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All the Way
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The Rip
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Mark Brandi (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 2,013 ratings
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Dream Girl
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Laura Lippman (Goodreads Author)
3.26 avg rating — 12,587 ratings
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Hole in My Life
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Jack Gantos (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 8,022 ratings
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A Brief History of Drugs: From the Stone Age to the Stoned Age
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The Woman Who Walked Into Doors (Paula Spencer, #1)
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Edie: American Girl
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Not Dead And Not for Sale: The Earthling Papers- A Memoir
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Bad News (Patrick Melrose, #2)
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3.77 avg rating — 7,278 ratings
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You Ought to Do a Story About Me: Addiction, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Endless Quest for Redemption
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Keep Her Sweet
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Helen Fitzgerald (Goodreads Author)
3.20 avg rating — 357 ratings
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612 |
The Medicine Burns: And Other Stories (High Risk Books)
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3.70 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Spin (Spin, #1)
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Catherine McKenzie (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 5,158 ratings
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The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade
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4.37 avg rating — 697 ratings
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Paula Spencer (Paula Spencer, #2)
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Roaring Drunk: An Idiots Guide on Becoming an Alcoholic
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Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs
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3.90 avg rating — 181 ratings
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New Animal
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3.39 avg rating — 8,084 ratings
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The Bitch Posse
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3.47 avg rating — 2,032 ratings
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Anger Guide: A Blueprint for Twelve Structured Sessions
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Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate
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3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Money
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3.70 avg rating — 25,307 ratings
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Clockers
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4.09 avg rating — 9,775 ratings
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Veronica
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3.43 avg rating — 7,740 ratings
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Raise the Bottom: How to Keep Secret Alcoholics from Damaging Your Business
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Something's Wrong in My House
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America
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3.68 avg rating — 34 ratings
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628 |
Family Strategies: Practical Tools for Professionals Treating Families Impacted by Addiction
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628 |
After the War on Drugs: Blueprint for Regulation
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4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
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628 |
Maybe I'll Call Anna
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3.75 avg rating — 53 ratings
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628 |
Teens Under the Influence: The Truth About Kids, Alcohol, and Other Drugs- How to Recognize the Problem and What to Do About It
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Katherine Ketcham (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 29 ratings
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628 |
The Berenstain Bears and the Drug-Free Zone (Big Chapter Books)
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3.72 avg rating — 206 ratings
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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
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4.05 avg rating — 31,213 ratings
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A Hole in the Sidewalk: The Recovering Person's Guide to Relapse Prevention
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4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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634 |
Matthew Flinders' Cat
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3.87 avg rating — 3,915 ratings
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Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know®
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4.09 avg rating — 107 ratings
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634 |
Children of Light
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3.69 avg rating — 479 ratings
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634 |
The Wisdom of the Rooms - Volume Three
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634 |
All Ages: Reflections on Straight Edge
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3.62 avg rating — 343 ratings
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634 |
American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic
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John Temple (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 2,482 ratings
score: 88,
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Violeta
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Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 104,253 ratings
score: 88,
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Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know®
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3.79 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Just Love Her: A Mother's Journey of Healing Through Her Daughter's Drug Addiction
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3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Out of Step: Faces of Straight Edge
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3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings
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645 |
Sweat: A Practical Plan For Keeping Your Heart Intact While Loving An Addict
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Denise Krochta (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 86,
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Sober Living for the Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics
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Gabriel Kuhn (Editor)
3.86 avg rating — 331 ratings
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The Alcoholic
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3.77 avg rating — 3,206 ratings
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645 |
Meditations in Green
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4.01 avg rating — 592 ratings
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649 |
Skate
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Michael Harmon (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 702 ratings
score: 85,
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649 |
Straight Talk from Claudia Black: What Recovering Parents Should Tell Their Kids about Drugs and Alcohol
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3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings
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649 |
Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography
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3.60 avg rating — 894 ratings
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649 |
Slaying the Addiction Monster: An All-Inclusive Look at Drug Addiction in America Today
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Straight Edge: Hardcore Punk, Clean Living Youth, and Social Change
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3.68 avg rating — 198 ratings
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649 |
Transcendent Kingdom
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Yaa Gyasi (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 160,178 ratings
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655 |
Relapse Toolkit
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655 |
Iced
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Ray Shell (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 356 ratings
score: 84,
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655 |
Love First: A New Approach to Intervention for Alcoholism & Drug Addiction (A Hazelden Guidebook)
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Jeff Jay (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 213 ratings
score: 84,
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Straight Edge: Subkultur, Ideologie, Lebensstil?
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2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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655 |
Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son's Story
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3.72 avg rating — 1,129 ratings
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660 |
Double Duty: Help for the Adult Child
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4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Scarface
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4.06 avg rating — 218 ratings
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Straightedge Youth: Complexity and Contradictions of a Subculture
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2.94 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The Devil's Playground
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4.33 avg rating — 230 ratings
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663 |
Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia
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Stephen Fried (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 2,409 ratings
score: 82,
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663 |
Treffpunkt im Unendlichen
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3.89 avg rating — 145 ratings
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With The Light Of Truth
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663 |
Proof of Angels
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Mary Curran Hackett (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 162 ratings
score: 82,
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668 |
Snow Bodies: One Woman's Life on the Streets
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3.92 avg rating — 39 ratings
score: 81,
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668 |
The Past The Present 1982-2007: A History Of 25 Years Of European Straight Edge
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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670 |
Pretty
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Jillian Lauren (Goodreads Author)
3.16 avg rating — 873 ratings
score: 80,
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670 |
Anger Strategies: Practical Tools for Professionals Treating Anger
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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670 |
Straight Edge A Clear-Headed Hardcore Punk History
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4.24 avg rating — 204 ratings
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673 |
The Secret of Willow Ridge: Gabe's Dad Finds Recovery
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4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Power: Surviving and Thriving After Narcissistic Abuse: A Collection of Essays on Malignant Narcissism and Recovery from Emotional Abuse
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4.42 avg rating — 1,060 ratings
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675 |
The Speed Queen
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Stewart O'Nan (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 1,323 ratings
score: 78,
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Depression Strategies: Practical Tools for Professionals Treating Depression
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When the Sacred Ginmill Closes (Matthew Scudder, #6)
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Lawrence Block (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 5,867 ratings
score: 77,
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The Missing Piece: Solving the Puzzle of Self
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another
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3.71 avg rating — 304 ratings
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The Truth Begins with You: Reflections to Heal Your Spirit
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4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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681 |
In Hanuman's Hands: A Memoir
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Cheeni Rao (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 138 ratings
score: 75,
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Double duty: chemically dependent : dual dynamics within the chemically dependent home
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4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Bright Burning Things
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3.33 avg rating — 13,573 ratings
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Repeat After Me
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4.32 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The Incantation of Frida K.
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3.88 avg rating — 255 ratings
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"It's Never Too Late to Have a Happy Childhood": Inspirations for Inner Healing
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4.33 avg rating — 39 ratings
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687 |
Deceived: Facing Sexual Betrayal Lies and Secrets
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4.24 avg rating — 41 ratings
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My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N' Roses
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3.59 avg rating — 5,660 ratings
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Pills-A-Go-Go: A Fiendish Investigation into Pill Marketing, Art, History & Consumption
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Jim Hogshire (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Changing Course: Healing from Loss, Abandonment and Fear
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4.30 avg rating — 147 ratings
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It Will Never Happen to Me!
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4.26 avg rating — 1,648 ratings
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The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America
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3.89 avg rating — 1,024 ratings
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Death of a Valentine (Hamish Macbeth, #25)
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3.81 avg rating — 6,720 ratings
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Valencia
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3.78 avg rating — 6,396 ratings
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Agatha Raisin and the Busy Body (Agatha Raisin, #21)
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3.76 avg rating — 9,325 ratings
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The IHOP Papers
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3.56 avg rating — 908 ratings
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Hiss and Hers (Agatha Raisin, #23)
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3.67 avg rating — 8,798 ratings
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Narcotics Anonymous: White Booklet
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4.61 avg rating — 80 ratings
score: 66,
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The Beautiful: Collected Poems
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4.08 avg rating — 446 ratings
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Miracles happen: The birth of Narcotics Anonymous in words and pictures
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4.39 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Fitzgerald is an easy author to sensationalize for addiction, however much of it is circuited by the jazz age culture - I'd argue the American Dream is an allegory for an addictive mindset one that traps pursuers into something that devours them completely.

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Dave Carr's memoir, The Gun in the Night, both excellent. Also the MOYERS book, forget the title...