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The wisdom of the rooms: 12 months of reflections for people in recovery/ by Alcoholics Anonymous,issuing body.(CARDINAL)137311;
January--February--March--April--May--June--July--August--September--October--November--December--The twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous--The twelve traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous."This is more than just a daily meditation book--it's a treasure trove of Twelve Step quotes and daily reflections that come right from the meeting rooms of recovery. Here are the "aha" moments shared by people in the program--the ones we hear in meetings that offer us instant relief and revelation--the ones we wish we had written down and saved. Now you have them all at your fingertips"--Page 4 of cover.
Subjects: Alcoholics Anonymous.; Recovering alcoholics' writings.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Against memoir : complaints, confessions & criticisms / by Tea, Michelle,author.(CARDINAL)703250;
Art & music. On Valerie Solanas -- Andy Warhol's Self-portrait -- Times Square -- On Erin Markey -- On Chelsea Girls -- Gene loves Jezebel -- Purple rain -- Minor threat -- Sonic youth's magic -- Love & queerness. Transmissions from camp trans -- How to not be a queer douchebag -- Polishness -- Hard times -- HAGS in your face -- How to refer to my husband-wife -- Writing & life. The city to a young girl -- Pigeon manifesto -- Summer of lost jobs -- Telling your friends you're sober -- Sister spit feminism -- I had a miscarriage -- Baba -- Dire straits -- Against memoir."Valerie Solanas, a lesbian gang, recovering alcoholics, and teenagers surviving at a shop: these are some of the figures populating America's borders. These essays include fights and failures and the uncovering of and documentation of these lives. Michelle Tea reveals herself through these stories"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Anecdotes.; Biographies.; Tea, Michelle.; Authors, American; Lesbian authors; Lesbian authors.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Love warrior [large print] / by Doyle, Glennon,1976-author.(CARDINAL)483550;
Just when Glennon Doyle Melton was beginning to feel she had it all figured out--three happy children, a doting spouse, and a writing career so successful that her first book catapulted to the top of the New York Times bestseller list--her husband revealed his infidelity and she was forced to realize that nothing was as it seemed. A recovering alcoholic and bulimic, Glennon found that rock bottom was a familiar place. In the midst of crisis, she knew to hold on to what she discovered in recovery: that her deepest pain has always held within it an invitation to a richer life.
Subjects: Biographies.; Large print books.; Autobiographies.; Doyle, Glennon, 1976-; Doyle, Glennon, 1976-; Divorced women;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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Love warrior [sound recording] : a memoir / by Doyle, Glennon,1976-(CARDINAL)483550; Macmillan Audio (Firm)(CARDINAL)344799;
Read by the author.Just when Glennon Doyle Melton was beginning to feel she had it all figured out, three happy children, a doting spouse, and a writing career so successful that her first book catapulted to the top of the New York Times bestseller list, her husband revealed his infidelity and she was forced to realize that nothing was as it seemed. A recovering alcoholic and bulimic, rock bottom was a familiar place to Glennon. In the midst of crisis, she knew to hold on to what she discovered in recovery: that her deepest pain has always held within it an invitation to a richer life.
Subjects: Biographies.; Doyle, Glennon, 1976-; Doyle, Glennon, 1976-; Divorced women;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Drinking [sound recording] : a love story / by Knapp, Caroline,1959-2002.(CARDINAL)383308; Zackman, Gabra,performer.(CARDINAL)558128;
Performed by Gabra Zackman."It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I had to fall out." So begins Drinking: A Love Story, journalist Caroline Knapp's brave and powerful memoir of her twenty years as a functioning alcoholic. Knapp writes that she loved liquor the way she loved bad men and, like all tragic love stories, hers is a tale of seduction and betrayal, a testament to the alluring but ultimately destructive powers of addiction. Fifteen million Americans a year are afflicted with the disease of alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Caroline Knapp, for example, started drinking at age fourteen. She drank through her years at an Ivy League college, through an award-winning career as a lifestyle editor and columnist. Publicly she was a dutiful daughter, attentive friend, sophisticated professional. Privately she was drinking herself into oblivion, trapped in love relationships that continued to undermine her self-esteem - until a series of personal crises forced her to confront and ultimately break free of the "liquid armor" she'd used to shield herself from the complicated battles of growing up. Caroline Knapp's ruthless self-examination, moral courage, and singular ability as a writer inform this remarkable memoir with many new insights about alcoholism, but more important, with many profound insights about life.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Knapp, Caroline, 1959-2002.; Alcoholics; Recovering alcoholics; Alcoholism;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Headhunters on my doorstep : a treasure island ghost story / by Troost, J. Maarten.(CARDINAL)466355;
"The bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals recounts his latest hilarious misadventures in the South Pacific, following in the footsteps of his unlikely idol, Robert Louis Stevenson. Readers and critics alike adore J. Maarten Troost for his signature wry and witty take on the adventure memoir. Hailed by Entertainment Weekly as a "funny, candid, and down-to-earth travel companion," Troost's bestselling debut, The Sex Lives of Cannibals, is an enduring favorite about life in the South Seas. Headhunters on My Doorstep chronicles Troost's return to the South Pacific after his struggle with alcoholism and time in rehab left him numb to life. Deciding to retrace the path once traveled by the author of Treasure Island, Troost follows Robert Louis Stevenson to the Marquesas, the Tuamotus, Tahiti, the Gilberts, and Samoa, tumbling from one comic misadventure to another as he confronts his newfound sobriety. Somewhere en route from the shark-infested waters of Fakarava to the remote islands of Kiribati, Troost gradually awakens to the beauty of life and reconnects with his family and the world. Headhunters on My Doorstep is a funny yet poignant account of one man's journey to find himself that will captivate travel writing aficionados, Robert Louis Stevenson fans, and anyone who has ever lost his way. "--
Subjects: Biographies.; Troost, J. Maarten; Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894.; Recovering alcoholics;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Kill two birds & get stoned : a Kinky Friedman mystery, book 16 / by Friedman, Kinky.(CARDINAL)753069;
AYATF3CK3RELJ2WP3C4XD3BWalter Snow is doomed. Living on a string of Camel cigarettes, too many cups of coffee, and bouts of masturbation in his Greenwich Village basement apartment, the writer and recovering alcoholic has been blocked. He stares at the blank pages in his typewriter for longer than he cares to admit, hoping for the spark that will finally fulfill his ambition to write The Great Armenian Novel. And then he meets Clyde Potts. She is beautiful, intelligent, charming, perhaps psychic and, for better or worse, very possibly unbalanced. With Potts's joie de vivre and her certified insane partner in crime, Fox Harris, Snow is caught up in a series of pranks against corporate sprawl that they execute with a bit of booze, and some wacky tobaccy from Australia known as Malabimbi Madness.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Satirical literature.; Friedman, Kinky.; Country musicians; Fiction; Jews; Jews; Novelists;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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Cheever : a life / by Bailey, Blake.(CARDINAL)530808;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 685-737) and index.John Cheever (1912-1982) spent much of his career impersonating a perfect suburban gentleman, the better to become one of the foremost chroniclers of postwar America. Written with unprecedented access to essential sources--including Cheever's massive journal, only a fraction of which has been published--Blake Bailey's biography reveals the troubled but strangely lovable man behind the disguises, an artist who delighted in the everyday radiance of the world while yearning, above all, "to be illustrious." Cheever's was a soul in conflict: a proud Yankee who flaunted his lineage while deploring the provincialism of his Massachusetts family; a high-school dropout who published his first story at eighteen; a pioneer of suburban realist fiction who continually pushed the boundaries of realism; a dire alcoholic who recovered to write the great novel Falconer; a secret bisexual who struggled with his longings and his fierce homophobia in a revolving door of self-loathing and hedonism.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Biographies.; Cheever, John.; Authors, American;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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Random Road : introducing Geneva Chase / by Kies, Thomas,author.(CARDINAL)354498;
It's a crime scene worthy of Hieronymus Bosch, so shocking and so senseless it challenges the local law and intrigues veteran reporter Geneva Chase whose career may be dying alongside that of her small town newspaper. The Sheffield Post headline shouts, "Cops Call Murder Scene 'Slaughterhouse." On the scene, Genie spurs the Deputy Police Chief to tell her quietly, "Six bodies ... all nude ... hacked to pieces." Even tough Geneva shivers. How could such a slaughter happen on Connecticut's moneyed Gold Coast? To privileged couples inside a historic 1898 Queen Anne mansion on the shoreline of Long Island Sound? Where is the protection afforded by the gated community and the security technology in place? For Geneva, battling alcoholism and bad choices, writing this story is the last chance to redeem herself. She's lost every other major news job she's had. Working at her hometown newspaper is the end of the line-there will be nowhere else to go. But ink still flows thick in her veins. Her story on Sheffield's unlikely killing field is the Post's lead, soon picked up by metro papers, and she keeps it, exposing the turbulence beneath the rich and entitleds' secrets, their ability to buy off embarrassments. She's also tracking community connections, watching a hit-and-run case disappear through a large donation, interviewing dangerous suspects, visiting a swingers club, joining cops for a burglary bust, and taking a guided tour to spot history's underwater ghost. All this despite the distractions of the married man she can't quite ditch and the sweet if shaky love affair she starts with an old high school sweetheart. Can she keep her drinking under control and do her job well enough to keep from getting fired, finish the story, not further screw up her life? And not get killed? Thomas Kies' gripping first novel with its corkscrew of a plot, asks, "Do things happen for a reason, or is everything random?" Random Road is Thomas Kies' debut novel.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Fiction.; Women journalists; Murder; Recovering alcoholics;
Available copies: 14 / Total copies: 14
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Infinite dimensions : stories / by Treadway, Jessica,1961-author.(CARDINAL)370312;
In Sky Harbor, her first collection after winning the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction for Please Come Back to Me, Jessica Treadway writes about the themes of fidelity, betrayal, and self-delusion as she portrays what William Faulkner called the human heart in conflict with itself. Following in the tradition of Elizabeth Strout and her own mentor, the late Andre Dubus, Treadway mines the internal landscapes of her characters with intimate insight as she shows them trying but often failing to live up to their own moral standards. A female bank executive with a history of psychiatric illness is forced to decide whether to hire her former hospital roommate, whom she fears will expose her past. A college student has to choose between his grandmother and his girlfriend. A recovering alcoholic faces the prospect of self-sabotage during a dinner meeting with an editor who can make or break her career. The stories are loosely linked by character, setting, and the motif of a talking sugar bowl that appears in the work of the Russian author Anya Chaykovskaya who is, in turn, one of Treadway's own fictional characters. Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as a writer with an unsparing bent for the truth, Treadway exhibits in her stories both a deft understanding of human psychology and mastery at depicting it in multiple, complex, and intriguing forms.
Subjects: Short stories.; Loyalty; Betrayal; Mental illness; College students; Alcoholism; Short stories, American.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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