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Don't Eat No Matter What - a community solution to compulsive overeating.    by Bruce L
Price: $14.95 USD. 69100 words. Published on February 16, 2009. .

This book is an effort to help reach the many people who fight food addiction in its various forms: compulsive eating/binging, anorexia, bulimia, obsession, chronic dieting/exercising. Learn from the experience, strength and hope of a worldwide recovery community. Read the introduction and a sample of the book. If you are one of us you will know right away. There is a solution.
Chronicles of a Homeless    by Raul Garcia Lamoutte
Price: Free! 9100 words. Published on February 20, 2010. .

Synopsis Fall and rise of a seemingly normal person into despair and alcoholism. His sole companion for many years, his guitar, kept his sanity
A Drinking Man    by Arthur A Perkins
Price: $0.99 USD. 3520 words. Published on March 10, 2010. .

My father was a drinking man, cheerful among his fellow boozers, miserable as sin every hungover morning. From the age of twenty, I worked alongside him for 5 long years. What a nightmare! This short memoir is lightened by a few comical aspects. However, serious drinkers are rarely amusing and never reliable. Yes, I am biased.
My Daughter's Addiction-A Thief in the Family (Hardwired for Heroin)    by Marie Minnich
Price: $9.99 USD. 22580 words. Published on April 4, 2010. .

A gripping and compelling story of one mothers journey raising her heroin addicted daughter. On the night of August 22, 2009, her beloved 32-year old daughter died from heroin overdose. Despite all the sorrow, this story is neither gloomy nor depressing, but rather an unflinching account of one woman's life, and her daughter whom she did not abandon to the bitter end.
Big Sick Heart: A Detectives Seagate and Miner Mystery    by Mike Markel
Price: $3.99 USD. 82120 words. Published by Rob Preece on May 23, 2010. .

Police Detective Karen Seagate is having a rough time with her family, the police department, and her drinking. A high-profile murder that has the chief breathing down her neck is not what she needs, especially with a brand new partner just promoted from uniform rank. Still, Seagate intends to track down the killer. It's just that so many people had reason to hate him.
Why Don't They Just Quit? What families and friends need to know about addiction and recovery.    by Joe Herzanek
Price: $9.99 USD. 69690 words. Published on July 30, 2010. .

This award-winning book covers critical topics: - Why a person does not have to hit rock-bottom - When helping is actually hurting - How to deal with a relapse - Why effective intervention doesn't have to be a surprise attack Achieve the peace of mind that comes from knowing what works, what doesn't and why. Why Don't They JUST QUIT? provides the answers you so desperately seek.
"AA Not the Only Way: Your One Stop Resource Guide to 12-Step Alternatives," 2nd Edition, Amazon.com Bestseller    by Melanie Solomon
Price: $19.95 USD. 41250 words. Published on September 15, 2010. .

Responds to the growing demand from recovery experts, court rulings, problem drinkers & drug addicts for a global resource directory of alternative treatments. You can find a multitude of self-help groups, a variety of alternatives to help with your substance abuse, what works and what doesn't, how to choose your treatment & a complete directory of professionals & programs who offer these options.
HACKSVILLE    by Leo Whistler
Price: $0.99 USD. 75960 words. Published on September 17, 2010. .

Leo Whistler is a young screenwriter with a disastrous love life, a dark family secret and a career that isn’t. Then he gets his first big gig to write a TV movie about Blue Meadows, a blind environmentalist on day 722 of her tree-sit protest—and his life really begins to fall apart. Hacksville is a coming-of-age tale for the man-child set and a subversive twist on the Hollywood novel.
Little Wild Flower Book One    by Samantha Jillian Bayarr
Price: $1.99 USD. 54770 words. Published on October 17, 2010. .

Jane Abigail Reeves was raised as a city girl. In 1977, at only fifteen, her family moves to a farmhouse in a rural Amish community in Indiana as a respite for her alcoholic mother. Jane hates farm life, until she stumbles upon Elijah, the Amish boy next door. Can a hippie-chick like Jane find friendship with a sixteen-year-old Amish boy? Will their feelings for each other change as they grow up?
Little Wild Flower Book Two    by Samantha Jillian Bayarr
Price: $0.99 USD. 55520 words. Published on October 17, 2010. .

Just when Jane thought her life in the Amish community couldn’t get any better, tragedy strikes the Zook farm. Jane suddenly feels lost in the world she created with Elijah, and flees to her home town in search of her childhood friends. Will coming face-to-face with the pain of her childhood send her running back to the farm, or will she cling to the life she left behind as a teenaged girl?