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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Explores the discovery, invention, science, and people behind today's major psychotropic drugs, from the earliest, Thorazine and Lithium, through Prozac and Ecstasy, to today's most cutting-edge memory drugs and neural implants.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory memoir that delivers a powerful message of hope and persistence. In an extraordinary story that only he could tell, Matthew Perry takes readers onto the soundstage of the most successful sitcom of all time while opening up about his private struggles with addiction. Candid, self-aware, and told with his...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Jaquira Díaz writes an unflinching account of growing up as a queer biracial girl searching for home as her family splits apart and her mother struggles with mental illness and addiction. From her own struggles with depression and drug abuse to her experiences of violence to Puerto Rico's history of colonialism, every page vibrates with music and lyricism"--
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Novelist Hank Moody struggles to raise his 13-year-old daughter with his on-again/off-again girlfriend in Southern California. His obsession with truth-telling and self-destructive behavior that includes drinks, drugs, and relationships is both destroying and enriching to his new university teaching career.
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Novelist Hank Moody's home life is in ruins, but the scandal surrounding his latest book has turned him into a hot commodity, in more ways than one. Find out if Hank can navigate the mess he's made of his life and still come out on top. Includes an episode sampling of Showtime original series: Dexter season six, The Borgias, Gigolos, and Episodes.
8) Tithe
Author
Series
Modern faerie tales volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
After returning home from a tour with her mother's rock band, sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries since childhood, discovers that she herself is a magical faerie creature with a special destiny.
9) Ironside
Author
Series
Modern faerie tales volume 3
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
As the possessor of Roibin's true name, sixteen-year-old Kaye returns to Faerieland to try and complete a nearly-impossible quest that will release him from the spell of the faery queen who holds him in thrall.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Richie Stephens is an actor who often plays hardened gangsters and criminals. This is easy for him because he was a drug trafficker, kidnapper, drug addict, alcoholic, and all-around criminal himself. His life twisted and turned in harrowing self-destructive adventures that took him from his native Ireland to San Francisco, Australia, and finally, Los Angeles, coalescing into a classic tale of a man trying to run from his problems by moving to new...
12) Valiant
Author
Series
Modern faerie tales volume 2
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Val runs away to New York City, where she falls in with a gang of squatters who live in the city's subway system and consort with faeries, trolls, and other strange creatures.
Publisher
Greenhaven Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Americans spend more than $460 billion on prescription drugs annually, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Not all of this medication is helping us: unnecessary and improper use of medication is responsible for an extremely high number of hospital visits and deaths each year. In addition, the cost of many medications can be prohibitive. Are we taking too many drugs? Why are prescription drugs in the United States so expensive?...
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