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Notes from an Accidental Life

A recovered addict and his wife reconstruct a life from the notebooks he kept before and during ten years of cocaine and heroin addiction in this unguarded chronicle of obsession, art, and survival that turns personal recovery into collaborative storytelling.

When a footlocker filled with Johnny's illustrated journals from the late 1990s and...

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Pagan Family Values: Childhood and the Religious Imagination in Contemporary American Paganism (New and Alternative Religions Book 3)

For most of its history, contemporary Paganism has been a religion of converts. Yet as it enters its fifth decade, it is incorporating growing numbers of second‑generation Pagans for whom Paganism is a family tradition, not a religious worldview arrived at via a spiritual quest. In Pagan Family Values, S. Zohreh Kermani explores the ways in...

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