Love First provides clear steps for families, friends, and professionals to create a loving and effective intervention plan for helping those who have an addiction. This revised and expanded twentieth-anniversary edition adds new intervention techniques for alcohol and other drug addictions, plus contemporary insights from the authors' decades of front-line work with those who are addicted and their families. Also new are tools to help families undertake...

Shortly after flight MAS370 goes missing, scholarship student Girl boards her own mysterious flight from Australia to London to work on a dissertation on Sylvia Plath. Though she is ambivalent toward academia and harbors ideas about writing a post-colonial novel, if only she could work out just what that means, Girl relishes the freedom that has come with distance from the expectations and judgements of her very tight-knit Malaysian-Australian family....

An encouraging and inspiring true story. An amazing account of redemption. A source of hope and strength for anyone who has ever struggled with depression, anxiety, alcoholism, death of a parent or child, anger, addiction, death, PTSD, infidelity, or self-worth. This book is a suicide prevention resource for police, fire, and military, or anyone else struggling with suicidal thoughts. Jonathan Hickory is a veteran police officer, a men's leader in...

Thelonius Monk Ellison is an erudite, accomplished but seldom-read author who insists on writing obscure literary papers rather than the so-called ghetto prose that would make him a commercial success. He finally succumbs to temptation after seeing the Oberlin-educated author of We's Lives in da Ghetto during her appearance on a talk show, firing back with a parody called My Pafology, which he submits to his startled agent under the gangsta pseudonym...

In 2019, a Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent who reported in over 150 countries, many in violent upheaval, was diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor, which gave him the strength to face more personal conflicts, in this unforgettable final dispatch that reveals how facing the unknown can change our relationship to the world around us.