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"Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her unbearable life on the swamp, and to her harsh father in Mississippi. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself with nowhere to go but back home. And she knows there will be a price to pay with her father. Matilda, daughter of a sharecropper, is from the other side of the Trace. Doing what she can to protect her family...
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"Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who'd amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old, the Duke has remarried and had a son, Eddie. While Sallie...
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Neighbors volume 2
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Alabama, 1937. Bootlegging was Milton and Yvonne Hamilton's ticket out of poverty, prison time, and plain bad luck. Now they've moved on -- to a bigger, richer pool of clientele -- right in their own respectable new middle-class backyard. And their growing friendship with seemingly-perfect couple Joyce and Odell Watson is proving golden in more ways than one. As Milton soon learns, Odell is hiding an outside family and dubious business dealings. It's...
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Diabolist's library volume 2
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"Amityville baywoman Ellie West fishes by day and bootlegs moonshine by night. It's dangerous work under Prohibition--independent operators like her are despised by federal agents and mobsters alike--but Ellie's brother was accepted to college and Ellie's desperate to see him go. So desperate that when wealthy strangers ask her to procure libations for an extravagant party Ellie sells them everything she has, including some booze she acquired under...
8) Varsity 170
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Chad is excited about his senior year in high school until his best friend is killed in an accident during wrestling practice.
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Recovery from anything is possible if you have hope. The Addiction Manifesto is the story of the trials and tribulations of a recovering addict on the road to recovery. For 20 years JR Weaver ran the streets, homeless, hopeless, Godless, and lost to the reality that his life was worth anything more than the next hit or drink. That is exactly what substance use disorder does, it blinds one to the reality or reasons behind why one's life has become...
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Addicts know how cunning, baffling, and powerful the disease they are battling is.
Families are sure they have the answer to their loved one's problems if only the addict would heed their advice!
Most communities are woefully lacking in treatment programs and facilities that work. Treatment providers are outnumbered by the patients battling addiction, and they struggle with how mental illness muddies up the picture and how little government officials...
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Father Ralph Pfau was one of AAs four most-published and most-formative authors (along with Bill Wilson, Richmond Walker, and Ed Webster) during the new movements earliest thirty years, during which it grew from only 100 members to almost 300,000. In the first ten years Pfau spent working to spread AA, he said I have traveled nearly 750,000 miles .... I have spoken before nearly two hundred thousand members of AA at retreats, meetings and conventions,...
12) Alcohol or Life
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This book is about how alcohol and drugs can cost you your life and can hurt you financially and make you lose your ambition and lose your focus on your dreams. Rehabs can help you get back on track with your lives, but you will need to want the sobriety. This book will help you understand that this is a disease. Family plays a big part of helping you return to reality.
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Grant me the serenity to accept the things I can't change, The courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference. Maybe you've just started on the road to recovering from addiction. Or you've tried to stop abusing alcohol or drugs before, but haven't been successful. Perhaps you're making progress in a support group or 12-step program, but want to add an approach grounded in science. No matter how far you've come, how far you...
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Are you or someone close to you struggling with addiction?
Tony Quinn's drug of choice was alcohol, but he thanks a three-year bout with cocaine for landing him in the treatment he needed.
Observations from an Alcoholic, through personal anecdotes, medical studies, and practical steps, will walk you through the intricacies of addiction to the path of healing. In it you will learn:
• What Alcoholism really is-the thinking, the pain, the paradox
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Follow the raw and real journey of a young girl as she grows into a woman with unshakable faith while her mom was in the grip of alcoholism. From beloved daughter to scapegoat and verbally abused to separation to caretaker to beloved daughter again. Without Jesus, she would not have lived to share her story. It's not the worst story; unfortunately, many have it far worse, but it's her story. A story about how Jesus was there for her and how he's there...
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How to find a God of your understanding. The best and clearest thing in print, say newcomers to the twelve-step program and the old-timers too. Author Glenn Chesnut has spent a number of years talking with old-timers in the twelve-step program, as well as reading the writings and listening to tape recordings of early figures from the 1940s, 50s and 60s in the upper Midwest. In The Higher Power of the Twelve-Step Program he explains how men and women...
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Un classique (depuis plus de 45 ans)
Une présentation originale des première, deuxième et troisième Etapes du programme des AA (représentées par les trois pieds d'un tabouret).
Une étude des défauts de caractère que nous révèle la quatrième Etape (représentée par des bouteilles de whisky vides).
L'auteur aborde également à l'aide de 31 méditations quotidiennes les problèmes fréquemment rencontrés par les personnes en rétablissement....
19) Afortunada
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Para Laura la gente que lograba beber con normalidad era muy afortunada. Ella no podía, el alcohol lo ocupaba todo y se sentía avergonzada y humillada. Entonces no alcanzaba a imaginar que ser adicta iba a convertirse en su mayor fortuna.
Fortuna por ser capaz de volver a experimentar sentimientos propios, de llevar una vida honesta, de poder estar con su hija, de encontrar un sentido a la vida más allá del alcohol.
A lo largo de este libro, mediante...
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WINNERS ALWAYS QUIT!
Sometimes, success comes from what you don't do. Author, Crystal Waltman, knows the struggle of navigating the emotional ups-and-downs of life. As a college athlete, her career came to an unexpected end. She dealt with stress and pain through addiction until, one day, she realized she was living a life she never wanted.
In the depths of despair, Crystal decided she needed to quit in order to win. She discovered a powerful process...
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