Young Adult Recovery - Getting Stronger

Addiction is tough, but you are tougher! These books can be guides and friends along your path to recovery. You've got this.

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A Child Called "It": An Abused Child's Journey From Victim To Victor

Author(s):

David J Pelzer

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Call Number:

362.76 Pel

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Beneath A Meth Moon: An Elegy

Author(s):

Jacqueline Woodson

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After losing her mother and grandmother during Hurricane Katrina, Laurel moves to another town and becomes a methamphetamine addict.

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Call Number:

YA FIC Woo

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Beyond Belief: Finding The Strength To Come Back

Author(s):

Josh Hamilton
Tim Keown

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"Josh Hamilton chronicles his comeback from drug and alcohol addiction to playing baseball in the major leagues"--Provided by the publisher

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Call Number:

B Ham

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Calling A Wolf A Wolf: Poems

Author(s):

Kaveh Akbar

Description:

This debut boldly confronts addiction and courses the strenuous path of recovery, beginning in the wilds of the mind. Poems confront craving, control, the constant battle of alcoholism and sobriety, and the questioning of the self and its instincts within the context of this never-ending fight.-- From statement provided by publisher.

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Call Number:

811 Akb

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Crank

Author(s):

Ellen Hopkins

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Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter, gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul - her life.

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Call Number:

YA FIC Hop

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Crystal Force

Author(s):

Joe Ducie

Description:

Will Drake is on the run. Having escaped from what was supposed to be the world's securest prison, he knows it's only a matter of time before the sinister Alliance catches up with him and his friends. But he's not completely vulnerable. Exposure to a mysterious chemical has given him powers he could never have dreamed of, and although his friends are frightened by what he's capable of, Drake knows they're going to need all the help they can get if they're going to survive.

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Call Number:

YA FIC Duc

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Death Sentence

Author(s):

Alexander Gordon Smith

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After his failed attempt to escape from Furnace Penitentiary, Alex struggles to survive the bloodstained laboratories beneath where monsters are manufactured, with a death sentence--or worse--hanging over his head.

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Call Number:

YA FIC Smi

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Execution

Author(s):

Alexander Gordon Smith

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Alex Sawyer has escaped his underground nightmare to discover that the whole world has become a horrible prison run by his nemesis, Alfred Furnace, and only Alex can stop him, even if that makes him the executioner.

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Call Number:

YA FIC Smi

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Feedback

Author(s):

Robison E Wells

Description:

After escaping the walls of Maxfield Academy, Benson Fisher finds himself trapped in a town that is also under the school's control--where he discovers that Maxfield's plans are deadlier than anything he imagined.

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Call Number:

YA FIC Wel

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Fugitives

Author(s):

Alexander Gordon Smith

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After achieving the impossible by escaping the laboratories and cells of Furnace Penitentiary, Alex, injected with superhuman abilities, must uncover the last of Furnace's secrets--the truth about the man who built the prison.

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Call Number:

YA FIC Smi

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Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir

Author(s):

Janice Erlbaum

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Call Number:

B Erl

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How Dare The Sun Rise: Memoirs Of A War Child

Author(s):

Sandra/ Pesta Uwiringiyimana

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Call Number:

YA B Uwi

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How I Made It To Eighteen: A Mostly True Story

Author(s):

Tracy White

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After putting her fist through a window, seventeen-year-old Stacy Black checks herself into a mental hospital, where she struggles to face the reasons for her depression in order to stop from self-destructing.

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Call Number:

YA FIC Whi

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Last Night I Sang To The Monster

Author(s):

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Description:

Eighteen-year-old Zach does not remember how he came to be in a treatment center for alcoholics, but through therapy and caring friends, his amnesia fades and he learns to face his past while working toward a better future.

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Call Number:

YA FIC Sae

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Lit: A Memoir

Author(s):

Mary Karr

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The author reveals how, shortly after giving birth to a child she adored, she drank herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide before a spiritual awakening led her to sobriety.

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Call Number:

B Kar

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Lockdown

Author(s):

Alexander Gordon Smith

Description:

When fourteen-year-old Alex is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign, boys who disappear in the middle of the night sometimes return weirdly altered, and escape might just be possible.

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Call Number:

YA FIC Smi

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Moments Of Mindfulness: Daily Inspiration

Author(s):

Thích Nhất Hạnh

Description:

This book contains many of the best-loved inspirational quotations and passages from Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh. Basic meditation instructions and messages of peace, love, insight, understanding, and compassion accompany illustrations throughout. Moments of Mindfulness is intended to be read for everyday inspiration, and to help bring mindful practices and reflection to daily life. Illustrations by Jenifer Kent.--Excerpted from publisher statement.

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Book

Call Number:

294.34 Nha

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My Book Of Life By Angel

Author(s):

Martine Leavitt

Description:

"16-year-old Angel struggles to free herself from the trap of prostitution in which she is caught."-- Provided by publisher.

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Call Number:

YA FIC Lea

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Out Of Reach

Author(s):

Carrie Arcos

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Accompanied by her brother's friend, Tyler, sixteen-year-old Rachel ventures through San Diego and nearby areas seeking her brother, eighteen-year-old Micah, a methamphetamine addict who ran away from home.

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Call Number:

YA FIC Arc

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Out Of The Wreck I Rise: A Literary Companion To Recovery

Author(s):

Neil Steinberg
Sara Bader

Description:

Addiction is easy to fall into and hard to escape. It destroys the lives of individuals, and has a devastating cost to society. Steinberg and Bader harness the power of literature, poetry, and creativity to illuminate what alcoholism and addiction are all about. Each chapter begins with advice and commentary followed by a wealth of quotes to inspire and heal. The result is a mosaic of observations and encouragement that draws on writers and artists spanning thousands of years.

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Call Number:

362.292 Ste

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Solitary

Author(s):

Alexander Gordon Smith

Description:

Imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, fourteen-year-old Alex Sawyer thinks that he has escaped the hellish Furnace Penitentiary, but instead he winds up in solitary confinement, where new horrors await him.

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Call Number:

YA FIC Smi

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Starve The Vulture: A Memoir

Author(s):

Jason Carney

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A lyrical, mesmerizing debut from Jason Carney who overcomes his own racism, homophobia, drug addiction, and harrowing brushes with death to find redemption and unlikely fame on the national performance poetry circuit. Woven into Carney's path to recovery is a powerful family story, depicting the roots of prejudice and dysfunction through several generations.--Publisher.

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Call Number:

B Car

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The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Author(s):

Jeannette Walls

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Jeannette Walls tells the story about her childhood. She talks about living like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Retreating to the dismal West Virginia mining town--and the family-- her father, Rex Walls, had done everything he could to escape. He drank. He stole the grocery money and disappeared for days. As the dysfunction of the family escalated, Jeannette and her brother and sisters had to fend for themselves, supporting one another as they weathered their parents' betrayals and, finally, found the resources and will to leave home.

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Book

Call Number:

B Wal

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The Harder They Fall: Celebrities Tell Their Real-Life Stories Of Addiction And Recovery

Author(s):

Gary Stromberg
Jane Merrill

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Call Number:

616.86 Str

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The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search For The Love Of A Family

Author(s):

David J Pelzer

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Call Number:

362.76 Pel

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The Mindful Path To Self-Compassion: Freeing Yourself From Destructive Thoughts And Emotions

Author(s):

Christopher K Germer

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Call Number:

152.4 Ger

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The Spectacular Now

Author(s):

Tim Tharp

Description:

In the last months of high school, charismatic eighteen-year-old Sutter Keely lives in the present, staying drunk or high most of the time, but that could change when she starts working to boost the self-confidence of a classmate, Aimee.

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Call Number:

YA FIC Tha

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Variant

Author(s):

Robison E Wells

Description:

After years in foster homes, seventeen-year-old Benson Fisher applies to New Mexico's Maxfield Academy in hopes of securing a brighter future, but instead he finds that the school is a prison and no one is what he or she seems.

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Book

Call Number:

YA FIC Wel

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We All Fall Down: Living With Addiction

Author(s):

Nic Sheff

Description:

Sheff writes candidly about stints at in-patient rehab facilities, devastating relapses, and hard-won realizations about what it means to be a young person living with addiction.

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Book

Call Number:

362.299 She