Family & Relationships, Abuse, Child Abuse
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Getting Here From There
The First 10 years by Clara Atmane and none
Learn to tell your truth from a reflective, honest, nonreactive prospective. Recently retired from a challenging legal career, Clara Atmane was asking the big questions: Who am I now? Why am I here now? Why am I still so lonely? Digging into the...
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The Loss Of Innocence
by Anna
The Loss of Innocence is a book of poetry written by a child, who is a separate and distinct part of the adult. She prefers to be called Anna. She has no voice; her pain, fear, sadness, and loneliness have been buried inside for over fifty years....
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Walking Through Madness
by Emily Knew
A mysterious, years-old skull fracture. Ever-changing stories and excuses. A volatile mother. At the age of 57, Emily Knew discovered she had broken bones but had no memory of how she got them. She’d always known she was different from others but...
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Bleeding Hearts
by Scott Hay
Looking forward to an unexpected afternoon off, a cheerful, eighteen-year-old Scott Hay comes home early to find his mother frantic because his father is missing. Beginning with that moment, Scott’s world undergoes such a violent alteration that...
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"Silently Weeping"
A story of burn survival, rape and abuse by Deborah Blaney Ward
“YOUR PAST CAN CONTROL YOUR FUTURE IF YOU LET IT. OR YOU CAN MOVE AWAY FROM IT.” On May 23, 1961, seven-year-old Deborah Blaney Ward stood on a chair in front of her stove to retrieve some sugar from the shelf – she didn’t know the stove was on,...
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Friday I went to therapy, Saturday I went crazy
Travels through health, to insanity and back home by Jean Steinfeld
This book takes the reader through the author’s personal experiences in psychotherapy with a variety of therapists and approaches. She starts with her Danbury psychiatrist, an analyst, describing all her thoughts and feelings and fantasies and...
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A Boy Kept Silent
by Robert Lichti
Robert Lichti started life as a happy boy, living on the family farm. Tragedy struck May 21, 1962, the day his father was killed and nothing would be the same again. Robert was there when it happened, but no one thought to ask the six-year-old...
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The Unveiling
A Tale of the Indivisibly Unsurpassed Dichotomy of a Heroine's Journey to Freedom in an Urban Christian Family by Michal Storey and Anton Josef
This is a story of one person's resolve not to have been the victim, but to have risen above the tirade of evil. Its intrigue is bound by the reality of the ostensibly permeating lengths that one individual can go to cover their tracks. The...
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It Really Happened
One Woman's Struggle for Survival by Fallon Spring
For years Fallon Spring endured physical and sexual abuse at the hands of family members, starting at the age of 4. As an adult the legacy of abuse left her with little self-esteem and resulted in marriages that were even more abusive and...
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Miracle In The Bay
by Alexandra Love Berry
It may seem impossible, but Alexandra Love Berry will have you belly laughing your way through her true story of severe abuse, neglect, incest, multiple suicide attempts, and alcohol-infused relationship disasters. She describes causes and...
