The Joey Song: A Mother's Story of Her Son's Addiction

8 best books like The Joey Song: A Mother's Story of Her Son's Addiction (Sandra Swenson): No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us, Once More We Saw Stars, Zac and Mia, Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption, Ebb and Flow, Mary, Who Wrote Frankenstein, Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss, Hurry Down Sunshine

No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

Author

Rachel Louise Snyder

An award-winning journalist's intimate investigation of the true scope of domestic violence, revealing how the roots of America's most pressing social crises are buried in abuse that happens behind closed doors.

We call it domestic violence. We call it private violence. Sometimes we call...

Once More We Saw Stars

Author	Jayson Greene
ISBN	1524733539

Two-year-old Greta Greene was sitting with her grandmother on a park bench on the Upper West Side of Manhattan when a brick crumbled from a windowsill overhead, striking her unconscious. She is immediately rushed to the hospital. Once More We Saw Stars begins with this event, leading the reader into...

Zac and Mia

Author

A.J. Betts

When I was little I believed in Jesus and Santa, spontaneous combustion, and the Loch Ness monster. Now I believe in science, statistics, and antibiotics.

So says seventeen-year-old Zac Meier during a long, grueling leukemia treatment in Perth, Australia. A loud blast of Lady Gaga alerts...

Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption

Author	William Cope Moyers
ISBN	0670037893

From rock bottom to recovery—the son of veteran broadcaster Bill Moyers chronicles his life- shattering battle with addiction and the hard-won fight for recovery

William Cope Moyers has come a long, long way. In 1994, he lay on the floor of an Atlanta crack house. His father had put together...

Ebb and Flow

Author	Heather Smith
ISBN	1771388382

One summer,
after a long plane ride
and a rotten bad year
I went to Grandma Jo's.
It was my mother's idea.
Jett, what you need is a change of scenery.
I think she needed a change of scenery, too.
One without me.
Because that rotten bad year?
That was my fault.

Thus...

Mary, Who Wrote Frankenstein

Author	Linda Bailey
ISBN	1770495592

The story of the girl behind one of the most well-known novels -- and monsters -- ever, perfectly timed for the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein.

How does a story begin? Sometimes it begins with a dream, and a dreamer. Mary is one such dreamer, a little girl who learns to read...

Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss

Author	Stephanie Wittels Wachs
ISBN	1492664103

The space between life and death is a moment.
But it will remain alive in me for hundreds of thousands of future moments.

One phone call. That's all it took to change Stephanie Wittels Wachs' life forever..

Her younger brother Harris, a star in the comedy world known for his work...

Hurry Down Sunshine

Author	Michael Greenberg
ISBN	1590511913

Hurry Down Sunshine tells the story of the extraordinary summer when, at the age of fifteen, Michael Greenberg’s daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sally’s visionary crack-up on the streets of Greenwich Village, and continues, among other places, in the out-of-time world of a Manhattan...