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Features 50-plus inspiring stories by members of Alcoholics Anonymous about the many ways they’ve learned to have a good time after putting down the drink. Chapters include travel, outdoor activities, arts & hobbies, social entertainment, fun-filled AA activities and sober events. The stories were previously published in Grapevine, the International Journal of Alcoholics Anonymous. Full of passion and humor, this book shows how, by working the program and developing a sober network, life can begin to take on new, exciting adventures.
GV-45 – Taxes included.
Bill W. was the Grapevine’s most prolific contributor, writing more than 150 articles, from his first in June 1944 to his last in December 1970. Here in one volume are all of Bill’s Grapevine articles, including his first thoughts about the Traditions, his battles with chronic depression and spiritual pride, memories of an all-night drinking spree with Ebby, and a vivid description of how he came to organize the Steps (there were six in the first draft).
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This item will be available in large print soon.
GV-06 – Taxes included.
Two titles in a single booklet. The A.A. Service Manual is a critical resource for A.A. members involved in service. Chapters cover the roles of GSRs, DCMs, delegates, directors and trustees, as well as what happens at G.S.O. and Grapevine. Substantive appendices cover the principle of rotation, the Third Legacy Procedure and much more. In Twelve Concepts for World Service, A.A. co-founder Bill W. articulates the principles by which A.A.’s world service operates and recounts how these emerged through A.A.’s early history and experience.
Fully reformatted in 2021, revised in 2024.
BM-31 – Taxes included.
Full of first-person accounts and primary source material, this portrait of Bill W. recounts his journey from Vermont youth to Wall Street success story to hopeless drunk — until a series of remarkable events allowed him to stop drinking and to co-found Alcoholics Anonymous.
We follow Bill through his tireless work for the Fellowship: the publishing of the Big Book, the development of the Twelve Traditions, the formation of the General Service Conference. Closing chapters walk us through Bill’s final years of challenge and change. With 39 archival photographs.
B-9 – Taxes included.
Over 75 A.A. members from around the world share about what the terms “spiritual awakening,” “Higher Power” and “God as we understood Him” mean to them. Offers a range of perspectives on what spirituality can look like in the context of Alcoholics Anonymous.
B-6 – Taxes included.
Bill W. tells the story of how the A.A. Fellowship grew, from its beginnings in New York and Akron to its spread across the country and overseas. Through the lens of the Three Legacies of Recovery, Unity and Service, Bill explains how the Twelve Steps, the Twelve Traditions and the Twelve Concepts for World Service evolved.
Closing chapters share the perspectives of early “friends of A.A.,” including Dr. Silkworth and Father Ed Dowling. With 16 pages of archival photographs.
B-3 – Taxes included.