DescriptionWhen we first met Paula Spencer in The Woman Who Walked into Doors, she was 39, recently widowed, an alcoholic struggling to hold her family together. Paula Spencer begins on the eve of Paula's 48th birthday. She hasn't had a drink for fo…
DescriptionJane Gable thinks 1947 will be like every other year in Morgan Hill, Tennessee, but it turns out to be the year everything changes. Jane first lays eyes on young Milo Turner the day that her abusive, alcoholic father is buried in the Morgan Hill cemetery.
DescriptionThe Woodsman's Daughter is set in 19th-century rural Georgia. Dauntless teenaged beauty Dalia is plagued by her hard-drinking father and his terrible secrets. Determined to make a better life for herself, Dahlia strikes out to raise her own family. But her life is haunted by tragedy, and she is never out of reach of fate's cruel hand. Award-winning author Gwyn Hyman Rubio conquered best-seller lists across the country with her brilliant debut novel, Icy Sparks, an Oprah's Book Club selection and New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
DescriptionFrom earliest experimentation to habitual excess to full-blown abuse, 24-year-old Koren Zailckas leads us through her experience of a terrifying trend among young girls, exploring how binge drinking becomes routine, how it becomes "the usual". With the st…
DescriptionFinally someone has gone straight to the real experts: hundreds of men and women who have resolved a drinking problem. Best-selling author Anne M. Fletcher asked them a simple question: how did you do it? The result is the first completely unbiased guide…
DescriptionThis extraordinary memoir from Jeannette Walls is a stirring and distinctive story that has won tremendous critical acclaim. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly applauds the author's "fantastic storytelling knack", saying, "Walls doesn't pull her punches...in this excellent, unusual book." The author's father was a charismatic but alcoholic man who greatly preferred poker to gainful employment and wasn't above stealing the family grocery money to purchase liquor. His wife could barely be bothered to raise her children. So Walls and her siblings had to fend for themselves, providing their own food, shelter, and clothing, even if it meant picking through dumpsters. Remarkable for its lack of both sentimentality and anger, The Glass Castle is a striking testament to the power of human determination. It will long resonate in the minds of all who read it.
DescriptionYou may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twentysomething guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had two drinks, Augusten…
