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  • Go Ask Alice

    Go Ask Alice

    by Beatrice Sparks

    This book tells the tale of an unnamed 15-year-old girl as she becomes acquainted with the world of drugs. Desperate for friendship in a new town and vulnerable from typical teenage insecurities, the narrator gets involved with a seemingly-harmless group of teenagers who introduce her to substance use. What starts out as an innocent way to have fun quickly turns into a vicious cycle of dependency. This... (more)
  • Crank
    Crank: Book 1

    Crank

    by Ellen Hopkins

    Kristina Georgia Snow is an innocent, high school junior girl who is quiet and doesn't have a lot of friends. She goes to visit her father in a different state than where she and her mother live. While she stays with her dad, Kristina goes through a lot of stuff and develops an alter ego, named Bree. The new Kristina is the opposite of what she used to be like. She meets a guy that she eventually falls hard for.... (more)
  • A Million Little Pieces

    A Million Little Pieces

    by James Frey

    Intense, unpredictable, and instantly engaging, A Million Little Pieces is a memoir of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation as it has never been told before: through complete lies. Recounted in visceral, kinetic prose, and crafted with a forthrightness that rejects piety, cynicism, and self-pity, it brings us face-to-face with a provocative new understanding of the nature of addiction and the meaning of... (more)
  • Glass
    Crank: Book 2

    Glass

    by Ellen Hopkins

    Crank. Glass. Ice. Crystal. Whatever you call it, it's all the same: a monster. And once it's got hold of you, this monster will never let you go. Kristina thinks she can control it. Now with a baby to care for, she's determined to be the one deciding when and how much, the one calling the shots. But the monster is too strong, and before she knows it, Kristina is back in its grips. She needs the monster to keep... (more)
  • Impulse
    Impulse: Book 1

    Impulse

    by Ellen Hopkins

    Sometimes you don't wake up. But if you happen to, you know things will never be the same. Three lives, three different paths to the same destination: Aspen Springs, a psychiatric hospital for those who have attempted the ultimate act -- suicide. Vanessa is beautiful and smart, but her secrets keep her answering the call of the blade. Tony, after suffering a painful childhood, can only find peace through... (more)
  • Dry.

    Dry.

    A Memoir

    by Augusten Burroughs

    From the bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Dry —the hilarious, moving, and no less bizarre account of what happened next. You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had to drinks, Augusten was circling the... (more)
  • Tricks

    Tricks

    by Ellen Hopkins

    "When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival." Five teenagers from different parts of the country. Three girls. Two guys. three straight. two gay. Some rich. Some poor. Some from great families. Some with no one at all. All living their lives as best they can, but all searching...for freedom, safety, community, family, love. What they don't expect, though, is all that can happen when... (more)
  • Choke

    Choke

    by Chuck Palahniuk

    Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be “saved” by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victor’s life, go on to send checks to support him. When he’s not pulling this stunt, Victor... (more)
  • Beautiful Boy

    Beautiful Boy

    A Father's Journey Through His Son's Crystal Meth Addiction

    by David Sheff

    Sheff's story is a first: a teenager s addiction from the parent s point of view a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the gradual emergence into hope. Before meth, Sheff s son Nic was a varsity athlete, honor student, and award-winning journalist. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who stole money from his eight-year-old brother and lived on the streets. With haunting candor,... (more)
  • Fallout
    Crank: Book 3

    Fallout

    by Ellen Hopkins

    FALLOUT is the highly anticipated final chapter in the CRANK trilogy from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins.
  • Identical

    Identical

    by Ellen Hopkins

    Do twins begin in the womb? Or in a better place? Kaeleigh and Raeanne are identical down to the dimple. As daughters of a district-court judge father and a politician mother, they are an all-American family -- on the surface. Behind the facade each sister has her own dark secret, and that's where their differences begin. For Kaeleigh, she's the misplaced focus of Daddy's love, intended for a mother whose... (more)
  • Tweak

    Tweak

    Growing Up on Methamphetamines

    by Nic Sheff

    Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer in California to convince him otherwise. In a voice that is raw and honest, Nic spares no... (more)
  • Gym Candy

    Gym Candy

    by Carl Deuker

    Mick Johnson is determined not to make the same mistakes his father, a failed football hero, made. But after being tackled just short of the end zone in a big game, Mick begins using “gym candy,” or steroids. His performances become record-breaking, but the side effects are terrible: Mick suffers ’roid rage, depression, and body acne. Gym Candy’s subject matter is just as hard-hitting as its football scenes.... (more)
  • My Friend Leonard

    My Friend Leonard

    by James Frey

    The New York Times bestselling follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller A Million Little Pieces -the heartrending story of a friendship between a newly-sober James and the charismatic, high-living mobster he met in rehab, Leonard. A Million Little Pieces was the first Oprah Book Club pick by a living author in over two years. It instantly became a #1 New York Times bestseller, a #1 USA Today ... (more)
  • Burned

    Burned

    by Ellen Hopkins

    Raised in a religious -- yet abusive -- family, a simple dream may not exactly be a sin, but it could be the first step toward hell and eternal damnation. This dream is the first step for Pattyn. But is it to hell, or to a better life? For the first time, Pattyn starts asking questions. Questions seemingly without answers -- about God, a woman's role, sex, and love -- mostly love. What is it? Where is it? Will she... (more)
  • Valley of the Dolls

    Valley of the Dolls

    by Jacqueline Susann

    Its three protagonists--Anne Welles, the uptight-but-full-of-a-strange-yearning New England beauty; Neely O'Hara, the Judy Garland á clef; and Jennifer North, who is sort of the Marilyn Monroe á clef and also sort of the Brigitte Bardot á clef but mainly sort of the least realized character in the book--all spend most of the novel with what they want excruciatingly just out of reach, and all are ultimately... (more)
  • The Heroin Diaries

    The Heroin Diaries

    A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

    by Nikki Sixx

    In one of the most unique memoirs of addiction ever published, Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx shares mesmerizing diary entries from the year he spiraled out of control in a haze of heroin and cocaine, presented alongside riveting commentary from people who were there at the time, and from Nikki himself. When Mötley Crüe was at the height of its fame, there wasn't any drug Nikki Sixx wouldn't do. He spent days -- ... (more)
  • Smashed

    Smashed

    Story of a Drunken Girlhood

    by Koren Zailckas

    Garnering a vast amount of attention from young people and parents, and from book buyers across the country, Smashed became a media sensation and a New York Times bestseller. Eye- opening and utterly gripping, Koren Zailckas’s story is that of thousands of girls like her who are not alcoholics—yet—but who routinely use booze as a shortcut to courage and a stand-in for good judgment. With one stiff sip... (more)
  • The Gargoyle

    The Gargoyle

    by Andrew Davidson

    An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time.On a burn ward, a man lies between living and dying, so disfigured that no one from his past life would even recognize him. His only comfort comes from imagining various inventive ways to end his misery. Then a woman named Marianne Engel walks into his hospital room, a wild-haired, schizophrenic... (more)
  • Smack

    Smack

    by Melvin Burgess

    Published in the UK as "Junk."Tar loves Gemma, but Gemma doesn't want to be tied down-not to anyone or anything. Gemma wants to fly. But no one can fly forever. One day, somehow, finally, you have to come down. "Retallack's excellent adaptation of ... Burgess's controversial Carnegie Medal winning novel is splendidly unpatronizing ... a truly cautionary tale."- Independent " Junk is perhaps the... (more)
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