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Summary: Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary and their four children lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary painted...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 362.82 WALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 WALLS, JEANNETTE WALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B WALLSPacker, Alex J.
Summary: This book takes the principles of the 12 step recovery programs and applies them to the task of raising children.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hazelden Informational Educational Services 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.292 PACLissy, Kara
Summary: "As the child of a parent or caregiver with an alcohol use disorder, you may still feel in many ways the impact of your experiences. Take the next steps on your healing journey with this up-to-date workbook full of therapeutic techniques, journal prompts, quizzes, and other short exercises and activities to empower you. This self-guided approach allows you to work at your own pace as you...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: R to R LissyO'Gorman, Patricia A.
Summary: Lowdown is an easy-to-use book on a complex subject: how to break the cycle of addiction in high-risk families. Used in conjunction with the 12 steps AA, it shows that being a parent or caregiver and being in recovery can be a win/win situation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Child & Family Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 O'GOSummary: Scrappy, stubborn and strong, the Gallaghers are tested by changing times, but Season Six finds them older, wiser, and better at playing the system. Used to their natural state of chaos, the Gallaghers are as surprised as anyone at how life is turning out for them. But as they come into their own and find out who they really are is it really possible that they could grow apart for good?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHASummary: The Gallaghers have always scraped by, but Season Seven finds them finally getting a leg up. When Frank awakens from a coma to learn that his family tossed him in the river, he declares war, Gallagher vs. Gallagher.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHASummary: The tenth season picks up six months after last season's finale: Frank uses his leg injury to collect as many prescription drugs as possible and his exploits lead him to an old friend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHAWoititz, Janet Geringer.
Summary: This re-examination of ACOA brings fresh insight along with new chapters on recovery tips and viewing the movement from a new perspective.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 1990
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.2 WOIAirgood, Ellen
Summary: When eleven-year-old Ivy Blake leaves the nice farm family where she has been living in upstate New York and moves back in with her mother she is finally forced to face up to the fact that her alcoholic, dysfunctional parent will never be able to provide her with a stable home--and if she wants to achieve her dreams she is going to have to take charge of her own future.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION AIRAuth, Jeannine.
Summary: Emmy's mom has a drinking problem that is starting to affect Emmy. Former friends aren't allowed to associate with her anymore, and Emmy doesn't know where to turn for help.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Morningtide Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AUTWood, Barbara L.
Summary: This is a book written for parents in recovery from alcoholism, co-dependence, and other addictive problems. It helps recovering parents to understand the impact of parental alcoholism and co-dependency on family structure, and on the developing child. It also helps them to become "therapeutic " parents: active and compassionate listeners and sensitive guides to children in crisis.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Createspace Independent Pub 2012
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Summary: Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WARMoore, Beth
Summary: Jillian Slater hadn't seen her father or his mother in almost 20 years until, on the news that her father had finally drunk himself to death, Adella Atwater, the manager of her grandmother's apartment house, calls and says Jillian's expenses would be paid if she'd fly in to New Orleans for the burial. What Adella didn't tell her was that the apartment house bears the dead weight of a long and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Moore 2016Walls, Jeannette.
Summary: In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and severely misguided family. The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B WALLS WALWoititz, Lisa Sue
Summary: In Unwelcome Inheritance, Lisa Sue Woititz combines her own insights with the unpublished contributions of her late mother, the early leader in the Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA) movement, Dr. Janet Woititz, uncovering how multiple generations of people affected by addiction continue to enable their children’s substance abuse and how, without realizing it, they continue to model the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hazelden Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.2 WOISummary: The final season finds the Gallaghers and the South Side at a crossroads. As Frank confronts his own mortality, Lip struggles with becoming the family patriarch. Newlyweds Ian and Mickey figure out their committed relationship, while Deb embraces single motherhood. Lastly, Cart finds an unlikely new career in law enforcement while Kevin and V fight for their life on the South Side.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHAMiddelton-Moz, Jane
Contents: The bomb in the basement and the bomb in the attic : common characteristics of alcoholic families and survival adaptation of adult children of alcoholics -- The same but different : differences in children from the same alcoholic family and differences in alcoholic families -- Self-sufficient in an insufficient way : learning to survive under chronic stress -- The gift that keeps on giving :...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: R to R Middelton-MozSummary: Frank comes out of a drug-induced haze and decides it's finally time to be a contributing member of society. Fiona faces hard decisions when she discovers her success as a landlord may mean someone else's misfortune. Lip struggles with staying sober, while Ian takes up a cause in hopes of getting back with Trevor. Debbie builds her future at welding school while juggling life as a single...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHAWinston, Sherri
Summary: Seventh-grader Sharkita "Kita" embarks on a tumultuous journey to keep her family together while handling the consequences of her mother's alcoholism.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WINCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WINSilva, Obed
Summary: "A man mourning his alcoholic father faces a paradox: to pay tribute, lay scorn upon, or pour a drink. A wrenching, dazzling, revelatory debut"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SILVA, OBED SILDanler, Stephanie
Summary: "From the author of the best-selling Sweetbitter comes an intimate, searingly honest memoir of growing up the child of addicts, of how that turbulent, often harrowing experience has affected her at every stage of her life, and of how she has struggled totranscend this unwanted legacy. When Sweetbitter was published to great success, the author knew she should be happy, but she felt incapable of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DANLER, STEPHANIE DANGuerrero, Jean
Summary: "In the tradition of parent-child memoirs from The Liar's Club to The Glass Castle, here is the haunting story of a daughter's quest to understand her father, to save him from his own demons and to save herself from following his self-destructive path. Marco Antonio was born in Mexico but as a teenager migrated with his large family north to California, where he met Jean's mother, a young...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GUERRERO, JEAN GUEGibbons, Kaye
Summary: One of the most talked-about and endearing first novels in years bears the story of a female Huck Finn and her search for a true home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GIBFriel, John C.
Summary: It is estimated that as many as 34 million people grew up in alcoholic homes. But what about the rest of us? What about families that had no alcoholism, but did have perfectionism, workaholism, compulsive overeating, intimacy problems, depression, problems in expressing feelings, plus all the other personality traits that can produce a family system much like an alcoholic one? Countless...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 1988