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Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Love defines us. It shapes the individual, ensures the preservation of the species, and is the principal subject we--as a culture--choose to examine in our art forms. The experience of being in love is powerful and it inevitably changes how we feel and how we behave. Even when love is normal it is so intense that for thousands of years doctors and poets have described love as a kind of madness; however, love can also go wrong. When this happens the...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A leading neuroscientist and pioneer in the study of mindfulness explains why addictions are so tenacious and how we can learn to conquer them. We are all vulnerable to addiction. Whether it's a compulsion to constantly check social media, binge eating, smoking, excessive drinking, or any other behaviors, we may find ourselves uncontrollably repeating. Why are bad habits so hard to overcome? Is there a key to conquering the cravings we know are unhealthy...
6) Mistress
Author
Language
English
Description
"Ben isn't like most people. Unable to control his racing thoughts, he's a man consumed by his obsessions: movies, motorcycles, presidential trivia-and Diana Hotchkiss, a beautiful woman Ben knows he can never have. When Diana is found dead outside her apartment, Ben's infatuation drives him on a hunt to find out what happened to the love of his life. Ben soon discovers that the woman he pined for was hiding a shocking double life. And now someone...
Author
Publisher
John Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"At some point in our lives, we all engage in behaviors that are risky, irrational, or unwise. We might find it exciting and temporarily rewarding to gamble on the lottery or impulsively buy an expensive gadget. But just as substances like alcohol and narcotics have the potential to become addictive, so do certain behaviors. A person addicted to gambling, shopping, the internet, food, or picking at their skin may suffer shame in the shadows while...
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Resettling Your Brain in the Age of Cheap Pleasures"--
We are living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, sexting. The smartphone is the modern-day hypodermic needle, delivering digital dopamine 24/7 for a wired generation. Lembke explores new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain-- and what to do about it....
Author
Publisher
New Harbinger Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Recovery from addiction doesn't happen all at once -- it's something that must be practiced, day by day and moment to moment. In good moments -- when things are going well in your life -- your recovery may feel easy, like second nature. But in moments of stress, confusion, temptation, or pain, you need simple, go-to strategies to maintain your healthy recovery. [This book] offers fifty-two in-the-moment mindfulness skills to help you cope with daily...
Author
Publisher
Aspire Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Practical advice, trusted research, plus definitions, causes, and solutions to helping a loved one recover from addiction. You can be free of the harmful effects of a loved one|s addiction! Dr. Gregory Jantz believes every person can find a unique pathway through powerlessness, fear, guilt, shame, and despair back into the light and fresh air of freedom because God is the Great Healer, for whom anything is possible.
Author
Publisher
Plume, published by the Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
" Paul Williams is an alcoholic. Tracey Jackson is not. But together, these two close friends have written Gratitude and Trust, a book designed to apply the principles of the recovery movement to the countless people who are not addicts but nevertheless need effective help with their difficulties and pain. Williams, the award-winning songwriter, actor, and performer, has embraced a traditional alcoholism recovery plan for more than two decades of...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An authoritative, illuminating and deeply humane history of addiction -- by a therapist who has reached the depths of addiction himself. Even in the midst of a period of staggering drug abuse that we can confidently call a crisis, questions about the fundamental nature of addiction, its origins, and its ideal treatments abound. This absence of consensus is the latest plotted point on a centuries-old historical arc: as humans have struggled to define,...
Author
Publisher
Darjeeling Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
Español
Description
Millones de personas se ven acosadas por la adicción. Ya sean drogas, alcohol o adicciones del comportamiento, como los juegos de azar y la pornografía, el costo humano es enorme, tanto para las víctimas como para sus familias. Muchos anhelan la libertad, pero no la encuentran mediante los programas de tratamiento actuales, en los que la tasa de recaída es, con frecuencia, alta. Un ingrediente ausente puede ser un conocimiento de las fuerzas invisibles...
19) Oblivion
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Callie Knowles fights her compulsion to write constantly, even on herself, as she struggles to cope with foster care, her mother's life in a mental institution, and her belief that she killed her father, a minister, who has been missing for a year.
20) Liar
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Compulsive liar Micah promises to tell the truth after revealing that her boyfriend has been murdered.
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