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Karamo : my story of embracing purpose, healing, and hope / by Brown, Karamo,author.; Dunn, Jancee,author.;
"An insightful, candid, and inspiring memoir from Karamo Brown--Queer Eye's beloved culture expert--as he shares his story for the first time, exploring how the challenges in his own life have allowed him to forever transform the lives of those in need"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Brown, Karamo.; African American television personalities; African American gay men;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Pure O. by Tucker, Dillon,film director.; Dorr, Daniel,actor.; Lauren, Hope,actor.; Bender, Landry,actor.; Good Deed Entertainment (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Daniel Dorr, Hope Lauren, Landry BenderOriginally produced by Good Deed Entertainment in 2023.An aspiring screenwriter/musician grapples with Pure O, a lesser-known form of OCD, while juggling his recent engagement and his day job at a high end Malibu drug rehab.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.;
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For the love of a son : a memoir of addiction, loss, and hope / by Oake, Scott,author.; Hingston, Michael,author.;
"Since 2016, Canada has seen more than 40,000 deaths from opioid overdoses. When veteran Hockey Night in Canada broadcaster Scott Oake first held his infant son, Bruce, in his arms, he could have never imagined that just 25 years later, Bruce would become part of those staggering numbers. In those early days, Scott, a new father, watched Bruce with awe, marveling at the potential of his funny, charismatic boy. As Bruce got older, though, he struggled to fit in at school and began showing signs of having ADHD, including a streak of impulsiveness that often got him into trouble. Scott and his wife, Anne, did their best to support him, and for a time, he found community and belonging in boxing and local rap battles, but when Bruce was pulled into a world of drugs and gangs, Scott and Anne got a crash course in the reality of loving someone battling substance use disorder. Then one quiet day, Scott got the phone call that haunts everyone: Bruce had accidentally overdosed. At just twenty-five, Scott's vibrant, creative, first-born son was gone forever. It was a loss that could have broken a man, a marriage, a family -- but Scott, Anne, and their younger son Darcy instead turned the worst day of their lives into a way to help the thousands of Canadians struggling with addiction. After nearly a decade of fundraising and battling red tape and political machinations they launched the Bruce Oake Recovery Centre, a free, revolutionary treatment centre staffed by addicts and alcoholics in recovery. For the Love of a Son is the story of a father's unconditional love for his son. It's also a tale of a broken country's failing response to the opioid crisis -- what has been called a national epidemic. Above all, it's the story of a young man who never got to finish growing up and a family who would do anything to give others every possible chance to find their way home"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Oake, Bruce, 1985-2011; Oake, Scott; Drug addicts; Fathers and sons; Parents of drug addicts; Sons; Sons;
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Citizen scientist : searching for heroes and hope in an age of extinction / by Hannibal, Mary Ellen.;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.LSC
Subjects: Endemic plants; Endemic animals; Introduced organisms; Extinction (Biology); Plants;
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The boy who harnessed the wind : creating currents of electricity and hope / by Kamkwamba, William.; Mealer, Bryan.;
This immensely engaging tale relates how an enterprising teenager in Malawi builds a windmill from scraps he finds around his village and brings electricity, and a future, to his family.
Subjects: Kamkwamba, William.; Electric power production; Inventors; Rural electrification; Water supply, Rural; Windmills;
© c2009., William Morrow,
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Soldiers and kings : survival and hope in the world of human smuggling / by De León, Jason,1977-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."An intimate and one-of-a-kind look at the world of human smuggling in Latin America, by a MacArthur "genius" grant winner and anthropologist. Political instability, poverty, climate change, and the insatiable appetite for cheap labor all fuel clandestine movement across borders. As those borders harden, the demand for smugglers who aid migrants across them increases every year. Yet media and politicians have always characterized smugglers--or coyotes, or guides, as they are often known by the migrants who hire their services--using tired tropes and stereotypes, as boogie men and violent warlords. In an effort to better understand this essential yet extralegal billion dollar global industry, internationally recognized anthropologist and expert Jason De León embedded with a group of smugglers moving migrants across Mexico over the course of seven years. The result of this unprecedented access is SOLDIERS AND KINGS: the first ever in-depth, character-driven look at human smuggling. It is a heart-wrenching and intimate narrative that revolves around the life and death of one coyote, Chino, who falls in love and tries to leave smuggling behind. In a powerful, original voice, De León expertly chronicles the lives of low-level foot soldiers breaking into the smuggling game, and morally conflicted gang leaders who oversee rag-tag crews of guides and informants along the migrant trail. SOLDIERS AND KINGS is not only a ground-breaking up-close glimpse of a difficult-to-access world, it is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction"--
Subjects: Human smuggling;
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The heartbeat of the wild : dispatches from landscapes of wonder, peril, and hope / by Quammen, David,1948-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In this essay collection, David Quammen journeys to places where civilization meets raw nature"--
Subjects: Natural history.; Nature conservation.; Wilderness areas.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Sensational kids : hope and help for children with sensory processing disorder (SPD) / by Miller, Lucy J.; Fuller, Doris A.; Roetenberg, Janice.;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.LSC
Subjects: Sensory integration dysfunction in children.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Raising Lazarus : hope, justice, and the future of America's overdose crisis / by Macy, Beth,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Journalist Beth Macy brings us to the next frontier of the opioid crisis, telling the story of the everyday heroes fighting to stem the tide of drug overdose in communities that are too often left to fend for themselves, and of the activists and relatives of the dead who are still struggling for accountability in America's courts"--
Subjects: Medication abuse; Medication abuse; Opioid abuse; Opioid abuse;
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River of time : my descent into depression and how I emerged with hope / by Judd, Naomi,author.; Wilkie, Marcia.;
Subjects: Biographies.; Judd, Naomi.; Country musicians; Depressed persons;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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