For fans of The Many Lives of Mama Love and the many women struggling with addiction while raising families, Sober Mom is a candid recovery memoir chronicling one suburban New Jersey mother’s journey from secret vodka binges to sobriety. When a shocking confession about an affair forces Liz Jannuzzi to admit to her drinking problem—a family legacy that has already claimed her brother’s life—she reluctantly attends her first AA meeting, where she’s given a lifeline: “You never have to feel this way again.” With unflinching honesty and unexpected humor, Liz takes readers through the messiness of recovery—the awkward amends, the persistent cravings, the haunting grief that alcohol once numbed—as she confronts the wreckage of her past, rebuilds her marriage, and reclaims her role as a mother to her three young children. Raw and heartfelt, Sober Mom illuminates the complex challenges of motherhood and addiction and offers hope to anyone struggling with alcoholism, a powerful testament to resilience and transformation, one day at a time.

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New York City is nearly bankrupt, its library system cut back in massive layoffs and reduced hours. “There is no way this group of bumbling misfits can save the library!” that was the consensus from the staff when five hapless new hires are brought in to create yearly blockbuster exhibitions in the hopes of luring back public attention and much needed funding to the stately Hunt Lenning Library of the 1980s. Derisively called the Big Bad Blockbusters, can they pull it off? With bravado, much humor and dumb luck, the fledgling exhibition program put together exhibitions of unforgettable stories, ranging from Dead Sea Scrolls to the Statue of Liberty, the monster Frankenstein to the jaded models of Rogue magazine, all this while dealing with endless disasters as each exhibition opens a Pandora’s box of trouble. In time this quirky work-family forms familia bonds, sharing personal successes and failures, professional rivalries, love, and untimely death. The story reflects the powerful difference a small group of believers can make, while mirroring the dramatic economic and social changes that reshaped New York City and the nation toward the end of the Twentieth Century.