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020			_aISBN-10: 1072962179 ISBN-13: 978-1072962175
040			_cNew Zealand National Baha'i Reference Library
100			_9759 _aBill Mahoney
245			_aA Shot at Redemption: My Journey to Sobriety and a Meaningful Life
260			_aDenver Colorado _bPickle Ball Press _c2019
300			_a149 p.
505			_aThe 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.
650		0	_9170 _aBiography _vBaha'i Faith
650		0	_9760 _aSobriety _vBaha'i Faith
650		0	_9750 _aRecreational Drugs _vBaha'i Faith
650		0	_aAddictions and Dependencies _vBaha'i Faith _91939
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