Alcoholism category: 580 books
by Joseph Cook
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Alcohol and the Human Brain
Alcohol injures the blood by changing the color and chemical composition of its corpuscles.
In the stereopticon illustrations, you saw that the red discs of blood are distorted in shape by the action of alcohol. You saw that the arrangement of the coloring...
by James J Slattery
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
DIE LIVE LOVE is the story of one reluctant pilgrim’s progress from childhood’s end through the various stages of spiritual and physical death into life, then into Grace. It is a tale of growing alienation metastasizing into alcoholism and impending spiritual death. It is a story of a man buried...
by Joe Bloggs
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Joe Bloggs is a recovering alcoholic, having sufferered twenty five years of active alcoholism, coupled with a reliance upon opiate based prescription drugs, today he lives as a free man. No longer does he live within the nightmare of his hellish addictions. In this, his first book “From The Horses...
Design for Living
Daily Meditations On the 12 Steps of A.A. for Atheists & Agnostics
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2018
The 12 Steps are the foundation of A.A.'s program of recovery, and five of those steps are based on God. Since A.A. describes itself as a spiritual Fellowship, many new to A.A. are confused as to why a Christian God lies at the center of the 12 Steps, and may mistakenly assume that believing in God...
by Ph.D. James M. Strawbridge
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
What makes one person addicted to drugs and alcohol and another seemingly immune to the temptation? What can family and friends do to help the addicted, or can they do anything? Using interviews with families and addicts now in recovery, psychologist and addictions specialist Dr. James M. Strawbridge...
by John W.
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Unlike the memoir of a famous person, my story lives with the millions of baby boomers who passed me a joint and a beer in college and again at the corporate picnic. Before the Woodstock weekend in 1969, I graduated from college and married the mother of our love child, began training for a computer...
Cleaning Up: How I Gave Up Drinking and Lived
How I Gave Up Drinking and Lived
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Imagine not drinking a bottle of wine before making a pass; not moving in like a starving cat when someone is at the bar; not apologising for something you don't remember doing. Once upon a time, Tania Glyde couldn't imagine living any other way. She wondered whether she had a problem, but so many...
Lit
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Mary Karr’s bestselling, unforgettable sequel to her beloved memoirs The Liars’ Club and Cherry—and one of the most critically acclaimed books of the year—Lit is about getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a mother by letting go of a mother; learning to write by learning to live.
The...
By Indirections
Being Drunk and Not: My Indirect Directions to Sobriety
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
This story is for drinkers who have tried the successful routes to sobriety of others and failed, but have enough spark left to consider something else -- a third or alternative way that worked for me. Neither professional therapy nor Alcoholics Anonymous as singular routes did the job for me. Nothing...
Pastrix
The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Now a New York Times bestseller, Nadia Bolz-Weber takes no prisoners as she reclaims the term "pastrix"(pronounced "pas-triks," a term used by some Christians who refuse to recognize female pastors) in her messy, beautiful, prayer-and-profanity laden narrative about an unconventional...
Kiss Tomorrow Hello
Notes From the Midlife Underground by Twenty-Five Women Over Forty
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2006
“How could ‘old age’ be a medical diagnosis when I wasn’t even forty?”
—Lolly Winston
“… if aging is difficult for those of us who were only sometimes cute,” she says, “just imagine how hard it must be for the aging knockouts, the living dolls.”
—Rebecca McClanahan
“I...
by Leslie Jamison
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
From the author of the New York Times bestselling essay collection The Empathy Exams and the memoir The Recovering, Leslie Jamison’s “exquisitely beautiful” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel about three generations of women and the inescapable brutality of love.
As a young woman, Tilly...
Codependent No More
How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2009
The healing touchstone of millions, this modern classic by one of America's best-loved and most inspirational authors holds the key to understanding codependency and to unlocking its stultifying hold on your life.
Is someone else's problem your problem? If, like so many others, you've lost...
The Sober Diaries
How one woman stopped drinking and started living
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
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...