A compelling story of an addict's valiant attempt to do the difficult and challenging work to move into sustained recovery. Sitting Still sheds light on one of the country's most successful alcohol and drug treat programs, displaying in gripping detail why it consistently maintains such a high rate of recovery for its participants. Meet some of the typical residents in this long-term treatment program and discover why some of them succeed while others fail.

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"Good Prose" is an inspiring book about writing about the creation of good prose and the record of a warm and productive literary friendship. The story begins in 1973, in the offices of "The Atlantic Monthly, " in Boston, where a young freelance writer named Tracy Kidder came looking for an assignment. Richard Todd was the editor who encouraged him. From that article grew a lifelong association. Before long, Kidder s "The Soul of a New Machine, " the first book the two worked on together, had won the Pulitzer Prize. It was a...