Pine Grove Books and Gifts
Pine Grove Books and Gifts is Mississippi’s only bookstore devoted entirely to behavioral health and self-help literature. Here is a list of addiction book titles and behavioral health topics available through the book store. Our bookstore carries all books used in addiction treatment at Pine Grove and many books recommended by our addiction treatment team. These books include titles related to AA, NA, SA, Alanon, co dependency, spirituality, eating disorders, dual diagnoses, parenting, treatment intervention, and psychological disorders. Some of these titles are written by well known authors such as Melanie Beattie, Claudia Black, Patrick Carnes, Stephanie Covington, Terrence Gorski, Harold Kushner, and Jenni Schaefer, to mention a few.
Pine Grove has offered a bookstore since the center’s inception in 1984. The first bookstore to serve Pine Grove patients was a book cart that was operated by two volunteers, Melinda Mapp and Patty Hall. As our services expanded, a very small bookstore was placed on the Pine Grove campus in a room, not much bigger than a closet. As Pine Grove continued to grow, so did our need to “grow” the bookstore.
In December 2004, PINE GROVE’S BOOKS AND GIFTS, opened at 218 South 28th Avenue.
In addition to books and literature, the bookstore carries a variety of personal growth gifts, including addiction recovery gift items.
We never want to forget our children, so Pine Grove’s Books and Gifts carries a special section of books, many having a character-building tone, devoted to our younger population. Many of the Caldecott Award Winners can also be found in this area. PINE GROVE’S BOOKS AND GIFTS is one of only two bookstores in Mississippi that sponsors the Association of Booksellers for Children.
Please contact us at:
601.288.1771
PINE GROVE’S BOOKS AND GIFTS
218 South 28th Avenue
Hattiesburg, MS 39401
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Featured Books
"In the 1940s Alcoholics Anonymous had an ingenious and effective way of introducing newcomers to the recovery process. It was called newcomer meetings and they were held generally one or more times a week and those wanting relief from the lash of active alcoholism attended and took all 12 steps in four, one hour sessions.
AA archivist and historian Wally P. has reproduced the original newcomer meeting format and presented it in the book Back to Basics. Mixing history and 12 step practicality Back to Basics presents the original AA program of recovery in a way in which two or more can actually take the 12 steps together. No other medical treatment has survived 75 years without a change to a single word except the treatment for addiction and Back to Basics guides the reader through the text book of recovery, the AA Big Book.
Back to Basics has proven so effective that it has become part of the treatment plan at Pine Grove, the Betty Ford Center and others. On a personal note Back to Basics has changed the way I sponsor people through the 12 Steps. I now use this format to guide a newcomer through the surrender, inventory, restitution and guidance process. I also use this format to demonstrate to groups the simplicity of the original AA format for recovery.
Back to Basics works for other addictive disorders too. In that over 200 anonymous fellowships use the same 12 steps with a simple replacement statement the process is simply modified to be effective with these as well.
I highly recommend this book not only as a slice of recovery history but also a valuable tool for healing."
Carver Brown
Alumni Coordinator
Pine Grove Behavioral Health
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