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1) The good son
Author
Publisher
Mira
Language
English
Description
What do you do when the person you love best becomes unrecognizable to you? For Thea Demetriou, the answer is both simple and agonizing: you keep loving him somehow. Stefan was just seventeen when he went to prison for the drug-fueled murder of his girlfriend, Belinda. Three years later, he's released to a world that refuses to let him move on. Belinda's mother, once Thea's good friend, galvanizes the community to rally against him to protest in...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Struggling with the demands of her job, distant husband, spoiled daughter and Alzheimer's patient father, Allison becomes addicted to painkillers and lands in rehab, where amid fellow inpatients she confronts incompatible recovery techniques, barely trained counselors and her own denial.
"Allison Weiss has a great job...a handsome husband...an adorable daughter...and a secret. Allison Weiss is a typical working mother, trying to balance a business,...
Author
Series
Wildstone novels volume 7
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
Description
Starting a new life after waking up from a coma, Emma Harris finds her plans of opening up a doggy day care derailed by her childhood nemesis, but she soon learns that life isn't what you are given, it's what you make of it.
5) Night watch
Author
Series
Kendra Michaels volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"Born blind, Kendra Michaels spent the first twenty years of her life living in the darkness. Then, thanks to a revolutionary medical procedure developed by England's Night Watch Project, she was given the gift of sight. Her highly-developed senses (honed during her years in the dark), combined with her new found vision, have made her a remarkable investigator, sought after by law-enforcement agencies all over the country. But her newest case finds...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
441 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Meg works for a casino in LA, catching cheaters and popping a few too many pain pills to cope, following a far different path than her sister Haley, a famous actress. But suddenly reports surface of Haley dying at the remote rehab facility where she had been forced to go to get her addictions under control. There are whispers of suicide, but Meg can't believe it. She decides that the best way to find out what happened to her sister is to check in...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A transformative work showing that sometimes the recovery is more gripping than the addiction. With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that the story of recovery can be every bit as electrifying as the train wreck itself. Leslie Jamison deftly excavates the stories we tell about...
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
1st Atria Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Relates a young woman's journey, first to find a cure for a lifelong struggle with stuttering, and ultimately to embrace the voice that has defined her character.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Life
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xxi, 125 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Recovery offers tools and wisdom for convalescence, and shows how tending to our bodies, environments, and perspectives can help us move through the landscape of illness--and come out the other side whole"--
Author
Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
c2017
Physical Desc
xviii, 140 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This guidebook takes the reader through the process of building a life after addiction by adopting new behaviors that create lasting change.The author's approach which he calls "the neuroscience of common sense", advocates holistic methods to prevent relapse and establish new patterns to create a sustainable, meaningful life.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"When acclaimed naturalist Sy Montgomery and wildlife artist Matt Patterson arrive at Turtle Rescue League, they are greeted by hundreds of turtles recovering from injury and illness. Endangered by cars and highways, pollution and poachers, these turtles--with wounds so severe that even veterinarians would have dismissed them as fatal--are given a second chance at life. The League's founders, Natasha and Alexxia, live by one motto: Never give up on...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
271 p.
Language
English
Description
A former parole officer shines a bright light on a huge yet hidden part of our justice system through the intertwining stories of seven parolees striving to survive the chaos that awaits them after prison in this illuminating and dramatic book.
16) Immortal beloved
Author
Series
Immortal beloved volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
407 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After seeing her best friend, a Dark Immortal called Incy, torture a human with magick, Nastasya, a spoiled party girl, enters a home for wayward immortals and finally begins to deal with life, even as she learns that someone wants her dead.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
The story of one teenager's descent into methamphetamine addiction is told from his father's point of view, describing how a varsity athlete and honor student became addicted to the dangerous drug and its impact on his family.
Author
Publisher
New Harbinger Publications
Pub. Date
c2015
Physical Desc
x, 216 pages ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this book, addiction expert Suzette Glasner-Edwards offers evidence-based techniques fusing cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), motivational interviewing, and mindfulness-based relapse prevention to help readers understand and conquer their addictive behaviors, once and for all.
19) The oracle code
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"After a gunshot leaves her paralyzed, Barbara Gordon enters the Arkham Center for Independence, where Gotham's teens undergo physical and mental rehabilitation. Now using a wheelchair, Barbara must adapt to a new normal, but she cannot shake the feeling that something is dangerously amiss."--
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xiii, 364 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Very little has been written about juvenile justice. In the greater consciousness, the word "justice" in this context has been leeched of meaning; it just signifies prison for kids. But to those living and working in various capacities within that system, the word "justice" holds a sepulchral gravity. In Children of the State, bestselling author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace Jeff Hobbs presents three different true stories that show...