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Praise for Beneath the Neon
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—Publishers Weekly
Category Social Science / Poverty Release Date October 2020 Price $18.95
ISBN 978-1-949481-42-6 E-book 978-1-949481-43-3 Format 6” x 9”, paperback
Page Count 240 pages
Dark Days, Bright Nights Surviving the Las Vegas Storm Drains
Matthew O’Brien
Matthew O’Brien is a journalist, social worker, and the author of Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas and My Week at the Blue Angel. He has a master’s in creative writing from the University of NevadaLas Vegas and a Silver Pen award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame.
A vivid and enlightening oral history of homelessness in the Las Vegas storm drains and the hard work of re-entering mainstream society.
The hundreds of people living in the flood channels of Las Vegas have provided one of the more fascinating and enduring international stories of the past decade. This underground community has received plenty of news coverage and dramatic portrayals by CSI, Criminal Minds, and the Jason Bourne franchise. But the fact that dozens of tunnel dwellers have clawed their way out of the drains and turned their lives around has received far less attention.
Dark Days, Bright Nights is the follow-up to the bestselling Beneath the Neon and shares the harrowing stories of Sin City’s most marginalized people, from bottoming out in homelessness to mending relationships with family and adjusting to jobs, housing, and sobriety. These redemption stories cast light on a rarely seen side of Las Vegas and offer a portrait of homelessness and recovery in America. They are the happy, though not Hollywood, endings to the infamous tunnel tale, documented through stark photographs and unflinchingly honest personal accounts.
New York Times Obituaries • July 7, 2019
—Richard Goldstein
Category Memoir / Spiritual Release Date January 2021 Price $26.95
ISBN 978-1-949481-44-0
E-book 978-1-949481-45-7 Format 5.5” x 7.5”, hardcover Page Count 200 pages
The Power of Forgiveness
Eva Mozes Kor
Eva Mozes Kor was born in 1934 in Portz in the Transylvania region of Romania. After surviving Auschwitz, she moved to the US and lived in Terre Haute, Indiana, where she ran the CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center. In 2009, her YA (young adult) book Surviving the Angel of Death became an international bestseller. A community leader, champion of human rights, and tireless educator, Eva has been covered in numerous media outlets and is the subject of a documentary, Eva A-7063. She died on July 4, 2019 in Poland during her annual visit with students to Auschwitz.
Eva Mozes Kor, who had survived the holocaust as a young child, passed away on July 4, 2019, during her annual trip with students to Auschwitz. But Eva’s legacy will live on and so will her life-changing message.
Eva Mozes Kor was just ten years old when she was sent to Auschwitz. While her parents and two older sisters were murdered there, she and her twin sister Miriam were subjected to medical experiments at the hands of Dr. Joseph Mengele. Later on, when Miriam fell ill due to the long-term eff ects of the experiments, Eva embarked on a search for their torturers. But what she discovered was the remedy for her troubled soul; she was able to forgive them.
Told through anecdotes and in response to letters and questions at her public appearances, she imparts a powerful lesson for all survivors that guilt, anger, resentment, and shame are a waste of energy. Forgiveness of our tormentors and ourselves is the end of victimization, a release from pain, and fosters resilience. This kind of forgiveness is not an act of self-denial. It actively releases people from trauma, allowing them to escape from the grip of their former tormentors, cast off the role of victim, and begin the struggle against forgetting in earnest.
“Doctors are human, but at times studying to become a doctor requires super-human eff orts. In her new memoir that reads like an engrossing novel, Dr.
Anne McTiernan highlights the challenges of combining medical school with motherhood.”
—Mikhail “Doctor Mike” Varshavski, DO
Category Memoir / Medical Release Date September 2020 Price $18.95
ISBN 978-1-949481-38-9 E-book 978-1-949481-39-6 Format 6” x 9”, paperback
Page Count 300 pages
Also available Starved
ISBN 978-1-942094-28-9
Cured A Doctor’s Journey from Panic to Peace
Anne McTiernan, MD, PhD
Anne McTiernan, MD, PhD is a physician who conducts research on the effects of diet, exercise, and weight loss on cancer and health. She is a Full Professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington Schools of Public Health and Medicine.
A trailblazing physician and health researcher shares her journey of resilience and perseverance.
Anne McTiernan begins her second memoir at age twenty-nine, soon after completing her doctoral training in public health research at the University of Washington. She and her husband are now parents to four-year-old and threemonth-old girls. She realizes that jobs in her fi eld are scarce, especially for women and decides she needs better credentials to land a job. Overcoming her fear and life-long struggle with inadequacy, Anne moves the family 3,000 miles to New York, where she begins medical school.
Within a few months of starting this new life, Anne is in deep trouble. She cannot handle the competing demands and feels isolated. The stress builds, until Anne suff ers a series of paralyzing panic attacks that threaten her ability to function. She begins psychotherapy and starts on a journey of self-discovery, realizing she has to change to survive.
Cured is the follow-up to her 2016 release Starved and diff ers from other physician memoirs in its themes of motherhood, mental illness, and the perspective of a female physician on how she turned adversity into a strength and set of skills.
Praise for RecoveryMind Training
—Philip J. Flores, PhD, ABPP, CGP, FAGPA, Author of Addiction as an Attachment Disorder
Category Psychology / Addiction Studies Release Date September 2020 Price $19.95
ISBN 978-1-949481-16-7
E-book 978-1-949481-17-4 Format 8” x 10”, paperback
Page Count 248 pages
Also available RecoveryMind Training
ISBN 978-1-942094-32-6
Recovery Skills Manual An Implementation Guide for Addiction Care
Paul H. Earley, MD, DFASAM
Paul H. Earley, MD, DFASAM, has been an addiction medicine physician for over thirty years and is the current president of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. He treats all types of addictive disorders and specializes in the assessment and treatment of healthcare professionals. Currently, he is the Medical Director of the Georgia Professionals Health Program, Inc. and a principal with Earley Consultancy, LLC, a training and consulting firm.
A cohesive addiction treatment model based upon the concept that addiction recovery is a learned skill.
A pragmatic, step-by-step guide designed to help practitioners implement RecoveryMind Training (RMT) in outpatient practice (ASAM Level 1), IOP (Level 2.1), Partial Hospitalization (Level 2.5), or Residential program (Levels 3.1 to 3.7). Drawn from the basic concepts found in Paul Earley’s previous book, RecoveryMind Training.
In order to be successful using the RecoveryMind Training model, the learning involved in recovery has to overcome the complex and hard-wired entrainment produced by the use of highly reinforcing drugs—including alcohol. RMT describes the dynamics of active addiction with regard to its effects on the brain—motivations, drives, memories, and cognitive distortions—with the term “Addict Brain.” Recovery is facilitated through the learning of a structured set of skills that promote changes in thoughts, beliefs, and actions, and bring about “Recovery Mind.”
Praise for Unspoken Legacy
—Publishers Weekly
Category Family & Relationships / Addiction Release Date February 2021 Price $16.95
ISBN 978-1-949481-12-9 E-book 978-1-949481-13-6 Format 6” x 9”, paperback
Page Count 208 pages
Changing Course Healing from Loss, Abandonment, and Fear
Claudia Black, PhD
Claudia Black, PhD, is a worldrenowned expert on addiction and codependency, best-selling author, and trainer internationally recognized for her pioneering and contemporary work with family systems and addictive disorders. Her writings and teachings have become a standard in the field of addiction. Dr. Black is the Clinical Architect of the Claudia Black Center for Young Adults, a Senior Fellow, and Addiction and Trauma Program Specialist at The Meadows Treatment Center in Arizona.
Claudia Black extends a helping hand to individuals working their way through the painful experience of being raised with addiction.
Don’t talk. Don’t trust. Don’t feel.
Growing up in a dysfunctional family system—whether unpredictable and chaotic or overly rigid and joyless—can set the course for chronic emotional pain in adulthood. As a follow-up to her best-selling book It Will Never Happen to Me, Changing Course is Claudia Black’s gentle, affirming guide to healing from childhood experiences of loss, abandonment, fear, and shame. Readers will learn four essential steps they can use to let go of old hurtful beliefs and behaviors and develop new skills for both redefining self and negotiating relationships. Revised and updated.
—David Sheff , author of the New York Times #1 bestseller Beautiful Boy
Category Aging / Inspirational Release Date May 2020 Price $26.95
ISBN 978-1-949481-18-1 E-book 978-1-949481-19-8 Format 6.125” x 9.25”, hardcover Page Count 256 pages
Also available Life’s Last Gift
ISBN 978-1-942094-49-4
Our Wisdom Years Growing Older with Joy, Fulfillment, Resilience, and No Regrets
Charles Garfield, PhD
Charles Garfield, PhD, founded Shanti, an internationally honored volunteer organization dedicated to the care of the dying and those living with cancer and AIDS, and the Shanti National Training Institute, which takes Shanti’s model to organizations around the world. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, he is currently a research scholar at the Starr King School of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.
Psychologist and best-selling author Charles Garfi eld shares an uplifting vision as he takes us on a journey of a lifetime
Some of the most profound growth of our lives can happen in the home stretch, the years after age sixty or so. It’s a time when we can finally crystallize the meaning of what we’ve been and done so far and fully expand into the self we’ve always intended to be, guided by the voice of the soul. But, says psychologist Charles Garfield, change can only happen if we first loosen the grip of the life we’ve led so far and let our hearts lead the way.
Our Wisdom Years is unique among books in the “conscious aging” genre in its understanding of how challenging it can be to make the shift from the ubiquitous values of drive and achievement to the inner orientation that gives richness to later life.
Dr. Garfield skillfully and pragmatically guides readers through nine tasks that can transform the struggles of aging, bringing fulfillment, joy, and serenity. We learn that we’re more than our bodies, part of something much larger than we are, and that love and kindness matter most of all.
—John Hodgman, comedian and author of Vacationland and Medallion Status
Category Memoir / Self-Help Release Date June 2020 Price $18.95
ISBN 978-1-949481-30-3 E-book 978-1-949481-31-0 Format 6” x 9”, paperback
Page Count 240 pages
Pothead My Life as a Marijuana Addict in the Age of Legal Weed
Neal Pollack
Neal Pollack is the author of 10 previously published books of fi ction and nonfi ction, including the bestselling memoirs Alternadad and Stretch, and the cult classic The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature. A three-time Jeopardy! Champion and a certifi ed yoga instructor, Pollack lives in Austin, Texas.
A poignantly funny account of renowned author and humorist Neal Pollack’s years as a marijuana addict.
Beginning innocently enough in his 20s, Neal Pollack discovers that pot makes everything—food, music, sex—better. Getting married, having a kid, and enjoying professional success do nothing to dampen Pollack’s enthusiasm for getting high. As cannabis grows stronger and more widely available, the expansion and acceptance of marijuana Big Business shadows Pollack’s dependence.
By 2014, Neal is a correspondent for a national marijuana newspaper, mostly because it means free pot. Diving into the wild, wicked world of weed with both lungs, Pollack proceeds to smoke, vape, and eat his way to oblivion, leading to public meltdowns and other embarrassing behavior. After his mother dies in 2017, he spirals out of control, fi nally hitting bottom during a reckless two-day gambling and drug-fi lled binge, culminating in a public crack-up at the World Series in Dodger Stadium. Three weeks later, he quits.
After joining a twelve-step program, Neal outs himself as a marijuana addict in a 2018 New York Times op-ed piece, leading to his decision to document his experience as a cautionary tale for the millions of recreational users in the hazy age of legalized weed.
Praise for Unspoken Legacy
—Tian Dayton, PhD, Author of Emotional Sobriety
Category Addiction Studies Release Date August 2020 Price $27.95
ISBN 978-1-949481-32-7 E-book 978-1-949481-33-4 Format 8” x 10”, paperback
Page Count 246 pages
Depression Strategies Practical Tools for Professionals Treating Depression
Claudia Black, PhD
Claudia Black, PhD, is a worldrenowned expert on addiction and codependency, best-selling author, and trainer internationally recognized for her pioneering and contemporary work with family systems and addictive disorders. Her writings and teachings have become a standard in the field of addiction. Dr. Black is the Clinical Architect of the Claudia Black Center for Young Adults, a Senior Fellow, and Addiction and Trauma Program Specialist at The Meadows Treatment Center in Arizona.
A new edition of Dr. Claudia Black’s comprehensive manual designed for addiction treatment professionals for use treating patients aff ected by depression.
Depression is a debilitating and sometimes fatal mental illness. It is very common among spouses/partners of addicts and adult children raised in addicted families, and is often a co-occurring or subsequent disorder in the addicted client.
This is not a how-to-treat depression book. It is meant for clinicians versed in identifying and treating depression within the context of treating addiction. What sets this book apart from other depression workbooks is that it holds a healthy respect for cognitive behavioral modalities while recognizing the role of aff ective and spiritual interventions related to depressive disorders.
In this revised edition, Dr. Black provides didactic information and reproducible handouts. In many of the strategies sections, she presents ideas and formats for structured interventions. The use of handouts in the form of written exercises, checklists, sentence stems, structured dialogues, and/or art activities is an integral part of this therapeutic technique.
—Lisa Tracy, Journalist and author of Objects of Our A ection
Category Psychology / Self-Help Release Date July 2020 Price $17.95 ISBN 978-1-949481-20-4 E-book 978-1-949481-21-1 Format 6” x 9”, paperback
Page Count 256 pages
Disentangle When You’ve Lost Your Self in Someone Else, Second Edition
Nancy L. Johnston, MS, LPC, LSATP
Nancy L. Johnston, MS, LPC, LSATP, works in private practice in Lexington, VA. With forty-two years of clinical experience, Johnston is an American Mental Health Counselors Association Diplomate and Clinical Mental Health Specialist in Substance Abuse and Co-Occurring Disorders. She offers skill building trainings for recovery from codependent behaviors to the general public at her center in Lexington, VA.
A revised second edition of the best-selling solution-oriented approach to identifying and healing from over-involvement or “entanglement” in relationships with others.
Anyone who has struggled with balancing his or her own needs and desires with those of the “other” person will benefit from Nancy Johnston’s sensible, easy-to-follow method for changing the course of one’s relationships. Its format combines psychoeducation, personal anecdotes, clinical case vignettes, and skills-building exercises.
Johnston describes how to turn this self-destructive cycle around with selfassessments and experiential exercises designed to address essential aspects of self-awareness, distortions in thinking, communication style and tools, and spirituality. “Disentangling” is the process of creating enough emotional space between oneself and another person in order to better see the realities of any relationship and make healthier conscious decisions about it.
Claudia Black’s best-selling classic on the experience and legacy of being raised in an addictive household.
In an all too familiar scenario, played out in millions of homes every day, children who grow up in addictive families abide by certain rules: don’t talk, don’t trust, don’t feel. e rigid survival roles and youthful coping behaviors they take on, such as the responsible child, the adjuster, the placater, and the acting-out child can eventually contribute to problems of depression, loneliness, and addiction in adulthood.
Using poignant personal stories, thoughtful explanations, and helpful exercises, Dr. Black helps readers gain personal insights and develop new skills that lead to a healthier, happier, more ful lling life. “An extremely helpful book for the reader to not only have a greater understanding of themselves, but also have an insight of how particular situations should have been dealt with.” —Joshua Connolly, performance coach
Claudia Black, PhD, is a renowned author, lecturer, and trainer, internationally recognized for her pioneering and contemporary work with family systems and addictive disorders. Dr. Black’s writings and teachings have become a standard in the eld of addiction. She is the Clinical Architect of the Claudia Black Center for Young Adults, a Senior Fellow, and Addiction and Trauma Program Specialist at The Meadows Treatment Center in Arizona. Dr. Black is one of the original founders and serves on the Advisory Board for the National Association of Children of Alcoholics and the Advisory Council of the Moyer Foundation and its development of Camp Mariposa, a camp for children impacted by addiction. She is the author of numerous books, including Straight Talk and Unspoken Legacy. Category Addiction Studies Release Date August 2020 Price $16.95
ISBN 978-1-949481-10-5 E-book 978-1-949481-11-2 Format 6” x 9”, paperback
Page Count 256 pages
CLAUDIA BLACK , PhD
It Will Never Happen to Me
More than 2 million copies sold
It Will Never HAPPEN to Me
Claudia Black, PhD
Claudia Black, PhD
Claudia Black, PhD, is a worldrenowned expert on addiction and codependency, best-selling author, and trainer internationally recognized for her pioneering and contemporary work with family systems and addictive disorders. Her writings and teachings have become a standard in the field of addiction. Dr. Black is the Clinical Architect of the Claudia Black Center for Young Adults, a Senior Fellow, and Addiction and Trauma Program Specialist at The Meadows Treatment Center in Arizona.
It Will Never Happen to Me off ers a foundation for understanding what occurred growing up in an addictive family.
First published 20 years ago, It Will Never Happen to Me is the definitive book/ workbook for adult children of alcoholics.
With her reassuring and informative approach, Claudia Black expertly identifies common issues faced by children who grew up in alcoholic families —shame, neglect, unreasonable role expectations, and physical abuse. Using narratives and profiles, she describes survival techniques characteristic of children raised in alcoholic families, including the unspoken laws of don’t talk, don’t trust, and don’t feel. First explaining how such learned responses cause difficulties in adulthood, Black carefully guides readers in identifying self-defeating, destructive behaviors and finding a healthier, happier way to live.
