Abuse category: 3108 books

For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds. -2 Corinthians 10:4 Are you struggling with past abuse? Do you feel trapped in a cycle of failed relationships? Are you experiencing nightmares and don t seem to understand why? Ever...

Little Girl Lost is the first part of Ingrid Steels shocking, heartrending life story. She was put in an orphanage at the age of four, she never knew her real name. Then after years of bullying, deprivation and gratuitous punishment -even sexual abuse - in a series of orphanages, she was incarcerated first in a borstal, then in a mental hospital.

Howdy; I'm Nellie Cake and these are "Memoirs From My Outhouse." I write adult only true stories of violence, murders, beatings, crimes, 36 rapes, drugs, incest, alcoholism, inmates, stolen children, homelessness, narcissistic abuse, and nasty words. I have fifty three years of experience...

Shirley Jean, Martha Sue and Patricia Ann. Three little girls with a working mother and a veteran soldier father. The ideal family, or so it seems. But all is not as it seems. The father is not the same as a loving father should be. Was he always a predator or did the war change him? And the mother...

Prose poetry artwork and historical photos from the author's journey from the wilds of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to years of sexual abuse and finally healing through the written word.

Including poems, short stories, and personal essays, this collection-culled from a successful contest now in its fourth year-honors the perspective of South African girls and women who have been the victims of abuse. Based on the idea that creative writing aids the healing process, these selections...

How to Die in Paris is an edgy, poetic, often darkly comic, memoir of a young middle-class black woman who escapes a tortured past in New York to pursue a new life in Europe-only to find herself broke, desperate, and contemplating suicide on the streets of Paris. Penniless, scared, and hoping...

The tragic story of a life of a young woman and her sufferings in an abusive relationship. The heart wrenching events in the life of a young woman whose marriage ends in tragedy.In a society that does not have the slightest regard or compassion for divorced women, what is a woman in an abusive relationship...

'You said I was the perfect boyfriend. If you can prove you really love me, perhaps I can be that way again.' This is the chilling true story of a woman trapped in a devastating relationship as she tries to prove her love – over and over again. Within days of spending their first evening together,...

From the internationally acclaimed author of the novel His Other Wife and the self-help books Reverencing the Wombs That Broke You and The Abuse of Forgiveness comes the personal testimony even if, poetry and prose in small verses, inspired by the tears and rage of Umm Zakiyyah’s life. “I...

Cindy Crabb provides a DIY tour of the promise and perils of sexual relationships in Learning Good Consent. Building ethical relationships is one of the most important things we can do, but sex, consent, abuse, and support can get complicated. This collection is an indispensable guide to both preventing...

Beyond the Thunder by  Kay Berger This is a story of one of my patients.  I have a P.H.D. in Psychology, and this young woman came to me when she knew she needed some help to sort things out in her life.  She was thirty-three years old, a married woman and a mother of four. ...

I had a happy life growing up in North London UK until my mother started working at a bakery. The owner was a paedophile who preyed on young boys. Using his wealth he would buy boys new clothes and had motorbikes we could ride. From this moment on my life was in ruins but, not just mine. This is a true story from start to finis of what happened.

This is the second of 3 books covering abuse, addiction and recovery and is not for the faint hearted as it is a true representation of my life a real person from a real perspective. This book covers the addiction I went through drugs and alcohol and starts at the end of my first book at 16 years...