12 Step programs freed me from addiction
By Paul Emile
Like all human beings, I’ve experienced my share of pain, and suffered considerably. I was born into a violent, alcoholic home. When the clock struck six, and my father wasn’t home yet, I knew there was going to be hell to pay that night.
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Pellissippi State professor’s new novel explores race relations in rural Tennessee
Appalachian author Charles Dodd White didn’t have to search for inspiration for his fourth novel, How Fire Runs. When it comes to race relations in rural Southern settings, all he had to do was look around.
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Book by Ronald Goldfarb with foreword by Bernie Sanders fights against injustice in legal system
Award-winning author, attorney and literary agent Ronald Goldfarb's new book The Price of Justice: Money, Morals and Ethical Reform in the Law (Turner Publishing) sheds light on the systemic inequality in our justice systems and how money has eclipsed ethics in the legal profession.
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19th century Appalachia comes alive in Betsy Reeder’s Broomstraw Ridge
Canterbury House Publishing announces the release of Broomstraw Ridge: A Novel by Betsy Reeder. This stand-alone story also serves as a sequel to the Civil War novel, Madam’s Creek. Both tales are set in the New River region and follow the lives of intertwined families.
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Book by Tennessee author raises sex trafficking awareness
Author Nicole Lynn Synder, breaks into the book market with The Yellow Door, which follows the story of a teenage girl, Hope, who is kidnapped and thrust into a sex trafficking ring.
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ER Doctor’s ‘Home Alive: 11 MUST Steps for Surviving Encounters with the Police’ book second edition released
Washington, D.C. – Imagine this: your 16-year-old son asks to borrow the family car for an evening out with his friends. You hand him the keys, reminding him not to speed and about his curfew before midnight. 12:15 comes and goes … 12:30 passes also … 1:00 a.m. arrives and still no word from him.
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