Rolling Away: My Agony with Ecstasy

7 best books like Rolling Away: My Agony with Ecstasy (Lynn Marie Smith): The Chrysalids, Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction, But No Elephants, Purge: Rehab Diaries, Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption, Embraced by the Light

The Chrysalids

Author	John Wyndham
ISBN	0140013083

Imagine a world where a little deviation from the norm in physical appearance means burning and banishment because you are far from what God created. Why there are imperfections when we know perfect exists? God creates perfect humans, plants, and animals, so no deviations have the right to live in the...

Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

Author	Nic Sheff
ISBN	1416913629

The story that inspired the major motion picture Beautiful Boy featuring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet.

This New York Times bestselling memoir of a young man’s addiction to methamphetamine tells a raw, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful tale of the road from relapse to recovery.

Nic...

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

Author	David Sheff
ISBN	1328974715

With a new afterword

Now a Major Motion Picture

What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted David Sheff’s journey through his son Nic’s addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before...

But No Elephants

Author	Jerry Smath
ISBN	0819310077

I'm glad I kept this on my list until I found a new library to join. It's one of those magically nostalgic classics, a 'sleeper' or 'cult' favorite, if you will. Kids, including child me, get a true kick, and feel the wonder of being able to empathize with the old lady, the pet salesman, and the critters too....

Purge: Rehab Diaries

Author	Nicole J. Johns
ISBN	1580052746

Purge is a beautifully crafted memoir that has a Girl, Interrupted feel. In this raw and engaging account of her months in rehab, Nicole Johns documents her stay in a residential treatment facility for eating disorders. Her prose is lucid and vivid, as she seamlessly switches verb tenses and moves through...

Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption

Author	William Cope Moyers
ISBN	0670037893

From rock bottom to recovery—the son of veteran broadcaster Bill Moyers chronicles his life- shattering battle with addiction and the hard-won fight for recovery

William Cope Moyers has come a long, long way. In 1994, he lay on the floor of an Atlanta crack house. His father had put together...

Embraced by the Light

Author	Betty J. Eadie
ISBN	1882723007

At the age of 31, Betty Eadie died after routine surgery. The events that followed can only be described as the most profound and extensive near-death experience ever recorded. During the time she was clinically dead, Betty was given knowledge of the afterlife that would make even the greatest skeptic...