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Joey Pigza books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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Joey, who is still taking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinking father he has never known and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win the championship.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
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As The Avenger searches for the teenage boys who trashed a house in his neighborhood, Buddy, one of the trashers, increases his drinking in order to cope with his parents' separation and his obsession with the daughter of the owner of the vandalized house.
4) The interim
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C. is a wretched grump, an anguished patron of bars, brothels, and train stations. He is also an acclaimed East German writer. Dogged by writer's block, remorse, and national guilt in the years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, he leaves the monochromatic existence of the GDR for the neon excess of the West. There at least the novelty of his origins grant him easy money and minor celebrity, if also a deflating sense of complacency. With his visa...
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2001.
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It's more than a book. It's a way of life. Alcoholics Anonymous -- the Big Book -- has served as a lifeline to millions worldwide. First published in 1939, Alcoholics Anonymous sets forth cornerstone concepts of recovery from alcoholism and tells the stories of men and women who have overcome the disease. With publication of the second edition in 1955, the third edition in 1976, and now the fourth edition in 2001, the essential recovery text has remained...
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2014
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"El Pensamiento del Día" tiene la mira de ayudar a los miembros de Alcoholicos Anonimos en su programa de vivir un día cada vez Ha sido formulado para aquellos que deseen iniciar cada día con unos minutos de pensamiento, meditación y oración, y para que compartan sus puntos de vista con sus compañeros. Estas lecturas diarias encierran la mayor parte del material empleado en el folleto "Para Alcohólicos Solamente" y demás literatura de A.A.,...
8) Alcohol
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Pub. Date
2002
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Discusses the history, effects, health and social aspects, and legal ramifications of alcohol, as well as treatments for alcoholism.
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[2021]
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"It's Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant on his doorstep and disrupts his plans. Their reunion sets her own life down a startling path. Vivid, tender, darkly funny, and beautifully rendered, The Five Wounds spans the...
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The mysterious new tenant of Wildfell Hall is a strong-minded woman who keeps her own counsel. Helen 'Graham' - exiled with her child to the desolate moorland mansion, adopting an assumed name and earning her living as a painter - has returned to Wildfell Hall in flight from a disastrous marriage. Narrated by her neighbour Gilbert Markham, and in the pages of her own diary, the novel portrays Helen's eloquent struggle for independence at a time when...
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Changing your habits can be hard without the right tools. This is especially true for alcohol because habits are, by definition, subconscious thought processes. Through her methodical research of the latest neuroscience and her own journey, Annie Grace has cracked the code on habit change by addressing the specific ways habits form. This unique and unprecedented method has now helped thousands redefine their relationship to drinking painlessly and...
14) Alcohol=Busted!
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c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 2
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Uses real life stories to show that underage drinking can lead to arrests, jail, and even death.
18) Touch
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Brother Juneval has the Touch--the miraculous power to heal the sick. But it's hard to be a saint when your God-given gift attracts the attention of sleazy hucksters and fast-buck fundamentalists.
19) All my rage
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
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A family extending from Pakistan to California, deals with generations of young love, old regrets, and forgiveness.
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2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
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When his alcoholic mother disappears, fifteen-year-old Laurence is determined to find her, take care of his little brother, and keep their predicament a secret, all while trying to win a luxury vacation for his mom in a radio call-in contest.
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