Addiction category: 1829 books
Pastrix
The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Now a New York Times bestseller, Nadia Bolz-Weber takes no prisoners as she reclaims the term "pastrix"(pronounced "pas-triks," a term used by some Christians who refuse to recognize female pastors) in her messy, beautiful, prayer-and-profanity laden narrative about an unconventional...
Orphan Spirit
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Author Maria Star developed in a schizophrenics womb for nine months. After Maria was born, she was given to the Childrens Aid Society and subsequently experienced life in six foster homes before being adopted. In Orphan Spirit, she narrates the story of her life and how her early abandonment affected...
by Darryl Rodgers
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Twenty year-old Speedy Chase Rodgers seemed to have it all. His family loved him dearly. His generosity and sense of humor made him popular among his peers. His speed, agility, and competitive nature made him a force to be reckoned with on the football field. Young ladies were drawn to his good looks,...
Smoothies For Beginners
Simple, Quick, Healthy and Easy for Beginners, Smoothies Recipes for Weight Loss Diet
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Do you find that you don't have enough time to prepare healthy and delicious Smoothies ? be happier and feel healthier every single day? Do you want an abundant supply of delicious, quick and easy recipes at your fingertips?
If any of the above questions made you say "Yes," then this book is for you!
by Liberty Chidziwa
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2014
Entrepreneurship imagination is a classical book in the creativity of entrepreneurs.It offers practical simple motivational guidance to those who want to be entreprenuers and those already in business.This book is nugget of wisdom to the entrepreneurs who wish to be in business and those already operating...
Ashes to Ashes
America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
No book before this one has rendered the story of cigarettes -- mankind's most common self-destructive instrument and its most profitable consumer product -- with such sweep and enlivening detail.
Here for the first time, in a story full of the complexities and contradictions of human nature,...
Kiss Tomorrow Hello
Notes From the Midlife Underground by Twenty-Five Women Over Forty
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2006
“How could ‘old age’ be a medical diagnosis when I wasn’t even forty?”
—Lolly Winston
“… if aging is difficult for those of us who were only sometimes cute,” she says, “just imagine how hard it must be for the aging knockouts, the living dolls.”
—Rebecca McClanahan
“I...
by Leslie Jamison
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
From the author of the New York Times bestselling essay collection The Empathy Exams and the memoir The Recovering, Leslie Jamison’s “exquisitely beautiful” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel about three generations of women and the inescapable brutality of love.
As a young woman, Tilly...
Dirty
A Search for Answers Inside America's Teenage Drug Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Venturing into uncharted territory, mother and award-winning journalist Meredith Maran takes us inside teenagers' hearts, minds, and central nervous systems to explore the causes and consequences of our nation's drug crisis. In these pages we get to know the kids, the parents, the therapists, and...
Life Without Ed : How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too
How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2003
A unique new approach to treating eating disorders Eight million women in the United States suffer from anorexia nervosa and/or bulimia. For these women, the road to recovery is a rocky one. Many succumb to their eating disorders. Life Without Ed offers hope to all those who suffer from these...
Codependent No More
How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2009
The healing touchstone of millions, this modern classic by one of America's best-loved and most inspirational authors holds the key to understanding codependency and to unlocking its stultifying hold on your life.
Is someone else's problem your problem? If, like so many others, you've lost...
The Sober Diaries
How one woman stopped drinking and started living
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
A bravely honest and brilliantly comic account of how one mother gave up drinking and started living. This is Bridget Jones Dries Out.
Clare Pooley is a Cambridge graduate and was a Managing Partner at one of the world's biggest advertising agencies, and yet by eighteen months ago she'd become...
Mommy Doesn't Drink Here Anymore: Getting Through The First Year Of Sobriety
Getting Through the First Year of Sobriety
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Part recovery, part self-help, and all real, raw stories of waking up for the sake of your self and your children, Mommy Doesn't Drink Here Anymore follows one mother's journey from cocktail mama to sober mama. The loving mother of twins and a newborn, Brownell used alcohol to maintain a sense of...
With or Without You
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A haunting, unforgettable mother-daughter story for a new generation—the debut of a blazing new lyrical voice
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY**
Domenica Ruta grew up in a working-class, unforgiving town...