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322 pages ; 24 cm
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One frigid winter night, Mia and Michael Slate's comfortable world dissolves in an instant when they discover that their best friend has cheated them out of their life savings. At the same time, a few doors down, their teenaged son passes out in the snow at a party--a mistake whose consequences will shatter not just their family, but an entire community.
43) What we saw
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321 pages ; 22 cm
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"The story of a town torn apart by the events surrounding the rape of drunk girl at a house party, from the perspective of the partygoers who witnessed it"--
44) Last snow
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414 pages ; 25 cm
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Jack McClure, Special Advisor and closest friend to the new President of the United States, takes on a personal mission along with his official one: keeping safe from harm his two incompatible companions-- Annika Dementieva, a rogue Russian FSB agent, and Alli Carson, the President's daughter-- and finding the people responsible for murdering an American senator who was supposedly on a political trip to the Ukraine.
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"Saint Ambrose Prep is a place where the wealthy send their children for the best possible education, with teachers and administrators from the Ivy League, and graduates who become future lawyers, politicians, filmmakers, and CEOs. Traditionally a boys-only school, Saint Ambrose has just enrolled one hundred and forty female students for the first time. Even though most of the kids on the campus have all the privilege in the world, some are struggling,...
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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,...
48) 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....
55) 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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The explosion in 21st century brain research is radically changing our understanding of what happens to the brain when it's under the influence of alcohol and when it's on the receiving end of a person's drinking behaviors. As a result, this science is giving us new language for talking about a phenomenon that affects 90 million Americans and hundreds of million more people worldwide. This phenomenon is Secondhand Drinking (SHD). SHD is a term to...
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Get the Summary of Laura McKowen's Push Off from Here in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. In "Push Off from Here," Laura McKowen shares her journey of recovery from alcoholism, emphasizing the importance of self-acceptance, community, and the transformative power of love. She recounts her struggles with self-blame, the realization that addiction is a disease, and the role of childhood trauma in her substance abuse....
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This practical, comprehensive, and easy to use book helps alcohol abusers understand their behavior, but provides practical steps that anyone can use to solve an alcohol problem. Written by a cognitive-behavioral psychologist, this book includes chapters on overcoming low self-esteem, depression, stress, attending self-help groups, and living a better life after quitting. Each chapter contains specific self-help techniques. Recommended by SMART Recovery....
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Emotional Sobriety: Feel-Good Secrets for Everyone provides uplifting mental practices, powerful encouragement, and straightforward advice to anyone seeking to improve the quality of his or her life. Easy-to-follow, simple exercises and suggestions give you a step-by-step practical program to master your emotions and to tune in, tap in, and turn on to your Inner Being. This guide provides a new, innovative approach to steps ten and eleven found in...
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