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21) Lila
Author
Series
Gilead novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church the only available shelter from the rain and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of the life that preceded her newfound security. Neglected as a toddler, Lila was rescued by Doll, a canny young drifter, and brought up by her...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Susan Forward ... offers a powerful look at the devastating impact unloving mothers have on their daughters--and provides clear, effective techniques for overcoming that painful legacy. In more than 35 years as a therapist, Forward has worked with large numbers of women struggling to escape the emotional damage inflicted by the women who raised them. Subjected to years of criticism, competition, role-reversal, smothering control, emotional neglect...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A pioneering physician reveals how childhood stress leads to lifelong health problems and what we can do to break the cycle. For anyone who has faced a difficult childhood, or who cares about the millions of children who do, the innovative and acclaimed health interventions outlined in this book will represent vitally important hope for change.--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
A memoir by a therapy specialist in manipulation and psychological control describes her harrowing upbringing by fanatic parents who raised her in isolation through traumatic disciplinary exercises designed to "eliminate weakness," recounting how she eventually escaped with the help of an outsider.
25) Baby doll
Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Gone Girl and Girl on the Train, BABY DOLL is the most tense thriller you will read this year. Held captive for eight years, Lily has grown from a teenager to an adult in a small basement prison. Her daughter Sky has been a captive her whole life. But one day their captor leaves the deadbolt unlocked. This is what happens next.....to her twin sister, to her mother, to her daughter...and to her captor. "--
"You've been held captive...
Author
Series
Renee volume 1
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Renee is queen of the city and runs it with an iron fist, but everything changes when people from her past resurface to seek revenge. They will stop at nothing until she's dead. Will Renee find happiness and let go of her demons? Or will she allow her past to finish what it started? Molested by her stepfather and verbally abused by her mother, Renee channeled her pain into passion and became the most ruthless queen-pin New York has ever seen. Haunted...
27) Perdón
Author
Publisher
Atria Español
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
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Description
A singer and the daughter of the late music superstar Jenni Rivera, Chiquis Rivera reveals the abuse she suffered at the hands of her father during her childhood and the difficulties she's faced in her personal life as a result.
Author
Publisher
Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Describes how Rick Sylvester, after enduring a childhood of poverty and abuse, struggled through adulthood until he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and shares how he was able to overcome the odds to live a rewarding life.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"A memoir of the author's experience growing up in an apocalyptic cult, with an emphasis on how understanding the natural world was her key to escape and survival"--
"A moving, heartbreaking, and inspiring true story of the author’s escape from an apocalyptic cult—and the deep understanding of the natural world that helped her find freedom. My family prepared me for the end of the world, but I know how to survive on what the earth yields. ...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
E L James revisits the world of Fifty Shades with a deeper and darker take on the love story that has enthralled millions of readers around the globe. Their scorching, sensual affair ended in heartbreak and recrimination, but Christian Grey cannot get Anastasia Steele out of his mind, or his blood. Determined to win her back, he tries to suppress his darkest desires and his need for complete control, and to love Ana on her own terms. But the horrors...
Author
Publisher
Zibby Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Brittany Means's childhood was a blur of highways and traumas that collapsed any effort to track time. Riding shotgun as her mother struggled to escape abusive relationships, Brittany didn't care where they were going— to a roadside midwestern motel, a shelter, or The Barn in Indiana, the cluttered mansion her Pentecostal grandparents called home— as long as they were together. But every so often, her mom would surprise her— and leave. As Brittany...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Richad Pelzer tells the courageous and moving story of his abusive childhood. From tormenting his brother David to becoming himself the focus of his mother's wrath to his ultimate liberation--here is a horrifying glimpse at way existed behind closed doors at the Pelzer home.
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A powerful memoir about the traumas of a perilous childhood, a shattering murder-suicide, and a healing journey from escape to survival to recovery. Growing up, Lisa Nikolidakis tried to make sense of her childhood, which was scarred by abuse, violence, and psychological terrors so extreme that her relationship with her father was cleaved beyond repair. Then, on her twenty-seventh birthday, Nikolidakis's father murdered his girlfriend and her daughter,...
Author
Series
David Pelzer trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Author
Series
Friendship letters volume 3
Publisher
Barbour Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When she becomes physically and emotionally abusive to her own children, Irma Miller, struggling with her own childhood trauma, reaches out to her friend Doretta for prayer and wisdom, learning that to save her family, she must admit she needs professional help.
Friendship Letters Series ��� Doretta Schwartz has always enjoyed writing letters and feels her letters can be a bit of a ministry to her friends. In this series, exchanging letters...
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