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For young people, leading a healthy lifestyle requires education and empowerment. In Understanding Alcohol, readers will explore the social aspects and health effects of drinking and alcohol use disorder, and ways to make healthy choices. Sidebars challenge and expand readers' thinking while relating topics to 21st Century skills and themes--from creativity and innovation to financial literacy. Book also includes a table of contents, author biography,...
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"Saint Ambrose Prep is a place where the wealthy send their children for the best possible education, with teachers and administrators from the Ivy League, and graduates who become future lawyers, politicians, filmmakers, and CEOs. Traditionally a boys-only school, Saint Ambrose has just enrolled one hundred and forty female students for the first time. Even though most of the kids on the campus have all the privilege in the world, some are struggling,...
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When arson investigator Bri Tucker inherits unfinished business from her predecessor, she must convince ATF Special Agent Marc Davis to help her find the missing link and track down a serial arsonist who will stop at nothing, including murder, to carry out a nefarious plan.
As a former smokejumper, arson investigator Bri Tucker knows her way around fires. After a blaze takes the life of a former colleague, someone doesn't want her picking up where...
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Lena Wise is always looking forward to tomorrow, especially at the start of her senior year. She's ready to pack in as much friend time as possible, to finish college applications and to maybe let her childhood best friend Sebastian know how she really feels about him. For Lena, the upcoming year is going to be epic--one of opportunities and chances. Until one choice, one moment, destroys everything. Now Lena isn't looking forward to tomorrow. Not...
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Odell would do anything to be free of his bootlegging, blackmailing, money extorting neighbours and recover the peaceful--and financially prosperous--life he and Joyce once had. But Milton and Yvonne seem to always bounce back from bad luck, and this time they've returned angrier, and greedier, than ever. Determined to get what Odell 'owes' them, the Hamiltons have a big surprise for Joyce too, one that shows how far they will go to get revenge.
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Dani comes from the richest, most famous Black family in Texas and seems to have everything a girl could want. So why does she keep using and engaging in other self-destructive behavior? Camila's Colombian-American family doesn't have much, but she knows exactly what she wants out of life and works her ass off to get it. So why does she keep failing, and why does she self-harm every time she does? When Dani and Camila find themselves rooming together...
10) Walk in the fire
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Judah Cannon is trying to extricate the Cannon family from the crime ring they are known and feared for when he finds himself in the sights of Everett Weaver, a cold blooded killer and drug runner from Daytona Beach. Meanwhile, ATF Special Agent Clive Grant arrives from Atlanta to investigate a fire at Sister Tulah's church, and becomes obsessed with Tulah's iron grip on Bradford County and determined to take her down. His investigation leads him...
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Recovery from anything is possible if you have hope. The Addiction Manifesto is the story of the trials and tribulations of a recovering addict on the road to recovery. For 20 years JR Weaver ran the streets, homeless, hopeless, Godless, and lost to the reality that his life was worth anything more than the next hit or drink. That is exactly what substance use disorder does, it blinds one to the reality or reasons behind why one's life has become...
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Many Christians are locked in a cycle of addiction, particularly in the areas of alcohol and drug abuse. Many have turned to twelve-step programs for help. But where is the incredible power of Christ in this process? In a positive, noncondemning way, Anderson provides an alternative model of recovery for substance and alcohol abusers, a model that will also work for individuals struggling with other kinds of addictions. The first half of Freedom from...
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In Binge, Barrett Seaman reveals what every parent, student, and educator needs to know about the college experience. Seaman spent time with students at twelve highly regarded and diverse colleges and universities across North America. During his two years of research, he immersed himself in the lives of the students, often living in their dorms, dining with them, speaking with them on their own terms, and listening to them express their thoughts...
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In this compelling compilation, Heather Kopp shares stories and insights from her own stumbling journey of addiction to recovery. With the humor and honesty her readers have come to love, she offers practical help and spiritual encouragement to those who suffer from alcoholism or addiction. As the mother of an alcoholic, Heather is also familiar with the painful challenges that come from loving an addict. Here, she delivers life-tested wisdom and...
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This is a book about ongoing recovery from drug and alcohol addiction. It is a collection of approaches that I have used in the past thirty years to build and maintain a semi normal and sane methodology for clean living. Recovery is not for the faint of heart, as the disease affects every aspect of our lives, continues to live inside us even after we establish abstinence and is just waiting for an opportunity to weasel its way back into our lives...
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As an alcohol and substance abuse counselor, I've found that most of my clients do not get enough quality sleep. And, the truth is most people in the general population don't get good sleep. In this book are several easy to understand charts that show you exactly how drugs and alcohol affect your sleep. I'll discuss what you can do to improve your sleep without relying on modern pharmaceuticals, over the counter sleep aids, prescription drugs, and...
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La industria de las bebidas tiene claro que el alcohol es una sustancia tóxica. Si se descubriera hoy, se ilegalizaría como alimento.
He escrito este libro para contribuir a que tomes decisiones bien fundamentadas e inteligentes en torno a la bebida. ¿Bebes para reducir tu ansiedad? ¿Cómo válvula para liberar estrés, al acabar la jornada laboral? ¿Para animarte antes de salir por ahí? ¿O para reunir el valor necesario con el que enfrentarte...
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Rick H. often starts his talk at recovery meetings with this statement: I come here because the Rick of old will drink again. So I need to change, and this is where my professors are. He then adds that, to live a sober, happy life, he had to find a replacement for the alcohol that he used in his struggles to cope with the realities of life. That replacement includes a set of tools that he relies on to contend with all of life’s ups and downs They...
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I'm not famous, and you don't know me, but you may be familiar with my disease of alcoholism. I'm not a special alcoholic or a unique alcoholic, I'm just an average alcoholic. My life experiences are no better or worse than anyone else's, but they are unique to me. Those bits and pieces shaped who I was, how I changed and who I am today.
Alcohol saved my life before it ruled my life and ultimately destroyed my life. I couldn't walk the road to sobriety...
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