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1) The alcohol experiment: a 30-day, alcohol-free challenge to interrupt your habits and help you take control

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Challenge your thinking, find clarity, and form new habits with a 30-day alcohol-free experiment from the author of This Naked Mind . Changing your habits can be hard without the right tools. This is especially true for alcohol because habits are, by definition, subconscious thought processes. Through her methodical research of the latest neuroscience and her own journey, Annie Grace has cracked the code on habit change by addressing the specific...

2) Alcohol lied to me: the intelligent escape from alcohol addiction

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Beck, Craig

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"Craig Beck was a successful and functioning professional man in spite of a 'two bottles of wine a night' drinking habit. For 20 years, he struggled with problem drinking, all the time refusing to label himself an alcoholic because he did not think he met the stereotypical image that the word portrayed. All these 'willpower' based attempts to stop drinking failed. Slowly, he discovered the truth about alcohol addiction and one by one, all the lies...

3) Drink: the intimate relationship between women and alcohol

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Johnston, Ann Dowsett

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"In Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, award-winning journalist Anne Dowsett Johnston combines in-depth research with her own personal story of recovery, and delivers a groundbreaking examination of a shocking yet little recognized epidemic threatening society today: the precipitous rise in risky drinking among women and girls.With the feminist revolution, women have closed the gender gap in their professional and educational...

4) Drinking: a love story

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Knapp, Caroline

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"It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I had to fall out." So begins Drinking: A Love Story, journalist Caroline Knapp's brave and powerful memoir of her twenty years as a functioning alcoholic. Knapp writes that she loved liquor the way she loved bad men and, like all tragic love stories, hers is a tale of seduction and betrayal, a testament to the alluring but ultimately destructive...

5) Drunk Mom: A Memoir

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Bydlowska, Jowita

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A bestseller in its native Canada, Drunk Mom is a gripping, brutally honest memoir of motherhood in the shadow of alcoholism.

Three years after giving up drinking, Jowita Bydlowska found herself throwing back a glass of champagne like it was ginger ale. It was a special occasion: a party celebrating the birth of her first child. It also marked Bydlowska's immediate, full-blown return to crippling alcoholism.

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6) The Dry Challenge: How to Lose the Booze for Dry January, Sober October, and Any Other Alcohol-Free Month

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Sheinbaum, Hilary

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Trend journalist, on-air host, and lifestyle expert Hilary Sheinbaum explores the incredible life-changing benefits of abstaining from alcohol for one month and provides a comprehensive guide to help you tackle Dry January, Sober October, and other booze-free challenges.

For many people, the holidays bring too much fun, too much food, and too much booze. January can be the perfect time to embrace the new you—and

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7) Dry: delicious handcrafted cocktails and other clever concoctions : seasonal, refreshing, alcohol-free

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Liardet, Clare

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"A nonalcoholic cocktail recipe book for expecting mothers, teetotalers, those hoping to lose weight, and anyone else looking for alternatives to alcoholic cocktails"--

8) Free Spirit Cocktails: 40 Nonalcoholic Drink Recipes

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Wilson, Camille

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Light in spirit and easy to make, FREE SPIRIT COCKTAILS is a refreshing approach to cocktail-making without the hangover.
Lighthearted and full of easy-to-make drinks, FREE SPIRIT COCKTAILS is a refreshing approach to cocktail-making without the hangover. This collection of 40 zero-alcohol recipes features a wide variety of flavorful refreshments that have the look and feel of well-crafted cocktails without any liquor involved....

9) The mocktail manual: over 90 delicious non-alcoholic drinks

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Green, Fern

10) The original guide to alcohol-free beverages and drinks

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Plotkin, Robert

11) Quit like a woman: the radical choice to not drink in a culture obsessed with alcohol

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Whitaker, Holly

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"For years, Holly Whitaker wore her workaholic-party-girl persona as a badge of honor, while privately feeling increasingly miserable. She believed that if she could just eat cleaner, save more money, and be more perfect, her life would finally snap into place. Yet all of her attempts to fix herself just added up to more chaos and the chaos added up to more pain and so she added more wine. When she finally had enough and started looking around for...

12) Raising the bottom: making mindful choices in a drinking culture

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Boucher, Lisa

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Presents a discussion of addiction as experienced by women, and the difficult road to recovery. Features essays from mothers, daughters, health professionals, and young women who share their stories of why they drank, how they stopped, and the joys and rewards of being present in their lives once they kicked alcohol to the curb.

13) Sober curious: the blissful sleep, greater focus, limitless presence, and deep connection awaiting us all on the other side of alcohol

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Warrington, Ruby

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How different would our lives be if we stopped drinking on autopilot? If we stopped drinking altogether? Really different, it turns out. Really better. Frank, funny, and always judgment free, Sober Curious is a bold guide to choosing to live hangover-free, from Ruby Warrington, one of the leading voices of the new sobriety movement.

14) This naked mind: control alcohol, find freedom, discover happiness, & change your life

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Grace, Annie

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A groundbreaking and inspiring book that challenges our relationship with alcohol by exploring the psychological factors behind alcohol use and the cultural influences that contribute to dependency.

Many people question whether drinking has become too big a part of their lives, and worry that it may even be affecting their health. But, they resist change because they fear losing the pleasure and stress-relief...

15) Zero proof cocktails: 90 non-alcoholic recipes for mindful drinking

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Ramirez, Elva

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"90 no-alcohol cocktail recipes from top bartenders across the country"--