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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"For years, Holly Whitaker wore her workaholic-party-girl persona as a badge of honor, while privately feeling increasingly miserable. She believed that if she could just eat cleaner, save more money, and be more perfect, her life would finally snap into place. Yet all of her attempts to fix herself just added up to more chaos and the chaos added up to more pain and so she added more wine. When she finally had enough and started looking around for...
Publisher
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services
Language
English
Description
Alcoholics Anonymous (also known as the Big Book in recovery circles) sets forth cornerstone concepts of recovery from alcoholism and tells the stories of men and women who have overcome the disease. The fourth edition includes twenty-four new stories that provide contemporary sharing for newcomers seeking recovery from alcoholism in A.A. during the early years of the 21st century. Sixteen stories are retained from the third edition, including the...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Using the twelve step framework for understanding the inner work a person must do in order to overcome addiction, Michael Cowl Gordon walks readers through the journey to inner salvation and peace. Using the heroe's journey as the path on which to travelthrough these steps, he uncovers the deep work that it takes to be the hero in your own story"--
"Uses the hero's journey as the path on which to travel for overcoming addiction and crisis and rescuing...
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Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
As she worries about her mother who is entering a rehab facility for alcoholism, eleven-year-old Veronica struggles with secrets, her favorite sport softball, and what she really wants to do with her life.
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English
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"Alcohol isn't going to fix the systemic lack of support for mothers--and pretending it's the solution to surviving motherhood does more harm than good. A wine glass etched with "Mommy needs wine"; a T-shirt that says, "I wine because my kids whine"; a onesie proclaiming, "I'm the reason mommy drinks." This is Mommy Wine Culture: the pervasive message that alcohol helps us survive motherhood. But according to writer and mother Celeste Yvonne, it's...
8) The dyslexia empowerment plan: a blueprint for renewing your child's confidence and love of learning
Author
Language
English
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Description
Shares ideas for accessing the tools needed by dyslexic students in school and life, outlining a three-step strategy for skill building and advocacy while offering advice on how to harness personal strengths to advance long-term goals.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
"Stamping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating, Derby-topped hooligan Alex has a good time -- at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Stanley Kubrick's future-shock vision of the Anthony Burgess novel"--Container.
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Language
English
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Description
Shaka Senghor was raised in a middle class neighborhood on Detroit's east side during the height of the 1980s crack epidemic. An honor roll student and a natural leader, he dreamed of becoming a doctor'but at age 11, his parents' marriage began to unravel, and the beatings from his mother worsened, sending him on a downward spiral that saw him run away from home, turn to drug dealing to survive, and end up in prison for murder at the age of 19, fuming...
14) Body brokers
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When a recovering junkie is brought to Los Angeles for treatment, he soon finds out that the rehab center is a smokescreen for a fraudulent operation which enlists addicts to recruit other addicts.
Author
Publisher
Coronet
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
A bravely honest and brilliantly comic account of how one mother gave up drinking and started living this is Bridget Jones Dries Out. Clare Pooley is a Cambridge graduate and was a Managing Partner at one of the world's biggest advertising agencies, and yet by eighteen months ago she'd become an overweight, depressed, middle-aged mother of three who was drinking more than a bottle of wine a day, and spending her evenings Googling 'Am I an alcoholic?'...
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An Olympic hopeful recounts her journey of healing and empowerment after a rape attack in 2009, describing the media frenzy that surrounded her trial; her advocacy for fellow survivors; and the mental, spiritual, and physical exercises that enabled her recovery.
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