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2) Shadow tag
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English
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This novel presents the story of Irene America, who is a smart, beautiful, introspective woman of Native American descent. Too distracted to finish her doctoral degree, she musters the emotional resources needed to keep two journals. The "Red Diary" is bait, filled with adulterous scenes that Irene uses to push volatile artist husband Gil close enough to the brink that he'll leave her. She unleashes all her rage and frustration in the "Blue Notebook,"...
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Language
English
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The Sober Kitchen is the first major book to focus on the important and often overlooked link between food and recovery. Professional chef and recovering alcoholic Liz Scott serves up this groundbreaking cookbook chock full of vital information on basic nutrition and current addiction research, as well as more than 300 delicious, simple recipes. She also offers plenty of realistic, down-to-earth advice and encouragement, making The Sober Kitchen a...
Author
Publisher
Power Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Contains the three-step holistic program to total recovery that is the basis of the successful Passages approach. You will learn: the three steps to permanent sobriety; how to create a personalized, holistic treatment program to completely cure your dependency; the four causes of dependency; how your thoughts, emotions, and beliefs are key factors in your recovery; and how to stimulate your body's self-healing potential to be forever free of dependency.--From...
8) Drunken
Publisher
Maverick Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Jobless 40-year-old Reggie struggles to maintain his alcoholism while he navigates the challenges of family, life, and his frequent encounters with the porcelain god. As he tries to get back on top will he prevail or will he always be "Drunken!"
Author
Publisher
Time Inc
Pub. Date
[1963]
Language
English
Description
The year 1936 finds aspiring writer Don Birnam living on the East side of Manhattan, where he teeters on the precipice of a yawning, self-imposed abyss. He takes a drink, and then one drink becomes two, then three, until each slug of liquor blends seamlessly into a river propelling him along a drunken, five-day odyssey. And all the while, as the ravages of booze slowly eat away at him, Birnam finds himself shrouded in the notion that he might stop--that...
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Language
English
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Alcohol can be an item of diet, a medicine, sometimes an element in religious ritual. It is a valued object for the connoisseur, a traded commodity and a symbol of national pride (wine for instance in France, whisky in Scotland). The range of social and medical problems associated with alcohol and the history of related treatment methods (including the temperance movement, prohibition, AA and a range of contemporary approaches) are considered here....
Series
Publisher
Omnigraphics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Excessive alcohol use causes approximately 88,000 deaths each year, making it the third leading lifestyle-related cause of death in the United States. Alcohol affects every organ in the drinker's body. While moderate alcohol use can have some health benefits for adults, heavy alcohol use and binge drinking can harm the body, disrupt relationships, and lead to risky behaviors, injury, illness, or death. Furthermore, any alcohol use can cause permanent...
Author
Publisher
Createspace
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"He is respected in his community. He is a man of faith. He never had a DUI, spent a night in jail, lost a job due to his drinking, and he was never admitted to a rehab facility. He had never been told by friend or foe that he was an alcoholic; and he never purposely hurt anyone while drinking...or so he thought. This is the memoir of a college-educated business person who made significant income and owned many material "things." It has both humorous...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking program to help you cut back or quit drinking entirely--in the privacy of your own home"--
"Jack Canfield, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul; franchise and coauthor of The Success Principles, and Dave Andrews, a recovery expert, join forces to present a revolutionary program to help you cut back or quit drinking entirely--in the privacy of your own home. Alcohol kills one person every ten...
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