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  • Addiction--What's Really Going on?

    Inside a Heroin Treatment Program

    by Deborah McCloskey, Barbara Sinor ...
    Series series Reflections of America
    Addiction: What's Really Going On? contains powerful true-life stories woven together to form a tapestry filled with pain, joy, defeat, and success. The entire book is molded around Deborah McCloskey's heartfelt desire for her clients to be free of drugs. Her counseling methods both endeared her as "the counselor to get" and locked her into a decade of searching for better ways to help those she ... Read more

    $6.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Sweethearts

    Tales of love, laughter and hardship from the Yorkshire Rowntree's girls

    by Lynn Russell, Neil Hanson ...
    Whether in wartime or peace, tales of love, laughter and hardship from the girls in the Rowntrees factory in Yorkshire“On a warm Monday morning in 1932, just two days after leaving school, fourteen-year-old Madge was about to join her nine brothers and sisters at Rowntree’s. The smell of chocolate was in the air but as she walked up the road, her footsteps slowed at the daunting thought of what ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Sleepers

    by Lorenzo Carcaterra ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The extraordinary true story of four men who take the law into their own hands.This is the story of four young boys. Four lifelong friends. Intelligent, fun-loving, wise beyond their years, they are inseparable. Their potential is unlimited, but they are content to live within the closed world of New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen. And to play as many pranks as they can ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Common Struggle

    A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction

    by Patrick J. Kennedy, Stephen Fried ...
    In this New York Times bestseller Patrick J. Kennedy, the former congressman and youngest child of Senator Ted Kennedy, details his personal and political battle with mental illness and addiction, exploring mental health care's history in the country alongside his and every family's private struggles.On May 5, 2006, the New York Times ran two stories, “Patrick Kennedy Crashes Car into Capitol ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Tales of Addiction and Inspiration for Recovery

    Twenty True Stories from the Soul

    by Barbara Sinor ...
    Whether addicted or not, we all have stories to tellThe stories of tragedy and redemption found within Tales of Addiction are not about the well known celebrities you find in the usual tabloids. Rather, these stories are true-grit tales told by people you will never meet but whose words will haunt you for months, years maybe. The author collected the stories for over two years through a "call for ... Read more

    $6.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Good Sugar Bad Sugar

    Eat yourself free from sugar and carb addiction

    by Allen Carr, John Dicey ...
    Series Book 78 - Allen Carr's Easyway
    READ GOOD SUGAR BAD SUGAR AND BE THE WEIGHT YOU WANT TO BE FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.Good Sugar Bad Sugar tackles the biggest dietary threat to the modern world: The addiction to refined sugar and processed carbohydrates, which is causing epidemics in obesity and Type 2 diabetes on a global scale. Sugar and carb consumption is an addiction that begins at birth, but once you free yourself with ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • True Notebooks

    A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall

    by Mark Salzman ...
    In 1997 Mark Salzman, bestselling author Iron and Silk and Lying Awake, paid a reluctant visit to a writing class at L.A.’s Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for violent teenage offenders, many of them charged with murder. What he found so moved and astonished him that he began to teach there regularly. In voices of indelible emotional presence, the boys write about what led them to crime and about ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • A Free Man: A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi

    A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi

    by Aman Sethi ...
    A 2012 New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceAn intimate portrait of an invisible man—a powerful story of one man’s life that contains multitudes.Like Dave Eggers’s Zeitoun and Alexander Masters’s Stuart, this is a tour de force of narrative reportage.Mohammed Ashraf studied biology, became a butcher, a tailor, and an electrician’s apprentice; now he is a homeless day laborer in the heart of ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Gentrifier

    by John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, Marc Lamont Hill ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    Gentrifier opens up a new conversation about gentrification, one that goes beyond the statistics and the clichés, and examines different sides of a controversial, deeply personal issue. In this lively yet rigorous book, John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, and Marc Lamont Hill take a close look at the socioeconomic factors and individual decisions behind gentrification and their implications for the ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

  • Drug Addiction in Schools

    (International Perspective) Humanistic Approach

    by Prof. Rajinder M. Kalra ...
    Drug abuse has become very common among students in the university and schools. Drugs are being misused by students within the university for various reasons. The most common reason being stress. To cope with the competition and ever increasing work load of the program students resort to taking drugs either to relieve stress or to stay awake all night to study. Another reason for taking drugs is ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Survivors of Addiction

    Narratives of Recovery

    by Mary Addenbrooke ...
    Addiction is something that affects many different people from all walks of life and can be difficult for a therapist to treat, and the client to conquer. In this book fifteen people who have formerly had serious addictions speak about their experiences.Survivors of Addiction draws on first-hand narratives to provide an overview of how and why people become addicted, and explores what happens ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins

    Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots

    by Brenda Stevenson ...
    Helicopters patrolled low over the city, filming blocks of burning cars and buildings, mobs breaking into storefronts, and the vicious beating of truck driver Reginald Denny. For a week in April 1992, Los Angeles transformed into a cityscape of rage, purportedly due to the exoneration of four policemen who had beaten Rodney King. It should be no surprise that such intense anger erupted from ... Read more

    $22.79 USD