Hooked but Not Helpless: Ending Your Love Hate Relationship With Nicotine

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Allison, Patricia

Yost, Jack

Addiction & Recovery

Bridgecity Books

Book by Patricia Allison, Jack Yost

Hooked but Not Helpless

Patricia Allison

In 1984 film director Gus Van Sant (Drugstore Cowboy and Good Will Hunting) began his career with a small, black-and-white independent movie called Mala Noche. Van Sant's film, a gritty look at a gay man's relationship to Latino teenagers in Portland, Oregon's Little Mexico, was based on a novella by Walt Curtis, a street poet with a cult following among experimental writers and audiences. Curtis's small chapbook has never been widely available but is reprinted here with more material by him and an introduction by Van Sant. Curtis's authentic voice sounds like a cross between Allen Ginsberg and the over-narration on a travelogue about inner-city life. He is unstinting in his self-revelation, and the energy and love he has for his characters is palpable (the city of Portland is as much of a person here as his fellow humans). Mala Noche will be a revelation for anyone who loves Van Sant's film, and a fine introduction for those who have yet to watch it.

Mala Noche: And Other "Illegal" Adventures

LGBTQ+ Books

Curtis, Walt

Biographies & Memoirs

Planet Champions: Adventures in Saving the World

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

The lives of comfortably middle-class gay professionals are turned upside down when a homophobic bigot and his televangelist wife move into their all-gay neighborhood and begin a statewide antigay rights campaign. This funny and outrageous novel tackles their personal and political battles surrounding gay culture and the religious right, and deals with issues many gay people face on a day-to0day basis; group identity, personal freedom, privacy, spirituality, gay history, and AIDS. Set in Portland Oregon, Queer Corners is a moving, humorous, and sometimes shocking portrait of a community turned on its ear.

Queer Corners

Olson, Donald

Literature & Fiction

This book treats smoking as a real addiction and not just a bad habit. It teaches smokers who want to quit how to work through their drug dependency step by step and equips them with an arsenal of self-defense skills to disarm their most intense cravings and begin to retrain their minds. Inspiring stories from nine ex-smokers tell how they struggled through withdrawal, learned to face new challenges, and coped with ordinary stress without smoking again.

Hooked but Not Helpless: Kicking Nicotine Addiction

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