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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
In 1946, while her emotionally distant father is in occupied Japan, a twelve-year-old girl spends a year with her mother's relatives in a Tlingit Indian village in Alaska and begins to love and respect her heritage as she confronts the secret of her mother's disappearance.
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Language
English
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Now you can find freedom and relief from alcoholism and addiction. After suffering through over 10 years of his son's addiction and many failed attempts at recovery, Chris Prentiss needed a solution. Together, he and his son Pax created a program that saved Pax's life and is saving people's lives today at the Passages Addiction Cure Center in Malibu, California. The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure contains the breakthrough three-step holistic program...
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Language
English
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"I suppose we're all drunk on something." Seth Haines was in the hospital with his wife, planning funeral songs for their not-yet two-year-old, when he made a very conscious decision: this was the last day he ever wanted to feel. So he asked his sister to smuggle in some gin, and his addiction began. But whether or not you've ever had a drop to drink in your life, we're all looking for ways to stop the pain. Like Seth, we're all seeking balms for...
Language
English
Description
Presents addiction as a treatable brain disease. Addresses different aspects of the disease in order to shed light on the most current, promising developments in the field. Includes personal stories from addicts as well as the loved ones who struggle to help them find treatment.
53) Tink
Author
Series
Children of Crow Cove volume 3
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Feeling as though he does not belong there, Tink leaves Crow Cove, only to return with the drunken Burd, who teaches Tink to fish and to have confidence in himself and his place in the community.
54) Forbidden
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Maya and seventeen-year-old Lochan tell, in their separate voices, of their confusion and longing as they fall in love with one another after years of functioning as parents to three younger siblings due to their alcoholic mother's neglect.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is trying to force her to retire, and along the way Jenna hones her talents as a saleswoman and finds the strength to face her alcoholic father.
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Millions of clean and sober 12 Step members know How It Works, works. What a strange title for a chapter. One can only imagine the questions- How did you get sober? What do I do? How does it work? Chapter 5, How It Works, answers these pertinent questions. The result of working the 12 Steps, is a taste of something extraordinary, the knowing of serenity, peace, happiness, freedom, and loss of regret, The Promises. What is also gained is the personal...
59) Smashed
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Maine high school senior Katie Martin is set to win a field hockey scholarship until her life is derailed by drinking, a car accident, and an angry classmate.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The now-classic guide to alcoholism returns with new, enlightening research that confirms the revolutionary ideas first trailblazed by this book in a time when such theories were unheard of--now featuring a new foreword, new resources, and the same reliable insights and easy-to-read style. Ten of millions of Americans suffer from alcoholism, yet most people still wrongly believe that alcoholism is a psychological or moral problem that can be "cured"...
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