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  Broken Cord

  by Michael Dorris

  The controversial national bestseller that received unprecedented media attention, sparked the nation's interest in the plight of children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, and touched a nerve in all of us. Winner of the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award.
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  Secrets She Left Behind

  by Diane Chamberlain

  One afternoon, single mother Sara Weston says that she's going to the store—and never returns. In her absence, she leaves her teenage son alone with his damaged past and a legacy of secrets. Keith Weston nearly lost his life in an act of arson. He survived—but with devastating physical and emotional scars. Without his mother, he has no one to help him heal, no money, nothing to live for but the medications that... (more)
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  The Fatal Link: The Connection Between School Shooters and the Brain Damage from Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol

  by Jody Allen Crowe

  The Fatal Link is a groundbreaking book. This book reveals the undeniable connection between school shooters and their mother's alcoholic behaviors. The author, Jody Allen Crowe, is uniquely positioned to identify this never before seen profile of school shooters. He is an educator who gained his knowledge working in the epicenters of violence and abnormal behaviors. 'The author spent 18 years on reservations... (more)
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  Before The Storm

  by Diane Chamberlain

  Fifteen-year-old Andy Lockwood is special. Others notice the way he blurts out anything that comes into his mind, how he cannot foresee consequences, that he's more child than teenager. But his mother sees a boy with a heart as open and wide as the ocean. Laurel Lockwood lost her son once through neglect. She's spent the rest of her life determined to make up for her mistakes, and she's succeeded in becoming a... (more)
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  The Moon Children

  by Beverley Brenna

  Saskatchewan Book Awards Shortlist - Children's Books, 2007 Staring across the street the day after his alcoholic father disappears, eleven-year-old Billy Ray is startled to see one of his schoolmates, an adopted Romanian girl, gazing at the sky and then writing in a notebook. She is keeping a Moon Journal, cataloguing the phases of the moon to keep alive a secret memory that, eventually, Billy is the first... (more)