Abuse category: 3108 books
When You're Falling, Dive
Lessons in the Art of Living
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Do survivors-of trauma, loss, abuse-gain a "secret knowledge" about life from their experience? Mark Matousek, a survivor fascinated with the enigma of survival, draws on interviews with an enslaved Sudanese boy, a Tibetan nun tortured for her belief, an Auschwitz prisoner, a Vietnam P.O.W.,...
Happy Hours
Alcohol in a Woman's Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Did You Know
Female alcoholics are twice as likely to die as male alcoholics in the same age group
Women metabolize alcohol differently from men, more quickly developing such physical complications as liver disease, high blood pressure, and hepatitis.
A female alcoholic is more likely to suffer from...
Thin Places
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
In her moving spiritual memoir, Mary DeMuth traces the winding path of “thin places” in her life—places where she experienced longing and healing more intensely than before. As DeMuth writes, “Thin places are snatches of holy ground, tucked into the corners of our world, where we might just...
by Jennifer Baker
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Hi, my name is Jenny and I have written this book because I wanted to share my true story with nice people like you. This book talks about my childhood sexual abuse, done by my stepdad. It uncovers all that nasty things that a paedophile is capable of doing to a child. It's a sad, but true story...
Too Scared To Cry
And other true stories from the nations favourite foster carer
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
A heartbreaking and inspiring collection of true fostering stories perfect for fans of Cathy Glass and Rosie Lewis. Contains previously published stories Too Scared To Cry, The Girl No One Wanted and A Family For Christmas - brought together in this heartwarming and inspiring collection for the first...
Breaking Free
Ten Women's Stories about Surviving Domestic Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
“Off and on I'd try to break free of the relationship, but I always went back...” So begins one woman’s story of domestic violence, but the words she penned could have come from anyone. That is because at its core, each instance of domestic violence tells the same story, enacted again and again...
by Adele Bellis
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Control. Jealousy. Isolation. Blame. Anger. Violence.The inspiring true story of a young woman who suffered a terrifyingly abusive relationship culminating in a horrific acid attack from the man who claimed to love her. Adele was just 23 years old when she was scarred for life by an acid attack arranged...
Hopeful Healing
Essays on Managing Recovery and Surviving Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Actress and author of the courageous New York Times bestselling memoir High on Arrival, Mackenzie Phillips—Hollywood’s go-to person on substance abuse and a visible and outspoken advocate for addiction awareness and education—brings her knowledge and voice on the subject of recovery for the...
Hijacking the Brain
How Drug and Alcohol Addiction Hijacks Our Brains the Science Behind Twelve-Step Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Hijacking the Brain provides the first-ever scientific explanation for the success of Twelve-Step programs. Hijacking the Brain examines data provided by recent rapid growth in the fields of neuroscience, neuroimaging, psychology, sociobiology and interpersonal neurobiology that have given us new,...
Rewriting Life Scripts
Transformational Recovery for Families of Addicts
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Finally a treatment approach that embraces the whole family!
In one sense, alcoholics and drug addicts are the fortunate ones. They have to learn a new way to live or risk death, incarceration, and loss of everything they hold dear.
But what about the other members of their family? Because...
Please Don't Take My Sisters
The heartbreaking true story of a young boy terrified of losing the only family he has left
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2019
Three-year-old Lexie, five-year-old Amelie and thirteen-year-old Leo come to Maggie after Leo confesses to a teacher that his mother's addiction problems and her latest violent relationship has left him as the sole carer to his younger sisters.
Maggie welcomes the three children into her home,...
Not Exactly Love
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
• Long lead media publicity campaign plan, which will include ARC/galley mailings and personalized pitching and follow up to non-fiction book review editors, women’s interest editors, health and psychology editors at select top circulation national print magazines, MD/DC-area regional print magazines,...
The Manipulative Man
Identify His Behavior, Counter the Abuse, Regain Control
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2006
Conventional wisdom says that women are the manipulative ones - but tell that to the thousands of desperate women suffering at the hands of a manipulative man. Men can be just as sneaky, passive-aggressive, needy, underhanded, whiny, guilt-inducing, and emotionally demanding as women are accused of...
by Kay Berger
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
The Kill Order by Kay Berger
I had a voice in my head telling me that I wasn’t good enough at anything. I wasn’t good enough as a human being. I was too fat at 130 pounds. I was too smart and no one likes a smart girl. Repeatedly, this tape played and I couldn’t...