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How do you heal after being traumatized by someone you trusted?
What do you do, when someone you let into your life betrays you and wounds you - leaving you to pick up the pieces? How do you learn to trust again, when the person who violated your heart space was someone you'd handed a key?
Whether your partner or spouse became abusive or unfaithful, you've gone through a difficult divorce, a close friend deeply betrayed you or someone you thought...
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What happens when a hard working young Southern Belle climbing the corporate ladder at the forefront of the computer revolution gets trapped in the dark underworld of drugs, crime, and prostitution?
This is a true story of Tiffy Rose Baker's long journey from the hot west Texas plains and Sunday Church picnics to the executive boardroom and the shimmering nightlife of South Florida. Follow her as she boards the bus fleeing abuse and alienation in...
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For most of her life, Christa Hernandez had no safe place. Brutally abused, sexually molested, ritually abused, mind controlled and constantly hopping from house to house as her life turned inside out over-and-over again, Christa grew up without knowing the meaning of home or of unconditional love. She struggled with her faith, struggled with her self-worth, and literally ended up at a train station with her life in garbage bags. That horrific childhood...
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Domestic violence has had deep roots in human culture for as long as we can remember. With the coronavirus pandemic, domestic partners and families are left to spend more time together at home. Being in such close quarters for such a long time may inevitably result in increased stress levels. And with nowhere to seek solace, time apart, and/or protection, this raises the question of whether partners who live in the same house are more inclined to...
1525) Doubt
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Now a major motion picture! Starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams. Written and directed by John Patrick Shanley from his Pulitzer Prize–winning play. John Patrick Shanley is the author of numerous plays, including Danny in the Deep Blue Sea, Dirty Story, Four Dogs and a Bone, Psychopathia, Sexualis, Sailor's Song, Savage in Limbo, and Where's My Money? He has written extensively for TV and film, and his credits include the...
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A schoolteacher escapes an abusive marriage and finds love on a blind date. Mary Jane's new man, sure that riding a Harley will restore her confidence, ends up following the white lines with her through fifteen years of marriage. Traveling together, they learn to be partners, both on and off the road, until Dwayne is diagnosed with cancer. After losing her husband, Mary Jane once again must learn to live on her own-but she'll never be the same again....
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This book was, written to help mitigate some of the confusion, anxiety, and pain Professional Women endure who may be seeking to be in a lasting monogamous relationship or marriage. By sharing my own experiences and research throughout my life, from the past 40-years, I hope to equip you with the tools and knowledge to make wiser decisions on a matter that will devastatingly affect your spirituality, your life, your moral compass, your family, as...
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Que se passe-t-il dans la tête des personnes qui commettent des actes de violence? Celles qui tuent un ami ou un parfait étranger? Celles qui agressent sexuellement un enfant? Qu'est-ce qui motive ces personnes à agir de façon immorale et incompréhensible pour la majorité de la population? Malgré qu'il n'existe pas de réponses simples à ces questions, ce livre sur les violences familiales et sociales propose quelques pistes d'explication...
1529) You Will Never Be Normal
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One afternoon, during a routine meditation, a strange tingling grips Catherine Klatzker, followed by an explosion of voices crowding out her thoughts. Soon these voices, or "parts," begin to emerge more distinctly in her mind, accompanied by persistent insomnia and bouts of mortifying incontinence.
Fearing for her sanity, Klatzker turns to a meditation teacher and psychotherapist. What follows is one woman's unflinching excavation of years of repressed...
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In this timely book, family counselors Gerald and Marlene Kaufman urge adult children and their parents to have direct conversations about the decisions that lie ahead as parents age. The Kaufmans suggest that families use their parents' retirement as the benchmark for having the first discussion about their parents' plans for the next phase of their lives. The Kaufmans point out that most families wait until they're faced with a crisis before having...
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Un témoignage émouvant sur la protection des aînés, qui doit devenir une préoccupation majeure dans notre société vieillissante.
À l'horizon 2050, les plus de 75 ans représenteront 12 millions de personnes et un tiers de la population française aura plus de 60 ans. Autant de personnes vulnérables dont certaines, placées en situation de faiblesse et de dépendance par les circonstances de la vie, devront être protégées.
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The system of dependence, which we call modern society, is built on the fundamental principles of child grooming and abuse. To understand our abusers, and abuses that we may have inflicted on their behalf, we cannot look at abuse as merely evil; for doing so would succumb to the intent of our abusers. Instead, we must understand the purpose and methods of abuse as they are; vehicles for domination. When they say that they have authority over us, is...
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In September 2007, Christine Ristaino was attacked in a store parking lot while her three- and five-year-old children watched. In All the Silent Spaces, Ristaino shares what it felt like to be an ordinary person confronted with an extraordinary event-a woman trying to deal with acute trauma even as she went on with her everyday life, working at a university and parenting two children with her husband. She not only narrates how this event changed her...
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Yvan Tetelbom nous raconte son errance dans un monde trop violent, mais aussi sa reconstruction rendue possible grâce à la poésie.
Un enfant insouciant, émerveillé par la vie, est soudain figé dans son élan par la destruction de son innocence, dont la déflagration le projette dans un monde trop dur pour lui. Un chemin d'errance et de solitude au cours duquel il est confronté à la violence de la guerre d'Algérie, à la douleur de l'exil,...
1535) They Never Told
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What is your secret? Do not say you have none, because you do. We all do. Sometimes our secrets liberate us internally, but sometimes they enable us: They enable us to live unconsciously in our deepest thoughts. Sometimes we tell, and sometimes we do not. That's the thing though, what is it that helps us decide when to remain silent or when to talk? That is what They Never Told is about. Monica engages the reader by introducing you to the journey...
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Light in Bandaged Places shows us the harm done when an older man in a position of power convinces a child that sex with him is alright because he loves her. This poignant story takes us through the long-term wounding of such abuse-and the multifaceted path of healing.
As a lonely girl coming of age in the 1970s, Liz has every reason to believe her 8th-grade teacher is in love with her. Because the sex isn't physically violent and is wrapped in a...
1537) Larceny
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In this harrowing tale, of loss, and new beginnings, Jazmin Galloway explores the theft of life as we know it, through the lens of a scary but beautiful world.
Larceny is a collection of readings following the sudden death of a woman's partner and his death's aftermath on her life, her child, and their suddenly dark future. Larceny is the theft of the life one has come to know, in lieu of an unknown future.
This collection speaks on finding peace...
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PARENTING is not an easy task. No matter the challenges that a parent or their child faces, it can be hard to know the 'right' thing to do. It is no wonder that oftentimes the parent of an adult child with mental illness and addiction feels alone and may not know which way to turn. Knowing how and where to find help for their son or daughter is just the beginning. After caring for their loved one, a parent must turn their attention to themselves as...
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How was it possible for Diane Roblin-Lee to have been married for 38 years without knowing that her husband, 13 years into the marriage, had begun to molest children?
The answer lies in the fact that child-molesters are such highly skilled manipulators that they can fool even a mate with whom they live — and convince a child that keeping the deep dark secret is critically important for both of them. They are usually so addicted to pornography that...
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When thirty-five-year-old Carol Richmond decides to end her seventeen-year marriage, she has no idea what's in store. Within the first year of the divorce, her ex-husband abandons his children and ignores the court's orders to pay child support, and despite working sixteen hours a day and seven days a week, Richmond cannot make ends meet. She is forced to sell her home and hawk her jewelry in order to keep her family fed and housed, and more often...
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