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Beautiful things / by Biden, Robert Hunter,1970-author.;
"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 46. 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 to sobriety. The story ends with where Hunter is today-a sober married man with a new baby, finally able to appreciate the beautiful things in life"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Biden, Robert Hunter, 1970-; Children of presidents; Alcoholics; Drug addicts;
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Filthy beasts : a memoir / by Hamill, Kirkland,author.;
"A riches-to-rags tale of a wealthy family who lost it all and the unforgettable journey of a man coming to terms with his family's deep flaws and his own long-buried truths."--A writer for Salon and The Advocate reflects on how his newly divorced mother moved her family to her native Bermuda, leaving him and his young brothers home to fend for themselves while she chased nightlife and suitors.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Hamill, Kirkland.; Children of alcoholics; Children of the rich; Coming of age.; Dysfunctional families; Gay men; Mothers and sons;
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The last house on Needless Street / by Ward, Catriona,author.;
"In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three. A teenage girl who isn't allowed outside, not after last time. A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory. And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible. An unspeakable secret binds them together, but when a new neighbor moves in next door, what is buried out among the birch trees may come back to haunt them all"--
Subjects: Horror fiction.; Alcoholics; Cats; Child abuse; Dysfunctional families; Fathers and daughters; Murder; Neighbors; Recluses; Secrecy; Serial murders; Sisters; Teenage girls;
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A million little pieces [videorecording] / by Lewis, Juliette,actor.; Taylor-Johnson, Aaron,1990-actor,screenwriter.; Taylor-Johnson, Sam,1967-film director,screenwriter.; Thornton, Billy Bob,actor.; Young, Odessa,1990-actor.; Momentum Pictures,production company.; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Music, Atticus Ross ; editor, Martin Pensa ; director of photography, Jeff Cronenweth.Aaron Taylor-johnson, Billy Bob Thornton, Odessa Young, Juliette Lewis, Dash Mihok, Charles Parnell, Ryan Hurst.An alcoholic and drug addict, 23 year-old James has two options: treatment or death. After waking up on a plane with a smashed up face and no memory of the past few weeks, he heads to rehab where he discovers much more than detox and therapy.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for drug material, language throughout, some graphic nudity and sexual content.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Fiction films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Drug addiction; Drug addicts; Drug addicts;
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Fairy tale : a novel / by King, Stephen,1947-author.;
Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher - for that world or ours. Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself - and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it. Charlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Paranormal fiction.; Novels.; Children of alcoholics; Doorways; Good and evil; High school students; Human-animal relationships; Imaginary places; Imaginary wars and battles; Multiverse; Older people; Teenagers;
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Fairy tale [sound recording] : a novel / by King, Stephen,1947-author,narrator.; Numrich, Seth,narrator.; Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Stephen King, Seth Numrich.Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher - for that world or ours. Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself - and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it. Charlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Novels.; Paranormal fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Children of alcoholics; Doorways; Good and evil; High school students; Human-animal relationships; Imaginary places; Imaginary wars and battles; Multiverse; Older people; Teenagers;
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Behind the label : Gloria and Willa / by Schultz Nicholson, Lorna.;
Gloria, an impulsive, naïve and likeable teen with FASD tries to keep her family together while her mother's addictions threaten a move to foster care. Willa, an older teen with LD, wants to play in a rock band where her gifts truly shine but her mother's controlling and perfectionistic personality-and Willa's increasingly abusive boyfriend-cause her unhappiness. When Gloria and Willa are partnered in a school club, they soon come to appreciate and depend on each other in a world that at time seems counter to their dreams.LSC
Subjects: Teenagers; Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders; Learning disabled; High schools; Schools;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Through the wilderness : my journey of redemption and healing in the American wild / by Orsted, Brad,author.;
"Award-winning Yellowstone photographer and documentary filmmaker Brad Orsted's seven-year search for refuge and redemption in America's greatest wilderness. When Brad Orsted's fifteen-month-old daughter, Marley, died mysteriously at the home of Brad's mother, he descended into madness. Blaming himself, he plunged into an abyss of grief, guilt, and self-recrimination, fueled by prescription drugs and alcohol. He planned his suicide as his wife, Stacey, searched for a new beginning. She finally found a job in Yellowstone National Park and, with their daughters, Mazzy and Chloe, the pair fled Michigan, looking for refuge and redemption in the 2.2 million acres of glorious American wilderness. Through the Wilderness begins in Yellowstone, five months after the family's arrival in 2012, when, in an alcoholic haze, Brad stumbled into a field of sage and survived a face-to-face encounter with an adult male grizzly bear. For the first time in almost two years, he realized he wanted to live--he just didn't know how. Desperate for help, Brad invited himself to a Crow sweat lodge ceremony, where an elder told him it was time to stop grieving. The elder's words started Brad on a journey towards sobriety and inner peace, only possible because of lessons he learned in the wild, his new job as a wildlife photographer and filmmaker, and two orphan grizzly cubs who carried him back home and taught him how to live again. Brad's ten-year odyssey is about finding the wild inside the human heart. It is a journey of the spirit--a journey to forgiveness and sobriety, to love and life, to memory, and ultimately, to Marley"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Orsted, Brad.; Adventure therapy.; Alcoholics; Grizzly bear.; Parental grief.; Wildlife photographers;
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Sober curious : the blissful sleep, greater focus, limitless presence, and deep connection awaiting us all on the other side of alcohol / by Warrington, Ruby,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Temperance.; Drinking of alcoholic beverages; Drinking of alcoholic beverages;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Shameless. [videorecording] / by Chulack, Christopher,television director.; Cutkosky, Ethan,1999-actor.; Hampton, Shanola,actor.; Hardy, Rob,1972-television director.; Macy, William H.,1950-actor.; Rossum, Emmy,1986-actor.; Warner Bros. Television,production company.; Warner Bros. Entertainment,publisher.;
Ethan Cutkosky, William H. Macy, Shanola Hampton, Jeremy Allen White, Emma Kenney, Emmy Rossum.Originally broadcast on television in 2016.Follows the lives of the Gallagher family, six children who live with their alcoholic father.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Television comedies.; Dark comedy television programs.; Television programs.; Alcoholic fathers; Alcoholics; Children of alcoholics; Dysfunctional families;
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Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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