Al‑Anon’s basic book discusses our mutual-help program of recovery, including personal stories. A beginning approach to the Twelve Concepts of Service is included.

Experiences of a Country Girl is a painful, intriguing account of dastardly doings in the backwoods of America, told by the girl herself.The author, Lucille by name, is the voluptuous 19-year-old daughter of a poor farmer. Papa is desperately in need of money and, to raise capital, he "sells" his daughter to their next-door neighbor, Mr. Raleigh, a wealthy young man of bizarre tastes.The innocent Lucille is exposed to the wiles of her master in brutal fashion. Without so mu...

Al-Anon’s latest daily reader shares the personal experiences and many voices of the Al-Anon fellowship today, illustrating that Al‑Anon is indeed for anyone affected by someone else’s drinking.

Naomi Soloveitchik has taken the first steps towards medical transition and with them, the womanhood she hopes to embody. However, she does not really understand what that means for her relationships, both to friends and lovers, but also to her own body. She wrestles with the more masculinized forms of womanhood she had admired and aspired to all her life, asking herself if it is possible for a trans woman to be that kind of woman. As she attempts to find her body and her body’s place in t...

More daily inspiration from a fresh, diverse perspective. Insightful reflections reveal surprisingly simple things that can transform lives.

An Al‑Anon classic! Inspirational readings relate Al‑Anon philosophy to everyday situations, helping to make each day better than the one before. Includes new Introduction.

The Forum is an international monthly publication of Al‑Anon Family Groups, a fellowship that offers help and hope for the families and friends of alcoholics. This magazine features timely sharings from Al‑Anon and Alateen members, much in the way that they contribute when attending Al‑Anon or Alateen meetings. The magazine also includes suggested meeting topics, as well as news and information from Al‑Anon’s World Service Conference and World Service Office.

The 26 tales in this collection, were gathered from various parts of Canada—at a time when the most convenient method of travel was by the Canadian waterways. The compiler travelled the rivers, lakes and oceans where sailors and fishermen still watched the stars. He gathered them in forest clearings where lumbermen still retained remnants of the old and now vanished way of life; where Indians used to barter for their goods and from remote country places where women spin and speak with reve...

Daily sharings from Al‑Anon’s adult children members are for anyone who wants to grow in acceptance, compassion, and understanding. Indexed.

Caroline is the story of an extraordinary woman--beautiful, strong and mischievous. Putting her looks and wit to good use, the young Caroline seduces her friend Harry and his sister Adelaide. Once married to Harry, and living comfortably with him and Adelaide, Caroline enlarges and enlivens their menage by creating an "academy" for young -- and not so young -- women requiring in initiation into the rites of love.

In this relentlessly faithful reproduction of a privately published erotic classic, limited in the early 1930s to an edition of only 250 copies, self-made millionaire Joseph Calhoun, his supercharged sexuality galvanized by a photography of his cousin's young, obviously lust-hungry wife, decides to kidnap her, and--by means of carefully calculated carnality--including the amorously artful participation of his servant--Calhoun proceeds, in a series of searing episodes graphically described ...

Grief and loss affect almost every aspect of living—or having lived—with alcoholism. Members share how they have learned to acknowledge and accept these losses with the help of Al‑Anon Family Groups. Indexed