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"Growing up with a kind but alcoholic father and a suspicious, passive aggressive mother, the Bernal sisters each developed their own way of coping: Dulcina had her art and drugs and alcohol, Claudia plunged into her studies and fled to Princeton, and Maritza watched one Disney movie after another in between devouring romance novels. Now all grown up, the sisters are reunited at last for Maritza's dream wedding. But they are no less different than...
42) We all fall down
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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.
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Marcelle is clean and sober, attending a tough-love version of after-school rehab, and barely hanging out with her user friends. One night she gets a text from her best friend, Hannah, asking Marcelle to cover for her. The next morning, Hannah is missing. Marcelle was the last one to hear from her... and now she's lying to everyone about the text, and more. -- adapted from jacket
44) Chief's mess
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Anthony Talbot is in Anchor Point to visit family, but after two days of strife, he needs a break. A local gay bar is calling his name.
When Chief Noah Jackson sees that red head stroll into the club, he immediately wants him. They're perfectly matched, and before long, they're burning up the sheets. Noah can't get enough. Anthony can't stay in Oregon for long, but as soon as he leaves, he's counting down the days until he can fly back for
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Since Tinch Turner lost his wife, he has spent his nights brooding, boozing, and brawling. When one of his escapades lands him in the ER, he finds himself staring up at the beautiful new doctor in town, Addison Spencer--and for the first time in years, he feels a spark.
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Sixteen-year-old Claire is unable to face her fears about a recurrence of her leukemia, her eating disorder, her need to fit in with the popular crowd on Hackett Island, and her mother's alcoholism until the enigmatic Lani Garver helps her get control of her life at the risk of his own. The close-knit residents of Hackett Island have never seen anyone quite like Lani Garver. Everything about this new kid is a mystery: Where does Lani come from? How...
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After her husband dies, Deborah Haskin thinks she will never love again. But then she meets Gideon Clermont, who has served with her husband in the Korean War. He begins to help her around the house, and after some time, the two fall in love and are happily married. Soon Deborah begins to realize that Gideon has an illness--alcoholism. With the strength of their faith in God be enough to help them come to terms with his addiction?
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Upon the sudden and tragic death of his father, Tory's marital bliss comes to a halt. His wife, Nya tries to help him cope with the pain, but Tory turns to alcohol instead. Then Tory vanishes. Although Nya looks for him with the help of law enforcement and a hired private investigator, no one turns up anything and eventually Nya gives up hope of ever finding Tory. Nya meets another man and finds happiness again. After years missing in action, Tory...
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"Ten years ago, four people were brutally murdered. One girl lived. No one believes her story. The police think she's crazy. Her therapist thinks she's suicidal. Everyone else thinks she's a dangerous drunk. They're all right--but did she see the killer? As the anniversary of the murders approaches, Faith Winters is released from the psychiatric hospital and yanked back to the last spot on earth she wants to be--her hometown where the slayings took...
53) Baygirl
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After relocating from a Newfoundland fishing village to the city of St. John's, sixteen-year-old Kit Ryan's struggle to fit in and find herself is complicated by the unpredictable behavior of her alcoholic father.
54) Gray baby
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Clifton has grown up in rural Virginia with the memory of his African American father being beaten to death by policemen, causing his white mother to slip into alcoholism and depression, but after befriending an old man who listens to his problems, Clifton finally feels less alone in the world.
55) Just for today
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Biff held up a big bottle. It was almost empty. "This bottle was full this morning!" he laughed. Something in his laugh was not funny. "You've been drinking all day?" Abby shouted. Abby loves Biff. But she begins to hate their life together. The alcohol. The fighting. Something has to change. Biff begins to go to AA meetings. He finds out that making a change is not always easy. Is Biff able to stay on the path to a better life?
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"This year's going to be a good one. The kind that I need." Twelve-year-old Easter Ann Peters has a plan to make seventh grade awesome: Operation Cool. She's determined to erase years of being known as the quiet, straight-A student who can't think of a decent comeback to a bully she calls Horse Girl. When the confident new girl, Wreni, becomes her long-needed best friend, Easter lets her personality shine. The coolest guy in school takes a sudden...
58) Rainbow boys
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Jason juega en el equipo de baloncesto del instituto y tiene novia desde hace años, pero no deja de pensar en cómo sería el sexo con otros chicos. Kyle sabe que es gay, pero aún no se lo ha dicho a sus padres y mucho menos a Jason, por quien suspira en secreto. Nelson, bromista y descarado, está fuera del armario para el mundo. Y tiene una cosa clara: su amistad con Kyle le importa mucho, quizás demasiado. Las vidas de los tres chicos se entrelazan...
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Seven hard-won months into her sobriety, sociology professor Maris Heilman has her first blackout. She chalks it up to exhaustion, though she fears that her husband and daughter will suspect she's drinking again. Whatever their cause, the glitches start becoming more frequent. Sometimes minutes, sometimes longer, but always leaving Maris with the same disorienting question: Where have I been? Then another blackout lands Maris in the ER, where she...
60) Forbidden
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Sixteen-year-old Maya and seventeen-year-old Lochan tell, in their separate voices, of their confusion and longing as they fall in love with one another after years of functioning as parents to three younger siblings due to their alcoholic mother's neglect.
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