TY - BOOK AU - Bill Mahoney TI - A Shot at Redemption: My Journey to Sobriety and a Meaningful Life SN - ISBN-10: 1072962179 ISBN-13: 978-1072962175 PY - 2019/// CY - Denver Colorado PB - Pickle Ball Press KW - Biography KW - Baha'i Faith KW - Sobriety KW - Recreational Drugs KW - Addictions and Dependencies N1 - The son of a New York City fireman, Bill Mahoney grew up on the rough and tumble streets of Brooklyn. He took his first drink when he was eleven years old, and then became a raging alcoholic whose drinking led him from one misadventure to another. After a stint in Vietnam and graduate school at Cornell, he escaped to the mountains of Colorado where a life-changing moment finally induced him to seek treatment for his addictions. Sober at last, his adventures, he discovered, were only just beginning. He became a successful real estate developer, joined the Baha’i faith, and as a Baha’i "Travel Teacher," helped bring the religion to the former Soviet Union. He learned to fly a plane, traveled the world, found the love of his life, and by a quirk of fate, reconnected with his long lost son. Told with ruthless honesty, Mahoney’s story is an inspiring tale of addiction and redemption, of love lost and love found, and of the healing power of faith ER -