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Recovery & Addiction Resources: A New Chapter - Book Club

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A New Chapter is a monthly reading group for adults at the Saratoga Springs Public Library.

 

This reading group was started as a collaboration between Healing Springs Recovery Center and Saratoga Springs Public Library to provide a space for people in the recovery community to meet and connect, but all are welcome to attend.

UPCOMING EVENTS

A New Chapter

Join us for a discussion of Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi.

Date: Friday, Dec 19, 2025

Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Location: Susman Room

About Healing Springs

Healing Springs Recovery & Outreach Center offers free:

  • Support from peers.
  • Sober social and recreational activities.
  • Support to cope with addiction in the family.
  • Education about substance use disorders and recovery.
  • Tools to navigate insurance and treatment services.

Healing Springs Provides Continued Support to Individuals in Recovery - RISE Housing and Support Services

Attendee Permission Slip

  • Not required to finish or like the book 
  • Share thoughts or just listen
  • Ask questions, set boundaries
  • Knit, doodle, have a snack or drink, step out, move around 
  • Drop-in without registering
  • Contact me directly with questions and suggestions

Librarian

2025 Selections

Friday, December 19 @ 2 PM

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi 

A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth-year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward seeking behavior in mice. 2020; 261 pages.  

Previous Selections