This is the story—a grandmother’s story—of the experiences and events that have shaped her life, including the sexual abuse of her four-year-old granddaughter in a daycare center. In these pages, the author will share her trials and...
Child abuse
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Author:Grace, SharonSummary: -
Author:Kelly, WadeSummary:A six-year downward spiral into a world of lies and deception leads to the end of one man’s life when self-discovery crosses the line between being the perfect son or following his heart. Jimmy Miller never intended to lead a double...
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Author:Dunbar, HeleneSummary:Five years after an unspeakable tragedy, Gordie Allen is living with his half-brother Kevin, the only person who can protect Gordie at school and keep him focused on getting his life back on track. But just when it seems like things are...
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Author:Wynne-Jones, TimSummary:The Maestro. Burl Crow hasn't had many breaks in his young life. His father is a manipulative lout with a dangerous temper; his mother, worn down by years of abuse, now resorts to her little helpers to get her through the days. Then he...
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Burl Crow hasn't had many breaks in his young life. His father is a manipulative lout with a dangerous temper; his mother, worn down by years of abuse, now resorts to her little helpers to get her through the days. Then he meets...
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Author:STEEL, DanielleSummary:Even as a child, Gabriella Harrison's only escape is through the stories she writes. Only writing can dull the pain of her lonely world.
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Eleanor Sawchuck believes she deserves to spend her last years in peace, perhaps even in the happiness of pursuing a December romance. But then Donald Eston, a man whose abusive past only she and her book club know about, moves into her...
- Author:Stokes, Penelope J.Summary:
Diedre McAlister, haunted by a dream in which she is playing with her sister who died years earlier, embarks on a search into her own past and family secrets when she is given a photograph by her dying mother and a challenge to find the...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Stacey Patton penned this moving memoir describing her tumultuous childhood growing up first in a state institution and then in a fractured foster family. She makes a strong case to illustrate how the...
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Author:Goobie, BethSummary:Will Sophie speak up about the abuse at home?
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Author:Connie Guberman, Margie, WolfeSummary:Women and children live in the shadow of violence all the time. Rape, child abuse and sexual assault, pornography, wife battery and sexual harassment are facts of everyday life in our society. In No Safe Place, all of these issues are...
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Author:D'Adamo, FrancescoSummary:Iqbal, a 13-year-old boy, fights for children's liberation. Bravely, he speaks out against children working long hours in carpet factories in Pakistan.
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Author:LaPorte, BrentSummary:You sit down at the weathered harvest table to write a letter to your son. You need to explain the horrific events of the night, the circumstances that stained your hands with so much blood — the horrors that led you to take the lives...
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Author:Ross, Ramon RoyalSummary:Although twelve-year-old Harper has always liked Moon, an abused, orphaned older boy, their friendship is tested by a discovery Harper makes when Moon joins the Army in 1943.
- Author:Padgett, AbigailSummary:
She might be crazy, but she was still Barbara Joan Bradley whose deaf little sister had named her Bo, and she was not going to walk away from reality and a little boy with almost no time left.
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Beating the devil out of them : corporal punishment in American families and its effects on childrenAuthor:Straus, Murray A.Summary:Based on his studies of over 9,000 families, Murray A. Straus, the foremost researcher on family violence in the world, discusses the extent to which parents in the United States use corporal punishment (such as spanking and slapping)...
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In the match of the century, one of today's most powerful crime novelists brings his years of ground-zero experience with abused children to the adventures of the most popular super hero of our time. Andrew Vachss introduces Batman...
- Author:Garvie, MaureenSummary:
Thirteen-year-old Jewel has been holding her life together ever since her older sister, Charmaine, suddenly left home with no forwarding address. She tried to find Charmaine once, but that only brought her family to the attention of the...
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Author:Webb, Jonice, Musello, ChristineSummary:A large segment of the population struggles with feelings of being detached from themselves and their loved ones. They feel flawed, and blame themselves. Running on Empty will help them realize that they're suffering not because of...
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Author:Woodall, DannySummary:Angie Larson is raised by seemingly faithful Christian parents. But after her father begins abusing her, Angie asks her mother to divorce him. When her mom refuses, Angie is forced to suppress her memories and go on with her life....
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