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Biography and Memoir March 2020
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| The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath by Leslie JamisonWhat it is: a galvanizing memoir of Leslie Jamison's recovery from the alcohol addiction that dominated her 20s.
What's inside: perceptive profiles of famous alcoholics throughout history -- including writer Raymond Carver and singer Billie Holiday -- that explore the link between addiction and creativity.
Try this next: Olivia Laing's The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking. |
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Off the rails : one family's journey through teen addiction
by Susan Burrowes
What's inside: Tells the story of Hannah, a privileged fifteen-year-old girl who found herself sliding into a pattern of drug addiction, and her mother Susan, who struggled with sending her daughter to treatment programs.
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A golden voice : how faith, hard work and humility brought me from the streets to salvation
by Ted Williams
What it's about: The former homeless man featured in a viral YouTube radio voice video shares the complete story of how he lost his successful career to a crack addiction, tracing his journey through homelessness and crime before finding love and redemption.
Excerpt: PROLOGUE It's hard for me to watch the famous minute-long clip on YouTube, the one of me standing on the street corner with my little cardboard sign. The world might hear a homeless man with a golden voice saying, "When you're listening to nothing but the best of oldies, you're listening to Magic 98.9," but I see a version of myself I don't like: crazy hair sticking out in all directions, unshaven, brown rotten teeth, dirty camouflage jacket. I see the desperate eyes of a hustler out of hustles, an addict at the end of two decades of bad decisions with nothing left to do but smile and perform for a guy who rolls down his window and says those famous nine words: "I'm going to make you work for your dollar." I'm embarrassed. I really am. Because that video is no lie. That was my life. Back in the day, I used to be somebody--a husband, a father, a successful radio personality. Then, on August 20, 1988, I smoked crack cocaine, and over a period of two months it took hold of me until I was smoking cat litter off my filthy floors because I thought it might be crack, and selling my son's baby clothes for drugs. I lost everything: my job, my home, my children, my morals, my self-respect; and for almost twenty years, right up until the morning I appeared on the Today show in January 2011, I was a homeless addict. This is not a pretty book, because homelessness and addiction are not a pretty life.
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The heroin diaries : a year in the life of a shattered rock star
by Nikki Sixx
The co-founder of the rock band Mötley Crüe presents a candid account of his own descent into the hell of drug addiction, describing the impact of heroin on his life and the band. In never-before-seen photos and exclusive new chapters, Nikki reflects on his decade of sobriety
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Tweak : (growing up on methamphetamines)
by Nic Sheff
What's inside: In this brutally honest memoir, the author details his immersion in a world of hardcore drugs, revealing the mental and physical depths of addiction, and the violent relapse one summer in California that forever changed his life, leading him down the road to recovery.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Central Mississippi Regional Library System
100 Tamberline Street
Brandon, Mississippi 39042
601-825-0100
http://www.cmrls.lib.ms.us
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