Gunn, Elizabeth
Summary: "The Meredith Mountain fire starts on Labor Day weekend and rages for days - an awesome sight, leaving a trail of havoc and destruction in its wake. Alice Adams edits the Clark's Fort Guardian newspaper, ably assisted by her nephew, Stuart Campbell, and the two cover the blaze for the paper, wowing the local community with their stunning photographs and features. When the fire is finally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUNGlasgow, Kathleen
Summary: After a fatal car accident that reveals Emory's brother Joey's opioid addiction, Emory struggles to help him on his road to recovery and make herself heard in a town that insists on not listening.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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Summary: Beechwood Island, off the coast of Massachusetts. Caroline "Carrie" Sinclair tells the ghost of her son Johnny about the summers of the 1980s: her sister Rosemary drowning; her sisters Bee and Penelope flirting with boys and pretending nothing tragic had happened. Caroline had had face surgery that reshaped her bone structure; now her addiction to the pain pills is getting out of control. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LOCMcGinnis, Mindy
Summary: After her brother's suicide, Neely works as a tour guide in the caverns where she meets beautiful, strong, confident Mila, but when a drug-fueled midnight staff party results in Mila's brutal murder, Neely must figure out who killed her - and face the possibility it might've been her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: Since her mom's cancer scare, Hadley hasn't been one for taking risks, and she definitely has no interest in dating. She is focusing on her photography and getting into the art school of her dreams. Braden, star of the swim team, is all bravado and charm and impulsivity. From their first moment together, they are perfect sparring partners, equally matched. Braden shows Hadley how to live again....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TYNLockhart, E.
Summary: Carrie Sinclair tells the ghost of her son Johnny about the summer of 1987, when "the boys" arrive on Beechwood Island, setting off events that will haunt her for years to come.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LOCDick, Philip K.
Summary: Set in suburban Orange County, California in a future where America has lost the war on drugs. When one reluctant undercover cop is ordered to start spying on his friends, he is launched on a paranoid journey into the absurd, where identities and loyalties are impossible to decode. Based on the experiences of the author, Philip K. Dick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICSharpe, Tess.
Summary: "After Sophie Winters survives a brutal attack in which her best friend, Mina, is murdered, she sets out to find the killer. At the same time she must prove she is free of her past Oxy addiction and in no way to blame for Mina's death"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Pr 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHABeauman, Ned.
Summary: "From one of England's most accomplished young writers: a taut, riveting, compulsively readable novel in which a young man (with a bizarre sleep disorder) uncovers the connections between foxes behaving oddly in London, Burmese people going missing, and glow, the newest recreational drug. South London, May 2010: twenty-two-year-old Raf spends his days looking after Rose, a bull terrier who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEAHopkins, Ellen.
Summary: In a powerful sequel to Crank, Kristina is determined to manage her addiction to crack in order to keep her newborn child, but when she is unable to manage her use of the drug and the pull becomes too strong, her greatest fears are quickly realized.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderberry Books 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HOPOsborn, Karen.
Summary: Inseparable friends since childhood, brothers David and Michael and their neighbor Kay embark on a night of adventure during which a drug-influenced David jumps off a bridge and sets a devastating series of events in motion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OSBStorti, Kara
Summary: "Finn is a gentle, tortured dealer and addict whose life is slipping away. When he finds an almost magical drug called Indigo, he thinks it will let him break free, but he's dead wrong"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Lab 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC STOBowling, Dusti
Summary: While using a public library computer to find help for her mother who is addicted to pain medicine, twelve-year-old Jolene witnesses a friend's livestreamed crash-landing in the Arizona desert and embarks on a journey to rescue her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BOWMadievsky, Ruth
Summary: "Rachel Kushner meets David Lynch in this fever dream of an LA novel about a young woman who commits a drunken act of violence just before her sister vanishes without a trace. On the night of her high school graduation, a young woman follows her older sister, Debbie, to Salvation--a Los Angeles bar patronized by energy healers, aspiring actors, and all-around misfits. After the two share a bag...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MADQuinn, Cate
Summary: "Meg works for a casino in LA, catching cheaters and popping a few too many pain pills to cope, following a far different path than her sister Haley, a famous actress. But suddenly reports surface of Haley dying at the remote rehab facility where she had been forced to go to get her addictions under control. There are whispers of suicide, but Meg can't believe it. She decides that the best way...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2024
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Summary: For sixteen-year-old Ben Bancroft - a kid with cerebral palsy, no parents, and an overprotective grandmother - the closest thing to happiness is hunkering alone in the back of the Rialto Theatre watching Bride of Frankenstein for the umpteenth time. Of course he waits for the lights to dim before making an entrance, so that his own lurching down the aisle doesn't look like an ad for Monster...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KOEKusanagi, Mizuho
Summary: "Yona's travels take her to the Water Tribe's territory, which is said to be the most beautiful area in the Kingdom of Kohka. But despite this region's reputation, a drug known as 'nadai' has spread throughout the land. When one of Yona's friends becomes affected by nadai, how far will Yona go to help him?"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2018
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Summary: "Trace's relationship with his older brother Will become increasingly complicated after Will suffers a traumatic brain injury and becomes addicted to pain pills"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HOPStemple, Adam.
Summary: Leaving behind a life of drug abuse, Douglas Stewart finds himself in Edinburgh under the watchful eye of his stern Scottish grandmother, but when he is tempted to return to his past behaviors, he discovers he can see the fey folk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2005
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Summary: "It begins in Toronto, in the years after the smart drug revolution. Any high school student with a chemjet and internet connection can download recipes and print drugs, or invent them. A seventeen-year-old street girl finds God through a new brain-altering drug called Numinous, used as a sacrament by a new Church that preys on the underclass. But she is arrested and put into detention, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREHinton, S. E.
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Mark and Bryon have been like brothers since childhood, but now, as their involvement with girls, gangs, and drugs increases, their relationship seems to gradually disintegrate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 1971
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HINSanchez, David
Summary: "David has a mind that never stops running. He reads Dante and Moby Dick, he sinks into Hemingway and battles with Milton. But on Florida's Gulf Coast, one can slip into deep water unconsciously; at the age of fourteen, David runs away from home to pursue a girl and, on his journey, tries crack cocaine for the first time. He's hooked instantly. Over the course of the next decade, he fights his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SANLockhart, E.
Summary: Carrie Sinclair tells the ghost of her son Johnny about the summer of 1987, when "the boys" arrive on Beechwood Island, setting off events that will haunt her for years to come.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC LOCAngelini, Josephine
Summary: While summering in her grandparents' small Oregon town, where a serial murderer lurks, eighteen-year-old Magdalena faces recovery from a scandal at her Manhattan private school, schizophrenia, and falling in love with "Wildboy." Told partly through journal entries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2020