Grapevine Books
Gratitude
Gratitude is a collection of powerful, personal stories about being thankful. With warmth and humor, the stories, written by AA members, illustrate the many ways the program of recovery can improve one’s perspective to help enjoy each day to the fullest. The 136-page book includes chapters on spirituality, fellowship, family, service, getting through tough times and more. All stories were previously published in Grapevine, the International Journal of Alcoholics Anonymous. A great book to start the day. Also makes a wonderful gift.
No Matter What
All recovering alcoholics have had to deal with adversity throughout sobriety...a serious illness, an ugly divorce, the death of a child, the loss of a house to fire or to the bank. Despite the fear, pain or self-pity we are in when these tragedies strike, drinking is not an option. The stories in this book show how AA members use the tools of the program and embrace the Fellowship to deal with tough issues.
The Home Group: Heartbeat of AA
The 30th Anniversary Edition is a collection of previously published stories from AA Grapevine, the International Journal of Alcoholics Anonymous. AA members share moving experiences about the importance and joys of belonging to an AA group. This updated anniversary edition includes extra stories and a brand-new chapter on meetings using technology, showing how members have adapted to meet new challenges. A great way to start an AA meeting.
Beginners' Book: Getting and Staying Sober in AA
Full of useful suggestions, insights and solutions for newcomers, this book features stories by AA members about what helped them get sober and successfully navigate early sobriety.
In this collection of AA Grapevine stories, AA members share what helped them get sober and handle their new lives of recovery. Full of useful suggestions, insights, and solutions to problems common to the newly sober, this book provides solid tools of recovery.
Emotional Sobriety II
Volume two of one of our most popular books. Sober AA members describe the positive transformations sobriety can bring as they practice the principles of the program in all aspects of their lives.
Only through his own painful, closely observed experience could Bill W. have identified “the next major development in AA … real maturity and balance.” He was telling us that emotional sobriety is our next frontier. Here are the creative, heartfelt insights of several dozen sober seekers whose articles in the Grapevine offer insights that can light the way to our own “quiet place in bright sunshine.”
Free On The Inside
Powerful stories by sober members who have experienced AA in prison. Chapters include: finding AA in prison, staying sober inside, women helping one another, working the Twelve Steps, sponsorship and carrying the AA message into prisons.
Happy, Joyous & Free: The Lighter Side of Sobriety
Getting sober can be painful and amazing, but it also can be pretty darn amusing. This collection of stories from the Grapevine shows how, in recovery, AAs have learned to laugh. It’s full of light and humorous stories about our early mistakes, navigating drinking events, funny things sponsors say, interesting Twelve-Step calls, holiday adventures and more. They remind us to not take ourselves so seriously and to always strive to be “happy, joyous and free.”
Into Action: Stories from AA Grapevine
This collection of Grapevine stories shows the many ways members work the program of AA. Written by men and women, young and old, with different lengths of sobriety, the articles in this book highlight how members practice the Twelve Steps, use our literature and slogans, and get into service, sponsorship and fellowship. The stories demonstrate the various ways members get active in AA to stay sober, carry the message and live rich and rewarding sober lives.
Making Amends
Making Amends features 55 candid, firsthand stories from AA Grapevine magazine of members’ experiences with Step Nine of the AA program. The book includes chapters on making amends to parents, children, family members, exes, financial institutions, friends and coworkers. These powerful stories illustrate how practicing Step Nine can help us, as AA’s co-founder Bill W. wrote, "know a new freedom and a new happiness."
One on One: AA Sponsorship in Action
In this collection, AA members write about their experience with sponsorship, including how to choose one, getting the courage to ask someone to be a sponsor, sharing their past and present with them, working with those having trouble staying sober, dealing with the loss of a beloved sponsor and more. From the program's early days, this special one-on-one sponsorship bond has been considered vital to getting sober, staying connected, and living a full, happy life.
Prayer & Meditation
Features powerful stories by members of Alcoholics Anonymous about the many ways they pray and meditate in their daily lives. An integral part of AA recovery is learning to connect spiritually. The stories in this book show how members begin to pray and meditate and then branch out to develop very personal and often creative ways to practice. Chapters include daily routines, traditional religious practices, activities and exercises, unique techniques, the Serenity Prayer, and connecting with nature and the universe. All stories were previously published in Grapevine, the International Journal of AA. Great for recovery or those who want to explore prayer and meditation.
Spiritual Awakenings: Journeys of the Spirit
AA members share about the journeys of the spirit they have taken before and after sobriety, their struggles with faith and how they apply spiritual values in their daily lives. One of our most popular subjects.
Read about the journeys of the spirit AAs have taken on the way from alcoholism to recovery: Their return to the abandoned faith of their youth. Their discovery of an entirely new Higher Power. Their integration of personal philosophies with the principles of the Steps and Traditions. And the practical ways they put their spiritual values into operation in their everyday lives. On the spiritual journey, we follow many paths.
The Best of Bill
A handsome new edition of five of Bill W.'s most powerful Grapevine articles sharing his thoughts on faith, fear, honesty, humility, and love. This edition also includes "Why Alcoholics Anonymous Is Anonymous," Bill's Grapevine article from January 1955. (5 1/4" × 3 1/2")
Voices of Women in AA: Stories of Experience, Strength & Hope
Inspiring and courageous stories demonstrating the various ways women alcoholics found sobriety in AA. Includes stories of early AA pioneers and by some of the first female members. One of our bestselling books.
Voices of Women in AA is a collection of 61 stories from Grapevine. The soft cover book begins with articles by or about women who contributed to AA early in its history, followed by stories by some of the program’s earliest female members. Sections are devoted to spirituality, sponsorship, life changes, relationships, family, careers and friendships. The collection concludes with a chapter devoted to women’s meetings. The stories demonstrate the various ways women alcoholics—often with great courage—find sobriety in AA and embrace the program to live rich and rewarding lives.
Our Twelve Steps
A brand-new collection of stories from AA members about the joys and challenges of working the program’s Twelve Steps of Recovery. Each chapter illuminates a different Step through the experiences of a wide variety of AA members. This volume features all-new, up-to-date stories from the pages of Grapevine, the International Journal of Alcoholics Anonymous. Great for sponsees and AA Step meetings.
Fun in Sobriety
Features 50-plus inspiring stories by members of Alcoholics Anonymous about the many ways they’ve learned to have a good time after putting down the drink. Chapters include travel, outdoor activities, arts & hobbies, social entertainment, fun-filled AA activities and sober events. The stories were previously published in Grapevine, the International Journal of Alcoholics Anonymous. Full of passion and humor, this book shows how, by working the program and developing a sober network, life can begin to take on new, exciting adventures.
AA in the Military
AA in the Military is a collection of stories, previously published in Grapevine, by members of Alcoholics Anonymous who have served in the military. The book begins with letters from the troops during World War II, when Grapevine first became a vital tool in keeping soldiers sober and connected to AA. The chapters that follow are filled with stories of experience, strength and hope—by both men and women—who served their country on land, sea and air. These personal accounts illustrate the challenges alcoholics in uniform encounter, often under difficult circumstances, far from loved ones.
The book concludes with a powerful selection of stories by our sober veteran members, titled “Coming Home.”
Emotional Sobriety: The Next Frontier
One of our most popular books. Sober AA members describe the positive transformations sobriety can bring as they practice the principles of AA in all aspects of their lives over time.
In this collection of Grapevine stories, sober women and men describe the transformations sobriety can bring as they practice the principles of AA in all aspects of their lives. Many discover that happiness is a by-product of giving without any demand for return. Others embrace the present with gratitude to claim moments of real peace -- "a quiet place in bright sunshine," as Bill W. put it in the essay that gave the impetus to this book. We invite you to join the journey.
Forming True Partnerships
This collection of Grapevine stories shows the many ways members use the Twelve Steps, sponsorship, and the tools of the program to improve and repair relationships, old and new. When we were drinking, many of us had, as the Step Four chapter in the AA book Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions puts it, "a total inability to form a true partnership with another human being." With candid and colorful stories on families, friendships, marriage, divorce, dating, romance, coworkers, sponsorship and pets, this book covers a wide range of experience from sober alcoholics on how we form true partnerships with others.
In Our Own Words: Stories of Young AAs in Recovery
A collection of personal stories from the Grapevine that focuses on the difficulties faced by alcoholics who are young in years and the sober joys that await them. The book contains: honest accounts of drinking in the lives of young adults, how they managed to get and stay sober, the impact that practicing the principles of AA has had on their lives, and, the challenges and rewards of finally learning to live and to love, one day at a time.
Language of the Heart
This book—our most popular—features all of AA cofounder Bill W.’s writings in Grapevine. Bill was Grapevine’s most prolific contributor, writing more than 150 articles from 1944 to 1970. The book contains Bill’s first thoughts about AA’s Twelve Traditions, his battles with depression and spiritual pride, memories of an all-night drinking spree with his dear friend Ebby and a vivid description of how he came to organize the Twelve Steps of AA. Great for meetings and AA history buffs. (406 pages).
One Big Tent
Atheists, agnostics, nonbelievers and secular alcoholics have been members of the AA Fellowship since its earliest days, making significant contributions to the development of the program, helping to swing the doors of AA ever-wider. But finding their path has not always been easy. One Big Tent is a collection of stories, originally published in Grapevine, which represent the shared experience of secular AA members who have struggled with alcoholism, yet ultimately found a common solution in AA. These members share how they found their place in AA, work the program, do service and sponsor others.
Our Twelve Traditions
In this collection of stories from AA Grapevine, members write about their experiences with the core principles contained in AA's Twelve Traditions. Born of the trial-and-error experience of the Fellowship's earliest years, the Twelve Traditions provide the spiritual and practical underpinning for AA's ongoing adventure of living and working together. Seen through the eyes of individual members, the stories in this book offer groups, as well as members, workable solutions to difficult problems.
Sober & Out
Sober & Out is a collection of stories by AA members who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (and a few friends) from the pages of AA Grapevine. They share their experience, strength and hope with alcoholism as well as their personal struggles and hard-fought triumphs. The stories in this book show that—like most alcoholics—LGBT AAs struggle to fit in, stay sober and find peace in their lives. By working the Steps, following the Traditions, doing service, and finding a Higher Power, they are now living sober in the Fellowship of AA.
Spiritual Awakenings II: More Journeys of the Spirit
With passion and humor, AA members share inspiring stories about their faith and spiritual journeys before and after sobriety. Volume two of one of our most popular subjects.
The greatest gift that can come to anybody is a spiritual awakening"- Bill W. Grapevine, December 1957 Only in the challenging, dynamic daily lives of AA members do the Twelve Steps come to vibrant life. In these stories from the pages of Grapevine, published since 1944, sobriety's message of miracles and redemptions is shared with passion and humor in 74 colorful voices.
Step By Step
Real AAs, Real Recovery shows how AA members of all ages and all lifestyles from around the world; spiritual, religious and atheists; newcomers and old-timers have recovered and found a new way of life by working the Twelve Steps. Discover a variety of experiences from AAs that have written about the Steps for the pages of Grapevine from the 40’s to the present.
Voices of Long-Term Sobriety
In this collection of stories from AA Grapevine, old-timers share their wealth of experience in staying sober through good times and bad.
Young & Sober: Stories from AA Grapevine
What is it like to stop drinking at an early age? Stories by AA members who got sober in their teens, 20s, and 30s. Includes stories about fellowship, young people’s groups, service, and more.
In this collection of Grapevine stories about the joys and challenges of getting sober early, AA members talk about recognizing their disease even though their drinking may have only lasted a few years. Written by members who got sober in their teens, 20s, and 30s, the articles in this book are about growing up young in AA, finding ways to connect when feeling different, getting involved in service, and learning how to live a sober life joyously.