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Noah Daniels Alcoholism - A Vicious Circle

Self-Help
English
10433 Words
No Age Recommendation
448
1

Alcoholics live in denial. Most of them would tell you flatly that they don’t have a problem. Since they refuse to face the truth, they can see no reason to get treatment for their illness. But, drinking is like a compulsion with them. The more they drink, they more they want. This is a problem that absolutely cannot be ignored, for alcohol can seriously damage the body and the mind equally. What can you do for a friend or loved one who abuses alcohol? Sometimes, the only way you can help someone overcome alcoholism is to intervene and tell them plainly that they need help. But, in order to do this, you need to be well informed about the dangers of alcohol abuse. You need to learn why the alcohol became addicted to drinking, what it is doing to his body, and the ways you can help him overcome the problem. No one is immune to the lure of alcohol. Young and old are equally at risk, and some are irreparably damaging their health, along with their family dynamics. Society has made it seem “cool” to be intoxicated. Yet, once a person starts drinking, it’s often hard for them to stop. Why? You need the facts if you want to help someone free themselves from slavery to alcohol. The abuse of alcohol has risen to a startling rate. If you have a friend or loved one who abuses alcohol, you can help them by learning the facts. There is no cure for alcoholism, but recovery is possible – if you know the facts. What you needs is a guide that explains alcoholism and can help you to help others is vital if you want to help someone you care for realize the need to overcome a drinking problem. In this book, you will find the answer to every question you have ever had about the illness called alcoholism. [more]

Keywords: alcoholism, alcohol, alcoholics, alcohol addiction, alcoholism in the family, alcohol problems, alcoholism help, alcoholism and addiction

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Kieran Doherty Back from the Abyss

The Autobiography of a Low-Bottom Alky

Biography & Autobiography
English
1281 Words
Ages 18 and up
4
1

In Back From the Abyss, Kieran Doherty takes the reader along on the wild ride that was his life. With a voice reminiscent of Pete Hamill’s in A Drinking Life and a childhood as tough as Frank McCourt’s in Angela’s Ashes, he tells his story, full of wit, bravado, and Irish charm. We watch him change from altar boy to rebel … then throw away a promising career in the theater. We follow him through his almost unbelievable adventures in the military … through four marriages and countless lovers … through the alcohol-fueled crimes that ultimately landed him in prison … and, finally, through the ugly reality of the cancer that killed him. Along the way, we get a feel for the internal pain, the constant struggle of the “low-bottom” alky to make it from one day to the next. [more]

Keywords: ebook, alcoholism, cancer, autobiography, memoir, nonfiction

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Tom (WordWulf) Sterner Momma's Rain

American Camp:Frail Monsters/Wounded Souls

Family & Relationships
English
2 Words
Ages 18 and up
106
19

Six-year-old Jerry snuck into the bread last night. He ate the last two slices. He took quite a beating when Momma informed Daddy there was no bread for his lunch the next day. Jerry’s lips are stuck shut with dried blood, his forehead bruised from being slammed into the corner where he’s standing, smiling inside. His belly’s full. They can beat him all they want. The next morning he is gone and his four-year-old brother, Peter, with him. Where did they go, the police want to know. So does Momma and seven-year-old Timmy, Jerry’s brother and oldest of the Turner children. The tenement is on fire. Flame tongues lick the walls on the fourth floor where the Turners live. The linoleum is a living thing, bubbling and breathing, belching cockroaches up from the lower floors. Daddy is passed out drunk and Momma frantic to wake him to save him, to save them, her seven children. He doesn’t disappoint her as he comes awake, swats her away, “Get off me, bitch!” A hero emerges from the drunken bag of his body, finds a way to save them all. Momma was a Catholic, Daddy was a drunk. Momma was born in a chicken coop behind her grandfather’s mansion in the Ozarks, Missouri before he hung himself and blew his brains out over gambling debts and slave blood. Her father was the ashamed half-breed offspring of this white man and his Cherokee slave woman. At four-years-old, she was abandoned to a Catholic orphanage along with her two older sisters. Daddy was born on a ranch in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a twin and his mother’s favorite. His twin brother was left in an outhouse at a campground in the mountains on his fourth birthday. His momma, unhappy in her marriage to a ranch hand, had found herself a new man who refused to take on the responsibility of two little bastards. She kept Daddy, threw the other one away. Her new man disciplined the boy with an iron hand and a coal shovel. I lived the life and Momma told me the stories of life before me. She didn’t like it much that I wrote things down and made songs to sing out of the fabric of our lives and her tales. She needed me though and I think she was desperate to tell it all, to give her life substance. I swore an oath not to breathe a word of it to a soul until she was gone. She is passed, the grass grown long over the paths she walked. I am the son alive in the mist, no umbrella, of Momma’s Rain. [more]

Keywords: family saga, children, alcoholism, spousal abuse, child abuse, addiction

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Mike McMahon X Spirit of Rape

Part One

Thriller
English
11202 Words
Ages 18 and up
11
1

Tyran Lee is a handsome young man who is committed to caring for his ailing mother. But he is harboring a dark alter ego that is fueled by sinister voices that he hears when he drinks. They taunt him concerning the incidents of his childhood that he can't get over. His domineering mother refuses to let him have any normal relationships, and he is finding it more and more difficult to resist the urges of the evil spirits once she goes to bed. [more]

Keywords: Crime, Spirits, Sex, Demons, Alcoholism, Rape, coming of age, erotic

$1.99