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INAUGURAL LILLY'S LIBRARY BOOK CLUB PICK FROM LILLY SINGH 'I really
loved this book' Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind
'Patel writes with the wisdom and compassion of an old soul'
Celeste Ng 'Utterly unforgettable' Nikesh Shukla 'A love letter to
R&B' Susie Yang, author of White Ivy 'Something everyone can
relate to' Lilly Singh, author of How to Be a Bawse 'A soulful and
seductive love song of a book' Nancy Jooyoun Kim, author of The
Last Story of Mina Lee 'Absolutely loved it' Luan Goldie, author of
Nightingale Point 'It made me laugh and cry' Kavita Puri, author of
Partition Voices 'Refreshing...Defiant...Consistently surprising.'
The New York Times Book Review Lost in the jungle of Los Angeles,
Akash Amin is filled with shame. Shame for liking men. Shame for
wanting to be a songwriter. Shame for not being like his perfect
brother. Shame for his alcoholism. And most of all, shame for what
happened with the first boy he ever loved. When his mother tells
him she is selling the family home, Akash must return to Illinois
to confront his demons and the painful memory of a sexual awakening
that became a nightmare. Akash's mum, Renu, is also plagued by
guilt. She had it all: doting husband, beautiful house, healthy
sons. But as the one-year anniversary of her husband's death
approaches Renu can't stop wondering if she chose the wrong life
thirty-five years ago and should have stayed in London with her
first love. Together, Renu and Akash pack up the house, retreating
further into the secrets that stand between them. When their pasts
catch up to them, Renu and Akash must decide between the lives they
left behind and the ones they've since created. By turns irreverent
and tender, filled with the beats of '90s R&B, Tell Me How to
Be is about our earliest betrayals and the cost of reconciliation.
But most of all, it is the love story of a mother and son each
trying to figure out how to be in the world.
'Mandy and Kate have done it again. I love how this book is based
around seasons which fits so well with womanhood. But it's also
filled with really practical tools and tips that will help sober
women as they take this journey ... Dive in, you won't be
disappointed' Veronica Valli, sober coach and author of Soberful
This book is for any woman that is sober or sober curious. It is
here to support you on your journey to alcohol-free living. The
seasons are there for us all to use; the patterns and cycles offer
a reference point that can help us as we navigate our sobriety. By
tuning into nature's ebb and flow, we can use its power to explore
and support our sober lives in a long-term and sustainable way.
Sober coaches Kate Baily and Mandy Manners offer positive and
empowering ways to harness this power, exploring how old wisdoms,
new science and the female experience can help guide you. Packed
with tasks to shift your mindset, questions for reflection, nervous
system regulation techniques, as well as gratitude and intention
setting exercises, this book is designed to be a constant companion
nurturing you in your choice to be alcohol-free.
A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION SHORTLISTED FOR THE FELIX
DENNIS PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2018 I could not be held
responsible for desire he could not be held at all Tracking the
joys and pains of the path through addiction, and wrestling with
desire, inheritance and faith, Calling a Wolf a Wolf is the darkly
sumptuous debut from award-winning poet Kaveh Akbar. These are
powerful, intimate poems of thirst: for alcohol, for other bodies,
for knowledge and for life. 'The struggle from late youth on, with
and without God, agony, narcotics and love, is a torment rarely
recorded with such sustained eloquence and passion as you will find
in this collection' FANNY HOWE 'Compelling . . . strange . . .
always beautiful' ROXANE GAY, AUTHOR OF BAD FEMINIST AND HUNGER
'Truly brilliant' JOHN GREEN, AUTHOR OF THE FAULT IN OUR STARS 'A
breathtaking addition to the canon of addiction literature'
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)
From highflying Playboy editor to pathetic homeless alcoholic
addict, Dystopia charts James Siddall's Icarian fall from grace.
It's the sobering tell-all tale of a young, successful, hubristic,
hard-drinking journalist who in his meltdown becomes the scourge of
pubs and shebeens around the country. Regularly found comatose,
collapsed in a puddle of his own excesses, Siddall became a
frequent patient in lock-down psychiatric wards. He finally
confronted himself after being ordered by court to two years in
rehab. Dystopia punches hard in the solar plexus and in a world
awash with so-called misery memoirs and vic-lit (victim literature)
provides a new take on addiction. But far from being a mere account
of sordidness and degradation - or "war story" - it also peels away
the misconceptions about this disease. Dystopia delves deeply into
the myths and misinformation surrounding addiction, a condition
that's been dubbed "the most democratic and painful of all
diseases." Above all Dystopia is a story of triumph where a broken
man finds his way home to become a functioning human being again
and a working journalist. Written by the brilliant and
award-winning James Siddall, this is the book James Frey could have
produced if he told the whole truth.
This is the basic text of the Narcotics Anonymous fellowship. Just
as with alcoholism, there is no 'cure' for narcotic addiction, but
recovery is possible through a program adapted from the ""Twelve
Steps and Twelve Traditions"" of Alcoholics Anonymous. This book,
written by addicts, for addicts, about addicts, sets forth the
spiritual principles of Narcotics Anonymous that hundreds of
thousands of addicts have used in recovery. Intended as a complete
textbook for every addict seeking recovery, ""Narcotics Anonymous""
describes the N.A. program and how it works. It includes the ""N.A.
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions"", as well as many personal
stories of men and women who have found freedom from addiction
through Narcotics Anonymous.
One of the Washington Post's Ten Best Books of 2013
More than twenty-three thousand women die from heavy drinking in
the United States each year. Incidents of binge drinking and
so-called drunkorexia are on the rise, contributing to an
exponential increase in the number of health conditions and cancers
among women.
Combining in-depth research with her own personal story of
recovery, the award-winning journalist Ann Dowsett Johnston tells
of maintaining her high-powered career as a vice principal of
McGill University while wrestling with the demon that defeated her
own mother: alcohol addiction. After a very private exit from her
professional life, Dowsett Johnston went to rehab; now sober, she
has dedicated her career to examining the relationship between
women and high-risk drinking.
In Drink, Dowsett Johnston dissects the psychological, social,
and workplace factors that contribute to this crisis, and explores
its far-reaching effect on both society at large and individual
lives. Comprehensive and emotionally compelling, Drink is a brave
and powerful story, beautifully told, and an important
investigation into an epidemic that we can no longer afford to
ignore.
What you've got to understand is that here in Southall, everyone's
up to something. In 2006, Lilian Pizzichini swaps life on dry land
for a narrowboat on the Paddington arm of the Grand Union Canal.
The Adam Bonny, moored between Newlocks and Shackleton Estates, is
to be the place she can learn more about her extensive
working-class London family - and the place where she will become
pulled into a strange underbelly of drugs, vagrant neighbours and
criminals. Lilian always found it easier to observe than join in.
Abandoned by everyone around her, by the time she was fourteen she
had developed a taste for Pernod and black. Speed allowed her to
talk to boys, but she spent most of her time with her great-aunt
Dolly, who had no regard for convention, sang songs and urinated on
the street. Born into the slums of Lisson Grove, Dolly spoke like
Eliza Doolittle when no-one was listening. With her, Lilian felt
the bonds of mischief, gambling, madness and song. As the sad lives
of her ancestors sprawl and take root in her head, Lilian drinks
endless brandy and cokes in the Brickmaker's Arms. Pete -
ex-burglar and dealer - brings her heroin, skunk and bags of pills
and, united by a desire to lose consciousness on a regular basis,
becomes her boyfriend. He tells her about the Somalis and Punjabis
and their rival gangs, about the honour killings happening under
their bridges and they watch as the prostitutes and pimps run the
streets. But addiction has a relentless appetite and Lilian soon
realises that, just like the Adam Bonny, she is sinking and must,
with her help of her ancestors, try to pull herself back.
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