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By Awad, Mona2021., Hamish Hamilton Call No: Fic Awa Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When an accident ended Miranda Fitch's acting career, she was left with chronic pain, a failed marriage, and a dependence on painkillers. And now she's on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director as well. Determined to put on Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, the play that promised, and cost, her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hellbent on staging Macbeth instead.
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c2013., Adult, Penguin Group (Canada) Call No: Fic Mes Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Six strangers wake up on a remote island in the Florida Keys with no memory of their arrival. They soon discover their sole common bond: all are heroin addicts from the slums of Miami. As their excruciating withdrawal begins, the six face their captors across open water. The four shadowy figures on the yacht are dangerous predators who know that their victims' need never falters - and that the creatures that swim beneath the waves have equally rapacious appetites. So begins a dangerous game. The six must make an impossible choice - swim to the next island, where a cache of the purest heroin awaits, or die trying. Alliances form among them that may seal their fate - or extend it. As the fight to survive intensifies, the astonishing motivations of the men onboard the boat emerge, raising the stakes to towering heights. An adventure that pin-points the distance between fragility and strength, Bait pulls the reader in deep.
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2018., Adult, 120, VVS Films Call No: DVD Fic Beautiful Boy Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A deeply moving portrait of a family's unwavering love and commitment to each other in the face of their son's addiction and his attempts at recovery. As David's son repeatedly relapses, the family are faced with the harsh reality that addiction is a disease that does not discriminate and can hit any family at any time.
![Beautiful boy [DVD] (2018). Directed by Felix Van Groeningen.](/Library/images/~imageCT99886.JPG "Beautiful boy [DVD] (2018). Directed by Felix Van Groeningen.")
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c1999., Artisan Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Drugstore Edition: Special ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A band of drug addicts, led by a husband and wife team, resort to robbing drugstores to stay high. They are successful in avoiding capture until their luck begins to run out, and the husband has to accept the fact that he must give up drugs to survive.
![Drugstore cowboy [DVD] (1989) Directed by Gus Van Sant](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Drugstore cowboy [DVD] (1989) Directed by Gus Van Sant")
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-- Nurse Jackie.c2012., Adult, distributed in Canada by Alliance Films distributed in Canada by Alliance Films Call No: DVD Fic Nurse 3 Edition: Widescreen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Nurse Jackie Volume: 3Summary Note: "Nurse Jackie ended season two with the ugly truth closing in on super-nurse Jackie Peyton. Jackie's best friend and husband put the pieces together about her pill-popping ways and confronted her about her addiction. But if the people in her life think one little intervention is going to stop her, they don't know Jackie"--Container.
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-- Nurse Jackie.2013., Adult, distributed exclusively in Canada by Alliance Films distributed exclusively in Canada by Alliance Films Call No: DVD Fic Nurse 4 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Nurse Jackie Volume: 4Summary Note: "This season, Jackie comes to realize that both karma and sobriety can be a bitch. In addition to finally confronting her addiction, Jackie's street smarts and sardonic wit are tested even further by an ambitious new hospital administrator (Bobby Cannavale), who's determined to run a tight ship and keep Jackie in line"--Container.
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2014, p2013., Adult, Entertainment One Films Canada Call No: DVD Fic Nurse 5 Edition: Widescreen edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Nurse Jackie Volume: 5Summary Note: "After leaving rehab early, Jackie finds sobriety and relative happiness - but that is the calm before the storm. With her marriage coming to an end, a careless accident sends Jackie to her own All Saints Hospital for emergency care. While recovering, she meets NYC policeman Frank Verelli (Adam Ferrera), whose flirtatious advances may lead Jackie into uncharted territory: dating. Stepping out of her usual comfort zone, challenged by new colleagues, Jackie faces the one-year anniversary of her sobriety"--Container.
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2006., General, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Valley D Edition: Special ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Cinema classics collection.Summary Note: Lured by their dreams of fame and fortune, three ambitious young women enter the world of show business and discover how easy it is to sink into a celebrity nightmare of ego, alcohol, and pills.
![Valley of the dolls [DVD] (1968). Directed by Mark Robson.](/Library/images/~imageCT83206.JPG "Valley of the dolls [DVD] (1968). Directed by Mark Robson.")