The heartbreaking story of college athlete Madison Holleran, whose life and death by suicide reveal the struggle of young people suffering from mental illness today in this #1 New York Times Sports and Fitness bestseller. If you scrolled through the Instagram feed of 19-year-old Maddy Holleran, you would see a perfect life: a freshman at an Ivy League school, recruited for the track team, who was also beautiful, popular, and fiercely intelligent. This was a girl who succeeded at everything she tried, and who was only getting started. But when Maddy began her long-awaited college career, her parents noticed something changed. Previously indefatigable Maddy became withdrawn, and her thoughts centered on how she could change her life. In spite of thousands of hours of practice and study, she contemplated transferring from the school that had once been her dream. When Maddy's dad, Jim, dropped her off for the first day of spring semester, she held him a second longer than usual. That would be the last time Jim would see his daughter. What Made Maddy Run began as a piece that Kate Fagan, a columnist for espnW, wrote about Maddy's life. What started as a profile of a successful young athlete whose life ended in suicide became so much larger when Fagan started to hear from other college athletes also struggling with mental illness. This is the story of Maddy Holleran's life, and her struggle with depression, which also reveals the mounting pressures young people -- and college athletes in particular -- face to be perfect, especially in an age of relentless connectivity and social media saturation.

What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen

Kate Fagan

Biographies & Memoirs

Back Bay Books

This Bird Has Flown: A Novel

This delightfully funny and steamy novel about music, fate,&nbsp;and love from beloved songwriter and Bangles&nbsp;co-founder Susanna Hoffs is "a&nbsp;total knockout" and "the smart, ferocious rock-star redemption romance you didn't know you needed" (New York Times Book Review). Jane Start is thirty-three, broke, and recently single. Ten years prior, she had a hit song--written by&nbsp;world-famous superstar Jonesy--but Jane hasn't had a breakout since.&nbsp;Now she's living out of four garbage bags at her parents' house, reduced to performing to Karaoke tracks in Las&nbsp;Vegas.&nbsp;Rock bottom. But when her longtime&nbsp;manager Pippa sends Jane to London to regroup,&nbsp;she's seated next to an intriguing stranger on the flight--the&nbsp;other&nbsp;Tom Hardy, an elegantly handsome Oxford professor of literature. Jane is instantly smitten by Tom, and soon, truly inspired. But it's not Jane's&nbsp;past&nbsp;alone that&nbsp;haunts her second chance at stardom, and at love. Is Tom all that he seems? And can Jane emerge&nbsp;from the shadow of Jonesy's earlier hit,&nbsp;and into the light of her own? In turns deeply sexy, riotously funny, and utterly joyful,&nbsp;This Bird Has Flown&nbsp;explores love, passion, and the ghosts of our past, and offers a glimpse inside the music business that could only come from beloved songwriter Susanna Hoffs. "Clever and entertaining&nbsp;. . .&nbsp;with an insider's feel for the mixed blessings of pop fame&#8203;."&nbsp;--Los Angeles Times "Part British romcom, part Jane Eyre, and one hundred percent enjoyable."--Tom Perrotta "In this sexy, page-turning treat, Susanna Hoffs writes as engagingly as she sings." --Helen Fielding "This isn't just a book, it's a love song, and it should come as no surprise that Susanna Hoffs has crafted the perfect one to put on your playlist." &#8213;Christina Lauren "A sweet and tender romance--and a valentine to music."&nbsp;--NPR "This book is a blast . . . about art and new beginnings and love and friendship and taking risks, it's such a fun read." &#8213;Jasmine Guillory

Romance

Hoffs, Susanna

Contemporary

A "deeply reported, deeply moving" (Patrick Radden Keefe) account of everyday heroes fighting on the front lines of the overdose crisis, from the New York Times bestselling author of Dopesick (inspiration for the Peabody Award-winning Hulu limited series) and Factory Man. Nearly a decade into the second wave of America's overdose crisis, pharmaceutical companies&nbsp;have&nbsp;yet to answer for the harms they created. As pending&nbsp;court battles against opioid makers, distributors, and retailers drag on, addiction rates have soared to record-breaking levels&nbsp;during the COVID pandemic, illustrating the critical need for leadership, urgency, and change.&nbsp;Meanwhile, there is scant consensus between law enforcement and medical leaders, nor an understanding of how to truly scale the programs that are out there, working at the ragged edge of capacity and actually saving lives. Distilling this massive, unprecedented national health crisis down to its character-driven emotional core as only she can, Beth Macy takes us into the country's hardest hit places to witness the devastating personal costs that one-third of America's families are now being forced to shoulder. Here we meet the ordinary people fighting for the least of us with the fewest resources, from harm reductionists risking arrest to&nbsp;bring lifesaving care to the homeless and addicted to the activists and bereaved families&nbsp;pushing to hold Purdue and the Sackler family accountable. These heroes come from all walks of life; what they have in common is an up-close and personal understanding of addiction that refuses to stigmatize--and therefore abandon--people who use drugs, as big pharma execs and many politicians are all too ready to do.&nbsp; Like the treatment innovators she profiles, Beth Macy meets the opioid crisis&nbsp;where it is--not where we think it should be or wish it was. Bearing witness with clear eyes, intrepid curiosity, and unfailing empathy, she brings us the crucial next installment in the story of the defining disaster of our era, one that touches every single one of us, whether directly or indirectly. A complex story of public health, big pharma, dark money, politics, race, and class that is by turns harrowing and heartening, infuriating and inspiring,&nbsp;Raising Lazarus&nbsp;is a must-read for all Americans.

Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America's Overdose Crisis

Business & Money

Macy, Beth

Industries

An instant New York Times bestseller, Dopesick is the only book to tell the full story of the opioid crisis, from the boardroom to the courtroom and into the living rooms of Americans struggling to save themselves and their families: "masterfully interlaces stories of communities in crisis with dark histories of corporate greed and regulatory indifference" from a journalist who has lived through it (New York Times). In this extraordinary work, Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of a national drama that has unfolded over two decades. From the labs and marketing departments of big pharma to local doctor's offices; wealthy suburbs to distressed small communities in Central Appalachia; from distant cities to once-idyllic farm towns; the spread of opioid addiction follows a tortuous trajectory that illustrates how this crisis has persisted for so long and become so firmly entrenched. Beginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics, Macy sets out to answer a grieving mother's question-why her only son died-and comes away with a gripping, unputdownable story of greed and need. From the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, Macy investigates the powerful forces that led America's doctors and patients to embrace a medical culture where overtreatment with painkillers became the norm. In some of the same communities featured in her bestselling book Factory Man, the unemployed use painkillers both to numb the pain of joblessness and pay their bills, while privileged teens trade pills in cul-de-sacs, and even high school standouts fall prey to prostitution, jail, and death. Through unsparing, compelling, andunforgettably humane portraits of families and first responders determined toameliorate this epidemic, each facet of the crisis comes into focus. In thesepolitically fragmented times, Beth Macy shows that one thing uniting Americans across geographic, partisan, and class lines is opioid drug abuse. But even in the midst of twin crises in drug abuse and healthcare, Macy finds reason to hope and ample signs of the spirit and tenacity that are helping the countless ordinary people ensnared by addiction build a better future for themselves, their families, and their communities. "An impressive feat of journalism, monumental in scope and urgent in its implications."-Jennifer Latson, The Boston Globe

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

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What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen

This Bird Has Flown: A Novel

Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America's Overdose Crisis

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America