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243) Trigger
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Teenager Jersey Hatch must work through his extensive brain damage to figure out why he decided to shoot himself.
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When Destiny was found by the Sloth Institute in Costa Rica, she was sick, thin, and one of her eyes was closed and not working. The Sloth Institute took her in and introduced her to other sloths as she started to recover. She never regained the use of her one eye, but that didn't stop Destiny from hanging out with her new buddies, or getting healthier and stronger. Last August, Destiny was fitted for her tracking collar and released back into the...
Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Celebrated cartoonist Julia Wertz chronicles her haphazard attempts at sobriety and the relentlessly challenging, surprisingly funny, and occasionally absurd cycle of addiction and recovery"--
"In her keenly observed graphic memoir, Impossible People, celebrated cartoonist Julia Wertz chronicles her haphazard attempts at sobriety and the relentlessly challenging, surprisingly funny, and occasionally absurd cycle of addiction and recovery. Opening...
Author
Publisher
Central Recovery Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Neil Pollack, a journalist, novelist, family man, and Jeopardy champion is hired to do his “dream job” as a marijuana journalist in 2015, at the dawn of the age of legal weed. He proceeds to smoke, vape, and eat his way to oblivion, leading to terrible public meltdowns and other embarrassing behavior. After his mother dies, he spirals out of control, finally hitting bottom during a reckless two day gambling and drug-filled binge ending in a public...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Annie Liontas suffered multiple concussions in her thirties. In Sex with a Brain Injury, she writes about what it means to be one of the 'walking wounded,' facing her fear, her rage, her physical suffering, and the effects of head trauma on her marriage and other relationships. Forced to reckon with her own queer mother's battle with addiction, Liontas finds echoes in their pain. Liontas weaves history, philosophy, and personal accounts to interrogate...
Publisher
Outcast Films
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
Description
In 2000, Kenneth Young received four life without parole sentences. He was 15 years old. 15 to life is the story of a child condemned to die in prison, seeking a second chance in one of the most punitive justice systems in the world. For over a decade, Kenneth believed he would die behind bars, now a U.S. Supreme Court decision could set him free. 15 to life follows Young's struggle for redemption, revealing a justice system with thousands of young...
251) Girl, interrupted
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1994.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The author describes her two-year stay at a psychiatric hospital renowned for its famous clientele and for its progressive methods of treatment.
"WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR The ward for teenage girls in the McLean psychiatric hospital was as renowned for its famous clientele—Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles—as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses...
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