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1) Fiesta moon
Author
Series
Moonstruck series volume 2
Publisher
WestBow Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
For playboy Mark Madison it seems like nothing could be further from the truth his first day on the construction site for a new orphanage in Mexico. A chilly reception from the beautiful social worker Corinne Diaz is the precursor to mayhem and disaster for Mark. But when a terrible curse threatens the completion of the project, the two must band together to find the culprit.
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English
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Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man who's fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. Sober for fourteen years, Hank took pride in his hard-won sobriety and never hesitated to drop whatever he was doing to talk Cody off a ledge. When Cody takes...
5) Any day now
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Language
English
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Description
For Sierra Jones, Sullivan's Crossing is meant to be a brief stopover. She's put her troubled past behind her but the path forward isn't yet clear. A visit with her big brother Cal and his new bride, Maggie, seems to be the best option to help her get back on her feet. Not wanting to burden or depend on anyone, Sierra is surprised to find the Crossing offers so much more than a place to rest her head. Cal and Maggie welcome her into their busy lives...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Presents an exploration of addiction that blends memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and journalistic reportage to analyze the role of stories in conveying the addiction experience, sharing insights based on the lives of artists whose achievements were shaped by addiction.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
℗♭2014.
Language
English
Description
"Skye Elliot is given a choice after her car accident--jail or rehab--and her ex-husband, a bull rider who introduced her to the party scene, gets custody of their four-year-old daughter Gracie. It takes Skye eight months to get clean, but the day she is released, she has one plan: to be a good mother--better, at least, than Skye's own selfish mother and absent dad. Owen Garret hasn't seen his daughter in ten years. He, too, needs to make amends....
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Language
English
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When Noel learns that his former flame is terminally ill and pregnant with a child she claims is his, he agrees to take care of the baby girl once she's born. But as a recovering alcoholic whose demons are barely under control, he can't do it alone. Luckily, he has an amazing network of family and friends who are ready to help. A tale of joy, heartbreak and hope in a close-knit Dublin community.
Author
Series
Blessings volume 9
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A little help from the good people of Henry Adams, Kansas, may give both Mal and Gary the best second chance at the happiness they missed the first time around with the women they still love"--
10) Bones and Roses
Author
Series
Publisher
[Dreamscape Media, LLC]
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
English
Description
In a picturesque California seaside town, an intrepid property manager attracts the right clients, the wrong boyfriends, and a kinky killer After wrecking her real estate career in a booze-fueled blowout, Cypress Bay property manager and recovering alcoholic Tish Ballard thought she had put her past behind her. But when she opens an old trunk, a bequest from an anonymous benefactor, she finds it filled with bones and roses. Suddenly Tish is plunged...
Author
Series
Frankie Elkin novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner, a thrilling new novel that sends Frankie Elkin into the woods in search of a lost man-and the shocking truth about why he went missing in the first place"--
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner, a thrilling new novel that sends missing persons expert Frankie Elkin into a national forest in Wyoming looking for a young man who disappeared without a trace. But when the search...
12) Moonstone
Author
Series
Gems of Wolfe Island volume 1
Publisher
Hardt & Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Healing from the abuse she experienced as Moonstone, Katelyn Brooks meets Luke Johnson and their attraction is undeniable, but a secret in Luke's life can place both of them in danger.
14) Paula Spencer
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Language
English
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Description
The novel begins on the eve of Paula's forty-eighth birthday. She hasn't had a drink for four months and five days. Having outlived an abusive husband and father, Paula and her four children are now struggling to live their adult lives, with two of the kids balancing their own addictions. Paula rebuilds her life slowly. As she goes about her daily routine working as a cleaning woman, and cooking for her two children at home, she re-establishes connections...
15) Letting go with love: help for those who love an alcoholic/addict, whether practicing or recovering
Author
Publisher
J.P. Tarcher
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
16) The dead student
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
"Timothy Warner, a PhD student who goes by the nickname "Moth," wakes up on his ninety-ninth day of sobriety with an intense craving for drink. He immediately calls his uncle Ed, a former alcoholic and now successful psychiatrist who has become Moth's mentor and father figure. Ed promises to meet him at an AA meeting later that day but never shows up. Moth bikes to his office only to discover a grisly scene: his uncle lying in a pool of blood, shot...
Author
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
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 realities of life. In this extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir, Knapp offers important insights not only about alcoholism, but about life itself and how we learn to cope with it.--publisher.
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Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
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 Chase, 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...
19) Take me with you
Author
Language
English
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Description
August Shroeder, a burned-out teacher, has been sober since his nineteen-year-old son died. Every year he has spent the summer on the road, but making it to Yellowstone this year means everything. The plan had been to travel there with his son, but now August is making the trip with Philip's ashes instead. An unexpected twist of fate lands August with two extra passengers for his journey, two half-orphans with nowhere else to go.