, he must ask each victim of mischief to describe the damage he caused. Simple, Luke thinks. Offering apologies is easy. But discovering...
75) Black limousine
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A former big-time Hollywood movie composer, Jack, hits rock bottom and ends up becoming a chauffeur to pay his bills. Desperate to get his life and career back on track, he attends Alcoholics Anonymous, where he meets a mysterious and beautiful woman whom he falls in love with and consults for support. Can Jack reclaim the life he once took for granted? Or will he stay trapped in dreams?
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Growing up in their family's ancestral home in Wales, Jonathan Anthony and his little sister, Theo, are inseparable, inventing magical worlds and buttressing each other against the loneliness of life with their alcoholic mother, Alicia. When a family tragedy brings their glamorous grandmother, Eve, home from America, Jonathan and Theo are initially elated by the attention she lavishes on them. But soon it becomes clear that there is more to the Anthony...
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Publisher
Harper Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by the alcoholic father who idealized the natural world without imparting any survival skills to his children, three siblings in 1970s New York embark on difficult adult lives before their father attempts a reconciliation.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A recovering alcoholic documents his 18-month effort to run marathons in the cities where he once lived and engaged in abusive behaviors, assessing the redemptive benefits of running and the stories of fellow addicts who pursued similar dreams.
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