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Summary: Good intentions. Erratic bosses. Mounting paranoia. Unforeseen consequences spiralling out of control. Heidi (Julia Roberts) works at Homecoming, a facility helping soldiers transition to civilian life. Years later she has started a new life, when the Department of Defense questions why she left Homecoming. Heidi soon realises there's a whole other story behind the one she's been telling herself.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOM

Summary: The story of young men whose recovery from drug abuse hangs on their self-management of a gritty L.A. rehab center.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2005

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Summary: Based on the true story of a reform warden who risks his life to replace brutality and corruption with humanity and integrity in a state prison farm.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRU

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Summary: Emerging from a detox clinic, a young addict must stay clean while living with her mother for the next four days.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FOU

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOU

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FOU

Glasheen, Kate

Summary: In 1980s Troy, New York, nonbinary teenager Claire's stint in court-ordered rehab may be exactly what they need to unpack all the bad they have experienced--if they can stay sober in a world seemingly never made for them.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 GLA

Mazur, Rachel

Summary: "The nature club books invite you to explore the outdoors with Izzy, Tai, Brooke, Zack, and Miguel. Through their adventures, they learn to help the wildlife they love while helping each other with the challenges of growing up."--Back cover

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Series Nature Mazur 2019

Summary: The story of one remarkable doctor as he transforms the standards of care for paraplegics. Arriving at England's Stoke Mandeville Hospital in 1944, Doctor Ludwig Guttmann reinvigorates the lives of his staff and patients with one daring move: he introduces athletics into the rehabilitation plan of his patients, paralyzed soldiers who have been cast-off and are facing death from neglect. Using...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BES

Summary: Sam Loudermilk is a recovering alcoholic and substance abuse counsellor with an extremely bad attitude about, well, everything. He is unapologetically uncensored and manages to piss off everyone in his life. Although he has his drinking under control, Loudermilk discovers that when your life is a complete mess, getting clean is the easy part.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LOU

Summary: Teen surfer Bethany Hamilton, loses her arm in a shark attack and courageously overcomes all odds to become a champion again, through her sheer determination and unwavering faith.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SOU

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SOU

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Movie Soul 2011

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD S

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SOU RATED PG

Summary: After twelve years in prison, a convicted sex offender struggles to regain the life he lost, while grappling with the terrible prospect of his own reawakened demons.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WOO

Allen, Charlotte Vale

Summary: After being rescued from a kidnapper as a child, Faith courts dangerous behavior as she grows up and finds kindred spirits in Tally and Hay, who have troubled pasts of their own.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALL

Bauermeister, Erica.

Summary: Six women gather to celebrate their friend Kate's recovery from cancer, where she strikes a bargain with them: to celebrate her new lease on life, she'll do the one thing that's always terrified her, but if she does, each of them will also do one thing that they'd find difficult.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAU

Cosby, S. A.

Summary: "A gritty, voice-driven thriller about a former getaway driver who thought he had escaped the criminal life who is pulled back in by race, poverty, and his own former life of crime. Beauregard "Bug" Montage is a man with many different titles: husband, father, friend, honest car mechanic. But before he gave it up, Bug used to be known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRO

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Cosby 2020

Garcia, Kami

Summary: When star soccer player Peyton Rios receives an offer from her first-choice college, senior year starts off exactly as planned. But when Peyton uncovers her boyfriend’s dark secret, she confronts him―and finds herself falling down a flight of stairs. Peyton’s knee―and maybe her dream of going pro―is shattered. Everyone is talking: Was she pushed, or did she fall? Peyton knows the truth, even if...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC GAR

Mitchard, Jacquelyn

Summary: When her son is released from prison after serving time for the negligent homicide of his girlfriend, Thea is committed to helping him make amends until attempts on their lives are made, leading her to believe that those who are threatening them have something to hide.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIT

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MIT

Sachar, Louis

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Summary: Three years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track, but when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a tempting plan to make some easy money scalping concert tickets, Armpit reluctantly goes along.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2006

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Summary: An alcoholic and drug addict, 23 year-old James has two options: treatment or death. After waking up on a plane with a smashed up face and no memory of the past few weeks, he heads to rehab where he discovers much more than detox and therapy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MIL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Mi

Summary: Anders will soon complete his drug rehabilitation in the countryside. As part of the program, he is allowed to go into the city for a job interview. But he takes advantage of the leave and stays in the city, drifting around, meeting people he hasn't seen in a long while. Anders is smart, handsome, and from a good family, but he is deeply haunted by all the opportunities he has wasted and all...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing 2012

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OSL

Akbar, Kaveh

Summary: Cyrus Sham's is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother's plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father's life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC AKB

Gavin, William F.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2006

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAV

Hess, Joan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M HES

Jackson, Mitchell S.

Summary: Mitchell S. Jackson grew up black in a neglected neighborhood in Americás whitest city, Portland, Oregon. In the ́90s, those streets and beyond had fallen under the shadow of crack cocaine and its familiar mayhem. In his commanding autobiographical novel, Mitchell writes what it was to come of age in that time and place, with a break-out voice that́s nothing less than extraordinary.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAC

McElroy, Alex

Summary: "Sasha Marcus was once the epitome of contemporary success: an internet sensation, social media darling, and a creator of a high profile wellness brand for women. But a confrontation with an abusive troll has taken a horrifying turn, and now she's at rock bottom: canceled and doxxed online, fired from her waitress job and fortressed in her apartment while men's rights protestors rage outside....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCE

Weiner, Jennifer.

Summary: "The story of a woman's slide into addiction and struggle to find her way back up again"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2014

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