AlcoholismAnnotated BibliographiesBooksChildrens LiteratureEarly Childhood EducationFictionInstructional MaterialsNonfictionWorkbooksYoung ChildrenAttempts to identify and evaluate reading material currently available to introduce young children to the topics of alcohol and alcoholism. (BB)...
Noor is secretly applying to college while evading her bad-tempered guardian, and Sal is attempting to save his parents’ debt-laden motel as his father battles alcoholism. We’re also whisked back in time to Sal’s mom Misbah’s past in Pakistan, unraveling the events that led her to ...
first drink of the day. Instead I reach for the fizzy water bottle. Fluids are important for recovery, especially water. Loads of it. After a pint of water, I decide to have a cup of coffee. I don't have the shakes because I haven't been on alcohol for a long enough continuous ...
Its seemingly the story of a highly functioning southern family (think professor and southern Belle). Told from the point of view of their grown son who has slid into alcoholism, but through the telling of the story he reveals some deep dark family secrets that have left him broken and una...
Every day he is trying to keep his life on track and not make it crash and burn in alcoholism and unrestrained anger. Wendy, she seems to have an anxiety disorder, no doubt caused by her controlling mother. She never learned to deal with her fears and her decision to stay with Jack ...
There’s a witness in a prop plane in Alaska, a family in a haunted house, and two teens in a reform school that’s rotten to the core. Flight Risk Dir: Mel Gibson (Review: Hacksaw Ridge) Winston (Topher Grace) is a bookkeeper on the lam. He used to work for the mob, but ...
images (W and X) and letters made from shapes on the page and the enacted word (Z). In a sense, Pelletier keeps the reader jumping more than does MacDonald. He crisscrosses several of the subgenres of alphabet books: wordplay and visual puns, hidden letters, conceptualism and ...
Al Schak worked as a reporter for the Missoulian after graduating from college, but he struggled with alcoholism and health problems — problems that would likely be diagnosed as symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder today. He worked for years on Soul Wounds (an apt euphemism for PTSD), ...
“A Million Little Pieces”by James Frey is a gripping and controversial memoir that chronicles the author’s harrowing journey through addiction and recovery. Frey recounts his descent into substance abuse, detailing his close encounters and struggles with alcoholism and drug addiction, including coca...
Learning of my dad’s death was not a surprise to me. He’d been in and out of hospitals for months, battling alcoholism the last several years of his life—a battle that had most likely begun before I was even born. In the years leading up to his death the battle that raged withi...