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Enhance your library with some picks from Join Together staff, and support this website at the same time! We'll regularly update the list with resources on a variety of topics. These books are available at Amazon.com (where your purchase benefits Join Together) or in bookstores.
Empowerment Evaluation Principles in Practice
by David M. Fetterman (Editor), Abraham Wandersman (Editor)

Learn the 10 principles of empowerment evaluation to increase your community's capacity to plan, implement, and evaluate local programs. This book presents the theory of empowerment evaluation and provides professionals and students with the tools to put these principles into practice.
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A Million Little Pieces
by James Frey

Intense, unpredictable, and instantly engaging, A Million Little Pieces is a story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation as it has never been told before.
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The Wilder Nonprofit Field Guide to Conducting Community Forums: Engaging Citizens, Mobilizing Communities
by Carol A. Lukas and Linda Hoskins

Community forums are powerful tools for educating the public, building consensus, focusing action, and influencing policy. This book is intended to help community groups -- whether citizens, nonprofits, government, or business -- achieve their community building goals and make good use of their scarce resources.
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Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
by Koren Zailckas

From earliest experimentation to habitual excess to full-blown abuse, twenty-four-year-old Koren Zailckas leads us through her experience of a terrifying trend among young girls, exploring how binge drinking becomes routine, how it becomes "the usual."
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The Fix: America's Failed Drug War
by Michael Massing

The Fix makes a case for the return of the community-based drug treatment clinic model that was a cornerstone of U.S. drug policy under Richard Nixon.
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Hooked: Five Addicts Challenge our Misguided Drug Rehab System
by Lonny Shavelson

Hooked explores the links between drug addiction, mental illness, and trauma, including child abuse, and argues for an integrated approach that treats the roots of drug abuse, not just the behavior itself.
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CD: Songs of Hope, Awareness, and Recovery for Everyone (SHARE)

A new CD from Nashville country music artists promotes recovery from drug and alcohol addiction and benefits treatment and recovery programs.
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If you have a book to recommend, email Join Together at: editor@jointogether.org

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