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2) Any day now
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
For Sierra Jones, Sullivan's Crossing is meant to be a brief stopover. She's put her troubled past behind her but the path forward isn't yet clear. A visit with her big brother Cal and his new bride, Maggie, seems to be the best option to help her get back on her feet. Not wanting to burden or depend on anyone, Sierra is surprised to find the Crossing offers so much more than a place to rest her head. Cal and Maggie welcome her into their busy lives...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times Bestseller
A tale of joy, heartbreak and hope, about a motherless girl collectively raised by a close-knit Dublin community.
When Noel learns that his terminally ill former flame is pregnant with his child, he agrees to take guardianship of the baby girl once she’s born. But as a single father battling demons of his own, Noel can’t do it alone.
Fortunately, he has a competent, caring
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder volume 17
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a childhood friend is shot down while attempting to atone for past sins according to the dictates of Alcoholics Anonymous, Matthew Scudder is drawn into a murder investigation that threatens to derail his own sobriety.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Seven hard-won months into her sobriety, sociology professor Maris Heilman has her first blackout. She chalks it up to exhaustion, though she fears that her husband and daughter will suspect she's drinking again. Whatever their cause, the glitches start becoming more frequent. Sometimes minutes, sometimes longer, but always leaving Maris with the same disorienting question: Where have I been? Then another blackout lands Maris in the ER, where she...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
During a visit to Venice, Professor David Ullman--one of the world's leading authorities on demonic literature--witnesses a terror in a tiny attic room. Then his 12-year-old daughter Tess disappears before his eyes, and he must find her while confronting an unspeakable darkness along the way.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man who's fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. Sober for fourteen years, Hank took pride in his hard-won sobriety and never hesitated to drop whatever he was doing to talk Cody off a ledge. When Cody takes...
8) Borderline
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three. A teenage girl who isn't allowed outside, not after last time. A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory. And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible. An unspeakable secret binds them together, but when a new neighbor moves in next door, what is buried out among the birch trees may come back...
10) The risen
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
A suspenseful and evocative tale of two brothers whose lives are altered irrevocably by the events of one long-ago summer. --Publisher
11) Trespass
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A London antique dealer sets his sights on an ancient stone farmhouse in southern France owned by a man haunted by his violent past and his revenge-seeking sister.
12) The dead student
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A gripping novel about a young recovering alcoholic determined to prove that his uncle's death was not suicide, but murder. --Publisher
13) Mending fences
Author
Series
Deacon's family volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Luke Schrock is a new and improved man after a stint in rehab, though everyone in Stoney Ridge only remembers the old Luke. They might have forgiven him, but nobody trusts him. He has been allowed to live at Windmill Farm under two conditions. First, he must make a sincere apology to each person he's hurt. Second, he must ask each victim of mischief to describe the damage he caused. Simple, Luke thinks. Offering apologies is easy. But discovering...
Author
Series
Frankie Elkin volume 1
Language
English
Description
Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what no one else will--searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking. A new case brings her to Mattapan, a Boston neighborhood with a rough reputation. She is searching...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Left in the care of her beloved Granddad following the death of her mother, Willojean tries to prove to her alcoholic father that she is able to train a special horse which had been abused.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by the alcoholic father who idealized the natural world without imparting any survival skills to his children, three siblings in 1970s New York embark on difficult adult lives before their father attempts a reconciliation.
17) Purgatory chasm
Author
Series
Conway Sax mystery volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Reluctantly agreeing to help an obnoxious member of his local AA group, recovering alcoholic and resourceful mechanic Conway Sax is wrongly accused of the man's subsequent murder and struggles to catch the real killer in order to clear his name.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Supervising an unrepentant alcoholic doctor who has been implicated in the death of a powerful Congressman, Dr. Lou Welcome uncovers a wealth of incriminating facts, including the doctor's alleged affair with the victim's wife, before stumbling on a high-level conspiracy that places Lou's life at risk.
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