What does a codependent say to his mate when he wakes up? "Good morning, how am I?" --Overheard at a Codependents Anonymous meeting Throughout the world today, more than two million alcoholics and hundreds of thousands of drug addicts, compulsive overeaters, sex addicts, compulsive gamblers, codependents, and other addicts abstain from their addiction, having found a new life by practicing the 12-step program of recovery developed by Alcoholics Anonymous. Over the years, their practices have evolved into a way of life--the 12-Step Culture. "I don't remember my first meeting, but I've been told that I talked for a really long time." --Mary, a member of Narcotics Anonymous AA to Z is the first book to document the richness and diversity of the lives of recovering people and to provide an encyclopedic look at this unique subculture. Less self-help than enlightenment and entertainment, AA to Z is comprised of real-life stories of recovering addicts as well as an "addictionary" of recovery terminology. Everything from the well-known slogan "One Day at a Time" to more esoteric terms like "pigeon" (a lovingly insulting term for a newcomer to the program) and "Wharf Rats" (sober Deadheads) is explained with clarity, insight, and humor. "How it works, you ask--slowly and well." --Cooper, a member of Alcoholics Anonymous Conversational, witty, and engaging, AA to Z is a must-have for all 12-step participants and their loved ones, and it offers the uninitiated a fascinating firsthand look at one of the most influential yet least-documented cultural movements of our time.

Here’s what you can look forward to An A-to-Z Mentality … It offers something different—a twist on the many literary options that are out there today. Author Rodney Etheridge presents a simple read that touches on facts, life experiences, personal opinions, and views of common, everyday words and phrases using the letters of the alphabet. He seeks to touch and connect with everyone on a personal and or realistic level.

Lijst van Engels idioom dat vaak fout begrepen wordt door Nederlandstaligen.

The intention of this book is to help you claim back the life of personal respect, integrity and honour you were always destined to live. This book is aimed at anyone who has a dream inside waiting to break out but is imprisoned by their personal history. It does not aim to provide the answers, but hopes instead to provoke you into asking the right questions about your life and how you really want to live it: The rest is up to you. This book is part of a series of four, which are defined as 'living books'; in other words, as readers read and learn and grow, and feedback to us, we want to evidence that learning and growing so maybe other peoples' learning and growing can acquire compassion and wisdom about their own and others' lives less painfully. As the authors of this book, we have learned certain incontrovertible truths; the most important one being that we are all ultimately responsible for our own life stories. We have the final decision on what story we choose to tell. If it is too late to change the chapters that have preceded where we are now, we certainly have the power to transform the rest of the story to describe our blooming. Contained within these pages, and the pages of the other three books comprising the series, are some ideas to help you along the way All the words and phrases used throughout the series are intended to be explained within the context of how they are presented. If however, you do not understand anything you read, please ask for an explanation. We will be happy to clarify in later editions and via our website updates. We can be contacted at: [email protected] or via our website at www.AcornProductions.org

Before Violet met Nate, the human who followed her into the fae realm and turned her life upside down, she was the perfect guardian trainee. She followed all the rules and did her best to protect her human assignments. Goblins, ogres, trolls—Vi learned how to handle them all. In this compilation of flash fiction pieces, catch a glimpse of some of Vi’s past assignments, and experience the life of a faerie training to be a guardian.

An alphabetical romp through a lifetime of hair-breadth escape, dire danger, and even bizarre and unusual misadventure. The author is an ambassador of the Kingdom of God and this has painted a target on his back for the forces of darkness from early childhood. You will thrill to the tales of terror, laugh uproariously at the often hilarious circumstances and lightheartedly humorous storytelling style, and find your own faith in God's care and protection growing with every chapter. This is ultimately a collection of stories about the faithfulness of the Father. BONUS: Ebook version contains additional stories not included in print editions.

Sexy, secretive, yet clear-eyed, Duncan brings pop, high, and low cultures together in one handy sometimes amusing sometimes harsh A-to-Z which every bibliophile and armchair adventurer will find to be a necessary guidebook through the temerarious pages of international literature.