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Painkillers, Heroin, and the Road to Sanity: Real Solutions for Long-term Recovery from Opiate Addiction

Joani Gammill RN · Hazelden
Format: Paperback

Recovery from prescription painkiller or heroin addiction can feel impossible, especially considering that those who have gone through typical twenty-eight-day treatment programs often experience relapses and sometimes even fatal overdoses. But there is hope.In Painkillers, Heroin, and the Road...
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Bastards: A Memoir

Mary Anna King · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 248
Format: Print book

"A stirring, vividly told story of a young woman's quest to find the family she lost . . . an impressive debut." -- Peter BalakianIn the early 1980s, Mary Hall is a little girl growing up in poverty in Camden, New Jersey, with her older brother Jacob and parents who, in her words,...
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Slim for Life: My Insider Secrets to Simple, Fast, and Lasting Weight Loss

Jillian Michaels · Harmony Books
Pages: 265
Format: Print book

Stop battling your weight and slim down for life with this no-nonsense, insider's plan from America's health, wellness, and weight-loss guru: Jillian Michaels. She has helped millions lose weight and feel great, and now she can help you, too. Bestselling author and Biggest Loser...
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The Sonic Boom: How Sound Transforms the Way We Think, Feel, and Buy

Joel Beckerman · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

A surprising look at the hidden power of sound, revealing how people and brands can use it to inspire and persuade — or annoy From horror movie scores to national anthems to the crunchy sound of potato chips, sound and music greatly impact how we feel about our lives and the messages...
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Unshakable: How to Thrive

TONY ROBBINS · SIMON & SCHUSTER
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

After interviewing fifty of the world's greatest financial minds and penning the #1 New York Times bestseller Money: Master the Game, Tony Robbins returns with a step-by-step playbook, taking you on a journey to transform your financial life and accelerate your path to financial freedom....
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Knitting Reimagined: An Innovative Approach to Structure and Shape with 25 Breathtaking Projects

Nicky Epstein · Crown Publishing Group
Pages: 175
Format: Hardcover

Rethink traditional knitting with this groundbreaking collection of 25 sophisticated patterns for beautiful sweaters, jackets, and accessories from one of the most influential voices in knitwear design.Award-winning author Nicky Epstein offers knitters of all skill levels adventurous, wearable...
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Animals in the First World War

Neil Storey · Shire
Format: Book

Animals played an important part in helping the Allies win the First World War, well beyond cavalry horses that charged fields and hauled heavy guns, and included a variety of animals in different but essential service. Pigeons were trained to carry messages, dogs sniffed out wounded soldiers...
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What Works: Common Sense Solutions for a Stronger America

Cal Thomas · Zondervan,
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Cal Thomas asks, Why must we constantly refight the same battles over and over? Why don't we consult the past and use common sense in order to see that what others have discovered can still work today? Our politics and even our spiritual lives too often resemble the film "Groundhog...
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Moments That Made the Movies

David Thomson · Thames & Hudson; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Lushly illustrated, compellingly written—David Thomson's choice of the key moments in movie history In his first fully illustrated work, David Thomson breaks new ground by focusing in on a series of moments—which his readers will also experience in beautifully reproduced...
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The Essential New York Times Grilling Cookbook: More Than 100 Years of Sizzling Food Writing and Recipes

Peter Kaminsky · Sterling Pub Co Inc
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Over the past 100 years, the New York Times has published thousands of articles on barbecuing and grilling, along with mouthwatering recipes - and this unique collection gathers the very best. These essential pieces are worth savoring not only for their time-tested advice and instruction,...
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Dogtripping: 25 Rescues, 11 Volunteers, and 3 RVs on Our Canine Cross-Country Adventure

David Rosenfelt · St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

David Rosenfelt's Dogtripping is moving and funny account of a cross-country move from California to Maine, and the beginnings of a dog rescue foundationWhen mystery writer David Rosenfelt and his family moved from Southern California to Maine, he thought he had prepared for everything....
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A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight

Maria Toorpakai · Twelve
Pages: 355
Format: Print book

Amazon Best Book of the Month
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You're Making Me Hate You: A Cantankerous Look at the Common Misconception That Humans Have Any Common Sense Left

Corey Taylor · Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover

Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor's third book is a searingly hilarious trawl through the endless backwaters of human stupidity, by the bestselling author of Seven Deadly Sins and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to HeavenCorey Taylor has had it. Had it with the vagaries...
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Clancys of queens

Tara Clancy · Crown
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Fifth-generation New Yorker, third-generation bartender, and first-generation author Tara Clancy was raised in three wildly divergent homes: a converted boat shed in working class Queens, a geriatric commune of feisty, Brooklyn-born Italians, and a sprawling Hamptons estate she visited...
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Bare Bones: I'm Not Lonely If You're Reading This Book

Bobby Bones · Dey Street Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

A touching, funny, heart-wrenching, and triumphant memoir from one of the biggest names in radio, the host of The Bobby Bones Show, one of the most listened-to drive time morning radio shows in the nation.Growing up poor in Mountain Pine, Arkansas, with a young, addicted mom, Bobby Estell...
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