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By Sheff, Nic[2014]., Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Call No: MENTAL HEALTH Fic She Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A teenager recovering from a schizophrenic breakdown is driven to the point of obsession to find his missing younger brother and becomes wrapped up in a romance that may or may not be the real thing.
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By Sheff, Nic2015., Adolescent, Speak Call No: Realistic FIC Sheff Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After witnessing his little brother Teddy's kidnapping on the same day he experienced his first schizophrenic episode, teen Miles sets out to locate his brother, in spite of the police's insistence that Teddy drowned at the beach and Miles' own struggles with his advancing mental illness.
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By Sheff, Nic2009, c2008., Ginee Seo Books/Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: MEMOIR Edition: 1st Atheneum Books Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author describes his childhood in California, his addiction to crystal meth and heroin at a young age, his relapse after eighteen months of sobriety, and his path to recovery.
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By Sheff, Nicc2007., Juvenile, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: B Sheff Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author details his immersion in a world of hardcore drugs, revealing the mental and physical depths of addiction, and the violent relapse one summer in California that forever changed his life, leading him down the road to recovery.
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By Sheff, Nic2009., Juvenile, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: HI-INT B SHE Edition: 1st Atheneum Books for Young Readers pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sheff relates his personal struggle with drugs and alcohol in this poignant and often disturbing memoir. Paul Michael Garcia is the perfect choice for narrator; his stern and entirely believable voice captures the desolation in Sheff's tale. His reading is wonderfully underplayed, and necessarily so. Garcia becomes Sheff, offering a gritty and raw performance that demonstrates just how dire the circumstances surrounding Sheff's existence really were.
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By Sheff, Nic2012, c2011., Adolescent, Little, Brown Call No: MEMOIR Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author describes his experiences as a patient in a drug-rehabilitation facility and his relapses with drugs and alcohol, and discusses what it is like to be a young person living with addictions in the United States.