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Stormin Norman: Born to Battle
The compelling story of one of Canada's unsung World War II heroes as recounted by his own proud son
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A True-Life Story about a Canadian World War II Veteran, Artillery Soldier and hero who experienced MORE! MORE abuse by growing up in a household filled with PTSD, from a Stepfather who was a poisonous gas scarred World War I Veteran, MORE...
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Platypus Flats
In The Shadows of The Honey Trees
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We don't cry because we are weak! It is our healing power speaking. As a survivor of abuse I carried the burden alone for 60 years. When I did speak out I changed; my world changed. So did my words. The djinn of denial could not be put back in...
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The Shell of Me
A Survivor's Story of Childhood Sexual Abuse
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“Your life has had and still has beautiful things in it, but there are lots of weeds. You pull the weeds out, and for just a little while, everything is beautiful again. Then come the new weeds, and you must pull those out too.” When Pat Castle...
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Safe Space
A True Story of Faith, Betrayal, and the Power of the Force
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Nicholas was nine years old when he accidentally walked into a movie theatre playing Star Wars: A New Hope. It was 1977, and he unknowingly had just stumbled upon the thing that he would later credit in saving his life. From kindergarten through...
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Backstory
The Many Lives of Granville Johnson
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IN THIS UNFORGETTABLE MEMOIR, author Granville Johnson recounts his roller-coaster life growing up in Chicago’s Westside ghetto in the 1950s and ’60s. Anchored by his mother’s love and his own ambition and self-assurance, Granville contends with...
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Maman, Où es-tu?
La Main du Diable
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L’abus sexuel, la violence domestique, la prison, l’alcoolisme – Anne-Marie Courtemanche les a tous vécu et la plupart avant l'âge de quinze ans. Dans Maman, où es-tu ? elle partage son cheminement tissant ensemble une histoire de perte, de...
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Scars Never Heal
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This is a story about some traumatic events in my life. How it effects my future life. How I met my daughter’s father and how everything went downhill when I got involved with him. How much he damaged me to the point I couldn’t look at myself in...
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Hopeless And Unwanted
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This honest and raw memoir is not easy to read, but it should be deemed essential reading for anyone who works in the field of child welfare. Susan Cambridge’s childhood was horrendous. Unwanted and neglected, she was emotionally, verbally, and...
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Mama Bird
A True Story Of Family, Trauma & Survival
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Mama Bird is a true story about the endurance and perseverance needed to survive an abusive marriage. When Susan found herself pregnant at the age of twenty-one, she did what she thought was the best thing and married her baby’s father, Cain....
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Dare to Dream, Joe Shore
A Memoir
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Born into a dysfunctional family in Oakville, Ontario, in the 1950s, Jo-Anne Shaw was forced to leave home at sixteen to escape her abusive father. A high-school dropout, she would go on to endure two abusive marriages and years of serious...
