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High Bottom Drunk: A Novel...and the Truth about Addiction & Recovery
by Charles N. Roper, PhD

High Bottom Drunk delivers addiction and recovery straight up, with no punches pulled and no one spared. A remarkably honest, persuasive, and gratifying resource on alcoholism, addiction, and recovery.

List Price: $19.95
470 Pages
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The Serenity Principle: Finding Inner Peace in Recovery
by Joseph Bailey

Joe Bailey captures the essence of the Psychology of Mind/Health Realization model as it relates to recovery. He turns potentially complicated concepts into understandable, usable skills for recovery.

List Price: $13.00
128 Pages
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Zen of Recovery
by Mel Ash

Mel Ash shows how Zen mind and practice connect to the heart of recovery. Drawing from his own experience as an abused child, alcoholic, Zen student, and Dharma teacher, Mel Ash presents a practical synthesis of AA's Twelve Steps and Zen's Eightfold Path.

List Price: $15.95
243 Pages
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Cool Water: Alcoholism, Mindfulness, and Ordinary Recovery
by William Alexander

William Alexander clearly presents the use of mindfulness, story, and meditation to help alcoholics and others connected with the recovery movement embrace the present moment and find healing.

List Price: $12.00
160 Pages
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Addiction & Grace
by Gerald G. May, MD

This beautifully written book explores the psychology and physiology of addiction as viewed from the perspective of contemplative spirituality. At the same time, it examines the theological and spiritual qualities of grace.

List Price: $14.00
208 Pages
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Many Roads, One Journey: Moving Beyond the 12 Steps
by Charlotte Davis Kasl, PhD

Charlotte Kasl presents recovery from a broad point of view. Rather than encouraging reliance on any one program, belief system, or mode of therapy, she challenges individuals to find their own voice and their own sources of strength and spirituality to guide their healing.

List Price: $17.00
430 Pages
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The Thinking Person's Guide to Sobriety
by Bert Pluyman

Real-life experiences--both the author's and other people's--of recovery from high bottom alcohol addiction. This is a good read for people who know that something is not quite right but are equally certain that their problem isn't "that bad."

List Price: $13.95
288 Pages
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Simple Steps...Costly Choices
by Bob Lively

Bob Lively, an ordained minister and pastoral counselor, delivers the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous translated into biblical, spiritual, and psychological language and made applicable to any and all addictions.

List Price: $14.95
194 Pages
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A Gentle Path Through the Twelve Steps
by Patrick Carnes, PhD

A guidebook and workbook for all people in the process of recovery from addictive behaviors. Includes exercises designed to help newcomers and old-timers alike to explore the nature of recovery within the context of the 12 Steps.

List Price: $17.00
224 Pages
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The Hidden Addiction and How to Get Free
by Janice Phelps, MD & Alan Nourse, MD

Phelps & Nourse convincingly put forth the argument that all addictions are rooted in the same genetic flaw in the body. It is an interesting twist on the disease model of addiction. Somewhat technical but fully understandable and quite compelling.

List Price: $14.95
250 Pages
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Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry

A true modern classic novel in which Malcolm Lowry chronicles an entire lifetime in the course of a single day--the last in the life of an alcoholic British Consul. A painfully realistic look at low bottom alcoholism within the context of a compelling story.

List Price: $14.00
416 Pages
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Hour To Hour: The First 30 Days
by Shelly Marshall

A handy pocket-sized book that delivers what it promises--24 different hourly readings for each of the first 30 days of recovery. This little text is one of Shelly Marshall's simplest and best works.

List Price: $6.00
204 Pages
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Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How Many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered from Alcoholism
by AA World Services, Inc.

The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. AA's "Bible," The Big Book tells "how it works" through detailed instructions and personal stories.

The Big Book is the traditional "standard text" for individuals in recovery--at least those who come in through AA.

List Price: $13.00
575 Pages
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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions: An Interpretive Commentary on the AA Program
by AA World Services, Inc.

AA's Big Book companion, the "12 & 12" details the Steps and Traditions and tells how each one relates to recovery within the context of the program of Alcoholics Anonymous.

List Price: $5.40
192 Pages
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Living Sober
by AA World Services, Inc.

Another AA classic, Living Sober provides a simple, straightforward guide to many of basic priciples and practices of the AA program, especially as they relate to individuals in early recovery. This is as clear as it gets.

List Price: $8.00
87 Pages
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The Annotated AA Handbook: A Companion to the Big Book
by Frank D.

This book contains the entire text of the 1st edition of Alcoholics Anonymous with hundreds of explanatory notations and thousands of cross-references. Will help broaden and deepen the reader's understanding of the 12 Steps.

List Price: $20.00
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Recovery Wisdom: Slogans to Use, One Day at a Time
by Turning Leaf Press

A compilation of more than 400 slogans, sayings and other truisms, gathered from the rooms of Twelve Step recovery programs. A simple and enjoyable resource for anyone in recovery.

List Price: $1.99
48 Pages
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Books on Spiritual Growth & Change

Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
by Thich Nhat Hanh

Thich Nhat Hanh teaches the practice of mindfulness--the act of keeping one's consciousness alive to one's present experience, of being truly awake. He offers practical methods to integrate everyday events into the quest for peace within ourselves. Not specific to addiction & recovery, this title addresses the broader issue of spiritual growth.

List Price: $12.95
134 Pages
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The Road Less Traveled
by M. Scott Peck, MD

An honest and understandable approach to spirituality, this true modern classic has moved millions of people closer to self-awareness, self-acceptance, and spiritual enlightenment. It stands the test of time beautifully.

List Price: $14.00
315 Pages
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Slowing Down to the Speed of Life
by Richard Carlson & Joseph Bailey

Carlson & Bailey discuss how to create a more peaceful, simpler life from the inside out. The premise reminds one of Eastern spiritual thought--slowing down and living in the moment, but it derives from the powerful Psychology of Mind/Health Realization model.

List Price: $13.00
209 Pages
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Confessions of a Closed Mind
by Kenneth Byrd Chance

An inspiring and empowering story of one man's spiritual journey. More generally, Kenneth Chance offers a look at intimacy, spirituality, and personal transformation from a man's point of view. This is a nicely written work.

List Price: $12.95
216 Pages
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Ishmael
by Daniel Quinn

In this extraordinary novel, a man and a gorilla embark on an intellectual adventure that redefines what it means to be human. Not specific to addiction & recovery, but rather, it addresses the broader issue of spirituality from an intellectual viewpoint.

List Price: $14.95
263 Pages
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Mister God, This is Anna
by Fynn

This incredible little classic will blow you away. It's a quick read that will stay with you forever. Just be sure you're ready for it. Not specific to addiction & recovery, but rather, it addresses the broader issue of spirituality in a simple and beautiful way.

List Price: $6.50
180 Pages
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Books on Codependency

Codependent No More
by Melody Beattie

A true classic in the field of codependency, this book examines codependency in depth. It looks at what it is, where it comes from, how it affects us and those around us, and how to deal with it on a personal level.

List Price: $13.95
250 Pages
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Codependents' Guide to the Twelve Steps
by Melody Beattie

Another classic treatment of codependency by Melody Beattie, the author of Codependent No More. This guide interprets the 12 Steps of AA specifically to deal with codependent issues. Provides text, exercises, and activities.

List Price: $12.00
273 Pages
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The Language of Letting Go
by Melody Beattie

A book of daily meditations for codependents. Contains reflections that nurture spiritual and emotional health, serenity, and recovery. This book is written in a direct, unsentimental style and focuses on self-esteem and acceptance.

List Price: $16.00
390 Pages
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Facing Codependence
by Pia Melody

A guide to understanding the origins of codependence and the path to recovery from it. Pia Mellody traces the origins of codependency back to childhood, describing a whole range of emotional, spiritual, intellectual, physical, and sexual abuses that may contribute to codependency's appearance in adulthood.

List Price: $16.00
256 Pages
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The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
by Alice Miller

Now revised and updated to reflect the author's new insights, this modern classic explains why many of the most successful children and adults are plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation. Miller also discusses how to break the cycle.

List Price: $12.50
136 Pages
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The Dance of Wounded Souls: A Cosmic Perspective of Codependence and the Human Condition
by Robert Burney

A persuasive take on the new age by a Twelve Step enthusiast. Presents a set of beliefs about the meaning and purpose of life from a cosmic perspective that combines 12-Step recovery principles with ancient spiritual truths.

List Price: $14.95
127 Pages
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