Healing and Hope: Six Women from the Betty Ford Center Share Their Powerful Journeys of Addiction and Recovery
Betty Ford, 2004
Tells the personal stories of six women’s journeys through alcoholism and drug addiction, with commentary by Betty Ford.  

7 Tools To Beat Addiction  
Stanton Peele, 2004
Offers the addict both help and information, presenting building blocks for living and allowing the reader to explore the significance of seven tools (values, motivation, rewards, resources, support, maturity, and higher goals) in overcoming addiction.

Straight Talk from Claudia Black: What Recovering Parents Should Tell Their Kids about Drugs and Alcohol
Claudia Black, 2003
Introduces five families and reveals how the parents in each family talked to their kids about recovery, relapse, and the child's own vulnerability to drug and alcohol addiction.  

Mindful Recovery: A Spiritual Path to Healing from Addiction
Thomas and Beverly Bien, 2002
Draws on a Buddhist perspective that substitutes “ten doorways” for the more rigorous 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.  Offers step-by-step guidance to mindful recovery, giving specific strategies to help you cultivate a sense of calm awareness and balance in your life. 

A Woman’s Way Through the Twelve Steps
Stephanie Covington, 1994
Makes the Twelve-Step program more accessible to women and the way they experience addiction.