Family & Relationships, Abuse
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From Thorns
by Alie Cardet
A teenage pregnancy forces Amy to leave her abusive family home and search for help. Although she gets support from good people, poor self esteem and the voices from her past plague her. Just as she begins to gain some confidence, she’s drawn into ...
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Surviving the System
Nine Siblings tell their Stories in Foster Care by Doreen Frenette
Surviving the System: Nine Siblings Tell Their Foster Care Stories is an important and necessary memoir that leads the reader through the harrowing—and often horrific—experiences of these siblings who were removed from their home in northern New ...
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Lost & Found
by Frank H. McLean
How does childhood abuse and trauma continue to resonate through one’s life? How can one find the road to healing? These are the difficult questions explored in Lost & Found, the moving debut memoir of author Frank H. McLean. As he grew up in the ...
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Major Flaws
The Truth About the Long Lasting Effects of Domestic Violence by Joyce Greer
Major Flaws is a non-fictional, psychological thriller based on true events that occurred through decades of violence in the Graves' family. For many years they thought they held it together until one of them started to unravel and the truth was ...
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The Deviant Son
by Edith Baranyay
What happens when the son’s sins become the father’s? Joseph Griler was a kind man, a loving father, and a great story teller. He also thrived on political discussions. After he passed in 1989, his spirit met up with familiar and unknown souls. ...
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Son, Daddy Has To Go
by Momcilo (Michael) Pupavac
When young Novak Jovanovic returns to Serbia to find his bride, he is full of optimism, hoping things will go well and that the three-week vacation will turn out as he imagined it might. He believes that a girl of his own nationality will share his ...
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Mommy's Little Monster
My Journey with the Narcissist by Anne Wolfe
When 14-year-old Anne meets Brian, 19, she’s captivated by his good looks, guitar-playing skills, and bad-boy persona. Despite their age gap, what starts as a slow-burn friendship ignites into a sexual relationship and then marriage—all overshadowed ...
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Poisoned Mind
The true story of Deidre Ann by Deidre Ann
Abuse moves in cycles. When you’re born into it, you know nothing else. Kindness, warmth, and love are foreign to you—it scares you—even though you long for it. When you escape abuse, it’s all you seek because it’s all you know. Deidre Ann lived ...
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Where Are You Mom?
"Touched By Evil" by Anne-Marie Mac Donald Courtemanche and Sharon Dorival
When Anne-Marie Courtemanche was a little girl, she fell victim to a sadistic step-father, who physically and sexually abused her and her little sister and savagely beat their emotionally-withdrawn mother and siblings. Then her mother fled the ...
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Gross Misconduct
Hitting From Behind by Sandra Young Kolbuc and Tracy Stark
A Mother’s Love Story Tragedy Courage Resilience Hope “One cold winter’s day, my life’s trajectory tragically and unimaginably changed in an instant... forever!” - Tracy Stark, Mother of Radek and Ryder Early on a Monday morning in December 2016, ...
