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John Barleycorn
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Jack London |
It all came to me one election day. It was on a warm California afternoon, and I had ridden down into the Valley of the Moon from the ranch to the little village to vote Yes and No to a host of propo… |
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Drinking
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Caroline Knapp |
Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as "liquid armor… |
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Drunken angel
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Alan Kaufman |
"Alan Kaufman recounts with unvarnished honesty the story of the alcoholism that took him to the brink of death, the PTSD that drove him to the edge of madness, and the love that brought him back. So… |
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Lit
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Mary Karr |
The author reveals how, shortly after giving birth to a child she adored, she drank herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suic… |
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Lush
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Kerry Cohen |
When Loose Girl author Kerry Cohen reached her early 40s, she realized she had a drinking problem. Yes, she could get up on time, bring her kids to school, make dinner, chat with friends, and all aro… |
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Dangerous when wet
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Jamie Brickhouse |
"Whoever said you can't get sober for someone else never met my mother, Mama Jean. When I came to in a Manhattan emergency room after an overdose to the news that she was on her way from Texas, I pan… |
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Irrepressible
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Emily Bingham |
"Raised like a princess in one of the most powerful families in the American South, Henrietta was offered the helm of a publishing empire. Instead, she ripped through the Jazz Age like an F. Scott Fi… |
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Barefoot to Avalon
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Payne, David |
After witnessing his younger brother's tragic death in an auto accident in 2000, the author found that his life was spiraling out of control. From a cocktail hour indulgence, his drinking became a fu… |
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Between breaths
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Elizabeth Vargas |
The "20/20" anchor presents a candid memoir of anxiety, addiction, and recovery in which she addresses her time in rehab, her first year of sobriety, and the guilt she felt as a working mother who ha… |
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Pour me a life
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A. A. Gill |
"An astounding and brilliant memoir, A.A. Gill's Pour Me a Life is a riveting meditation on the author's alcoholism, seen through the lens of the memories that remain, and the transformative moments … |
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The outrun
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Amy Liptrot |
When Amy Liptrot returns to Orkney after more than a decade away, she is drawn back to the Outrun on the sheep farm where she grew up. Now she finds herself standing at the cliff edge, trying to come… |
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The soul of sponsorship
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Fitzgerald, Robert |
*The Soul of Sponsorship* explores the relationship of Bill Wilson, cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous, and his spiritual adviser and friend, Father Ed Dowling, and Irish Catholic Jesuit priest who li… |
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Don't worry, he won't get far on foot
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John Callahan |
Cartoonist John Callahan's dark (but still inspiring) memoir of his troubled family history, and his battles to recover from alcoholism and to function in life as a quadrapalegic. |
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The End of My Addiction
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Olivier Ameisen |
What if you there were a cure for addiction--a medication that eradicates the need for a fix? This is the story of Olivier Ameisen, a brilliant physician and cardiologist who developed a profound add… |
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