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Powell Bookstore’s Monthly Book Suggestions and Reviews

January

Boundaries – Where you end and I Begin by Anne Katherine, MA $11.95

This book is about how to recognize and set healthy boundaries. Boundary violations are both subtle and overt. If you have ever walked away from a conversation, meeting, or visit and felt violated but were not quite sure why, this book can help you recognize and set healthy boundaries. Establishing boundaries is essential to creating and maintaining mental, physical, and spiritual health. In time, your boundaries help you heal and bring order to your life, strengthening your relationships with yourself and others. The stories in this book illustrate the negative effects of not setting limits and the benefits to be gained by protecting personal boundaries.

February

Walk in Dry Places by Mel b. $13.95

A book of daily messages and meditations, Mel B’s Walk in Dry Places is filled with solid, practical, spiritual advice and time-honored Twelve Step philosophy, offering insightful explorations and reinforcements to both newcomers and those with long-term sobriety alike.

March

Keep it Simple – Daily Meditations for Twelve-Step Beginnings and Renewal

Hazelden Meditations $13.95

By providing a year’s worth of encouragement, reflection, and prayer, Keep it Simple gently integrates recovery wisdom into your everyday life with 366 simple action-for-the-day reminders. Like all the Hazelden meditation favorites, Keep it Simple is a dependable companion, extending a helping hand to those who seek a daily dose of strength, support, and guidance.

April

Prescription Drug Addiction… A Guide to Coping and Understanding by Rod Colvin

Colvin offers compelling stories of recovery along with advice and insights from addiction medicine specialists. He also provides perspectives from therapist, pharmacists, pain management experts, and fraud investigators. $15.95

May

A Woman’s Way through the Twelve Steps by Stephanie S. Covington, Ph.D. $14.95

Stephanie S. Covington’s best-selling book, A Woman’s Way through the Twelve Steps has helped hundreds of thousands of women explore the uniquely female experiences that have shaped who we are and how we approach recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. Covington illuminates how each of the Twelve Steps speaks to a woman’s experience and offers inspiring stories of real women who have traveled through the Steps and discovered what fits fro them.

June

More…Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie $16.95

366 new meditations by Melody Beattie.

Relationships require tending-and who better to turn to in those moments of need than Melody Beattie? Melding essays and meditations, this book offers the best-selling author’s reflections on the joys and challenges that relationships present every day. Distilling her compassionate insights on how best to nurture spiritual and emotional health, Beattie touches on questions of honesty and surrender, defensiveness and drama addiction, healthy communications and unhealthy tendencies. Her characteristically direct, unsentimental words give voice to the thoughts and feelings common to men and women in recovery- and point the way to healing and hope by creating opportunities for reflection, affirmation, and change.

July

The Addictive Personality - Understanding the Addictive Process and Compulsive Behavior by Craig Nakken $14.95

Going beyond a former definition that limited addiction primarily to the realm of alcohol and other drugs, author Craig Nakken uncovers the common denominator of all addiction as he brings to light the emotional isolation, shame, and despair in which addicts live. He examines how addictions begin and how they progress, as well as how our society often encourages addictive behavior. Nakkon includes recent information on recovery, genetic factors in addiction, mental health issues, and new research findings.

August

The Big Book Unplugged – A Young Person’s Guide to Alcoholics Anonymous

by John R. $9.95

A big part of figuring out how to stay clean and sober is learning how other people manage to do it. That’s exactly why the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous, was written way back in 1939. A small group of alcoholics thought that maybe they could help each other – and help other alcoholics – by sharing their own stories about the disease and how they overcame it. It turns out that a lot of the stuff they wrote about back then holds true for alcoholics and addicts today. John R. sobered up at age seventeen – before he was even old enough to legally drink. Today, with more than twenty years of continuous sobriety, he works as chemical dependency counselor and has written extensively on the subject of adolescent addiction and recovery.

September

Believing in Myself - Daily Meditations for Healing and Building Self-Esteem by Earnie Larsen & Carol Hegarty $12.00

A solid sense of self-worth is the single most important factor in determining our happiness in life and our success in work and relationships. With it, virtually all things are possible. Without it, even victories can feel like defeats. This enlightening book presents a meditation for every day of the years, complete with an inspirational quote and a thought-for the-day.

October

The Dance of Anger – A Woman’s guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships by Harriet Lerner, Ph.D. $17.50

For two decades, this book has helped millions of readers learn how to turn their anger into a constructive force for reshaping their lives. “Anger is a signal and one worth listening to,” write Dr. Harriet Lerner in her book. While anger deserves our attention and respect, women still learn to silence our anger, to deny it entirely, or to vent it in a way that leaves us feeling helpless and powerless. In this book, Dr. Lerner teaches women and men to identify the true sources of anger and to use it as a powerful vehicle for creating lasting change.

November

Just for Today – Daily Meditations for Recovering Addicts $10.00

This book is the culmination of almost a decade of work on the part of the NA Fellowship. Serious interest in creating a daily meditation book for NA members began shortly after the initial approval of the basic text in 1982. The purpose of the book is to offer a wide variety of meditational topics to recovering addicts. These topics range from the nuts and bolts of recovery to the vast array of intangible spiritual concepts existent. The book is meant for those at any and all stages of recovery, regardless of clean time.

December

Finding the Joy in Today – Practical Readings for Living with Chronic Illness

by Sefra Kobrin Pitzele $12.00

Even life with chronic illness has its share of joy, through the daily strains and constant adjustments may make joy harder to find. This inspiring book of daily meditations takes up the physical, emotional, and spiritual challenges faced by those who have chronic illnesses as well as their caregivers, pointing the way to the joy that each day can bring. With topics ranging from bedtime blues to crisis of confidence, form the fear fo pain to the haling power of laughter, these daily readings confront common problems and trying situations with practical ideas and new ways of thinking that can help people find faith, direction, and hope in the course of living with chronic illness.

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