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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015].
Description
A memoir of unblinking honesty and poignant, laugh-out-loud humor, BLACKOUT is the story of a woman stumbling into a new kind of adventure--the sober life she never wanted. Shining a light into her blackouts, she discovers the person she buried, as well as the confidence, intimacy, and creativity she once believed came only from a bottle. Her tale will resonate with anyone who has been forced to reinvent or struggled in the face of necessary change....
Publisher
Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Este libro es una introducción al funcionamiento de Al-Anon, Alcohólicos Anónimos. A medida que las personas se unen para encontrar ayuda y apoyo para lidiar con los efectos del alcoholismo, a menudo encuentran ayuda y consuelo en las experiencias compartidas por otros miembros. Se unen por muchas razones diferentes y regresan buscando una razón: la esperanza de una vida mejor.
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Description
With a focus on recovery and treatment, this volume identifies the characteristics, behaviors, and experiences of the high-functioning alcoholic and highlights the struggles of those who cannot control their drinking even as they succeed in other areas of their lives.
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"In Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, award-winning journalist Anne Dowsett Johnston combines in-depth research with her own personal story of recovery, and delivers a groundbreaking examination of a shocking yet little recognized epidemic threatening society today: the precipitous rise in risky drinking among women and girls.With the feminist revolution, women have closed the gender gap in their professional and educational...
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Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Jack Canfield, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul; franchise and coauthor of The Success Principles, and Dave Andrews, a recovery expert, join forces to present a revolutionary program to help you cut back or quit drinking entirely--in the privacy of your own home. Alcohol kills one person every ten seconds worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. Thankfully, now, for anyone who feels that alcohol...
9) Any day now
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Series
Sullivan's crossing volume 2
Description
"For Sierra Jones, Sullivan's Crossing is meant to be a brief stopover. She's put her troubled past behind her but the path forward isn't yet clear. A visit with her big brother Cal and his new bride Maggie seems to be the best option to help her get back on her feet. Not wanting to burden or depend on anyone, Sierra is surprised to find the Crossing offers so much more than a place to rest her head"--
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Publisher
Hachette Go Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Drinking is everywhere in our culture-whether it's wine-o-clock or impromptini, alcohol often is a fundamental part of socializing and destressing. And it can seem black or white: you drink or you don't. If you fall into the latter camp, people automatically assume one of a few things: you're pregnant, you're taking antibiotics, or you're in recovery. There's not a lot of grey area. But a lot of women aren't given the tools to really take a step...
11) The favor
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"A gripping debut domestic suspense novel, Nora Murphy's thrilling The Favor explores with compassion and depth what can happen when women pushed to the limit take matters into their own hands. Staying is dangerous. Leaving could be worse. Leah and McKenna have never met, though they have parallel lives. They don't-ever-find themselves in the same train carriage or meet accidentally at the gym or the coffee shop. They don't-ever-discuss their problems...
12) Dream Lake
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In the exquisite setting of Friday Harbor, Zoe Hoffman, an innkeeper who has all but given up on love, is attracted to Alex Nolan, a bitter and cynical man battling his demons with the help of a whiskey bottle, until he is visited by a mysterious ghost who is stuck in the Nolans' Victorian house. All the ghost knows is that he loved a girl once. And Alex and Zoe hold the key to unlocking the mystery that keeps him trapped there.
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"The Good House tells the story of Hildy Good, who lives in a small town on Boston's North Shore. Hildy is a successful real-estate broker, good neighbor, mother, and grandmother. She's also a raging alcoholic. Hildy's family held an intervention for her about a year before this story takes place--"if they invite you over for dinner, and it's not a major holiday," she advises "run for your life"--and now she feels lonely and unjustly persecuted. She...
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"For fans of the Netflix hit series Dead to Me and bestselling domestic suspense fiction by Shari Lapena and Liane Moriarty, a novel set in suburban New Jersey about a dead husband with a serious alcohol problem, an angry, betrayed wife, and the family friends whose talent for keeping secrets might lead to everyone's undoing"--
16) Ham on rye
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In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski.
17) Mending fences
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Series
Deacon's family volume 1
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"As Luke Schrock struggles to reenter his Amish community, an audacious request from a deacon seems impossible--until he meets unpredictable Izzy Lapp"--
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Publisher
Hazelden Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
" Since the publication of Alcoholics Anonymous in 1939, the Twelve Steps have been central to staying sober for millions of people around the world. Countless recovery and treatment organizations have adopted the Steps as their program for abstaining from addictive behaviors. But recently a growing chorus of critics has questioned the science behind this model. In this book, Nowinski calls upon the latest research, as well as his own seminal Project...
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Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"In 2014, [the author] was sentenced to 90 days in Los Angeles County Jail for a DUI and battery of an officer ... Following a 414-day relapse into alcohol and drug addiction after more than a decade clean and sober, [the author] was sentenced and served her time with only six months' sobriety ... Incarceration might have ruined her altogether, if not for the stories that sustained her while she was behind bars--both the artful tales in the books...
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