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Connu sous le nom de « Gros Livre », le texte de base des Alcooliques anonymes a aidé des millions de personnes dans le monde entier à devenir et à rester abstinents depuis la parution de la première édition en 1939. Les premiers chapitres expliquent le programme de rétablissement de l’alcoolisme des AA - les Douze Étapes d’origine - et raconte les histoires personnelles des cofondateurs des AA, Bill W. et le Dr. Bob.

Listeners will learn about the life and works of J.K. Rowling. The author’s life leading up to her success as the best-selling author of the Harry Potter series is discussed. Listeners will also learn about the author’s writing process and what inspires her. What’s next for this author and other interesting details are also included.

Known as the "Big Book", the basic text of Alcoholics Anonymous has helped millions of people worldwide get and stay sober since the first edition appeared in 1939. Opening chapters articulate A.A.’s program of recovery from alcoholism - the original Twelve Steps - and recount the personal histories of A.A.'s co-founders, Bill W. and Dr. Bob.

What's more exciting than a prison break? Frank Morris and John and Clarence Anglin escaped from Alcatraz in 1962 and have never been caught. Many authorities are certain they died crossing San Francisco Bay. Relatives claim they made it to Brazil. The theories of what happened to them are endless.

This third edition includes 40 never-before-published, personal stories by recovering OA members from around the world; the founder's story; the complete text of "Our Invitation to You"; an all-new appendix, “The Role of a Plan of Eating in Recovery from Compulsive Eating”, by a dietician specializing in addictive and compulsive eating disorders; the book's original three appendices, “A Disease of the Mind,” “A Disease of the Body,” and “A Disease of the Spirit”; and a new foreword by an eating-disorder treatment professional."

Communément appelé le « Douze et Douze », le livre Les Douze Étapes et les Douze Traditions comprend 24 essais écris par le confondateur des Alcooliques anonymes, Bill W, qui ont aidé des millions de membres des AA du monde entier à devenir et à rester abstinents un jour à la fois, et à s’assurer que leur « Mouvement » - les Alcooliques anonymes dans leur ensemble - seraient là pour eux demain.

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

This collection of readings moves through the calendar year one day—at a time. For every day, a favorite quotation from the literature of Alcoholics Anonymous is followed by an A.A. member’s personal reflection, making for daily ingestion that is at once inspired and inspiring. While focusing broadly on the Three Legacies of Recovery, Unity and Service, this volume offers experience, strength and hope on specific topics such as willingness, faith, making amends—themes that recovering alcoholics must address each day—and reminds us that we are never really alone in Alcoholics Anonymous.

Manuel des AA sur comment rester abstinents dans toutes les situations quotidiennes, ce livret très lu montre par l’intermédiaire d’exemples simples comment les membres des AA du monde entier vivent des vies bien remplies tout en restant abstinents un jour à la fois. Extrait de la préface : «Vivre sans alcool n’est ni triste, ni ennuyeux ou désagréable comme nous l’avions d’abord craint. Au contraire, sans alcool nous commençons vraiment à apprécier la vie et à y trouver beaucoup plus de plaisir qu’à l’époque où nous buvions. »

Commonly referred to as the “Twelve and Twelve”, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions comprises 24 foundational essays by Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill W. that have helped millions of A.A. members worldwide both to get and stay sober “one day at a time”, and to ensure that their "Fellowship" - Alcoholics Anonymous as a whole - will be there for them tomorrow.

A.A.’s how-to manual for staying sober in everyday situations, this widely read booklet demonstrates through simple examples how A.A. members throughout the world live their lives to the fullest while staying sober one day at a time. From the foreword: “Living sober turns out to be not at all grim, boring and uncomfortable, as we had feared, but rather something we begin to enjoy and find much more exciting than our drinking days.”

Hurt people hurt people. Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer's assistant, and somehow they met in Bright Lights, Big City. He's blinded by love. She by ambition. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is an honest, hilarious, and heartrending novel but, above all, a very realistic account of what we do to each other and what we allow to have done to us.

The Twelve-Step program of Debtors Anonymous helps those around the world who suffer from the illness of compulsive debting. It offers still-suffering debtors a simple program of recovery through which they can arrest this serious malady. The program rests on the solid foundation of the Twelve Steps, Twelve Traditions, and Twelve Tools of Debtors Anonymous.

The Twelve-Step program of Debtors Anonymous helps those around the world who suffer from the illness of compulsive debting. It offers still-suffering debtors a simple program of recovery through which they can arrest this serious malady.

A retelling of the fable in which a young boy's false cries for help cause him problems when he is really in need of assistance.

You’ve never seen romance do this before. So brutally honest and breathtakingly perverse you’ll want to throw this book at the wall, but you’ll also want to know if it can possibly get any more disturbing (it can and it does). And as you start to wonder whether men and women were ever even meant to be together, a surprise ending brings the trilogy full circle and provides unexpected closure to an issue raised by a certain photographer's assistant in the first book. Eunuchs and Nymphomaniacs is about how we love today and how increasingly we try to avoid it altogether.

The basic text of the SAA fellowship, Sex Addicts Anonymous explains sex addiction from the SAA perspective and demonstrates, through examples, how sex addiction worsens over time. It describes the personal powerlessness and unmanageability of sex addiction, and the damage to personal relationships, livelihood, and physical health that is often caused by addictive behavior.

Cet ensemble de textes parcourt l’année de jour en jour–une page à la fois–une journée à la fois. Chaque jour, une citation extraite des publications des Alcooliques anonymes, est suivie d’une réflexion personnelle d’un membre des AA, ce qui en fait une lecture quotidienne à la fois inspirée et inspirante.

In an immersive, exciting narrative nonfiction format, this powerful book follows a selection of people who experienced the events of the Holocaust.

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. The stories shared here reflect the experience, strength, and hope of hundreds of members.