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The Chronology of Water: A Memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch Staff Pick Lidia Yuknavitch's memoir, The Chronology of Water, is fierce and voluptuous. Intimate and expansive. Hard, hard stuff presented in gorgeous language. I picked it up on impulse, read the first line, and was crying before I reached the end of the opening... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff Publisher Comments It was like being in a car with the gas pedal slammed down to the floor and nothing to do but hold on and pretend to have some semblance of control. But control was something I'd lost a long time ago. Nic Sheff’s tale of addiction and recovery... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship by Gail Caldwell Publisher Comments They met over their dogs. Both writers, Gail Caldwell and Caroline Knapp, author of Drinking: A Love Story, became best friends, talking about everything from their shared history of a struggle with alcohol, to their relationships with men and colleagues,... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction by David Sheff Publisher Comments What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheffs journey through his son Nics addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before Nic Sheff... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Million Little Pieces by James Frey Publisher Comments At the age of 23, James Frey woke up on a plane to find his front teeth knocked out and his nose broken. He had no idea where the plane was headed nor any recollection of the past two weeks. An alcoholic for ten years and a crack addict for three, he... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction by Nic Sheff Publisher Comments In his bestselling memoir Tweak, Nic Sheff took readers on an emotionally gripping roller-coaster ride through his days as a crystal meth and heroin addict. Now in this powerful follow-up about his continued efforts to stay clean, Nic writes candidly... (read more) Your price: $9.99 New - Trade Paper
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A Million Little Pieces by James Frey Publisher Comments Intense, unpredictable, and instantly engaging, A Million Little Pieces is a story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation as it has never been told before. Recounted in visceral, kinetic prose, and crafted with a forthrightness that rejects piety... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship by Gail Caldwell Staff Pick On the surface it seems so simple: two women, two dogs, and one friendship. The dogs bring them together, but the friendship quickly becomes a force that sustains and nurtures them both. Caldwell's prose shines like afternoon sun hitting the water.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own. by David Carr Staff Pick After years of sobriety, each of David Carr's daughters wrote a personal essay at college, and the stories they told about their lives didn't jibe with his memory. How much did he remember? How much did he ever know? Carr decided to report his past. The... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Million Little Pieces by James Frey Publisher Comments Hard-hitting, uncompromising account of Frey's rehabilitaion from a wild and reckless drug and drink addiction. "Clear sighted and intellectually honest" "Literary Review"... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Parched by Heather King Publisher Comments This powerful memoir chronicles how the author became her drinking self, spending over 20 years in a cycle of drinking and self-loathing. From highly functioning alcoholic to living in dive bars, King's painful and poignant story tells how she evolved... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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My Friend Leonard by James Frey Publisher Comments The New York Times bestselling follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller A Million Little Pieces-the heartrending story of a friendship between a newly-sober James and the charismatic, high-living mobster he met in rehab, Leonard. A Million Little... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fury: A Memoir by Koren Zailckas Publisher Comments The author of the New York Times bestseller Smashed "puts a voice to a generation with their own issues with rage" (San Francisco Book Review) Written when she was just twenty-three, Koren Zailckas's memoir Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Hardcover
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Beautiful Boy a Fathers Journey Through His Sons Addiction by David Sheff Publisher Comments What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff's journey through his son Nic's addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before Nic Sheff... (read more) Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp Publisher Comments Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as "liquid armor," a way to protect themselves against the difficult... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fat, Stupid, Ugly: One Woman's Courage to Survive by Debrah Constance Publisher Comments In the spirit of A Child Called "It" comes an amazing story of resilience from a woman who triumphed over child abuse, cancer, and alcoholism to become founder of A Place Called Home. "I began life, it would seem, as some kind of Grimm's fairy tale... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found by Jennifer Lauck Publisher Comments To young Jenny, the house on Mary Street was home -- the place where she was loved, a blue-sky world of Barbies, Bewitched, and the Beatles. Even her mother's pain from her mysterious illness could be patted away with powder and a kiss on the cheek. But... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Million Little Pieces by James Frey Publisher Comments Intense, unpredictable, and instantly engaging, A Million Little Pieces is a story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation as it has never been told before. Recounted in visceral, kinetic prose, and crafted with a forthrightness that rejects piety... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction by David Sheff Publisher Comments What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheffs journey through his son Nics addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before Nic Sheff... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl: A Memoir by Kelle Groom Publisher Comments Now in paperback—“The triumph of Kelle Groom’s memoir lies in her plangent, poetic prose as she lays bare the onset of her alcoholism at age fifteen, the child she bore and gave up at nineteen, and her dead-end jobs, upset parents... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper
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