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The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family by Dave Pelzer Publisher Comments Imagine a young boy who has never had a loving home. His only possesions are the old, torn clothes he carries in a paper bag. The only world he knows is one of isolation and fear. Although others had rescued this boy from his abusive alcoholic mother... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $3.25 Used - Trade Paper 
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Found: A Memoir by Jennifer Lauck Publisher Comments Found is Jennifer Lauck's sequel to her New York Times bestseller Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found. More than one woman's search for her biological parents, Found is a story of loss, adjustment, and survival. Lauck's investigation into her own... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer Publisher Comments This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Getting It Through My Thick Skull: Why I Stayed, What I Learned, and What Millions of People Involved with Sociopaths Need to Know by Mary Jo Buttafuoco Publisher Comments "I think, every once in a while, about the life I should be living, the one I fully expected to be enjoying right about now. In the life I was supposed to have, my husband and I would be admiring the view from our waterfront home in the town where... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life by Robert Goolrick Publisher Comments It was the 1950s, a time of calm, a time when all things were new and everything seemed possible. A few years before, a noble war had been won, and now life had returned to normal. For one little boy, however, life had become anything but "normal." To... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Lucky by Alice Sebold Publisher Comments In a memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus. What propels this chronicle of her... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Road Through Wonderland: Surviving John Holmes by Dawn Schiller Publisher Comments Painstakingly honest, this chilling memoir reveals how a teenager became immersed in the bizarre life of legendary porn star John Holmes. Starting with a childhood that molded her perfectly to fall for the seduction of “the king of porn,”... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Spirit Unbroken: The Two Sides of Love by Alice Garlock Synopsis Driven by her life-long dream to find her maternal family in Japan, as a young girl Alice faces the darklings of her demeaning childhood, and as an adult, fights for her life back through self-discovery.and with her newfound heritage.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Kiss by Kathryn Harrison Publisher Comments We meet at airports. We meet in cities where we've never been before. We meet where no one will recognize us. A "man of God" is how someone described my father to me. I don't remember who. Not my mother. I'm young enough that I take the words to mean he... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Found by Jennifer Lauck Synopsis Found is Jennifer Lauck's sequel to her New York Times bestseller Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found. More than one womans search for her biological parents, Found is a story of loss, adjustment, and survival. Laucks investigation into her own... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Privilege of Youth: A Teenager's Story of Longing for Acceptance and Friendship by Dave Pelzer Publisher Comments The #1 New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author who is a shining example of what overcoming adversity really means now shares the final stage of his uplifting journey that has touched the lives of millions. From A Child Called "It" to... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Privilege of Youth by Dave Pelzer Publisher Comments From A Child Called "It" to The Lost Boy, from A Man Named Dave to Help Yourself, Dave Pelzer's inspirational books have helped countless others triumph over hardship and misfortune. In The Privilege of Youth, he shares the missing chapter of his life... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found by Jennifer Lauck Publisher Comments To young Jenny, the house on Mary Street was home -- the place where she was loved, a blue-sky world of Barbies, Bewitched, and the Beatles. Even her mother's pain from her mysterious illness could be patted away with powder and a kiss on the cheek. But... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Still Waters by Jennifer Lauck Publisher Comments Clutching her pink trunk filled with the relics of a lost childhood, twelve-year-old Jenny steps off a bus in Reno and into the wide-open future. Separated from her brother, Bryan, and passed from caretaker to caretaker, Jenny endures as she always has... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life by Robert Goolrick Publisher Comments In the Goolrick home there was a law: Never talk about the family in the outside world, never reveal the slightest crack in the facade. To all appearances, they lived an almost idyllic life. Two respected, charming parents everyone loved. Three bright... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $12.38 Google eBooks - Electronic
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A Man Named Dave: A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness by Dave Pelzer Publisher Comments These words were Dave Pelzer's declaration of independence to his mother, and they represented the ultimate act of self-reliance. Dave's father never intervened as his mother abused him with shocking brutality, denying him food and clothing, torturing... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Private Family Matter: A Memoir by Victor Rivas Rivers Publisher Comments "This is a story about how I was saved by love at a time when most people considered me beyond rescue," begins Victor Rivas Rivers in this powerful chronicle of how he escaped the war zone of domestic violence -- too often regarded as a "private family... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A House Divided: Suspicions of Mother-Daughter Incest by Paul R Abramson Publisher Comments Searching for the truth behind these accusations, while reconstructingthis troubling tale from case interviews, trial transcripts, policereports, and other documentary sources, the authors find in thisunusual case an ideal springboard for a serious... (read more) List Price $24.65 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life by Robert Goolrick Publisher Comments In the Goolrick home there was a law: Never talk about the family in the outside world, never reveal the slightest crack in the facade. To all appearances, they lived an almost idyllic life. Two respected, charming parents everyone loved. Three bright... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood by Julie Gregory Publisher Comments A young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet another doctor?s examining table, missing yet another day of school. Just twelve, she?s tall, skinny, and weak. It?s four o?clock, and she hasn?t been allowed to eat anything all day. Her mother, on the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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