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21) Cocaine
Author
Publisher
New Vessel Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Paris in the 1920s - dizzy and decadent. Where a young man can make a fortune with his wits ... unless he is led into temptation. Cocaine's dandified hero Tito Arnaudi invents lurid scandals and gruesome deaths, and sells these stories to the newspapers. But his own life becomes even more outrageous than his press reports when he acquires three demanding mistresses. Elegant, witty and wicked, Pitigrilli's classic novel was first published in Italian...
22) Falsa liebre
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
La oscuridad del puerto lo envuelve todo. Pachi y Vinicio se adentran en la playa, van camino a una fiesta improvisada; andan buscando con qué entumir el cuerpo, con qué acabar de borrarse. El verano ha sido largo y el día, mucho peor. No muy lejos de ahí, Zahir fantasea con su próximo viaje a la capital o al norte de México, fuera del alcance de la tía que le exige dinero, lo aplaca a golpes y que había orillado a su hermano pequeño, Andrik,...
23) Hungry
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In Thalia's world there is no more food and no need for food, as everyone takes medication to ward off hunger. But when she meets a boy who is part of an underground movement to bring food back, she realizes that the meds are not working.
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Millions of Americans are taking prescription drugs made in China and don't know it-- and pharmaceutical companies are not eager to tell them. This probing book examines the implications for the quality and availability of vital medicines for consumers"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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
Series
Jessie Teska novels volume 1
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
For San Francisco's newest medical examiner, Dr. Jessie Teska, it was supposed to be a fresh start. A new job in a new city. A way to escape her own dark past. Instead she faces a chilling discovery when an opioid-overdose case contains hints of something more sinister. Jessie's superiors urge her to close the case, but as more bodies land on her autopsy table, she uncovers a constellation of deaths that point to an elaborate plot involving drug dealers...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The Price of Health reveals the story of how the pharmaceutical enterprise took shape and led to the present crisis. The reputation of the pharmaceutical industry is suffering from self-inflicted wounds and its continued viability, indeed survival, is increasingly questioned. Yet the drug makers do not shoulder all the blame or responsibility for the current price crisis. Deeply researched, The Price of Health gives us hope as to how we can still...
32) Five feet apart
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Can you love someone you can never touch? Stella and Will both suffer from cystic fibrosis. Being together means they could pass an infection. Stella is waiting for a lung transplant; Will is on a clinical drug trial. The only way to stay alive is to stay apart. Staying six feet apart doesn't feel like safety, it feels like punishment. Would five feet apart really be so dangerous if it stops their hearts from breaking too? -- adapted from jacket
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A groundbreaking thriller about a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a dangerous mission to track down the source of a heroin influx. Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that's hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way into the reservation...
Author
Series
Elemental Assassin volume 11
Publisher
Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Gin Blanco is hard-nosed, sexy, and lethal. Nicknamed "The Spider," she's a stone elemental assassin who brings her unique mix of magic and tact to every assignment, no matter the target. There's a new drug on the streets of Ashland, and its name "Burn" sums up the potent effect it has on its users. When one of her restaurant employees is threatened by dealers of the drug, Gin steps in to set things straight...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A New York Times bestseller, Norman Ohler's Blitzed is a "fascinating, engrossing, often dark history of drug use in the Third Reich" (Washington Post).
The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. Yet as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs: cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, which were consumed by everyone from factory workers...
The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. Yet as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs: cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, which were consumed by everyone from factory workers...
36) Alcohol y drogas
Author
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
Español
Description
Find out about the dangers of alcohol and drugs and how people become addicted.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The true story of how a renowned writer’s struggle with mood storms led her to try a remedy as drastic as it is forbidden: microdoses of LSD. Her revealing, fascinating journey provides a window into one family and the complex world of a once-infamous drug seen through new eyes.
When a small vial arrives in her mailbox from "Lewis Carroll," Ayelet Waldman is at a low point. Her moods have become intolerably severe; she has tried nearly...
When a small vial arrives in her mailbox from "Lewis Carroll," Ayelet Waldman is at a low point. Her moods have become intolerably severe; she has tried nearly...
Author
Series
Stackin' paper novels volume 1
Publisher
King Production
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Ig Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Gentry Coats' fatal overdose stuns a small community in North Carolina, triggering a series of tragic events that threaten the town's traditional values. It triggers a mental breakdown in his best friend, a police officer, whose wife grapples with the burden of her vows in the face of her husband's disturbing behavior. Bitter and lonely, Gentry's mother struggles to place blame surrounding the death of her oldest son, while her younger son retreats...
40) The brave
Publisher
Unified North America
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An elite group of cops set out to end the war waged against the local police in an Albanian town known for drug production and trafficking, in this action thriller based on true life events.
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