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©1981
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A classic recovery text, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions outlines the core principles by which AA members recover and by which the AA fellowship functions. In addition, it clarifies each of the Twelve Steps that constitute the AA way of life and each of the Traditions by which AA maintains its unity.
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Pub. Date
2024.
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Everyone in fifteen-year-old's life needs something from her. Her mom needs her to help around the house, her dad needs her to not make waves, her ex needs her to not be so much. The only person who never needed anything from her was her grandmother ; and now she's dead. There's only one thing that dulls the pressure: alcohol. Vodka, beer, peppermint schnapps ; alcohol smooths the sharp edges of Bells's life. And what's the big deal? Everyone drinks....
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel following a New Mexican family's extraordinary year of love and sacrifice. It's Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant on his doorstep and disrupts his plans....
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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A social history of alcoholism in the United States, from the seventeenth century to the present day Today, millions of Americans are struggling with alcoholism, but millions are also in long-term recovery. Alcoholics Anonymous and a growing number of recovery organizations are providing support for alcoholics who will face the danger of relapse for the rest of their lives. We have finally come to understand alcoholism as a treatable illness, rather...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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Drinking cost Helen her marriage and custody of her seven-year-old son, Ollie. Once an aspiring art photographer, she now makes ends meet taking portraits of school children and working for a caterer. Recovering from her addiction, she spends lonely evenings checking out profiles on an online dating site. Weekend visits with her son are awkward. He's drifting away from her, fast. When she meets Ava and Swift Havilland, the vulnerable Helen is instantly...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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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.
Emma Walsh has finally worked up the courage to confront her husband, James, about their deteriorating marriage. But James...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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How different would our lives be if we stopped drinking on autopilot? If we stopped drinking altogether? Really different, it turns out. Really better. Frank, funny, and always judgment free, Sober Curious is a bold guide to choosing to live hangover-free, from Ruby Warrington, one of the leading voices of the new sobriety movement.
Would life be better without alcohol' It's the nagging question more and more of us are finding harder to ignore, whether...
11) Letters of trust
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Series
Friendship letters volume 1
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Where is hope when Eleanor Lapp's life starts to fall apart as extreme grief drives her husband to drink to numb his pain?
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More and more people are interested in living a sober life. What was once considered boring or shameful for many who got sober, now is inspirational and gratifying. While there are many "quit lit" books out there that offer inspirational stories of those who decided to make the shift, many don't offer the "what next" for readers. How do we get sober? And how do we live sober? Veronica Valli shares just those tools in Soberful. This book will give...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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Ten years ago, four people were brutally murdered. One girl lived. No one believes her story. The police think she's crazy. Her therapist thinks she's suicidal. Everyone else thinks she's a dangerous drunk. They're all right--but did she see the killer? As the anniversary of the murders approaches, Faith Winters is released from the psychiatric hospital and yanked back to the last spot on earth she wants to be--her hometown where the slayings took...
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"Struggling and persistently fighting against family put-downs and abuse of every kind turned Dale Fiegland into a gun-toting, knife-wielding runner for the Mafia, who was addicted to alcohol and drugs--the kind of man God loves to get ahold of and change. When Dale finally stopped fighting God and asked Him for help, miraculous events followed that can only be called a CONSPIRACY OF GRACE. This winsome tale, touched with humor, is shared in plainspoken...
16) Moon pie
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Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
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Eleven-year-old Martha tries to keep her family together after her mother's death as her father struggles with alcoholism.
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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For wedding singer Mel Hart, the holidays have always retained a certain magic. Her mother, Connie, always managed to pull off spectacular Santa hijinx that convinced Mel to keep believing in Santa way longer than other kids. Those moments meant everything to Mel because the rest of the year, life was unpredictable because of her mother's alcohol use. But two weeks before Christmas, Mel gets a call from the hospital: her mother has died. Then a woman...
18) Smoke screen
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Nate Beckett has spent his life fighting wildfires instead of the lies and rumors that drove him from his Colorado home town. His mother begs him to come to Carlisle now that his father has been released from prison, but it isn't until he's sidelined by an injury that he's forced to return and face his past. But that means facing Brenna too. Fourteen years ago, Nate was in love with the preacher's daughter. When Pastor Strickland discovered Brenna...
19) Flight
Pub. Date
c2013
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A seasoned airline pilot miraculously crash lands his plane after a mid-air catastrophe, saving nearly every soul on board. After the crash, Whip is hailed as a hero, but as more is learned, more questions than answers arise as to who or what was really at fault and what really happened on the plane.
20) A father's fight
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Hitting rock bottom, an aging boxer's rivalry within himself restores his vitality with hopes of retraining to fight for what matters most.
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