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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Drinking Drinking 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… OL15854467W
Back of beyond Back of beyond C. J. Box Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it … OL16151742W
Spilling the beans Spilling the beans Clarissa Dickson Wright The no-holds-barred autobiography of one of the nation's best-loved cooks, Clarissa Dickson Wright, whose life has led her from wealth and privilege to alcoholism, bankruptcy and eventually fame in '… OL16469763W
Last Call Last Call Paul R. McHugh,Jack H. Hedblom "I knew about drunk, but did not know anything about living sober. I hadn’t really been sober for fifteen years. It wasn’t enough that I stopped drinking. I had to learn how to live." The journey … OL17684897W
Their forever love Their forever love Kate Welsh Jim is a recovering alcoholic who has become a minister. Eight years after his divorce, he decides to find his ex-wife and son. Through his faith in God, he finds the courage to make amends with his … OL17707106W
Lit Lit 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… OL18165256W
Take me with you Take me with you Catherine Ryan Hyde August Shroeder, a burned-out teacher, has been sober since his 19-year-old son died. Every year he's spent the summer on the road, but making it to Yellowstone this year means everything. The plan h… OL20034464W
Woman in red Woman in red Eileen Goudge Alice Kessler spent nine years in prison for the attempted murder of the drunk driver who killed her eldest son. Now she has returned home to Gray's Island to reconnect with the son she left behind. … OL24308818W