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261) Being Charlie
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the experiences of 18-year-old Charlie as he encounters difficulties and love while drifting between rehabilitation clinics for his drug addiction and his Los Angeles family home, where his father is running for governor of California.
263) Liar: a memoir
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A darkly funny, intense memoir about mental illness, memory and storytelling, from an acclaimed novelist. When Rob Roberge learns that he's likely to have developed a progressive memory-eroding disease from years of hard living and frequent concussions, he is terrified by the prospect of becoming a walking shadow. In a desperate attempt to preserve his identity, he sets out to (somewhat faithfully) record the most formative moments of his life--ranging...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After discovering that she was born in a prison to a heroin-addicted mother, the author recalls her subsequent descent into drugs and crime and her recovery as she finds forgiveness and acceptance for both her real and adopted mothers.
"Even at twelve years old Deborah Jiang Stein, the adopted daughter of a progressive Jewish couple in Seattle, felt like an outsider. Her multiracial features set her apart from her well-intentioned white parents,...
266) Candy
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Dan is a poet who falls in love with two kinds of Candy: a woman of the same name and heroin. As Dan goes from a smart-aleck to someone trying to find a vein to inject, Candy changes from an actress to a streetwalker and then a madwoman. Starting in Sydney, the two eventually end up in Melbourne to try and go clean, but they fail. This leads them to turn to finding money and heroin, while other posessions and attachments become unimportant.
267) Bigger than life
Series
Criterion collection volume 507
Pub. Date
©2010
Edition
Special ed.
Language
English
Description
A friendly schoolteacher turns violent when he becomes addicted to a painkiller he is prescribed for a painful health problem.
Home use only.
270) Jesus' son
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Widescreen (2.35:first) version.
Language
English
Description
A rumpled, hapless young man in his twenties, FH bounces through his days with his dreams and hallucinations blurring and merging into reality. The shaky center of his universe is his beloved on-again, off-again, girlfriend Michelle.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"While reeling from one of the most creative--but at times self-destructive--outpourings of his life, Tao Lin discovered the strange and exciting work of Terence McKenna. McKenna, the leading advocate of psychedelic drugs since Timothy Leary, became for Lin both an obsession and a revitalizing force. In Trip, Lin's first book-length work of nonfiction, he charts his recovery from pharmaceutical drugs, his surprising and positive change in worldview,...
272) King of King Court
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"From a child's-eye view, Travis Dandro recounts growing up with a drug-addicted birth father, alcoholic step-dad, and overwhelmed mother. As a kid, Dandro would temper the tension of his every day with flights of fancy, finding refuge in toys and animals and insects rather than the unpredictable adults around him. Dandro perceptively details the effects of poverty and addiction on a family while maintaining a child's innocence for as long as he can....
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
A bioethicist's eloquent and riveting memoir of opioid dependence and withdrawal--a harrowing personal reckoning and clarion call for change not only for the government but medicine itself, revealing the lack of crucial resources and structures to handle this insidious nationwide epidemic.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
When he was two years old, Hunter Biden was badly injured in a car accident that killed his mother and baby sister. In 2015, he suffered the devastating loss of his beloved big brother, Beau, who died of brain cancer at the age of forty-six. These hardships were compounded by the collapse of his marriage and a years-long battle with drug and alcohol addiction. In Beautiful Things, Hunter recounts his descent into substance abuse and his tortuous path...
276) Valley of the dolls
Series
Criterion collection volume 835
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give them, but there are prices for fame and fortune-- addictions...
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