Fatty Legs: A True Story Review

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(More customer reviews)Category: Nonfiction Desperate to learn to read, 8-year-old Olemaun badgers her father to let her leave her island home to go to the residential school for Inuit children in Aklavik, in Canada's far north. There she encounters a particularly mean nun who renames her Margaret but cannot "educate" her into submission. The determination and underlying positive nature of this Inuvialuit child shine through the first-person narration that describes her first two years in boarding school, where their regular chores include emptying "honey buckets." The torments of the nun she calls "Raven" are unrelenting, culminating in her assignment to wear a used pair of ill-fitting red stockings--giving her the mocking name found in the title. The "Margaret" of the story is co-author, along with her daughter-in-law. Opening with a map, the book closes with a photo album, images from her childhood and from archives showing Inuit life at the time. The beautiful design includes thumbnails of these pictures at the appropriate places in the text and Amini-Holmes' slightly surreal paintings, which capture the alien flavor of these schools for their students. A moving and believable account. (Memoir. 8-12)

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Full Recovery: Creating a Personal Action Plan for Life Beyond Sobriety Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is a life changer!
Real life testaments of alcoholism and addiction will bring the reader's personal addictions, struggles and battles to the surface, making these negative issues easier for each and every reader to grasp, understand, and work to resolve within themselves.
READ THIS BOOK WHETHER YOU HAVE A SERIOUS ADDICTION OR NOT! It will make you a better person and guide you to living a happier and healthier life.
I strongly recommend reading this!!!
If you desire to rid your life of the evils of addiction, alcoholism, etc; I emplore you to read this book!
Your future happiness, health, and sobriety are waiting on you to take action.
Your new life begins on page one of this amazing book!
Pick it up like I did and your happiness will soon follow : )

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You've been able to stay alcohol and drug free for a period of time, but something's still missing. Addiction is a physical, spiritual, and emotional disease. Detox deals with the physical aspect, and a 12-step or some other type of spiritually based program teaches you how to remain abstinent. But what about the emotional or mental challenges that must be overcome? Are you ready to move beyond financial scarcity? Are you floundering in an unfulfilling career or personal relationship? These real-world challenges often lead to an uninspired, mediocre recovery and can be major contributors to relapse. It's time to move forward, discover your life's purpose, and reach your full potential. This book is designed to help you design an action plan, create momentum, and achieve results. The universal truths presented here have taken me from being a low-bottom alcoholic/addict to a successful entrepreneur and author with twenty years of continuous sobriety. The suggestions and exercises I present have worked for me and countless others. They will work for you if you choose to let them. So you're sober; what's next? No doubt you achieved sobriety with guidance from someone who knew how to get and stay sober. I speak your language; let me do the same for you on the next step to full recovery. Let me be your life coach on your journey to abundance. Everyone loves a great comeback story. Achieving full recovery is the greatest comeback story you'll ever tell because it will be your own.Full Recovery is a valuable book not only for those in recovery from addictions but also for those looking to grow toward their full potential. This book fills a void in recovery literature specifically addressing life after getting sober. Recovery principles and spiritual concepts are effectively integrated into a framework for readers to apply to their career, relationships, and spirituality. Through real-life examples and action plans, Full Recovery inspires readers to use challenges and adversity as sources of motivation toward creating a productive, meaningful, and successful life.-Sarah Allen Benton, MS, LMHC, author of Understanding the High-Functioning Alcoholic, therapist at the McLean Residence at The Brook, Waltham, Massachusetts (affiliated with Harvard Medical School), and licensed mental health counselor in private practice at Confidential Care, Norwell, MassachusettsFull Recovery is a must-have resource not only for anyone who wishes to deal with addiction but also anyone who wishes to live a full, abundant, and amazing life. Brian McAlister's personal story will inspire those who think they're 'too far gone' to keep going and know that there is hope.-Melissa Bradley, MS, NCC, BCETS, FAAETS, psychotherapy and international clinical trainer on resilience and healingOne of the best how-to books I have read in a long time. This book abounds with information and exercises to live a more abundant life. With Brian's advice, you can't miss.-Frederick T. Reihl, CEO, Freedom House, drug and alcohol treatment center

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Last Night I Sang to the Monster Review

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(More customer reviews)For several years I worked in a therapeutic setting for male juvenile sex offenders. What a gift this book would have been back then. Before I launch into my accolades, let me state that there are elements of this book that many adults may find to be lacking in authenticity. In other words, Zach at times says things that I know someone with his troubled mind would not say. Most certainly he would not have finished this program as quickly as he does in the novel.
But remember this: the book was not written for adults although I highly recommend for adults.
The other reviews provide you with information about where Zach is and why he is there. So I will not do that. Instead I want to focus upon why we need more books like this. Millions of kids grow up in hostile homes. And so much damage is done by parents who do not have the skills needed to be effective parents. Most situations are not as overwheming as Zach's, of course, with his many addictions as well as his seeming inability to relate to anyone, to trust anyone. The reader, however, will not know the full reason until the end. In other words there is a plot.
The book is very engaging, skillfully written albeit not exactly authentic in the voice of an 18-year-old in a few places. I quite literally did not want to put it down. So I spent the entire day reading it. And now I am about to order three copies as gifts to people I think will find it a rich experience.

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