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Frankie Elkin is a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what no one else will--searching out missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up and the public no longer remembers, Frankie starts looking. A new case brings her to Mattapan, a Boston neighborhood with a rough reputation. She is searching for Angelique Badeau, a Haitian teenager who vanished from her high school....
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"The press kit for Anne M. Fletcher's new book, "Sober for Good," states,'Sometimes one book can make a difference.' After reading it, I could not agree more strongly."
The New York Times
"These stories are part of author Anne Fletcher's in-depth look at people who have overcome serious drinking problems ... Fletcher's main message: That there are many different ways to get and stay sober." USA Today
"Sober for Good integrates scientific evidence...
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Introduction: Mommy needs many drinks -- Part I. Away: Before-- ; Oh Mama ; Single mama, dry with a twist ; Plastered -- Part II. Toward recovery: First 30 days: alcohol is the love of my life ; 30 days and beyond: swearing is my higher power ; 60 days: where are my shoes? ; 90 days: so this is life ; 6 months: marital openings ; 9 months and forty years ; Months 10 and 11: high-bottom girl ; one year and beyond -- Part III. First year of sobriety:...
10) Alcoholism
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Provides eleven essays that offer personal, political, and professional perspectives on alcoholism.
17) 28 days
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A high-flying party girl gets herself a DUI and 28 days in rehab -- and ends up discovering that real happiness must come from within.
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"In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three. A teenage girl who isn't allowed outside, not after last time. A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory. And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible. An unspeakable secret binds them together, but when a new neighbor moves in next door, what is buried out among the birch trees may come...
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