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Out Came the Sun: Overcoming the Legacy of Mental Illness, Addiction, and Suicide in My Family
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Encyclopedia of Behavioral Neuroscience
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George F. Koob (Editor)
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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| 102 |
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Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows (The Cthulhu Casebooks, #1)
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Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America's Greatest Tragedy
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David Sheff (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 1,242 ratings
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Impulse Control Disorders
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A Street Cat Named Bob
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Inside Rehab: The Surprising Truth About Addiction Treatment—and How to Get Help That Works
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Neurobiology of Addiction
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High Risk: A True Story of the SAS, Drugs and Other Bad Behaviour
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4.13 avg rating — 83 ratings
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| 108 |
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Opioid Reckoning: Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State
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Amy C. Sullivan (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 32 ratings
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| 111 |
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Advances in the Neuroscience of Addiction
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Cynthia M. Kuhn (editor)
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Never Fade Away: The Kurt Cobain Story
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| 111 |
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Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
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John H. Halpern (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 649 ratings
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| 114 |
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The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease
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4.10 avg rating — 2,304 ratings
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| 114 |
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Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium
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Lucy Inglis (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 412 ratings
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| 116 |
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Addiction, Attachment, Trauma and Recovery: The Power of Connection (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
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4.29 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Killing Season: A Paramedic's Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic
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4.21 avg rating — 271 ratings
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| 118 |
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The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth
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Sam Quinones (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 3,683 ratings
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| 119 |
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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
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4.01 avg rating — 32,618 ratings
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| 119 |
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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
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Sam Quinones (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 31,848 ratings
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| 121 |
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How to Fall out of Love: How to Free Yourself of Love That Hurts--and Find the Love That Heals...
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3.62 avg rating — 112 ratings
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| 121 |
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Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town
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Nick Reding (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 6,865 ratings
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| 123 |
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Addictions Counseling: A Practical and Comprehensive Guide for Counseling People with Addictions
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3.54 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Distilled Spirits: Getting High, Then Sober, with a Famous Writer, a Forgotten Philosopher, and a Hopeless Drunk
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| 125 |
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Requiem for a Dream
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| 125 |
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This Is Ohio: The Overdose Crisis and the Front Lines of a New America
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Jack Shuler (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 135 ratings
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| 127 |
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Sex Addicts Anonymous
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4.41 avg rating — 37 ratings
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| 127 |
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American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
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Chris McGreal (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 2,183 ratings
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| 129 |
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The Addiction Recovery Workbook: A 7-Step Master Plan To Take Back Control Of Your Life (Codependency & Substance Abuse Addiction Books)
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| 129 |
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House of Heroin: Inside the Secret Billion-Dollar Narco-Terror Empire That Is Killing America
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| 131 |
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Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
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Maia Szalavitz (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 2,237 ratings
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| 131 |
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Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It
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4.21 avg rating — 1,290 ratings
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| 133 |
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Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love
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3.92 avg rating — 963 ratings
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| 133 |
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Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America
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Gerald Posner (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 790 ratings
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| 135 |
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The Addiction Spectrum: A Compassionate, Holistic Approach to Recovery
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3.97 avg rating — 105 ratings
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| 135 |
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The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
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Anna Clark (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 2,863 ratings
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| 137 |
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Meathooked: The History and Science of Our 2.5-Million-Year Obsession with Meat
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Marta Zaraska (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 561 ratings
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| 137 |
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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4.54 avg rating — 130,375 ratings
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| 139 |
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Breaking Addiction: A 7-Step Handbook for Ending Any Addiction
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3.88 avg rating — 295 ratings
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| 139 |
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Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball
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Howard Bryant (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 290 ratings
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| 141 |
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How to Break Your Addiction to a Person: When--and Why--Love Doesn't Work
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| 141 |
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True Crime: Real-Life Stories of Abduction, Addiction, Obsession, Murder, Grave-robbing, and More
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Lee Gutkind (Editor)
3.13 avg rating — 68 ratings
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| 143 |
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The Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good
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David J. Linden (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 5,743 ratings
score: 58,
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| 143 |
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In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers
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4.07 avg rating — 301 ratings
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| 145 |
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The Pleasure Trap: Mastering the Hidden Force that Undermines Health & Happiness
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4.12 avg rating — 2,324 ratings
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| 145 |
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The #MeToo Reckoning: Facing the Church's Complicity in Sexual Abuse and Misconduct
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Ruth Everhart (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 212 ratings
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| 147 |
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The 120 Days of Sodom
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Drawing Power: Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival
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Diane Noomin (Editor)
4.35 avg rating — 659 ratings
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| 149 |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America
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4.46 avg rating — 361 ratings
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| 151 |
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Uppers, Downers, All Arounders: Physical and Mental Effects of Psychoactive Drugs
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4.20 avg rating — 410 ratings
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| 151 |
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Bad Girls at Samarcand: Sexuality and Sterilization in a Southern Juvenile Reformatory
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3.49 avg rating — 39 ratings
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| 153 |
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Violated: Exposing Rape at Baylor University amid College Football's Sexual Assault Crisis
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| 154 |
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Wanting More: Challenge of Enjoyment in the Age of Addiction
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4.09 avg rating — 118 ratings
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| 154 |
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The Hunting Ground: The Inside Story of Sexual Assault on American College Campuses
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| 156 |
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As a Man Thinketh
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Threadbare: Clothes, Sex & Trafficking
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| 158 |
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Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills
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4.14 avg rating — 381 ratings
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| 158 |
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Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine
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Trauma and Addiction: Ending the Cycle of Pain Through Emotional Literacy
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Green Lantern/Green Arrow #85
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Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change
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| 162 |
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ART: Why I Stuck with a Junkie Jazzman
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Laurie Pepper (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 72 ratings
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| 164 |
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Addiction to Love: Overcoming Obsession and Dependency in Relationships
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Susan Peabody (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 295 ratings
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Healing the Scars of Addiction
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3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Overcoming Opioid Addiction: The Authoritative Medical Guide for Patients, Families, Doctors, and Therapists
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Healing the Addicted Brain: The Revolutionary, Science-Based Alcoholism and Addiction Recovery Program
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3.87 avg rating — 302 ratings
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Staying Clean & Sober: Complementary and Natural Strategies for Healing the Addicted Brain
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| 169 |
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Everyday Pornography
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Karen Boyle (Editor)
4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Your Sexually Addicted Spouse: How Partners Can Cope and Heal
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Rewiring the Addicted Brain: An EMDR-Based Treatment Model for Overcoming Addictive Disorders
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4.18 avg rating — 71 ratings
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| 172 |
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Confessions of a Shopaholic (Shopaholic, #1)
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Sophie Kinsella (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 799,623 ratings
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Death in Venice and Other Tales
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Addict In The Family: Stories of Loss, Hope, and Recovery
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Beverly Conyers (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 531 ratings
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Drink: The Intimate Relationship between Women and Alcohol
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Ann Dowsett Johnston (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 3,801 ratings
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The Prohibition Hangover: Alcohol in America from Demon Rum to Cult Cabernet
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Drinking in America: Our Secret History
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Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It's So Hard to Stop
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Drunk Mom
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Jowita Bydlowska (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 4,508 ratings
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How to Raise a Drug-Free Kid: The Straight Dope for Parents
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The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime
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