Maren Walker tells herself she wouldn't need to sell pills for long. She dreams of walking through her door to leave it all behind. The doors have always appeared to the people of her town, though no one knows where they lead.
Drug Addiction
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Auteur:Blooms, AshleySommaire: - Auteur:Hopkins, EllenSommaire:
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkin's comes a new heartbreakingly tender middle grade novel-in-verse about the bonds between two brothers and the love they share. Twelve-year-old Trace Reynolds has always looked...
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Auteur:Snow, K. Z.Sommaire:Christopher Borgasian has spent the last seven months painstakingly breaking up with a lover he’s adored for three years: heroin. Now he’s trying to make it on his own—without the drugs, without the family that rejected him for being...
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Auteur:Mac, CarrieSommaire:Colby Wyatt has had a rough year. Her dad disappeared, she doesn’t have a place to live, and she’s addicted to meth. Thankfully, her best friend Gigi’s grandma takes her in, and Colby helps out with the family business, selling stolen...
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Auteur:Roby, Kimberla LawsonSommaire:Denise and Derrek Shaw are the perfect American couple. Happily married for 15 years, they have a wonderful daughter, successful careers, and a beautiful house. They also have a shocking secret: a dangerous addiction to drugs.
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Auteur:Oates, Joyce CarolSommaire:A collection of short stories that explore family relationships and emotions with gruesome and sometimes horrifying results.
- Auteur:Johnstone, JimSommaire:
Praised for his darkly psychological accounts of extreme experiences, Jim Johnstone’s fifth book of poems explores his most difficult terrain to date: mental illness and addiction. Like Coleridge's opium dreams, Johnstone's narratives...
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Auteur:Wat, Eric C.Sommaire:Carson Chow is a high-functioning addict, using crystal meth on weekends. One Friday night, as he's passed out from a binge, he misses thirty-eight calls from his father detailing the death of his mother.
- Auteur:Grisel, JudithSommaire:
From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovered drug addict, an authoritative and accessible guide to understanding drug addiction: clearly explained brain science and vivid personal stories reveal how addiction happens, show...
- Auteur:Harrison, RorySommaire:
Rory Harrison's beautiful novel about identity, home, and fresh starts recounts one boy's quest to discover a world where he can thrive, one adventure at a time. Dylan doesn't have a lot of experience with comfort. His...
- Auteur:Lupick, TravisSommaire:
Tells the story of a grassroots group of addicts in downtown Vancouver who throughout the 1990s and 2000s demanded that they be given the same rights as other citizens.
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Auteur:Westhoff, BenSommaire:Drugs like fentanyl, K2, and Spice--and those with arcane acronyms like 25i-NBOMe--were originally conceived in legitimate laboratories for proper scientific and medicinal purposes. Their formulas were then hijacked and manufactured by...
- Auteur:Quinones, Sam.Sommaire:
Journalist investigates the impact of addiction to opiates, including morphine, OxyContin, and heroin. Focusing particularly on the town of Portsmouth, Ohio, the author discusses the ways people become addicted and the ways those...
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Auteur:Gilbert, SkySommaire:The Judy Garland of the future tells it like she sees it
The year is 2050, and, contrary to popular belief, Judy Garland did not die in 1969. At the grand old age of 138, she’s re–embraced her real name, Frances Gumm;...
- Auteur:Fiorito, JoeSommaire:
All I Have Learned Is Where I Have Been, Joe Fiorito's second collection, establishes him as the preeminent chronicler of people in extremis. Drawing on the precison and unsentimentality that have become hallmarks of his poetry,...
