Recovery Memoirs

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    • Freedom from Our Addictions
    • By: Russell Brand
    • Narrated by: Russell Brand
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,650 ratings
    • A guide to all kinds of addiction from a star who has struggled with heroin, alcohol, sex, fame, food, and eBay, that will help addicts and their loved ones make the first steps into recovery....

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    • The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life
    • By: Tiffany Jenkins
    • Narrated by: Tiffany Jenkins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12,965 ratings
    • A raw and twisty, pause resisting memoir that sounds like fiction, High Achiever spans Tiffany’s life as an active opioid addict. With heart-racing urgency and unflinching honesty, Jenkins takes you inside the grips of addiction and the desperate decisions it breeds....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Jowita Bydlowska
    • Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,549 ratings
    • A best seller in its native Canada, Drunk Mom is a gripping, brutally honest memoir of motherhood in the shadow of alcoholism....

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    • A Memoir of Abuse, Addiction and Recovery
    • By: Kate Russell
    • Narrated by: Kate Russell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • Kate, born to abusive, drug addicted parents, identifies an inner God voice when she is very young. This voice, and the support of her grandmother, helps her overcome her circumstances instead of falling victim to them....

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    • The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster
    • By: Kristen Johnston
    • Narrated by: Kristen Johnston
    • Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,954 ratings
    • The two-time Emmy Award-winning actress has written her first book, a surprisingly raw and triumphant memoir....

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    • A Ragamuffin Memoir
    • By: Brennan Manning
    • Narrated by: Maurice England
    • Length: 4 hrs
    • Release date: 10-10-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 280 ratings
    • It has been over twenty years since the publication of The Ragamuffin Gospel, a book many claim as the shattering of God's grace into their lives....

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    • a memoir
    • By: Brett Douglas
    • Narrated by: Ryan Turner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 631 ratings
    • My name is Brett. I'm a college-educated man who was once a husband of 26 years with two children, three businesses, and a large home with an actual white picket fence. I'm also a drug addict. And I have a tale to tell....

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    • By: Abi Morgan
    • Narrated by: Fiona Button
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • When the partner of Emmy Award–winning screenwriter Abi Morgan abruptly collapsed from a mysterious illness, doctors were concerned that he would not survive....

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    • A Memoir of Abuse, Addiction, Sex Work, and Recovery
    • By: Amber van de Bunt
    • Narrated by: Amber van de Bunt
    • Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 413 ratings
    • From an early age, Amber van de Bunt knew she wasn't like the other girls in town. From childhood struggles with depression and eating disorders, her years as a topless dancer in Florida, and an eventual abortion and suicide attempt, to her rebirth in Los Angeles as a porn star....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Lisa F. Smith
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,962 ratings
    • Girl Walks Out of a Bar explores Lisa F. Smith's formative years, her decade of alcohol and drug abuse, divorce, and her road to recovery....

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    • My Tale of Madness and Recovery
    • By: Barbara K. Lipska, Elaine McArdle - contributor
    • Narrated by: Emma Powell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 969 ratings
    • In 2015, Barbara Lipska - a leading expert on the neuroscience of mental illness - was diagnosed with melanoma that had spread to her brain. Within months, her frontal lobe, the seat of cognition, began shutting down....

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    • My Lush Sobriety
    • By: Sacha Z. Scoblic
    • Narrated by: Julie McKay
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 151 ratings
    • When Sacha Z. Scoblic was drinking, she was a rock star; the days were rough and the nights filled with laughs and blackouts. Then she gave it up. Here are her adventures in a maddeningly sober world... and how she discovered that nothing is as fantastic as life without a drink in hand....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Kerry Cohen
    • Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 07-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • When Kerry Cohen reached her early 40s, she realized she had a drinking problem - just enough to blur the edges of her life that had become a monotony of working, carpooling the kids to school, and everyday distractions. What she also realized was that she wasn't the only one....

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    • A Story of the Lies About Addiction and the Truth About Recovery
    • By: David Poses
    • Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • While his wife and two-year-old daughter watched TV in the living room, David Poses was in the kitchen, measuring the distance from his index finger to his armpit. He needed to be sure he could pull the trigger with a shotgun barrel in his mouth....

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    • Tracing My Scars from Addiction and Sexual Assault
    • By: Jennifer Storm
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Storm
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Sexual assault, addiction, and other traumatic experiences can leave both physical and emotional scars. For Jennifer Storm, these scars serve as a reminder - both of the darkness and suffering she once experienced, and of how far she has come....

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    • A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean
    • By: Amy Dresner
    • Narrated by: Amy Dresner
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,124 ratings
    • A darkly funny and revealing debut memoir of one woman's 20-year battle with sex, drugs, and alcohol addiction, and what happens when she finally emerges on the other side....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Jason Smith
    • Narrated by: Paul Costanzo
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 11-18-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 779 ratings
    • In his first book, author Jason Smith explores the depravity and desperation required to maintain an opiate addiction so fierce, he finds himself jumping continents....

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    • Road-Trip Ruminations on Love, Nature, Recovery, and Nonsense
    • By: Krista Schlyer
    • Narrated by: Marisa Vitali
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • What do you do when your world ends? At 28 years old, Krista Schlyer sold almost everything she owned and packed the rest of it in a station wagon bound for the American wild....

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    • A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery
    • By: Erica C. Barnett
    • Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 239 ratings
    • A startlingly frank memoir, Quitter documents one woman's struggles with alcoholism and recovery, with essential new insights into addiction and treatment....

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    • A Memoir of Addiction
    • By: Kate Holden
    • Narrated by: Christy Lynn
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 410 ratings
    • The frank, harrowing, and true story of one young woman's descent into heroin addiction and prostitution and the long, arduous struggle to redeem her life that made her stronger....

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