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Orange sunshine: the Brotherhood of Eternal Love and its quest to spread peace, love, and acid to the world
By Nick Schou, Nicholas Schou. 2010
Details the 1960s California drug-dealing group that established its own church, the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, and believed that LSD…
was the way to God. Portrays leader John Griggs, a protégé of Timothy Leary, who smuggled drugs from Mexico, Afghanistan, and Colombia into the United States. Strong language. Bestseller. 2010Sex Addicts Anonymous: S.A.A. Fellowship
By Anonymous, Saa Fellowship Staff. 2008
Describes the spiritual recovery program for sex addiction that is based on the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous. Explains each of…
the program's twelve steps and twelve traditions. Includes the personal stories of forty-six recovering addicts. Explicit descriptions of sex. 2005In the realm of hungry ghosts: close encounters with addiction
By Gabor Maté. 2010
Canadian doctor uses anecdotes from his Vancouver practice and clinical work to define and explain addiction. Discusses brain development, the…
role of personality, the social aspects of dependency, and the path to healing. Suggests compassionate treatment of victims and offers advice to families. Some strong language. 2010Erased: missing women, murdered wives
By Marilee Strong, Mark Powelson. 2008
Drawing upon her research of the Scott and Laci Peterson case, journalist Strong explores more than fifty similar murders she…
terms "eraser killings." Describes well-planned intimate-partner homicides that employed soft-kill methods and left no evidence to link the murderer to his victim. Some violence and some strong language. 2008In his sights: a true story of love and obsession
By Kate Brennan. 2008
Writing from a secret location, the author describes being stalked by her wealthy former lover Paul, who has pursued her…
for more than thirteen years. Details repeated moves and identity changes to escape Paul's harassment, which includes threatening calls, notes, and break-ins. Some strong language. 2008Women, food and God: an unexpected path to almost everything
By Geneen Roth. 2010
The author explains her philosophy that our relationship to food is inseparable from our core beliefs about being alive. Discusses…
ways to move beyond food and become spiritually in tune with the soul, a process that she contends will lead to natural weight loss. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2010No speed limit: the highs and lows of meth (The Highs And Lows Of Meth Ser.)
By Frank Owen. 2008
Journalist examines the culture surrounding the manufacture, use, and trade of methamphetamine. Recounts interviews with addicts, "cooks," and dealers. Discusses…
the drug's origins and history--including military applications during World War II--and describes political and law-enforcement efforts to stop substance abuse. Some strong language. 2007In the shadow of the mountain: A memoir of courage
By Silvia Vasquez-Lavado. 2022
"In climbing the Seven Summits, Silvia Vasquez-Lavado did nothing less than take back her own life—one brave step at a…
time. She will inspire untold numbers of souls with this story, for her victory is a win on behalf of all of us."—Elizabeth Gilbert This audiobook is read by the author. "Complex and compelling, Vasquez-Lavado's quest to heal herself from the deep wounds of patriarchy is also a vibrantly feminist celebration of female resilience."— Kirkus Reviews "Making history is nothing new for adventurous mountaineer, explorer, entrepreneur, author, and activist Silvia Vasquez-Lavado."— Out Magazine Endless ice. Thin air. The threat of dropping into nothingness thousands of feet below. This is the climb Silvia Vasquez-Lavado braves in her page-turning, pulse-raising memoir following her journey to Mount Everest. A Latina hero in the elite macho tech world of Silicon Valley, privately, she was hanging by a thread. Deep in the throes of alcoholism, hiding her sexuality from her family, and repressing the abuse she'd suffered as a child, she started climbing. Something about the brute force required for the ascent—the risk and spirit and sheer size of the mountains and death's close proximity—woke her up. She then took her biggest pain as a survivor to the biggest mountain: Everest. "The Mother of the World," as it's known in Nepal, allows few to reach her summit, but Silvia didn't go alone. She gathered a group of young female survivors and led them to base camp alongside her. It was never easy. At times hair-raising, nerve-racking, and always challenging, Silvia remembers the acute anxiety of leading a group of novice climbers to Everest's base, all the while coping with her own nerves of summiting. But, there were also moments of peace, joy, and healing with the strength of her fellow survivors and community propelling her forward. In the Shadow of the Mountain is a remarkable story of heroism, one which awakens in all of us a lust for adventure, an appetite for risk, and faith in our own resilience. A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and CompanyTexans who spent their youth in an institution for "dependent and neglected" children reveal both the positive outcomes and the…
horrific abuses that resulted when a government-run "home" was allowed to operate for decades without any public oversightBurn down the ground: a memoir
By Kambri Crews. 2012
In this memoir, a daughter looks back on her unconventional childhood with deaf parents in rural Texas while trying to…
reconcile it to her present life, one in which her father is serving a twenty-year sentence in a maximum security prison. As a child, she wished that she had been born deaf so that she, too, could fully belong to the tight-knit deaf community that embraced her parents. Some violence and strong languageEl niño sin nombre: la lucha de un niño por sobrevivir
By Dave Pelzer, David J Pelzer. 1995
"El niño sin nombre" es el relato de uno de los casos de abuso infantil mas extremos en la historia…
de California. Es la historia de Dave Pelzer, quien era golpeado y hambreado salvajemente por su madre emocionalmente desequilibrada y alcoholica. BestsellerADHD nation: children, doctors, big pharma, and the making of an American epidemic
By Alan Schwarz. 2016
More than 1 in 7 American children get diagnosed with ADHD, three times what experts have said is appropriate. That…
means millions of kids are misdiagnosed and taking medications for a psychiatric condition they probably do not have. The numbers rise every year. Yet many experts and drug companies deny cause for concern. Alan Schwarz says that while ADHD is real, he urges America to address this growing national health crisisNothing good can come from this: Essays
By Kristi Coulter. 2018
Twelve steps and twelve traditions
By Anonymous, Alcoholics Anonymous World. 2014
Originally published in 1952, this classic book is used by Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) members and groups around the world. It…
lays out the principles by which A.A. members recover and by which the fellowship functions. The basic text clarifies the 12 Steps which constitute the A.A. way of life and the Traditions by which A.A. maintains its unityDr. Bob and the good oldtimers: a biography, with recollections of early A.A. in the Midwest
By Alcoholics Anonymous World Services. 1980
Dr. Bob, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous with Bill W., grew up in Vermont and became a hard-drinking college boy, then…
a medical student fighting the onset of his own alcoholism, a respected physician, a loving but increasingly unreliable family man, and at last a desperately ill drunk. Then he met Bill W., who urgently needed a fellow alcoholic to help him maintain his own sobriety. Dr. Bob's story soon became inextricably entwined with that of Alcoholics Anonymous: from a fledgling Fellowship to a powerful spiritual movement with a worldwide reach. Some strong languageNarcotics Anonymous
By Anonymous. 2008
This book contains the twelve steps or principles to recovery, the twelve traditions of NA, and an inspiring selection of…
personal stories written by men and women who are recovering from an addiction to drugsRedemption: a memoir of sisterhood, survival, and finding freedom behind bars
By Stacey Lannert. 2012
As her parent's marriage crumbles, Stacey finds comfort in her loving father, Tom. Until, at age eight, Tom initiates Stacey…
to a game they must keep between themselves. For the next ten years, Stacey's life is ripped apart by physical and sexual abuse. Feeling hopeless, she takes matters into her own hands by ending the life of her abuser. Redemption takes a dark, disturbing look into a life destroyed before ever having a chance to live. Will an act of clemency get Stacey a new start at life? Explicit descriptions of sex, strong language, and violenceThe summer of ordinary ways: A Memoir
By Nicole Lea Helget. 2007
Helget's rural Minnesota childhood included joys and gritty reality. She is one of six girls born to a farmer with…
dashed baseball aspirations. From churchgoing to caterpillar hunting, Helget's youthful innocence was tempered with hard lessons taught by her parents. Some strong language, and some violenceBest Young Woman Job Book: A Memoir
By Emma Healey. 2022
Wry, inventive, and relentlessly honest, a memoir of trying to make a living without compromising your truth.Emma Healey just wants…
to be a writer, but that’s more a journey than a job, and the journey isn’t free. As a teenager, she begins her adventures in precarious employment when introduced by her actor/playwright mother to the role of "standardized patient," performing illness as a living training dummy for medical students. In university, she joins a creative writing program, cultivating a poet’s interest in language while learning lessons about the literary world that have more to do with survival than art. Through her twenties, she writes software manuals for the world’s leading producer of online pornography, masters search engine optimization for a marketing firm run out of a bedroom by two Phish-loving brothers, narrowly escapes death as a research assistant for a television drama, and works the night shift captioning daytime TV. Along the way, as she navigates dating apps, tumultuous relationships, and the evolution of a voice that she is slowly learning to trust, she begins writing personal essays for money—and finds herself embroiled in a content economy that blurs the boundaries between day job and making art even further. Through the stories of several very odd jobs, each related to—but also achingly far from—the job she really wants, poet and essayist Emma Healey creates a unique snapshot of the gig economy that is also a timeless meditation on identity, value, and language. For a writer trying to pay the bills, life can be a work in progress.Irrepressible: the Jazz Age life of Henrietta Bingham
By Emily Bingham. 2015
Author Emily Bingham was always curious about her great-aunt Henrietta, who lived from 1901 to 1968. Henrietta defied society's conventions…
and led a glamorous and provocative life filled with travel, art, drinking, and partying. She also took many lovers--both men and women--and this made her an embarrassment to her wealthy Louisville family. 2015