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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Hampshire

A Dual Memoir of Alcoholism

From the opening paragraphs of Double Double:

"We were sitting in a coffee shop talking, looking at the view of downtown Charlottesville, Virginia. This was ten years ago, and we had both been off alcohol for more than a decade. We were disagree­ing about the best way to stay sober when my mother said, 'I think we should write a book about alcoholism.'

"I sat back. 'We?'

"'Both of us. Two points of view.'" --from the Foreword

Double Double is a unique, dual memoir of alcoholism, a disease that affects nearly 45 million Americans each year. People who suffer from alcoholism as well as their families and friends know that while it is possible to get sober, there is no one "right" way to do this.

Now, award-winning mystery writer Martha Grimes and her son, Ken Grimes, offer two points of view on their struggles with alcoholism. In alternating chapters, they share their stories--stories of drinking, recovery, relapse, friendship, travel, work, success, and failure.

For Martha, it was about drinking martinis at home, sometimes with friends, sometimes alone. For Ken, it was partying in bars and clubs. Each hit bottom. Martha spent time doing outpatient reha­bilitation, once in 1990 and again two years later. Ken began twelve-step recovery. This candid memoir describes how different both the disease and the recovery can look in two different people--even two people who are mother and son.

Double Double is an intensely personal and illuminating book, filled with insights, humor, a little self-deprecation, and a lot of self-evaluation. Anyone who has faced alcoholism will identify with parts of this book. All readers will find these pages revealing, moving, and compelling.

Double Double

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Minnesota

Hired by Madeline Gladstone, the president of a shoe company, to help her prevent a corporate takeover, 16-year-old Jenna Boller embarks on an eye-opening adventure that teaches both of them the rules of the road-and the rules of life.

Rules of the Road

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#paperback #vet #familysecrets #alcoholism 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

North Dakota



In this compelling and poignant debut novel, a woman skilled at caring for animals must learn to mend the broken relationships in her family....

For veterinarian Geneva Novak, animals can be easier to understand than people. They're also easier to forgive. But when her mother, Helen, is injured in a vodka-fueled accident, it's up to Geneva to give her the care she needs.

Since her teens, Geneva has kept her self-destructive mother at arm's length. Now, with two slippery teenagers of her own at home, the last thing she wants is to add Helen to the mix. But Geneva's husband convinces her that letting Helen live with them could be her golden chance to repair their relationship.

Geneva isn't expecting her mother to change anytime soon, but she may finally get answers to the questions she's been asking for so long. As the truth about her family unfolds, however, Geneva may find secrets too painful to bear and too terrible to forgive.

CONVERSATION GUIDE INCLUDED

House Broken

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477. #hardcover #politics #church #intrigue #violence #alcoholism #bisexuality #romance

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Idaho

Kathleen Leary Donahue lives the perfect life in Chicago with her husband, Brian, a senatorial candidate, her three beautiful children, and her own successful career, until a phone call from her husband's male lover brings her face to face with an unpleasant reality.

Fall from Grace

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#paperback #nonfiction #biography #alcoholism #autobiography #korenzailckas #general 

Florida

Story of a Drunken Girlhood

Garnering a vast amount of attention from young people and parents, Smashed became a media sensation in the US and New York Times bestseller. Eye-opening and utterly gripping, Koren's story is that of thousands of girls like her who are not alcoholics - yet - but who routinely use booze as a shortcut to courage. Smashed is a sober look at how Zailckas drank from the age of 14 to some horrific results (stomach pumping, memory loss etc), what it took for her to realise she had to stop drinking and it is ultimately a literary debut destined to become a classic.

Smashed

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Despite the tattered dust cover, this book is a powerful and inspiring collection of interviews with a variety of well-known individuals who have experienced #alcoholism #Addiction #Memoir 

Pennsylvania

Personal conversations about Alcoholism with Dennis Wholey

The Courage to Change 

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Bottom right corner has slightly crease on pages. #series #comingout #homosexuality #sexualorientation #schools #alcoholism #interpersonalrelationships #lgbt #ya


Ohio

Three high school seniors, a jock with a girlfriend and an alcoholic father, a closeted gay, and a flamboyant gay rights advocate, struggle with family issues, gay bashers, first sex, and conflicting feelings about each other.

Rainbow Boys

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#jockey #kentuckyderby #alcoholism #sportofkings 

California

Riding for My Life

In a memoir of failure and redemption, the renowned jockey describes his professional racing career and his long and difficult battle, with the help of his wife, Suzee, against alcoholism.

Against the Odds

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Book deals with adult children of alcoholics in the workplace. Autographed inscription by author reads: “To Eleanor, Best Wishes, Jan Woititz.” Hardcover measuring 6.25” x 9.25”. Solid, clean copy with crisp pages. Dust jacket shows wear with five closed tears, the largest being 3/4”. #hardcover #nonfiction #psychology #alcoholism #employment (Shelf 3B)

New Jersey

The Art of Self Sabotage

Home Away from Home AUTOGRAPHED 

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#alcoholism #addiction #al-anon #family #supportgroup #support-group 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Maryland

Living with Alcoholism

Al-Anon's latest, Courage to Be Me, is a treasure-trove of recovery stories specially written by and for Alateens. Every teen living with an alcoholic-recovering or not-should read this book.

Courage to Be Me

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A Novel

Twelve Native Americans came to the Big Oakland Powwow for different reasons. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death and has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle's memory. Edwin Frank has come to find his true father. Bobby Big Medicine has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather. Orvil has taught himself Indian dance through YouTube videos, and he has come to the powwow to dance in public for the very first time. Tony Loneman is a young Native American boy whose future seems destined to be as bleak as his past, and he has come to the Powwow with darker intentions -- intentions that will destroy the lives of everyone in his path.

There There

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Ex-Library book, library stickers; marking , stamps but physically sound with pages and covers intact. #alcoholism 

Virginia

#paperback #psychology #family #alcohol #alcoholism #parenting #trauma

Texas

Growing up with Addiction As Youngsters, Adolescents, Adults

This "little green book," as it has come to be known to hundreds of thousands of C.O.A.'s and A.C.O.A.'s, is meant to help the reader understand the roles children in alcoholic families adopt, the problems they face in adulthood as a result, and what they can do to break the pattern of destruction.

It Will Never Happen to Me!

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11 Front cover shows wear #paperback #fiction #historicalfiction #family #love #relationships #life #gritty  #oprahsbookclub #alcoholism #divorce #resilience #strongwomen

A novel set in a small town in Vermont in 1960 offers the story of lonely and vulnerable Marie Fermoyle, her three children, and a dangerous con man

Songs in Ordinary Time

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Some normal wear on spine and back of cover. Still in good condition! #paperback #nonfiction #alcoholism #memoir #dark 

A Memoir

The Tenth Anniversary Edition of the New York Times bestselling book that has sold over half a million copies in paperback.

"I was addicted to "Bewitched" as a kid. I worshipped Darren Stevens the First. When he'd come home from work and Samantha would say, 'Darren, would you like me to fix you a drink?' He'd always rest his briefcase on the table below the mirror in the foyer, wipe his forehead with a monogrammed handkerchief and say, 'Better make it a double.'" (from Chapter Two)

You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twentysomething guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had two drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all. Loud, distracting ties, automated wake-up calls and cologne on the tongue could only hide so much for so long. At the request (well, it wasn't really a request) of his employers, Augusten lands in rehab, where his dreams of group therapy with Robert Downey Jr. are immediately dashed by grim reality of fluorescent lighting and paper hospital slippers. But when Augusten is forced to examine himself, something actually starts to click and that's when he finds himself in the worst trouble of all. Because when his thirty days are up, he has to return to his same drunken Manhattan life--and live it sober. What follows is a memoir that's as moving as it is funny, as heartbreaking as it is true. Dry is the story of love, loss, and Starbucks as a Higher Power.

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This book, written by a certified alcohol counselor, explains how a family interventions work and dispels damaging myths about recovery from #addiction and #alcoholism. #Intervention #Counseling

a new approach to intervention for alcoholism and drug addiction

Love First

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#paperback #nonfiction #memoir #recovery #selfhelp #alcoholism

Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

*A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* For Sarah Hepola, alcohol was "the gasoline of all adventure." She spent her evenings at cocktail parties and dark bars where she proudly stayed till last call. Drinking felt like freedom, part of her birthright as a strong, enlightened twenty-first-century woman. But there was a price. She often blacked out, waking up with a blank space where four hours should be. Mornings became detective work on her own life. What did I say last night? How did I meet that guy? She apologized for things she couldn't remember doing, as though she were cleaning up after an evil twin. Publicly, she covered her shame with self-deprecating jokes, and her career flourished, but as the blackouts accumulated, she could no longer avoid a sinking truth. The fuel she thought she needed was draining her spirit instead. 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. It's about giving up the thing you cherish most--but getting yourself back in return.

Blackout

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My Daughter's Life and Death Struggle with Alcoholism

The former Democratic presidential candidate describes his daughter's long and difficult battle with alcoholism, her failed attempts at rehab, the family's struggle with difficult issues, and her tragic death. 100,000 first printing. Tour.

Terry

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Mi Vida

Perico, or parrot, was what Dad called me sometimes. It was from a Mexican saying about a parrot that complains how hot it is in the shade, while all along he's sitting inside an oven and doesn't know it....

For Manuel Hernandez, the year leading up to his test of courage, his initiation into a gang, is a time filled with the pain and tension, awkwardness and excitement of growing up in a crazy world. His dad spends most of his time and money at the local pool hall; his brother flips through jobs like a thumb through a deck of cards; and his mom never stops cleaning the house, as though one day the rooms will be so spotless they'll disappear into a sparkle, and she'll be free.

Manny's dad is always saying that people are like money--there are million- and thousand- and hundred-dollar people out there, and to him, Manny is just a penny. But Manny wants to be more than a penny, smarter than the parrot in the oven. He wants to find out what it means to be a vato firme, a guy to respect.

In this beautifully written novel, Victor Martinez gives readers a vivid portrait of one Mexican-American boy's life. Manny's story is like a full-color home movie--sometimes funny, sometimes sad, but always intensely original.For Manuel Hernandez, the year leading up to his test of courage, his initiation into a gang, is a time filled with the pain and tension, awkwardness and excitement of growing up in a mixed-up, crazy world. Manny's dad is always calling him el perico, or parrot. It's from a Mexican saying about a parrot that complains how hot it is in the shade while all along he's sitting inside the oven and doesn't know it. But Manny wants to be smarter than the parrot in the oven--he wants to find out what it means to be a vato firme, a guy to respect. From an exciting new voice in Chicano literature, this is a beautifully written, vivid portrait of one Mexican-American boy's life.

1998 Pura Belpre Author Award

1996 Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature

1997 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library)

1996 National Book Award for Young People's Literature

Parrot in the Oven

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Alabama

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North Carolina

It is 1970 in the suburbs of north London and, from the untidy comfort of her crowded house, Colette Jones is watching her older brother go to pieces, drinking himself into oblivion on home-made wine. Colette knows the solace a drink can provide, being partial to an evening at the Red Lion herself. But soon she finds she cannot afford to ignore the destructive effect that alcohol is having on her family, and with gritted teeth Colette is forced to exile the alcoholic son she loves so much from the house. But this act takes its toll and, just as she can't resist a drink, so she can't resist allowing Janus back into her life - with heartbreaking consequences for everyone.

Gerard Woodward's magnificent second novel continues the story of the Joneses, so memorably introduced in August. By way of an odyssey through the pubs, parks and shopping parades of suburban London, it lurches from farce to tragedy as the members of one unforgettable family build and destroy their lives.

I'll Go to Bed at Noon

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South Dakota

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New York

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Martha Grimes; Ken Grimes

Double Double

Joan Bauer

Rules of the Road

Sonja Yoerg

House Broken

Andrew M. Greeley

Fall from Grace

Koren Zailckas

Smashed

Dennis Wholey

The Courage to Change

Alex Sanchez

Rainbow Boys

Jerry Bailey; Tom Pedulla

Against the Odds

Janet G. Woititz

Home Away from Home AUTOGRAPHED

Hazelden Publishing

Courage to Be Me

Tommy Orange

There There

Arha Grimes and Ken Grimes

Double Double

Claudia Black

It Will Never Happen to Me!

Mary McGarry Morris

Songs in Ordinary Time

Augusten Burroughs

Dry

Jeff Jay & Debra Jay

Love First

Sarah Hepola

Blackout

George S. McGovern

Terry

Victor Martinez; Steve Scott (Illustrator)

Parrot in the Oven

Tommy Orange

There There

Gerard Woodward

I'll Go to Bed at Noon

Tommy Orange

There There

Tommy Orange

There There

Tommy Orange

There There