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Language
English
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Description
The Sober Kitchen is the first major book to focus on the important and often overlooked link between food and recovery. Professional chef and recovering alcoholic Liz Scott serves up this groundbreaking cookbook chock full of vital information on basic nutrition and current addiction research, as well as more than 300 delicious, simple recipes. She also offers plenty of realistic, down-to-earth advice and encouragement, making The Sober Kitchen a...
Series
Publisher
Omnigraphics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Fifth edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 686 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Provides consumer health information about alcohol abuse, addiction, and related health effects, with facts about treatment and recovery. Includes index, glossary of related terms, online access, and other resources"--
3) My dad
Author
Publisher
M.K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c1995.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A father's drinking causes pain and embarrassment to his family, until he begins to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
Publisher
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services
Pub. Date
©1981
Physical Desc
192 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A classic recovery text, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions outlines the core principles by which AA members recover and by which the AA fellowship functions. In addition, it clarifies each of the Twelve Steps that constitute the AA way of life and each of the Traditions by which AA maintains its unity.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Where is hope when Eleanor Lapp's life starts to fall apart as extreme grief drives her husband to drink to numb his pain?
Life is good on the Pennsylvania Amish farm of newlyweds Vic and Eleanor Lapp-- until a tragic event occurs. Vic turns to alcohol to numb the pain; he loses his job, and his marriage is falling apart. Eleanor writes to her friend, Doretta, in Indiana, asking for advice. Their exchange of letters helps both women through the challenges...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 78 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Made over 6 years, THE STREET is the result of the filmmakers' total immersion into the world of the homeless. It is a gutsy, raw, moving and intimate study of 3 homeless Montrealers.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 74 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A departure from the historical super-productions for which he was known, The struggle was an intimate drama of an American everyman who falls victim to the debilitating affliction of alcoholism. No stranger to the destructive influence of drink, Griffith pulls no punches in dramatizing its potential horrors, especially in the terrifying climax when Jimmie, tormented by delirium tremors, attacks his young daughter (Edna Hagan) in the hovel that was...
Author
Publisher
Noguer e Caralt Editores
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
189 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Manny relates his coming of age experiences as a member of a poor Mexican American family in which the alcoholic father only adds to everyone's struggle.
12) Grasshoppers
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Discovering all their neighbors left for winter, two star-crossed lovers hatch a plan to ditch work and visit every empty house for a drink. But soon, their idyllic life becomes uprooted for good.
14) Addiction
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Experts discuss drug and alcohol addiction and explain how addiction is a treatable brain disease.
17) A star is born
Language
English
Description
"Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers and falls in love with struggling artist Ally. She has given up on her dream to become a successful singer, until she meets Jack, who immediately sees her natural talent. This is the raw and passionate tale of Jack and Ally, two artistic souls coming together, on stage and in life. Theirs is a complex journey through the beauty and the heartbreak of a relationship struggling to survive."--
18) The interim
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This monumental novel about an anguished East German writer interrogates with bitter wit the detritus of late twentieth-century life: alcoholism, car culture, consumerism, God, love, statelessness, and above all else, the writer's place in a "century of lies.""--
From a writer whose work is considered "among the most significant prose and poetry written not just in the GDR but in all of postwar Germany" (Joshua Cohen), a digressive masterwork in...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Sirio
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Este libro es un regalo del cielo para aquellos que sufren la adicción al alcohol, para sus amigos y seres queridos, y para los profesionales de la salud encargados de atenderles. Su mensaje principal es que el alcoholismo es antes que nada una enfermedad metabólica que debe ser tratada dedicando la debida atención a sus raíces fisiológicas. El antiguo enfoque moralista y los enfoques de tratamiento conductuales y psicológicos más recientes...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Doretta Schwartz used to be so happy and passed her positive attitude along to friends in several letters she wrote each month. But that all changed the day she learned of her fiancé's death and a heavy weight of depression fell upon her. Feeling empty, she puts away her letter writing and won't even respond to calls from friends. William's twin brother, Warren, is also grieving his loss, while at the same time, trying to be supportive to his parents...
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