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  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The Glass Castle

    The Glass Castle

    by Jeannette Walls

    Jeannette Walls's father always called her "Mountain Goat," and there's perhaps no more apt nickname for a girl who navigated a sheer and towering cliff of childhood both daily and stoically. In The Glass Castle, Walls chronicles her upbringing at the hands of eccentric, nomadic parents: Rose Mary, her frustrated-artist mother, and Rex, her brilliant, alcoholic father. To call the elder Walls's childrearing style... (more)
  • Random Family

    Random Family

    Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx

    by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

    'Remarkable!filled with indelible images and heartbreaking moments. I cannot praise it enough. A towering achievement.' Daily Telegraph 'An extraordinary social document which is also a riveting read.' Observer 'I always thought the phrase that critics occasionally use -- "If you buy just one book this year, make it this one" -- quite meaningless until I read "Random Family".' Books of the Year, New Statesman ... (more)
  • A Piece of Cake

    A Piece of Cake

    A Memoir

    by Cupcake Brown

    There are shelves of memoirs about overcoming the death of a parent, childhood abuse, rape, drug addiction, miscarriage, alcoholism, hustling, gangbanging, near-death injuries, drug dealing, prostitution, or homelessness. Cupcake Brown survived all these things before she’d even turned twenty. And that’s when things got interesting…. You have in your hands the strange, heart-wrenching, and exhilarating tale... (more)
  • Cracked

    Cracked

    Putting Broken Lives Together Again

    by Drew Pinsky, Todd Gold

    Dr. Drew Pinsky is best known as the cohost of the long-running radio advice program Loveline. But his workday is spent at a major Southern California clinic, treating the severest cases of drug dependency and psychiatric breakdown. In this riveting book, Pinsky reveals the intimate and often shocking stories of his patients as they struggle with emotional trauma, sexual abuse, and a host of chemical nemeses:... (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)
  • 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)

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