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A concordance to Alcoholics Anonymous

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I have met Stephen Poe, a wonderful man who's work on this volumn would make any author proud.

The book is the entire Big Book sorted by words, sentences and paragraphs.

If you can't find it in this book....it's NOT in the Big Book!

Thanks Stephen!

This book has been a "God-send" in working with others. As a previous review states "not to be used by newcomers...", I strongly agree and would not recommend this book to someone new to the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous! This has been the most helpful aid in my recovery in helping others as well as myself. The Concordance has also been extremely beneficial in protection from "Big Book Thumpers" aka bleeding deacons. This book is no more of a copyright infringement than a concordance to the Bible. My Sobriety Date: October 26, 1985 IT WORKS!

This book should not be used by newcomers to get the program of Alcoholics Anonymous. It is a guide to further study of this amazing text book. Stephen told me before he died on January 6, 2000, that he had obtained permission from GSO to continue his work on this book. He was working on the Concordance to the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (with permission) when leukemia finally took him from us. He lost a lot of money on these books, but he made thousands of friends for life. He died a very happy and peaceful man and an excellent example of the program found in the text used to create this concordance.

Reader from New Jersey is misinformed. AA World Service owns copyright to Third Edition only. The first and second editions are part of the public domain and may be used by anyone. Please refer to AA Service Manual for more information on this.

For the perfectionist, this book will assist you in proving your point as practically every word written in AA literature is cross referenced.

This derivative work infringes on A.A.'s copyright regardless of what the author claims. I found that this book was of very little value when trying to understand the message contained in the Big Book.