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When Caspar Walsh was three years old his mother rejected him in favour of a boyfriend. His father became his primary carer. But Caspar's father robbed banks. He dealt drugs...
Apocalypse Observed: Religious Movements and Violence in North
Apocalypse Observed is about religious violence. By analyzing five of the most notorious cults of recent years, the authors present a fascinating and revealing account of religious sects and conflict....
Helpless: Are Riley and his two little siblings in danger?
The 32nd fostering memoir from international bestseller Cathy Glass Struggling to cope with three young children, Janie turns to experienced foster carer Cathy Glass. Helping the family each morning, Cathy...
Catch Me Before I Fall
Because she was black, Clare Malone was the talk of her Liverpool council estate when she was born. Her Mother and her Mother's husband were both white and from birth...
Playing in the Dark
** PUB DELAYED DUE TO UK LEGAL ISSUES** hen Siobhan Kennedy-McGuinness first ventured into Eamonn Cooke's garage, to her seven-year-old eyes it was like an Aladdin's cave. Filled with broadcasting...
A Girl Called Karen: A True Story of Sex Abuse and Resilience
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"A Girl Called Karen" is one woman's shocking yet inspirational story of sexual abuse at the hands of her father, and later, her foster father. Despite the trauma and anguish...
Please, Let Me Go: The Horrific True Story of a Girl's Life In The
From the age of 14, Caitlin was completely controlled, repeatedly raped, provided with alcohol, given drugs, sold and passed on to new gangs over and over again. The majority of...
The Forgotten Children
In 1959 David Hill s mother a poor single parent living in England reluctantly decided to send her sons to Fairbridge Farm School in New South Wales where, she was...
Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture--and What We Can Do
Every seven minutes, someone in America commits a rape. And whether that's a football star, beloved celebrity, elected official, member of the clergy, or just an average Joe (or Joanna),...
Shame Travels
When she was a little girl, Jasvinder Sanghera s father told her about the village he came from, Kang Sabhu in rural Punjab. One day, he promised to take her...
Touched by Evil: The true story of the psychic powers that saved me
Michele's childhood was a nightmare. Growing up in the 1970s, her mother was a gifted psychic but highly unstable, unable to control the dark forces her powers unleashed or to...
Behind Closed Doors
Jenny grew up in a house where no-one was safe. Born one of five children in the East End, her childhood was spent in squalor and terror. Her father's violent...
Into the Light
Richard McCann's account of his childhood became a massive UK bestseller. In it he told the harrowing story of how he and his sisters were left motherless when the Yorkshire...
I Remember, Daddy: The harrowing true story of a daughter haunted by
Katie's memories of her childhood were patchy. She'd always remembered her father's physical abuse, his anger and violence. But there was a lot she had forgotten. And, at the age...
Street Kid: One Child's Desperate Fight for Survival
John Peel first brought Judy's moving childhood story to light on 'Home Truths'. Abducted by her psychotic spiritualist father and kept like a dog in the backyard, she went on...
Behind Closed Doors
Four children by her father. Thirty years of horrific sexual abuse. In March 2009, Joseph Fritzl was sentenced to life in jail for the systematic imprisonment, torture and rape of...
The Idea of Prostitution
This work explores the idea of men's entitlement to abuse and profit from the abuse of women in prostitution. It aims to show how this idea is central to male...
The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize it and How to
In this fully expanded and updated third edition of the bestselling classic, you learn why verbal abuse is more widespread than ever, and how you can deal with it. You'll...
Destroyed
When eight-year-old Jayne returned to England from bomb-torn Northern Ireland, her family stayed with relatives and a distant cousin began a campaign of abuse so horrifying that her world was...
Scarred: She was a slave to her father. Pain was her only escape.
Growing up, Sophie carried a terrible secret. She was her father's slave, in the most horrific ways imaginable. At just a few months old she was adopted by a couple...
A Teenager's Journey: Surviving Adolescence
At the end of A BROTHER'S JOURNEY, Richard Pelzer's mother and three brothers are moving to Salt Lake City, Utah. He has the choice of joining them - unwanted -...
Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo
From Title IX cases on campus, to #metoo and #timesup, rape is a definitive issue at the heart of feminism, and lately, it's barely out of the news. Cultural critic...
From Bullied to Brilliant: How to Artfully Avoid Fitting in
Have you ever been bullied or is your child experiencing bullying? If so, then you know how devastating the experience is, and how deep the wounds can go. People who...
Hunting Game: Raiding Politics in the Central African Republic
Northeastern Central African Republic - a vast space bordering Chad, Darfur, and South Sudan - is a quintessential 'stateless' space, where the government has little presence and armed actors operate...
Monster
The most authoritative and comprehensive investigation into the life and crimes of Josef Fritzl, who engineered one of the most elaborate and disturbing cases of abuse in modern times On...
Breaking Free: One Woman's Story of Moving Beyond Social and Cultural
Breaking Free is more than just a story of survival. It is a lesson. A reminder that our past does not define us, and that the cultural barriers that oppress...
I've Got Your Back: How to Stop Harassment When You See It
Bystander intervention is simply overcoming that "freeze" instinct and getting back to the very human desire to take care of one another. It's not about being the hero, strapping on...
A Child Called It
Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother - a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games. She no longer considered Dave a son, but a...
Ways of Staying: A Memoir
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When his cousin was killed in a vicious random attack, the questions Kevin Bloom had been asking as a journalist about the troubling political and social changes in this country...
A Man Named Dave
'I don't blame others for my problems. I stand on my own. And one day you'll see, I'm going to make something of myself.' These words were eighteen-year-old Dave Pelzer's...
Beyond Belief: Abused by his priest. Betrayed by his church. The story
To begin with Colm s childhood was idyllic. Life on a farm in County Wexford with loving parents was good. But evil was never far away and no one could...
Soul Survivors: New Beginning for Adults Abused as Children
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Millions of adults were sexually, physically or mentally abused as children, and the road to wholeness as an adult is often long and painful. This book provides the encouragement for...
Relentless Courage: Winning the Battle Against Frontline Trauma
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We Are the Evidence: A Handbook for Finding Your Way After Sexual
A necessary, reassuring guide for all sexual assault survivors in need of immediate emotional and legal support post assault, and in the months and years after. We are the Evidence...
Clown World: Four Years Inside Andrew Tate's Manosphere
'This gripping book is destined to become THE book about Andrew Tate' Jon Ronson 'This is the behind the scenes investigation of the world's most famous misogynist (and one of...
Will You Help Me?: Ralph's true story of abuse, secrets and lies
'Please help me,' he said in a small voice. 'Will you help me?' Six-year-old Ralph has only been in the care system for three days and has already been rejected...
On Violence
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Ann Hannah, My (Un)Remarkable Grandmother: A Psychological Biography
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Kathy's Story
Kathy O'Beirne was sexually abused at eight, labeled "troublesome" by a psychiatrist, and sent to reform school. After being raped by a visiting priest, she was transferred to a psychiatric...
The Drama Of Being A Child: The Search for the True Self
The first publication of Drama of Being a Child and of this 1997 edition are separated by fifteen years of experience - the author's experience with her own self-therapy and...
If He's So Great, Why Do I Feel So Bad?: Recognising and Overcoming Subtle Abuse
"The message Avery Neal conveys in this book couldn't be more timely." From the Foreword by Lois P. Frankel, New York Times bestselling author of NICE GIRLS DON'T GET THE...
A Child Called It: From international bestseller Dave Pelzer, the book that broke a million hearts
A harrowing and inspiring true story of a young boy's abusive childhood, from international bestseller Dave Pelzer. 'A story where love, kindness, patience and endurance triumph' Daily Mail ***** Brutally...
Adult Survivors of Emotionally Abusive Parents: How to Heal, Cultivate Emotional Resilience, and Build the Life and Love You Deserve
Heal the pain of growing up with emotionally abusive parents, and take the first steps toward the life-and the love-you deserve. Few things in the world have a more profound...
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER An NPR Best Book of the Year In this spectacular, newsmaking expose that has the entertainment industry abuzz and on its...
Modern Slave: A vulnerable girl. A gang of vicious men. A shocking true story of survival.
Gaia was groomed, abused and enslaved - but then she fought back Gaia Cooper is just 14 years old when she is groomed by a criminal gang and forced to...
The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil
A fascinating exploration of how, under certain circumstances, the human character can be transformed from good to evil, now in paperback In The Lucifer Effect, the award-winning and internationally respected...