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Book Recommendations

Alanon Books: (Very critical to read the ones with *)

1. How Al-Anon Works for Families & Friends of Alcoholics*

1. Paths to recovery – Al-Anons steps, traditions and concepts*

2. Courage to change – Alanon

3. One Day at a time in Al-anon

4. As We Understood by Al-Anon Family Group

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Additional Books about Addiction/Codependency:

1. Codependent no more – Melody Beattie

2. Codependent no more Workbook – Melody Beattie

3. The Language of letting go – Melody Beattie

4. Codependents Guide to the twelve steps - Melody Beattie

5. The New codependency: Help and Guidance for today’s generation – Melody Beattie

6. Beyond codependency – Melody Beattie

7. Unbroken Brain – Maia Szalavitz

8. The Mindfulness workbook for addiction – Rebecca Williams

9. Addict in the family – Beverly Conyers

10. Don’t let your kids kill you – Charles Rubin

11. Setting boundaries with your adult children – Allison Bottke

12. Beautiful Boy – David Sheff

13. Saving Jake – D’Anne Burwell

14. Jagged little edges – Lorelie Rozzano

15. Jagged little lies - Lorelie Rozzano

16. Jagged no more - Lorelie Rozzano

17. Another chance – Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse

18. Still standing after all the tears – Valerie Silveira

19. Dance of Anger – Harriet Lerner

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Books for kids effected by addiction:

1. Gracie’s Secret - Lorelie Rozzano

2. My Dad Loves me – Claudia Black

3. Understanding Addiction and recovery through child’s eyes –Jerry Moe

4. An elephant in the living room – Jill Hastings

5. When a family is in trouble – Marge Heegaard

6. Daddy’s Disease – Carolyn Hannan Bell

7. Mommy’s Disease – Carloyn Hannan Bell

8. Critters Cry to – Anthony Curcio

9. The brown bottle – Penny Jones

Older Kids (Teenage) books:

1. Emmy’s Question – Jeannine Auth

2. Alateen – Hope for children

3. Courage to be me: Livng with Alcoholism

4. Alateen, a day at a time

5. Alateen, Talks back on detachment

6. Alateen, Talks back on higher power

7. Teenagers living with a parent who abuses alcohol/drugs – Edith Lynn Hornik-Beer

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