author results for Sheff, Nic

Tweak

Sheff, Nic — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Tweak

Sheff, Nic — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Tweak

Sheff, Nic — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Sheff relates his personal struggle with drugs and alcohol in this poignant and often disturbing memoir.

We All Fall Down

Sheff, Nic — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Depicts the author's efforts to stay clean after his battle with addiction and discusses rehab center experiences, devastating relapses, and learning to live with the knowledge of being an addict.

We All Fall Down

Sheff, Nic — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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.

We All Fall Down

Sheff, Nic — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

In his follow-up to his bestselling memoir Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines, Nic Sheff reveals a brutally honest account of a young person's struggles with relapse and rehab.
In his bestselling memoir Tweak, Nic Sheff took readers on an emotionally gripping roller-coaster ride through his days as an addict. In this powerful follow-up about his continued efforts to stay clean, Nic writes candidly about eye-opening stays at rehab centers, devastating relapses, and hard-won realizations about what it means to be a young person living with addiction. By candidly revealing his own failures and small personal triumphs, Nic inspires readers to maintain hope and to remember that they are not alone in their battles. A group reading guide is included.
Nic Sheff's Tweak, We All Fall Down, and his father's memoir about him, Beautiful Boy, are the basis of the film Beautiful Boy starring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet.

High

Sheff David, Sheff, Nic — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Just Say Know! With drug education for children more important than ever, this nonfiction book draws on the experiences of the NY Times bestselling father/son team of David and Nic Sheff to provide all the information teens and tweens need to know about drugs, alcohol, and addiction. From David Sheff, author of Beautiful Boy (2008), and Nic Sheff, author of Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines (2008), comes the ultimate resource for learning about the realities of drugs and alcohol for middle grade readers. This book tells it as it is, with testimonials from peers who have been there and families who have lived through the addiction of a loved one, along with the cold, hard facts about what drugs and alcohol do to our bodies. From how to navigate peer pressure to outlets for stress to the potential consequences for experimenting, Nic and David Sheff lay out the facts so that middle grade readers can educate themselves.

Schizo

Sheff, Nic — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Harmony House

Sheff, Nic — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Jen Noonan's father thinks a move to Harmony House is the key to salvation, but to everyone who has lived there before, it is a portal to pure horror. As the forces in the house join together to terrorize Jen, she must find a way to escape the past she didn't know was haunting her--and the mysterious and terrible power she didn't realize she had.

Harmony House

Sheff, Nic — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Carrie meets American Horror Story meets The Shining in this terrifying YA horror novel from the author of Tweak and Schizo.

Something's not right in Beach Haven.

Jen Noonan's father thinks a move to Harmony House is the key to salvation, but to everyone who has lived there before, it is a portal to pure horror.

After her alcoholic mother's death, Jen's father cracked. He dragged Jen to a dilapidated old manor on the shore of New Jersey to start their new lives—but Jen can tell that the place has an unhappy history. She can feel it the same way she can feel her anger flowing out of her, affecting the world in strange ways she can't explain.

But Harmony House is more than just a creepy old estate. It's got a chilling past—and the more Jen discovers its secrets, the more the house awakens. Visions of a strange boy who lived in the house long ago follow Jen wherever she goes, and her father's already-fragile sanity disintegrates before her eyes. As the forces in the house join together to terrorize Jen, she must find a way to escape the past she didn't know was haunting her—and the mysterious and terrible power she didn't realize she had.

Tweak

Sheff, Nic — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he regularly smoked pot, did cocaine and ecstasy, and developed addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer in California to convince him otherwise.

In writing that is raw and honest, Nic spares no detail in telling us the compelling, heartbreaking, and true story of his relapse and the road to recovery. As we watch Nic plunge into the mental and physical depths of drug addiction, he paints a picture of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself. It's a harrowing portrait, but not one without hope.

High

Sheff, David — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT

"David and Nic Sheff may be father and son, but they're also experts on drug and alcohol use and addiction, because they've lived through it. Now, the award-winning father-son team wants to share their stories so that you can learn from their experiences. This book isn't full of cut-and-dried, easy answers, because there are none. This book isn't full of cut-and-dried, easy answers, because there are none. This book isn't going to tell you what to do, because no one else is in your shoes. This book isn't going to tell you to "just say no." This book wants you to "just say know." High provides factual, reliable information on drugs, alcohol, and addiction, so you can make educated decisions for yourself. High discusses the risks of experimenting, so you don't have to rely on rumors. High uses research, interviews, and testimonials to give you a glimpse of what drug and alcohol use really looks like. David and Nic tell it like it is, answer the questions about drugs you might be nervous to ask out loud, and provide strategies to deal with the stress, peer pressure, and confusion that might have brought those questions about in the first place."--

Permanent Midnight

Stahl, Jerry — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT

Jerry Stahl's seminal memoir of drug addiction and a career in Hollywood, Permanent Midnight is a classic along the lines of Hubert Selby, Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn. Illuminating the self-loathing and self-destruction of an addict's inner life, Permanent Midnight follows Stahl through the dregs of addiction and into sobriety. In 1998, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, and Maria Bello starred in a film version of Permanent Midnight to much acclaim. Nic Sheff, author of Tweak, wrote the introduction to this edition.