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1) Any day now
Author
Series
A Sullivan's Crossing novel volume Book 2
Language
English
Description
For Sierra Jones, Sullivan's Crossing is meant to be a brief stopover. She's put her troubled past behind her but the path forward isn't yet clear. A visit with her big brother Cal and his new bride, Maggie, seems to be the best option to help her get back on her feet. Not wanting to burden or depend on anyone, Sierra is surprised to find the Crossing offers so much more than a place to rest her head. Cal and Maggie welcome her into their busy lives...
2) The highway
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When two girls disappear on a remote stretch of Montana road, former police investigator Cody Hoyt and his former rookie partner Cassie Dewell begin an investigation that will lead them into the hunting ground for a killer whose viciousness is outmatched only by his intelligence.
Author
Language
English
Description
When Noel learns that his former flame is terminally ill and pregnant with a child she claims is his, he agrees to take care of the baby girl once she's born. But as a recovering alcoholic whose demons are barely under control, he can't do it alone. Luckily, he has an amazing network of family and friends who are ready to help. A tale of joy, heartbreak and hope in a close-knit Dublin community.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Ballantine Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After reluctantly moving in with her mother, ex-alcoholic Astrid tries to rebuild her life and make amends for her past wrongs, but someone is following her and won't stop until she learns that some mistakes can't be forgiven.
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
426 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Timothy Warner, a PhD student who goes by the nickname "Moth," wakes up on his ninety-ninth day of sobriety with an intense craving for drink. He asks his uncle Ed, a former alcoholic and now successful psychiatrist, to meet him at an AA meeting later that day. When Ed doesn't show up, Moth bikes to his office and discovers a grisly scene -- his uncle lying in a pool of blood, shot through the temple. The police pronounce the death a suicide, but...
Author
Series
Highway Quartet volume Book 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
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 looks like the suicide of a man who's fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. Sober for fourteen years, Hank took pride in his hard-won sobriety and never hesitated to drop whatever he was doing to talk Cody off a ledge. When Cody takes...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
351 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
August Shroeder, a burned-out teacher, has been sober since his 19-year-old son died. Instead of a trip with his son to Yellowstone, he is now taking his ashes. An unexpected twist of fate intertwines August with two extra passengers on his journey, two orphans with nowhere else to go.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
233 p.; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book is Bert Pluymen's story of struggle and triumph over alcohol addiction. It also contains insightful, witty, uplifting, and wryly humorous stories of the many people Pluymen met who were also searching for sobriety. This is an informative book that will shed new light on how alcohol abuse can ruin people's lives-even if they thought it could never happen to them.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A transformative work showing that sometimes the recovery is more gripping than the addiction. With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that the story of recovery can be every bit as electrifying as the train wreck itself. Leslie Jamison deftly excavates the stories we tell about...
11) Woman in red
Author
Publisher
Vanguard Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Doubleday large print home library ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 628 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Returning home to Gray's Island after spending nine years in prison for the attempted murder of the drunk driver who had killed her son, Alice Kessler joins forces with Colin McGinty, a recovering alcoholic and 9/11 widower, to help the teenage son she had left behind when Jeremy is wrongly accused of rape.
Author
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Howard Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
x, 309 pages : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two pastors have developed eight choices that promise true happiness and life transformation. Through making each of these choices, you too will find God's pathway to wholeness and health.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Between Breaths, Vargas discusses her accounts of growing up with anxiety, which began suddenly at the age of six when her father served in Vietnam, how she dealt with this anxiety as she came of age, to her eventually turning to alcohol for relief. She tells of how she found herself living in denial, about the extent of her addiction and keeping her dependency a secret for so long. She addresses her time in rehab, her first year of sobriety, and...
15) Lit: a memoir
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
386 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 suicide before a spiritual awakening led her to sobriety.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fifteen years ago, Lilith Wade was arrested for the brutal murder of six women. After a death row conviction, media frenzy, and the release of an unauthorized biography, her thirty-year-old daughter Edie Beckett is just trying to survive out of the spotlight. She's a recovering alcoholic with a dead-end city job and an unhealthy codependent relationship with her brother. Edie also has a disturbing secret: a growing obsession with the families of...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what no one else will--searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking.
A new case brings her to Mattapan, a Boston neighborhood with a rough reputation. She is searching...