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1) The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Jonathan Haidt has spent his career speaking truth and wisdom in some of the most difficult spaces - communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the mental health emergency hitting teenagers today in many countries around the world.In The Anxious Generation, Haidt shows how, between 2010 and 2015, childhood and adolescence got rewired. As teens traded in their flip phones for smartphones packed with social...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Claire struggles to cope while her eighteen-year-old brother, Andy, is treated for drug addiction and her family prepares to sell her beloved horses, but finally accepts that change can be good.
Author
Series
Intervention volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Lance Covington finds an abandoned baby in the backseat of a car, he knows she's the newborn daughter of a meth addict he's been trying to help. But when police arrest him for kidnapping, Lance is thrust into a criminal world of baby trafficking and drug abuse. His mother, Barbara, looks for help from Kent Harlan--the man whom she secretly, reluctantly loves and who once helped rescue her daughter from a mess of her own. Kent...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"James Beard Award-winning author Kim Foster reveals a new portrait of hunger and humanity in America. Food is a conduit for connection; we envision smiling families gathered around a table-eating, happy, content. But what happens when poverty, mental illness, homelessness, and addiction claim a seat at the table? In The Meth Lunches, James Beard award-winning writer Kim Foster peers behind the polished visions of perfectly curated dinners and charming...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
Journalist Beth Macy's definitive account of America's opioid epidemic "masterfully interlaces stories of communities in crisis with dark histories of corporate greed and regulatory indifference" (New York Times) — from the boardroom to the courtroom and into the living rooms of Americans.
In this extraordinary work, Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of a national drama that has unfolded over two decades....
In this extraordinary work, Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of a national drama that has unfolded over two decades....