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Love You Hate You Miss You Love You Hate You Miss You Elizabeth Scott Get this, I'm supposed to be starting a journal about "my journey." Please. I can see it now: Dear Diary, As I'm set adrift on this crazy sea called "life" ... I don't think so.It's been seventy-five… OL12048485W
Schizophrenie und Alkohol Schizophrenie und Alkohol Joachim Zeiler Die Zahl der Fälle, in denen der Psychiater mit Schizophrenen konfrontiert wird, die einen zusätzlichen Substanzmissbrauch betreiben, steigt an. Erstmals wird eine breit angelegte klinische Untersuch… OL12214574W
Border crossing Border crossing Jessica Lee Anderson Manz, a troubled fifteen-year-old, ruminates over his Mexican father's death, his mother's drinking, and his stillborn stepbrother until the voices he hears in his head take over and he cannot tell r… OL13691533W
John Barleycorn John Barleycorn Jack London It all came to me one election day. It was on a warm California afternoon, and I had ridden down into the Valley of the Moon from the ranch to the little village to vote Yes and No to a host of propo… OL144798W
The Year of My Miraculous Reappearance The Year of My Miraculous Reappearance Catherine Ryan Hyde Cynnie takes care of herself--and more importantly, she takes care of her little brother, Bill. So it doesn't matter that her mom is drunk all the time. Cynnie's got her own life. Cynnie's the one Bi… OL14927675W
Hooked Hooked Elaine Landau Describes a wide variety of addictions, from substance abuse to compulsive behaviors, and explores some of the causes and treatments that are available. OL15040232W
New York debut New York debut Melody Carlson Life at the Carter house is in an uproar, with Taylor coming home from rehab treatment, Kriti developing a possible eating disorder, and Eliza creating competition between the girls for the New York … OL15109913W
Home is where they take you in Home is where they take you in Brenda Seabrooke As she establishes an increasingly close relationship with a couple on a nearby ranch, a young girl comes to realize that there is nothing left between herself and her alcoholic mother. OL15205926W
What teenagers are saying about drugs & alcohol What teenagers are saying about drugs & alcohol Chris Lutes Uses a Christian perspective to present the views of American teenagers on drugs and alcohol. OL15411956W
The boy who drank too much The boy who drank too much Shep Greene The efforts of his friends almost fail to stop a lonely and isolated teenager from destroying himself with alcohol. OL15743400W
Demons in the Dark, An Alcoholic's Tale Demons in the Dark, An Alcoholic's Tale John T. Newton I didn't wake up one morning and realise that I was an alcoholic, that's not the way it works. Slowly, through the fog of denial and the overwhelming craving to drink, it dawned on my muddled mind th… OL15747209W
Crosses Crosses Shelley Stoehr Unhappy at home, Nancy and her friend Katie adopt punk lifestyles and find relief in cutting themselves, until Nancy is forced to confront her problems. OL15823058W
Comfort Comfort Carolee Dean Fourteen-year-old Kenny Roy Willson fantasizes about escape from his hometown of Comfort, Texas, following his alcoholic father's release from prison. OL15835414W
David & Della David & Della Paul Zindel David Mahooley, a teenage playwright suffering from writer's block, finds himself drawn into the passionate world of a flamboyant, alcoholic young actress with a talent for lying. OL15842349W
Martyn Pig Martyn Pig Kevin Brooks Faced with the possibility of living with a dreadful aunt, fifteen-year-old Martyn Pig decides not to tell authorities when his alcoholic father dies accidentally, instead asking a friend for her hel… OL15844000W
Drinking Drinking Caroline Knapp Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as "liquid armor… OL15854467W
Freefall Freefall Mindi Scott A bass guitar player in a teen rock band deals with alcoholism, his best friend's death, and first love. OL15896873W
Dreamsleeves Dreamsleeves Coleen Murtagh Paratore A powerful, radiant story about a girl who wears her dreams on her sleeve . . . Aislinn is a girl with a lot of dreams, but due to family issues (caused mostly by her hard-drinking father), there'… OL16724625W
The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous Bob Smith Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How Many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered from Alcoholism (generally known as The Big Book) is a 1939 basic text, describing how to recover from alcoholism… OL17077590W
The blue mirror The blue mirror Kathe Koja Sixteen-year-old Maggy's life consists of trying to be invisible at school, taking care of her alcoholic mother, and spending all the time she can at the Blue Mirror, a downtown café. She can lose he… OL1885995W
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