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Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take

Walk in Dry Places

Mel B. · 2010
78/100
👍 Worth It

A quiet, trustworthy daily companion for anyone walking the twelve-step road. Mel B.'s voice has the quality of a good AA sponsor — unhurried, unpretentious, honest — and the one-sentence daily goal gives readers something concrete to carry. The Hazelden imprint guarantees a baseline of editorial care that self-published recovery books rarely match.

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Verdict receipt0–100
safety90
substance76
craft80
originality65
accuracy78
hype75
age-fit80
human-eye78
Penny’s verdict78
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