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Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.
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"A unique and elegant blend of science, memoir, travel writing, history, and medicine, How to Change Your Mind is a triumph of participatory journalism. By turns dazzling and edifying, it is the gripping account of a journey to an exciting and unexpectednew frontier in our understanding of the mind, the self, and our place in the world. The true subject of Pollan's "mental travelogue" is not just psychedelic drugs but also the eternal puzzle of human...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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The incomparable master of the legal thriller takes us deeper into the labyrinth that is the American justice system, always drawing us in with an irresistible hook, pulling the thread of tension tighter and tighter, and then knocking us out with a conclusion that's never "by the book."
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Based on Gabor Maté's two decades of experience as a medical doctor and his groundbreaking work with the severely addicted on Vancouvers skid row, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts radically reenvisions this much misunderstood field by taking a holistic approach. Dr. Maté presents addiction not as a discrete phenomenon confined to an unfortunate or weak-willed few, but as a continuum that runs throughout (and perhaps underpins) our society; not a medical...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Boy Meets Girl. Boy Stalks Girl. Girl Gets Revenge. Logan thinks he and Delilah are meant to be. Delilah doesn't know who Logan is. Logan believes no one knows Delilah like him. He makes sure of it by learning everything he can by watching her through a hidden camera. Some might call him a stalker. Logan prefers to be called "romantic". Delilah is keeping secrets though, deadly ones. There's so much more to her than meets the eye. Logan is determined...
6) 1989
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Allie Burns volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"In the new installment to her historical crime series that began with 1979, internationally bestselling author Val McDermid delivers a propulsive new thriller that finds journalist Allie Burns has become an editor, and as the Cold War and AIDS crisis deliver a nonstop tide of news, most of it bad, a story falls into her lap. And then there’s a murder. Hailed as Britain’s Queen of Crime, Val McDermid’s award-winning, internationally bestselling...
7) Glass
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Crank trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Kristina Snow returns home to give birth, a rape-induced pregnancy that occurs in the prequel novel, Crank. Kristina spirals into a dark depression when she cannot recover her pre-baby shape and returns to using to regain control of her weight. Like its predecessor, Glass is written in free verse and portrays the hopeless prison of addiction.
8) Hey, kiddo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Shares the author's upbringing in a family grappling with addiction and how he used art to survive.
"The powerful, unforgettable graphic memoir from Jarrett Krosoczka, about growing up with a drug-addicted mother, a missing father, and two unforgettably opinionated grandparents. In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an...
9) Autonomous
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Pub. Date
2017
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English
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Judith "Jack" Chen, a scientist-turned-drug pirate, travels the world in a submarine to bring cheap medicine to the poor, but when her latest drug hack results in a trail of lethal overdoses, she is pursued by a jaded military agent and his robotic partner.
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Spenser novels volume 10
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English
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The sweet, adoring wife of senate candidate Meade Alexander had a little problem with sex and drugs--a problem someone managed to put on videotape. A blackmail attempt gets Spenser involved. And for the detective, getting back the tape of a lady's X-rated indiscretion promises to bring him nothing but trouble--trouble that is deep, wide, and deadly.
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Faith Herbert origin story volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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A plus-sized high school senior who hides a secret ability to fly pursues an unexpected romantic relationship with the heroine star of her favorite teen drama before her investigation into a new recreational drug puts those she loves in danger.
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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A remarkable four-year investigation into the dangerous world of synthetic drugs, from black market drug factories in China to users and dealers on the streets of the U.S. to harm reduction activists in Europe, which reveals for the first time the next wave of the opioid epidemic
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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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.
"Capacious and rigorous . . . Blue Dreams, like all good histories of medicine, reveals healing to be art as much as science." --Parul Sehgal, New York Times"Terrific." --Michael Pollan "Ambitious...Slater's depictions of...
15) The mind and the moon: my brother's story, the science of our brains, and the search for our psyches
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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When Daniel Bergner’s younger brother was diagnosed as bipolar and put on a locked ward in the 1980s, psychiatry seemed to have achieved what JFK promised: a revolution of chemical solutions to treat mental illness. Yet as Bergner’s brother was deemed a dire risk for suicide and he and his family were told his disorder would be lifelong, he found himself taking heavy doses of medications with devastating side effects. Now, in recounting his brother’s...
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
c2017.
Language
English
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"The purpose of this book is to give you information about the most widely used drugs (prescription and nonprescription). The information is derived from many authoritative sources and represents the consensus of many experts. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy and completeness. However, because drug information is constantly changing, you should always talk to your doctor or pharmacist if you have any questions or concerns"--page iv Includes:...
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Provides an analysis of the logic system that the author experienced under the influence of peyote and other hallucinogens commonly used by Indian sorcerers.
Presents selections from the field notes the author kept while under the influence of hallucinogenic plants given to him as part of his apprenticeship into the ways of sorcery by Yaqui Indian Don Juan Matus, and includes an analysis of Don Juan's belief system.
19) Synchronic
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When New Orleans paramedics and longtime best friends Steve and Dennis are called to a series of bizarre and gruesome accidents, they chalk it up to a mysterious new drug found at the scene. But after Dennis's oldest daughter disappears, Steve stumbles upon a terrifying truth about the supposed psychedelic that will challenge everything he knows about reality, and the flow of time itself.
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