"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...

"Addiction is epidemic and catastrophic. With more than one in every five people over the age of fourteen addicted, drug abuse has been called the most formidable health problem worldwide. If we are not victims ourselves, we all know someone struggling with the merciless compulsion to alter their experience by changing how their brain functions. Drawing on years of research--as well as personal experience as a recovered addict--researcher and professor...

Publisher Annotation: Mary O’Malley is tired of keeping secrets. Secrets like her older brother, Jonny’s, drug use. Starting seventh grade is tough enough without the upheaval her brother is bringing to their family. It seems the only person who might understand is Griffen Connolly, whose older sister runs with Jonny in the wrong crowd. Mary thought Griff was too cool, too popular for her. But now he wants to hang out with her, and listen. When...

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.

Publisher Annotation: With his girlfriend, Robin, away in Canada, eighteen-year-old Lucas Baker?s only plans for the summer are to mellow out with his friends, smoke weed, drop a tab or two, and head out in his microbus for a three-day happening called the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. But life veers dramatically off track when he suddenly finds himself in danger of being drafted and sent to fight in Vietnam. If that isn?t heavy enough, there?s also...

"The story of a town torn apart by the events surrounding the rape of drunk girl at a house party, from the perspective of the partygoers who witnessed it"--

Writing in her diary, a fifteen-year-old girl chronicles her descent into the drug world.

"Four sisters rely on each other--and a bit of mysterious magic--to cope with their mother's illness"--

Teenage alcoholic Natalie falls for a much older recovering alcoholic during her court-ordered six months of AA meetings as she fights to soberly return to her old life.