Sober Stick Figure is a memoir from stand-up comedian Amber Tozer, chronicling her life as an alcoholic and her eventual recovery -- starting with her first drink at the age of seven -- all told with the help of childlike stick figures. Amber writes and illustrates the crazy and harsh truths of being raised by alcoholics, becoming one herself, stagnating in denial for years, and finally getting sober.As a teenager, Amber is an overachieving student athlete ...

The Tenth Anniversary Edition of the New York Times bestselling book that has sold over half a million copies in paperback."I was addicted to "Bewitched" as a kid. I worshipped Darren Stevens the First. When he'd come home from work and Samantha would say, ‘Darren, would you like me to fix you a drink?' He'd always rest his briefcase on the table below the mirror in the foyer, wipe his forehead with a monogrammed handkerchief and say, ‘Better make it a double.'" (from Chapter Two)

**An instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller!Beloved former ABC 20/20 anchor Elizabeth Vargas share the truth about her alcohol addiction and anxiety disorder in this honest and emotional memoir."My dazzling friend and colleague, Elizabeth Vargas, has stared straight into the lethal heart of addiction with the eye of a fearless journalist. She has written a book for us all about truth, bravery, and the hope that a new day brings." ―Diane Sawyer**

The former Olympic runner and high-end escort reveals her battle with mental illness, and how mania affected her professional and personal lives.A New York Times BestsellerDuring the 1990s, three-time Olympian Suzy Favor Hamilton was an American track and field darling. An outstanding runner, a major sports apparel spokesperson, and a happily married wife, she was the model for an active, healthy...

"What a compulsive read! A brilliant first novel that kept me transfixed and entertained until the very last page." -- Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling authorYou've been held captive in one room.You've been mentally and physically abused every day since you were sixteen years old.Then one night you realize your captor has left the door to your cell unlocked.For the first time in eight years you're free. This is what happen...

THE FUNNY, INSPIRATIONAL MEMOIR THAT SHOWS YOU HOW TO STOP DRINKING AND START LIVING - BY THE AUTHOR OF THE AUTHENTICITY PROJECT'The best 'quit-lit' on the market' - Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'An excellent book. It will help a lot of people' - Lorraine KellyWith a highly successful career in advertising, Clare Pooley never expected to find herself an overweight, depressed, middle-aged mother of t...

Lisa Smith was a bright, young lawyer at a prestigious firm in NYC in the early nineties when alcoholism started to take over her life. What was once a way of escaping her insecurity and negativity became a means of coping with the anxiety and stress of an impossible workload. Girl Walks Out of a Bar is Smith's darkly comic and wrenchingly honest story of her formative years, the decade of alcohol and drug abuse, divorce, and her road to recovery. Smith describes how her spiraling circumst...

Now a Netflix original movie, this deeply scary and intensely unnerving novel follows a couple in the midst of a twisted unraveling of the darkest unease. You will be scared. But you won’t know why…I’m thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It’s always there. Always.Jake once said, “Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but y...

An Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year: "A heartwarming, profane memoir about humor and resilience in the face of tragedy." — PeopleFor the Marshalls, laughter is the best medicine. Especially when combined with alcohol, pain pills, excessive cursing, sexual escapades, actual medicine, and more alcohol.At twenty-five, Dan Marshall has a good job, a great girlfriend, and a dream life in sunny Los Angeles without a care in the world....

#1 New York Times Bestseller | Oprah's Book Club Selection**"Riveting…a worthy investment…this book has real wisdom."—New York Times Book Review"Provocative….I adore her honesty, her vulnerability, and her no-nonsense wisdom, and I know you will, too."—Oprah Winfrey**The highly anticipated memoir by bestselling author Glennon Doyle, Love Warrior tells the story of her journey of self-disco...

Longlisted for the 2018 International Dublin Literary AwardA masterful and gripping novel from “an undeniably talented writer” — Globe and MailOn a sunny May morning, social worker Jessica Campbell sorts through her mother’s belongings after her recent funeral. In the basement, she makes a shocking discovery — two dead girls curled into the bottom of her mother’s chest freezers. She remembers a pair of foster children who lived wit...

The psychological experience of withdrawal after years of drinking four bottles of wine a day, every day, evokes the image of my mind being warped and stretched over an Event Horizon as it's about to be sucked through a Black Hole.My story will take the reader through my experiences of late stage alcoholism, two arrests by my new husband of three months, and my subsequent adventures through and between five inpatient treatment centers.